Both Canada and the USA cancelled events in their national capitals on their national holidays due to extreme weather.
But pipelines!
But Secure, stable, fossil fuel deliveries!
But divisiveness!
But Jobs!
But The Economeeehhhhh!!
#endfossilfuels #climateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadaDay #fourthOfJuly
Now *this* is the way to report this story: Trump made his billion while his investors (read: his marks) lost $3.8 billion. That is theft.
Gift link.
Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/us/politics/nearly-a-million-investors-lost-a-total-of-3-8-billion-on-trump-crypto-coin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.4GMe.zOn2uRf_JmRS&smid=tw-share
this English ref is a dick
Morocco certainly has Top 10 diving skills
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware
#ai #privacy #eprivacy #compliance #infosec #gdpr #law #cyber #security #anthropic #claude
Even though i'm currently a member of the NDP (not the BC provincial NDP obviously), this is generally my view of the NDP: "we sort of want to believe justice and equality and protecting the environment, but money exists so what are you gonna do????"
So, today I was called a "Luddite" because I don't like AI.
Call me what you want, but when it comes to folks losing their jobs, data centers sucking up our water and causing higher energy bills for people already struggling, LLMs being trained on stolen data, and so many other ethical issues, I won't budge or back down on how I feel.
I will proudly accept the Luddite label. I've been around for nearly 60 years and have had a pretty shitty go of it the past 5 or so years. You can't hurt my feelings.
#noai #fuckai
The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, poisoned our water, devastated our universal healthcare, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon but the destroyer of independence
Erdogan: ‘Zionist massacre squad’ refuses to leave Lebanon and Syria in peace – VIDEO
“We are closely following the provocations of the Israeli administration aimed at undermining the agreement. The Zionist massacre…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Syria #Gaza #Israe #Pakistan #RecepTayyipErdogan #ShehbazSharif #türkiye
https://www.europesays.com/iran/190239/
44 years ago today
Dead Kennedys at the Whiskey A Go Go, July 4, 1982.
T.S.O.L. was also on the bill, and the Butthole Surfers were added at the last minute based on Jello Biafra's recommendation.
📸 Edward Colver
#punk #punks #punkrock #deadkennedys #history #otd #punkrockhistory
Belgian diamond group that won tariff relief gifted Trump a lavishly encrusted ring
#USCorruption is #GlobalCorruption #EpsteinClass
> BRUSSELS (AP) — Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter “T” next to the Stars and Stripes and “1776” and “2026.” Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47
🐸🍵 ~AdminMatt
Also from @angry_staffer, this time on 🦋:
It’s the world’s dumbest cult.
Quote posting @textfiles - I think - also on 🦋 11 hrs ago:
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave of criticism hit online. An MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of #Energy recommends that 78 degree figure.
Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Me:
Including, no doubt, that 78° recommendation.
“It’s like saying, ‘We will never look at independent science ever again. We’re totally satisfied with what the company gives us, and we don’t care what university researchers find’.”
Carney government overhauls pesticide laws with little scrutiny - Canadian Affairs https://www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/07/03/carney-government-overhauls-pesticide-laws-with-little-scrutiny/
"The Founders... planted secret escape hatches in every amendment, visible only through a powerful lens of resentment, perpetual grievance, and off-the-books Winnebago gifts loaded with all the extras." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-us-constitution-is-for-simple-folk-still-burdened-by-the-belief-that-words-have-meaning
Fun reminder that the RCMP was built for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts,” according to a briefing document written by Canada’s defence attaché in Israel.
The international seminar focused on the “lessons learned” from Israel’s war on Gaza, which is almost universally recognized as a genocidal campaign among leading human rights organizations and by a United Nations independent commission.
The document, obtained by The Maple via an access to information request, states that four RCMP officers who attended the seminar in Tel Aviv last November learned “lessons on intelligence fusion, rapid response, and civilian protection [that] can be adapted to Canadian law enforcement contexts.”
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https://www.readthemaple.com/rcmp-can-apply-israels-gaza-tactics-to-canadian-policing-briefing/
#FuckThePolice #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #DefundDisarmDismantle #Abolish #Canada #canpoli
Oh sure it’s a great investment but we don’t know how much it will cost. What utter bullshit. There’s more certainty in a crystal ball.
#Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/taxpayers-could-be-on-hook-for-west-coast-pipeline-but-it-s-a-good-investment-energy-minister-9.7258006
RE: https://thecanadian.social/@canadianglen/116858425872633789
"But clearly the prime minister concluded that if the two most urgent tasks at this moment in history are saving the country and saving the planet, his priority must be saving the country.
Someone else will have to save the planet, and if that turns out to be China, it does not bode well for the future of a pipeline full of diluted bitumen from Alberta." —The Tyee
The last pipeline we paid to build didn’t stop the Alberta separatists. This one won’t.
It will destroy the planet and make US oil companies richer though.