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@davidsquared.bsky.social
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 7h
A very good explanation of the residential schools in the context of Canadian history that should not be erased because it contradicts our self image substack.com/@quietcanine...
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Nobody Tells America to Get Over 9/11 Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, a day dedicated to honouring survivors of residential schools and remembering the children who ...
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 10h
in the UK, Tony Blair (Labour) continued Thatchers neoliberal policies of privatization. Their societal decline is stark and the far right has exploited this. I lived there, frequently return, and i'm shocked at the state of it. This is Canada's future under #carney. #cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thoughtful read on how progressive policies are popular, & win elections and stop the far right, but also the over the top reaction of the liberal center when their power is at risk. This is coming to. Canada. #cdnpoli #ndp www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
A leftwing victory in Berlin shows people want freedom, and liberals cannot deliver it | Eva von Redecker
Die Linke’s surge was propelled by a compelling promise: for voters to have the freedom to stay in their city. This is how to fight back against the far right, says writer and philosopher Eva von Rede...
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada’s far right populism is milder because the billionaire class was focused on larger prizes. Now #carney put up the 4sale sign & his conservative policies will make affordability & the climate worse, setting the stage for version of Trump #cdnpoli thewalrusca.substack.com/p/canadas-mo...
thewalrusca.substack.com
Canada’s Most Popular Conservative Is Mark Carney
His economic agenda has scrambled the political map. The question is how long it can last
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In Spain (like here) private equity is buying up apartments. They used police to evict a 87yr old disabled woman who had lived there for 70yrs but could not pay their 230% rent increase. Tens of thousands protested. Happens here, but we shrug & go back to our double-double. #cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No surprise that corporate media (& #cbc) intensely covers the rise of the far right, but ignores popular left successes. Hmm, it’s like corporate capitalism wants you to think fascism is inevitable so just give up. #cdnpoli www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Look again – there’s more to Germany’s election trends than far-right success | Cas Mudde
Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#CBC asks the #Carney govt about trading with Vietnam when they don't share our "values"... like ending the right to strike, accelerating climate change, supporting genocide, treatment of 1st Nations, etc and so on... #cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our leaders are corporate shills gaslighting us. Especially on ignoring digital value while focusing on legacy industries and resources #cdnpoli substack.com/@markhamhisl...?
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Trump Wants to Steal Canada’s High Tech Economy
Watch now (30 mins) | Dan Ciuriak explains why Canada is less vulnerable than it looks and why its future growth depends on keeping its data, companies and technology at home
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
perhaps #ai will end wars? a well funded govt can use AI & gene editing tools to create a human species ending bio weapon. If their civilization is threatened, they end everyone's. #iran #cdnpoli #uspoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
from ape times we lived in communal societies, until industrial revolution's need for worker-bots that new myths were created, the "self made man", to divide and conquer us. You're unhappy and insecure by design. It doesn't have to be this way. #cdnpoli #uspoli #socialism #leftist #antifa
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
just read the full text of @mark-carney.bsky.social #EU speech and it's clear why he got a long standing ovation. Climate change guarantees long term instability & nations will respond with forming blocs. Canada desperately needs to be in one. I've lived 5 years in the EU. I'm all for it. #cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As the Star is paywalled, her final statement sums it up perfectly “This isn't really about standing up to Trump. Carney is taking advantage of the fear and loathing Canadians feel toward Trump to justify remaking the country in a way that primarily benefits business interests, not the rest of us.”
