Breen Ouellette (he/him)

How is a subscription to a journalist's substack meaningfully different than a subscription to the Toronto Star or Globe and Mail?

In case there's any doubt, despite the obvious work to create them by Chretien.

For every statement of denialism, there are reams of historical documents to refute it. One doesn't have to be a PhD or an ex-PM to access those facts.

#IndianAct #ResidentialSchools denialism #cdnpoli

Exactly!

Let's correct that to - most of the world believes Trump launched his attack on Iran to cover up the Trump-Epstein scandal.

I've found the inverse also true:

If one works in an industry that demands one engage in the time-suck of writing slop, then offloading it to the shitty algorithm slop heap is seen as a godsend.

Instead of, you know, not demanding workers engage in writing slop.

It's also "liberal" homophobes telling on themselves.

Believe them when they tell you that they are bigots.

Once again, I will deploy the comparison of these guys using a forklift at the gym.

Trying to understand the upside.

The funny thing is this is true even for content you’ve paid to watch.

Support artists, but also I’ll be damned if I let streaming providers decide that no one should be able to see a movie or tv show anymore

The thin line between archivism and piracy.

Reminder.

Genocide apologist.

You are expected to extract resources.

If not, you are made a resource to be extracted.

If they can't extract anything from you, they do their best to kill you.

It's such an ugly world view.

Yes, functioning as designed, but not as promised and not within natural human norms of compassion and good relations.

The broken parts are the adversarial, coercive, extractive, and punitive values at the core of the colonial/imperial project.

These have to go.

Dred Scott v. Sanford A Brief History with Documents. Paul Finkelman

Today the Supreme Court is debating the constitutionality of "birthright citizenship."

This was something that was settled law when the 14th amendment was passed.

But it was 169yrs ago today the Supreme Court decided that Blacks had "no rights the white man was bound to respect."

We're back

Exactly. The system we have has too many broken parts.

How much are the lives of six children and two adults worth?

A worthless apology from the CEO of an AI company valued at US$730 billion.

At least in BC when OpenAI is complicit. /smh

good governance requires honesty: acknowledging responsibility. accountability requires addressing systemic gaps, failures and harms.

not taking a fake-ass apology from a conveniently detestable villain

not DOWNLOADING responsibility to the PRIVATE SECTOR

apologies?

an "apology" from a company currently valued at $730,000,000,000 that has foisted its ruinous tech irresponsibly upon all our systems seems like a coward's overhasty escape

This was supposed to be a reply to you, but I accidentally posted it to my main feed. 😅🤷

I am going to keep screaming that this ongoing attack by DHS is colonialism.

The facility DHS wants to build in Social Circle will not have enough water.

SCOTUS ruled in AZ v Navajo Nation that there is no obligation for the state to provide water to the reservation.

No obligation for water.

Sadly, also a problem in Canada for people here. I come from the plains (also many water issues) but until recently I lived in BC for a decade.

I watched in dismay as the Semiahmoo First Nation water supply was CUT OFF by the City of White Rock.

Fortunately a deal was made with Surrey. BUT WTF!

Landback babeeeeeeeeee

Wrong never felt so right! 😅🤣

The mayor of a major city should be held to a higher standard of evidence than an online image.

And Sim should hold himself to a higher standard of evidence.

Which Sim has not promised to do.

If AI slop is causing the mayor of one of the biggest cities in Canada to lie that his political opponent is the Santa Clause of cocaine then the technology clearly needs to be regulated

Context is everything.

And the context is transparent when white political opponents refer to her as Kamala instead of Harris.

Those who deny it are either fools or liars, and either way most certainly racist.

Context is everything.

And the context is transparent when white political opponents refer to her as Kamala instead of Harris.

Those who deny it are either fools or liars, and either way most certainly racist.

Canadian Actress Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Returns Toronto Film Critics Award in Response to Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech TFCA president Johanna Schneller said that Tailfeathers’ speech had been edited “to maintain the timing of the awards show” and not for political reasons, but that she would resign from her role nonet...

Plus Tailfeathers received a typical colonial reaction to her anti-colonial response to being censored:

The TCFA president is stepping down and everyone else involved has shut up to avoid making it worse.

Instead of even attempting to make up for it.

The working title is "Firefly: The Search for Wash". 😆