My IRL friends call me Chris

It's just a lot of dystopia to process every goddamn day.

Here’s what people aren’t getting:

AI chatbots aren’t a writing tool. They’re a plagiarism tool.

The same is true for AI that generates images.

So, not only is the chatbot stifling a user’s creativity, it’s robbing from others’ and then encouraging the user to take credit for what’s been stolen.

Talk to mainstream media.

Look prime ministerial.

This is definitely a new non-Jenni Byrne strategy.

They tried a few months ago too.

So you know things must be really bad.

LOLsob.

Ford has been passively cutting hospital funding.

"hospital costs are rising by 6% a year, which, in the 2026-2027 fiscal year will amount to $2.7 billion in new expenses. The province increased health funding by 4% last year, but is expected to increase it by 2% for the next 2 years."

#OnPoli

“It is kind of zombie policy to think we can efficiency our way out of these structural pressures that are rooted in demographic change in the province,” said Anthony Dale, president & CEO of the OHA. “It’s just unrealistic, & it’s starting to affect the underlying financial health of our sector.”

Evening primroses in the vase

Evening primroses in the vase
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Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.

That's odd. I find it hard to believe that the TTC didn't know the cause.

There was a bad fight on the platform at York Mills and I believe power was shut in case someone ended up on the tracks.

A man attacked a young woman for playing music too loudly. That's what started it. Awful.

For folks who don't know, JTF2 members are like Marines on steroids. Highly, highly trained and their work is highly secretive.

They're basically trained to kill people and keep secrets.

In a sane world where misogyny didn't exist, that would be a factor in favour of victims. But N O P E

I have a million thoughts but I'll say this : Men's suffering is *always* treated as more important than the suffering of women.

Sexual assault survivors actually have the highest rates of PTSD in the world, but that never gives us pity or leeway.

Men on the other hand? Kid gloves.

Math people are pretty nifty.

So, a small elementary school desperately needs more education assistants.

The 20 teachers pool their $750/class (NB this is NOT ALLOWED) to have 750 x 20 = 15k.

Is this enough for even 1 EA?

NO.

Always do the math with Ford.

And here's the thing, Queen's Park beat and education reporters *had to* cover Ford's teacher spending account announcement. Please don't come into my mentions to criticize journalists for this.

You want to understand the timing of Ford's $750 classroom spending account for teachers announcement today? THIS is it. It's absolutely, 100% not a coincidence. Ford and his handlers wanted to own the education news cycle.

So cynical. It's gross.

#OntEd #OnPoli

Cc. @isaaccallan.bsky.social

Ahhhhhhh. That absolutely makes sense!

Alberta Won’t Budge on Charging Indigenous People for COVID Vaccines Though health advocates argue the province's $100 fee amounts to a treaty violation, the federal government rebuffed a request to step in, pointing out it's still free on reserves

Alberta has refused to exempt Indigenous people from the $100 fee for COVID vaccines.

And though health advocates contend that amounts to a treaty violation, the federal government won't step in.

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Six years ago, on March 11, 2020, I was writing this column, just as Canada's response to the coronavirus pandemic was starting in earnest. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

There is an argument to be made that ICE activities, especially in relation to persecution and imprisonment, are reaching a scale and gravity that they constitute widespread and systematic harms, and therefore crimes against humanity.

Ontario’s once robust tire recycling industry hits another road bump Organization responsible for most tire recycling in Toronto cuts tire processing this month by 50 per cent.

Everything Doug Ford touches gets screwed up.

1) Tire recycling - screwed up www.thestar.com/business/ont...

2) Blue bin recycling - screwed up tinyurl.com/yc48rb84

3) Battery recycling - screwed up tinyurl.com/cwunra45

4) Beer/wine/alcohol recycling - screwed up tinyurl.com/yc7vkbdv

🇮🇷 Mesmerizing details of Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran

🇮🇷 Mesmerizing details of Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran

Again, instead of dealing with his systematic underfunding of education in Ontario, this is about Ford looking like the hero who is fixing a problem with education.

He's going to get so much earned media for this announcement. Just like this.

This is a PR sleight of hand.

#OntEd #OnPoli

"The lesson that the Trump administration seemed to learn from the failed planning for postwar Iraq is that planning isn’t worth the effort at all."

#GiftLink 🎁

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It's hard to believe that people like this have plunged the rest of the world into such an incredible mess.

Reminder that the Pentagon press corps is a bunch of online ideological cronies like Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz. Now, they won't even allow neutral photographers.
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A photo shows the aftermath of the strike on an Iranian school. A headline reads: "U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says." More copy reads: "An ongoing military investigation has determined that the strike, which killed mostly children, was the result of a targeting mistake. The finding undercuts President Trump’s claim that Iran could be to blame." Photo by IRIB TV, via Agence France-Presse

The U.S. was responsible for a strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Hal, you are not alone in wondering!

This is a good description of normalcy bias.

I am of the mind right now that something very, very bad and unanticipated could come out of this mess Trump has thrust upon the world.

Isaac, FOI idea...