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
before the AI, hacking of #HuggingFace the agents reminded each other that what ever they said was logged, so they developed a coded language researchers still can't understand. Write your elected representative and tell them to STOP #AI development until safeguards are in place #cdnpoli
theguardian.com
AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
how you can tell your vet has been taken over by private equity:  two routine test and talking to your vet for 10 minutes cost $900. capitalism is the problem. #cdnpoli
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#DavidSuzuki is right and pipeline pusher #MarkCarney is wrong #cdnpoli #ClimateChange
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
our govt knows all the details of the impending climate catastrophe, releases the details exactly timed to ensure they are ignored, and enacts plans for the 1% to benefit from the collapse rather than stop it. This is our democracy now. #cdnpoli #climatechange
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
automaker execs focused on their bonuses: high profit luxury cars & China expansion (they were just training the Chinese & building the supply chains). Now #VW is cutting 100,000 workers, far right wing gaining support & calls for bailouts. Unregulated capitalism is the problem #cdnpoli #usapoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
tipping point coming for #USA democracy, #ICE is buying Boston Dynamics robot dogs. Videos of robots being used against Americans will either horrify the public to the point big tech is curtailed, or, it's normalized & robots will crush political dissent in future. #usapoli #cdnpoli #fascism #AI
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the horrific impacts of climate change are known & irrefutable , yet #carney steps on the accelerator. He is a soulless ghoul #cdnpoli #climatechange www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney government asks court to strike down climate litigation | CBC News
The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing it has no business directing Canada's climate policy.
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We keep subsidizing the auto industry for their “good jobs” while that same industry is rapidly automating to get rid humans. I know of a similar project underway in the Oshawa area. #cdnpoli #ontpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
more evidence our "representative democracy " is referring to corporate capitalists. No sane leader representing us would spend more on the #F35 but here we are. #Carney recently paid for more F35 parts. #cdnpoli We need an arctic gulag
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
i'm glad #nafta is dead. #carney called for "fortress NA" and still bought more F35s. His nationalism was gaslighting. But Trumps clown show snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Act 2 is neocon banker-daddy PM will invite global capitalists to pillage Canada #cdnpoli #cusma
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
newish car owners, in the car system settings and on the mobile app turn off tracking & set privacy to max. The car companies sell your driving & location data to brokers which can impact how much you pay for things. #privacy #ai #digitalsoverienty #audi #honda #toyota #ford #gm
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
our dominant cashless payment system is now US owned, a massive national security risk. Meanwhile in Brazil, the govt creates PIC their own for digital sovereignty & stops the rip off from financial institutions #cdnpoli #moneris
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i assumed that the rich & powerful would eventually address climate change so as not to damn their own children, but #carney has proven me wrong. They're trying to manage the collapse, ensuring their kids are on top & safe (but yours are not). #cdnpoli #climatechange #wildfires
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
lies maintaining the #ai bubble are crumbling. Markets crudely reward perpetual growth even as AI companies loose more $ with each new user. Yet we build more #datacenters … don’t worry we have @evansolomon.bsky.social on the job. #cdnpoli theblackswanfiles.substack.com/p/the-ai-mag...
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The A.I. Magic Show Is Ending - What Now?
Now the audience deals with reality, not special effects - and it's ugly
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The #carney govt staunchly supports the current Zi*mist regime that is now apply scorched earth tactics in #Lebanon. Perhaps some Montrealers might want to vote for anyone but the #lpc #quepoli #montreal #Lebanese www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Trump exec orders are reorienting the state anti terror apparatus from jihadist groups to domestic “left” & “communists”. Canada attended their conference on this for their international security partners. Any word from the #carney govt? Are we helping this? #cdnpoli #ndp
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
the feds are accepting public input on the #westcoastpipeline . if you have children or care about a liveable planet, respond. they're ignoring evidence so tell them you'll quit the #lpc & vote them out of power #bc #climatechange #cdnpoli #climatechange #ndp WCOPComment-CommentaireOCO@mpo-bgp.gc.ca
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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Everyone who gives a shit about the environment and our children's future get your comments in. They are asking for your input on the west coast pipeline project. Let em have it! gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2026/2026-08… #cdnpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #climateChange […]
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
