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Happy Calvin's Dad day to those who celebrate

While it’s easy to believe body-worn cameras will increase police accountability, in practice they only entrench police power. They selectively withhold video when it helps them and turn them off to cover up their harms. No political body can be trusted to rein in this behaviour. See our handout.

One meander through an LLM's language statistics cannot become conscious in the same way a static image isn't a video game. You need to loop on and iterate on something forever in order to have emergent properties, the way chemicals are a chain reaction and created life. Even if the next question

I Visited the ‘Freedom Truck’ to Meet PragerU’s AI Slop Founders The 'Freedom Trucks' will haul AI slop George Washington on a tour across 48 American states.

good morning. I got an early preview of the AI slop founding fathers PragerU is taking on tour across the country

There are three major forms of wealth: longevity, health, community and not in that order.

Money is a means to acquiring those riches, not the end goal.

Having 'plenty' means sharing it with community so everyone gets a crack at health & longevity.

Community lasts longer and better as a result.

Stop pretending a group of people doesn't exist just because you don't know how to convince your child to hate them the way you do.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Big mood!

Eight or nine years ago I looked around and realized that it wasn't only my company: most tech companies were just as fucked up. So I threw up my hands and signed up to do high school biology by correspondence.

This July I finish my residency and start work as an independent family doc.

What if, instead of the thing we’ve studied and designed with professionals and told people about, we do something totally different that meets nobody’s needs.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Quotation from an email blast from CJPME: When Carney finally took questions at a press conference on Tuesday, he admitted that “it appears that these actions [the US-Israeli attacks] are inconsistent with international law,” and called the war a “failure of the international order.” He even said that Canada had supported it with “regret.” However, he reaffirmed that it doesn’t matter either way, because Canada continues to support the war regardless.''

Absolutely horrifying stuff. The government is full to the brim with cowards and warmongers. I have lost track of the number of times the Liberal government has crossed a bright red line that would prevent me from ever voting for them again, "strategic necessity" be damned.

Browaty says lower speeds don’t keep people safer (wrong), that drivers already moderate speed themselves when they need to (wrong) and only raise blood pressure of families rushing around to things (a contradiction of last point, and maybe we’re worried about all that rushing on our roads!)

NO COOKIE FOR DARIO!

“Resistance is futile,” a thing famously said by history’s good guys

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Keep the Door Open: Defend Fair Residency Access in Ontario Ontario introduced a rule requiring International Medical Graduates (IMG) to have completed two years of Ontario high school to apply to the CaRMS R1 residency match. The Superior Court has paused the...

Most of my co-residents are IMGs, and they're great docs who provide excellent care.

While the court has put the policy on pause while it reviews the case, these residents need your support (and your dollars to continue to fight the good fight). www.fairaccess.ca

I urge everyone to support international medical graduates in Ontario, where the Ford government is attempted to effectively IMGs from matching to residency. This is a violation of their Charter rights (and a transparently racist policy).

Want to murder a Canadian citizen in Canada? If you have a big enough economy, we’ll find a way to forget pretty quickly.

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,

1. Hating their government

2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

«TEVA a du sang sur ses mains»: cette pharmacienne accusée d’encourager un boycottage des médicaments israéliens La professionnelle a diffusé plusieurs vidéos en soutien aux Palestiniens

Bravo. Free Palestine. www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/02/26/t...

My god, they keep finding new ways to do Nazi shit. Leave trans people alone. This is vile.

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

If you have an Amazon wishlist, Amazon's just decided it's going to reveal your address to gift buyers from 25 March. There appears to be no actual reason to do this.

www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

What is Bonesmashing? Inside the Extreme Looksmaxxer Technique As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashing—tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structure—is trailing close behind.

Wait they are literally hitting themselves in the face with hammers. Why is everything so stupid. www.gq.com/story/what-i...

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

get weirder 🫵

Jeffrey Epstein And His Network Of Rich Freaks Were Obsessed With The Chiropractor | Defector As the number of powerful, wealthy people revealed to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein increases, so too does the coherence of their collective excuse: They only knew Epstein as a genius of math a...

The feeling of having known something to be true, deep within your very being, only to have it confirmed as such. There's just nothing like it: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...