iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Wait until you get a bit older! I started getting more baller every day for the last decade or so. It is kinda fucking magical. I mean my knees are a tragedy but come at me bro, I have no more fucks to give. 😁

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Things that make you go, Yup!

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you Michelle I did not know that.

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Supreme Court made that decision, right? Because of the anonymity guarantee I thought.

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Speaking as an Ontarian "fuck Doug Ford and his duplicitous ways". He's almost as corrupt as your Toddler King.

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She really does. I have been volunteering on all her campaigns since the late 80s. She also really & truly believes in public service. (In that sappy old fashioned way.) These are the reasons I volunteer. *Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He is a fabulous communicator, he really believes government is for the people and he's having a great fucking time.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perpetually “concerned” Susan Collins should be VERY concerned by the latest reporting from ProPublica, revealing her involvement in an alleged bribery/pay to play scheme of awarding defense contracts to a specific firm right after that company made campaign “donations." youtu.be/f2fFlCPjKnk?...

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GOP Senator CAUGHT RED-HANDED In MASSIVE BRIBERY SCHEME Probe!?!

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is actually a great point that the Bloc Quebecois leader (yes, really) made today. I'm paraphrasing from memory, but he basically said Carney is undoing stuff in minutes that took years to fight for.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Goes with 1st BC post *CACKLE*

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Precisely. Historically they have rarely carried the lesson/message forward as a country.

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tuesday call for BC election? The lead up has been mad fun.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NOT TO BE CONTROVERSIAL, but are we boycotting the Patriots and all shows at Gillette Stadium as hard as we are boycotting Ed Sheeran??? Because Robert Kraft deserves the heat about 100x as much, even if Ed is being a little dick bitch for letting him dictate things.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This one seems worth repeating. It’s nothing to cheer about though, as the proceeds of ridiculous gas prices fuelled by irrational wars and rampant car dependency go to oil companies instead of to the public as useful carbon taxes. #UrbanTruth

An image of people riding bikes in protected bike-lanes in Central Paris, text reads “Gas prices? What gas prices?” Line at the bottom says “Better cities create choices.” All via the Urban Truth Collective.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe the weirdest part of 2026 was that US adventurism was backstopped by the People's Republic of China, but that's coming to a close.

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Best Mackie story today 👏👏👏

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good luck, Bonne chancé, best wishes and all the good karma. 🤞🤞🤞

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

nyc.gov

September 11 Docs

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I remember how sad & quiet the grown ups got after the shootings of the MLK and RFK. That spring and summer were shitty & tense. I am not happy to have that weird, crawling anxiety again. -_-

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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!

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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity

John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

a Black family dancing to korn with their astronaut relative who just got back from the moon is, quite frankly, the best thing the internet has ever produced

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I laughed until I peed myself a little 🤣. His appearance on Bill Maher was so vile I stopped watching Maher. (10-13 years ago .)I can think of no better person.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 01/09/2026

Very big jump for the NDP here, and it's more than reversion to the mean; they typically pulled ~20% before collapsing in the Carney rush in 2025, so hitting nearly 26 here took more than just their voters coming home. Promising signs for Avi's organizing strategy, still in very early days.

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 01/09/2026

For the Toronto Star, I wrote about the trade war, digital sovereignty, and Lake Ontario. We are already dominated by American tech giants. If Canada fights this trade war and we don't renegotiate the terms of digital trade, we will lose. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America isn’t just frustrating. It points to a deeper problem for Mark Carney

Canada’s digital infrastructure is too tied to companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

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Liane @lianemclarty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just read it in the *actual* paper! Excellent words 👏

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