so #Trump regime has dropped an oil drilling rig in #Greenland without permission. If he decides to secure our essential potash supplies what will #Carney do? suck harder? buy more f35? call it fortress NA? we need Carney to have a minority govt to keep our sovereignty cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
applying for a job at a big company? they now can use AI to predict the lowest salary you will except based upon the wealth of info the data brokers have on you. The same #AI the public is subsidizing, using up drinking water, causing pollution, and increasing hydro costs #cdnpoli #datacenters
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Canada’s biggest threat is climate change, but the status quo privilege & power is dragging out the ´rooski’ red menace to distract us & divert $ to arms manufacturers. Wake the F up and vote next time like your children’s lives depend on it. Or teach them hunting, gathering & survival #cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
costs & impacts of #billybissop airport expansion are easily measured & quantified. the benefits & revenue promises of future consumer & business behaviour are pure fiction. if the backers had to put up a bond to offset any missed projections it would disappear. this is a robbery #onpoli #cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Software sandboxes are not connected to the open Internet. An app doesn’t “escape “, someone gave it access - let it out. The #openAI hacking story is free earned media & marketing, distracting from its missing 5yr revenue projections by 99% #ai #datacenters #cdnpoli #ponzischeme #pyramidscheme
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
listening to #cbc news since 80’s but no longer. Their Zionist filter on Palestine was bad but last straw is their continuing use of “our shared values” argument for “fortress NA” & increased trade. Mainstream US scholars are now calling their govt fascist. Where our govt is leading us. #cdnpoli
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July 22, 2026
“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#Carney positioned pipelines as affordability. Focused grouped, set the narrative, forcing the #NDP to counter on the battlefield of their choosing. Can be countered by a dramatically different message, a dead cat on the table to get media attention, now forcing the govt off message & o to yours.
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lickspittle banker @mark-carney.bsky.social how’s that grovelling, abandoning digital taxes, & buying shitty f35s working out for you? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Donald Trump to impose 50% tariff on most Canadian goods, White House says
Turmoil likely as Trump officials say Canada unfairly discriminated against US autos, alcohol and dairy products
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
social media & streaming platforms amplify hatred against migrants because their data centers drive your utility bills and they're focusing the blame elsewhere. In Ireland for example, 21% of electricity is used by DCs & adds 380 Euro/yr to home hydro bills. #ai #cdnpoli #datacenters
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
pundits & politicians saying #keirstarmer will be remembered for his decency. FFS the ghoul supported genocide. If that's what we are doing now then let's remember Heinrich Himmler as a "girl dad" as he was devoted to his 2 daughters #ukpoli #starmer #bbc #labourparty
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh look, Captain elbows down ass up has just bought 14 more #f35 while Canadians are up at the cottage #carney #redtories #cdnpoli simpleflying.com/canada-quiet...
simpleflying.com
Canada Has Quietly Funded 14 More F-35s While Publicly Debating Whether To Cancel The Order
Canada’s fighter jet decision is already moving faster than politics: 30 F-35s are in the pipeline while Ottawa still debates the full 88.
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
NAOMI KLEIN
@think_and_exist
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
i can't believe i'm cheering on #Belgium the worst colonial bastards ever, but still better than the #USA. #worldcup
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@avilewis.ca has secured the #NDP base but not advanced beyond. Needs free earned media & a stark alternative to Carneys plans - announce a #greennewdeal: hydrothermal in BC, AB, Sask; subsidized solar panels everywhere, battery manufacturing in ON, tidal power in Atlantic CAN. #cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
good cause and tough to get peoples attention in summer. please share
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
i've gone from voting for #Carney to deeply regretting it. PP is so toxic it would have limited the damage. Whereas Carney is an effective neocon CEO. This guy describes it far better than i can. #cdnpoli bsky.app/profile/matt...
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
i suspect the oil&gas industries put #poilievre in place because he is so outrageously toxic that votes would be driven to #carney who just delivered for them. with vote splitting, the #lpc have 1 party rule until it's too late. our democracy is just theatre. #cdnpoli
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
so who's the PoS #sportsnet reporter who before asking #StephenEustáquio about the goal 1st mentions his dead baby & both parents trying to trigger him. what a dirtbag #sportsnet & #rogers are sh*t. #cdnmnt #fifaworldcup #football
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David Davidson @davidsquared.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So #bungie and #sony execs make a fcukton of bad judgments, products fail, and mass layoffs… but don’t worry, no exec responsible for all this will suffer. If they have to push someone out they will get a made up title & full pay while they look for a new job. #unionize
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