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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
Recent appearances (cont'd): * How to Think About AI (Daniel Solove) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0xR... * Could Tech Bosses Destroy Life As We Know It? (Politics JOE) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4V... * Are 'AI Apocalypse' Warnings Just Marketing? (What's Left) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXd9...
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Nigel Swedenborg 🍁🌻 @nigelswedenborg.bsky.social · 10h
If the Alberta NDP win the next provincial election, they should give the UCP cabinet ministers 5 minutes to vacate their offices. And remove all paper shredders from the premises.🤨 #ableg #abpoli nationalpost.com/opinion/don-...
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Don Braid: Mass shredding of documents ran out of control in wake of Alberta PC defeat
Alberta's departing government went on an epic shredding binge after losing office, destroying thousands of documents, with 'no internal oversight or control'.
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 17h
I guess it's as good a time as any to remind folks that some of the orgs pushing Alberta separatism are educational initiatives and are not subject to foreign funding prohibitions. 🤔 thewalrus.ca/the-russian-...
thewalrus.ca
The Russian Money Behind Alberta’s Separatist Movement | The Walrus
The Kremlin has perfected covert influence. I’ve seen how poorly equipped Canada is to stop it
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escoboomvanilla.bsky.social @escoboomvanilla.bsky.social · 5h
Based on USA data we're about to have a very early influenza wave, which maybe will piggyback onto the ongoing COVID surge. I'd recommend flu vaccines now and for the next 2 weeks in USA for best protection.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Danielle Smith is using your tax dollars to sell her political agenda. This referendum booklet is propaganda. It blames newcomers for her government’s failures and pushes constitutional changes without telling Albertans the truth. You deserve better than this political garbage paid for by you.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey Canada, in case you missed it, here are your separatists 👋
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
Nope, the AI is wrong. It's Michael Marshall Smith.
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escoboomvanilla.bsky.social @escoboomvanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mes amis fracophones - c'est un erreur avec le PQ t.co/sAjt89GOxb
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https://montrealgazette.com/quebec-elections/pq-sought-meeting-with-u-s-officials-in-washington-state-department-says/
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Recommend channels that publish good analysis, investigations, videos etc. I'll start: @antibot4navalny.bsky.social @euvsdisinfo.eu
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Civilians in Russian-occupied Oleshky were spotted making a daring and courageous escape. They fled the Russian encirclement by bicycle, moped and on foot, risking mines, shelling and drone attacks along the way. Status unknown.
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vivian38.bsky.social @vivian38.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not a single person is campaigning on tearing down his crap.
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Abundant Housing Vancouver @ahvancouver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Revised Population Data Shows Supply Is Doing More to Lower Rents Than Previously Believed" rentals.ca/blog/revi...
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why didn't they get COVID shots, too? COVID is the more dangerous virus, by far. Everyone in that room should be masked, too. Viruses are airborne.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Liberals, I encourage you now to read the attached thread as it is relevant to our current circumstances. #cdnpoli nationalpost.com/news/politic...
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Stephen Harper to deliver closing speech at Carney's Investment Summit
Stephen Harper will deliver the closing speech of Prime Minister Mark Carney's first Canada Investment Summit Tuesday.
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Janet Steele asks why there’s nothing in the stats about collisions between ebike and e-scooter users and sidewalk users who aren’t using micro-mobility devices. Staff say there aren’t really any being reported.
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Jason Voorhees Darr @jasondtx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This election cycle is unlike anything I have ever seen. The Republicans in Texas have made the ENTIRE race about transgender kids. I have only gotten mailers about transgender kids. I have only seen ads about transgender kids. And they're everywhere. Just constant, unrelenting bigotry.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The President is unable to stay awake during Oval Office press conferences
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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escoboomvanilla.bsky.social @escoboomvanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nightmare fuel. You get the society you fight for. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/...
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Grindr expands beyond dating with $250 million telehealth acquisition of PurposeMed
Grindr is buying PrEP provider Freddie for $250 million, expanding into healthcare and seeking to make HIV prevention more accessible to its users.
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Dan Peterson @danp.net · 01/10/2026
I’m playing music in Halifax this weekend! Two jazz big bands are putting on a concert Saturday 2 - 4 pm. It’s at the Army Navy Air Force Club at 2409 Maynard. Pay what you can at the door. It is a bar but I’m told all ages are welcome for the concert.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity.
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escoboomvanilla.bsky.social @escoboomvanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OF COURSE
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escoboomvanilla.bsky.social @escoboomvanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excellent write-up, excellent science.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 30/09/2026
This is awful!
Source: Tsawwassen First Nation
Description
An incident is currently in progress that has ended our Truth & Reconciliation event Participants are asked to walk back the way we came and stav out of the area
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Dr. Hedy Fry @hedyfry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Inspired by Survivor Phyllis Webstad, whose orange shirt was taken at residential school, Orange Shirt Day honours survivors and symbolizes resilience, remembrance, and reconciliation.
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is a day for remembering the impact of Residential Schools Indigenous Communities across Canada. #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation
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Under Carney, Canada Is Cooling on Reconciliation | The Walrus
Three experts on the need to keep challenging denialism
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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Took a night ride last night. We need Morris Street bike lane. Also on Oxford. Can we please have a proper East/West connection and a proper North/South connection?
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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026
My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements." craphound.com/shop/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026
Recent appearances (cont'd): * Are 'AI Apocalypse' Warnings Just Marketing? (What's Left) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXd9... * The Real AI Threat Isn’t What You’ve Been Told (The Tea) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8I...
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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
www.ualberta.ca/en/admission...
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Indigenous Canada
Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson course during which students can expect to acquire a basic familiarity with Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relationships. This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aims to exp...
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News
New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori
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CONFLICT NEWS FELLA @warosintfella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1/9 U.S. ban on Canadian alcohol
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Be@N - ✨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🇺🇦 @mlimabean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s mind boggling. But our Premier is a landlord and hired a landlord as the housing minister. So… follow the money I guess.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.
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Merry Jewish @bschaffz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MR PAXTON I AM YOUR CAMPAIGN MANAGER KEEP TALKING LIKE THIS FOR A MONTH AND SOME CHANGE
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escoboomvanilla.bsky.social @escoboomvanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everytime I read any post here by @doctorow.pluralistic.net My brain automagically plays this song... But in a "fight for the future" way, rather than fatalistic. youtu.be/8cUQGbFyBGw
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I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler
YouTube video by YACHT - Topic
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 28/09/2026
On 10 February 2022, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia had ‘no plans to invade Ukraine’. Five days later, he dismissed reports of an imminent invasion as ‘Western hysteria’ and claimed Russian troops were already returning to their bases. Nine days later, Russia invaded Ukraine.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 28/09/2026
The Kremlin’s election narratives often come down to one idea: if democracy is fake everywhere, Moscow has nothing to explain regarding its own elections.    In reality, democracy is not a mythical concept. And Moscow has a lot of explaining to do.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A white nationalist group gathered just outside the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve in British Columbia over the weekend wearing white masks and dressed in all black.
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Masked white nationalists gather on reserve in British Columbia - APTN News
A white nationalist group gathered just outside the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve in British Columbia...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/06/2026
It's been 55 years since Milton Friedman - cursed be his name - published his *NYT* editorial, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits," inventing "shareholder supremacy" out of whole cloth, declaring it a universal, inarguable truth: www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/a... 1/
A fake cover for CEO magazine. The central figure is a ZOLTAR fortune-telling animatronic, seated before various divination tools. The headline over him is FIDUCIARY DUTY. In the top right corner, there's a slug reading 'UNIVERSAL EXCUSE: A bright line test that's also *totally* unfalsifiable.' To Zoltar's left is another slug reading, 'FRIEDMAN SAID IT: I believe it. That's good enough for me.'
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reesmf.bsky.social @reesmf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That’s a few hours of my time wasted taking and uploading my pictures to fill gaps in their catalogue.
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 28/09/2026
COMING UP: @doctorow.pluralistic.net will be at the @greenparty.org.uk Conference Fringe this year. Join us for this special event exploring 'Digital Sovereignty and the Post-American Internet: What the Greens can do to escape Big Tech'. 🗓️ Sat 3 October 🕠️ 5.45-6.45pm 📍 Brighton Find out more ⬇️
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Digital Sovereignty and the Post-American Internet
What the Greens can do to escape Big Tech Trump has given every country the means, motive and opportunity to build a new, good Internet, free from the geopolitical imperatives America foisted on the…
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Never buy the Sun, never read the comments. www.thesun.co.uk/news/4051288...
[1 screenshot of a news story in The Sun and then 3 x examples of Sun reader comments]

News > World News

SEA HORROR Two women & boy, 10, 'crushed to death' while trying to reach UK as dinghy capsizes in Channel leaving dozens injured

Published: 09:47, 28 Sep 2026 |
Updated: 12:46, 28 Sep 2026

[Photo of French sea rescue of asylum seekers dinghy]Glenys Hutchinson  5h ago
Note the French don't rush to Mayday calls but the RNLI go out when the in vaders are already safe on Border Farce boats.

Russell Heeley 5h ago
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.....

paul waters 5h ago

Oh no, 3 less for the British tax payers to support.

Stephen Pickett 3h ago

Only Three, never mind better luck next time

Leanne Donnelly 2h ago

I have no sympathy.

dave bacon 1h ago

One patriot stopped a boat last week sadly after it was unloaded and that guy is now in prison. So every one of these that meets a watery end just remember who did it....the left

Allan Pinz 3h ago

Oh dear, how dreadful. (not), they should have stayed at home in their own country's

Garry Johnson 4h ago

Don't worry the government will make sure that won't happen again, it what a shame

ha ha haHelen Bavin 4h ago

They made the decision to make this journey

Bob knows Reviews 4h ago

Thats 3 less draining the system


Shelly62 3h ago

Pop the boats before they get here


Happy days 4h ago

The government are 100% responsible.
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