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ᵀᴴᴱꀤNGᒪOᖇIOᑌᔕ¹🇨🇦 @inglorious.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pierre Poilievre and the entire Conservative party voted for Mark Carney's right-wing legislation, Bill C-39. How people still do not get that Mark Carney is a gd Conservative, I'll never understand. #CDNpoli #CanadaSky

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 22h

Wow it's almost like there was a reason why pro-Palestinian protestors were demanding Mamdani fire the fucking NYPD police commissioner. There is some real "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" energy from camp "Mamdani never does anything wrong" these days.

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Protestors confront Zohran Mamdani as he comes out for his press conference.

He said that ICE sped out of the hospital. He did not note that the NYPD cleared the way for them.

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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 08/10/2026

Trans people have been saying for years that everything they’re doing to us, they’re going to do to everyone they dislike… and oh hey wouldja look at that THEY SURE ARE. Also, the line “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a tranny” goes hard as fuck.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

> Ten years after MeToo, women are still explaining the danger while grown men demand emotional accommodations for having to hear about it. Imagine calling yourself a protector and needing to be protected from the conversation.

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The Rise of Temu Masculinity

the male protector recession.

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 7h

3 out of 10 Canada Pension Plan board members also serve on boards of oil and gas companies, which Chief Public Affairs Officer Michel Leduc says is “not a conflict of interest.” Last year it made at least $6 billion in new fossil fuel investments and dropped its net zero target.

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Advocates call for climate action and Indigenous rights at CPPIB meeting

Advocates confronted Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) executives at a meeting in Ottawa yesterday, urging them to strengthen their approach to the climate crisis and Indigenous rights.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11h

More than half of Canadians are avoiding buying American goods, poll finds Canadian shoppers are pressuring grocery stores to respond, with nearly nine in 10 wanting clear labels on domestic products www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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More than half of Canadians are avoiding buying American goods, poll finds

Canadian shoppers are pressuring grocery stores to respond, with nearly nine in 10 wanting clear labels on domestic products

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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Are you looking for information about the availability of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada? You can visit our website — it will be updated regularly, as we find more details about vaccination programs. stillcoviding.ca/en/resources... #COVID #vaccines

stillcoviding.ca

COVID-19 vaccines

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 8h

Canada has ZERO national solar panel, battery or EV production. This is being done at the behest of the U.S. which can’t compete with China. Carney is an enabler of U.S. interests both corporate and militarily.

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José Machismo 🇨🇦🇪🇸🤘 @josemachismo.bsky.social · 8h

Not just doubling down on oil and gas, but actively opposing the expanded availability of EVs, batteries, and solar panels. Fuck Mark Carney, and at this point fuck whoever believes his fairytale capitalist bullshit. We got scammed. Me too. But we don’t have to stay scammed. #canpoli #cdnpoli

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6h

In Montreal? Come to my book launch! On October 23, join me and @rachelgilmore.bsky.social for a conversation about HYPERSCALE, the data centre backlash, and what the tech billionaires are trying to achieve with it all. Get your ticket now: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

HYPERSCALE: an evening with author Paris Marx + local AI data centre organizers
Paris Marx in conversation with Rachel Gilmore

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 7h

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 5h

Would you like to commit this itemized list of felonies, fellow citizen

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kingchochacho.bsky.social @kingchochacho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Please take all the "move to the center and betray trans people" Democratic strategists, launch them into the sun, and replace them with whoever is running this campaign.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 5h

We won’t stand by while Mark Carney launches the biggest attack on workers’ rights, Indigenous rights, and the environment that we've seen since the Harper era. Join our emergency town hall on October 14th, and let’s build the power to stop Bill C-39 together. RSVP here: www.ndp.ca/stop-bill-c39

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 11h

The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel, we see a pair of ghosts. The first ghost says, “Let us make love, my darling.”
In the second panel, we see see the second ghost’s face, blushing. It says, “Here? In public?”
In the third panel, we again see the pair of ghosts together. The first one says, “No one can see us, we’re ghosts!”
In the fourth panel, the title reads “the cat”. We see a cat looking up at them.

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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 5h

Long COVID can develop even after a mild COVID-19 infection. Symptoms can persist or emerge weeks or months after the initial infection, including fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, and other health complications. Long COVID is not limited to those who experience severe illness. (...)

World Health Network (whn.global) graphic with a dark background, white text, and teal highlights. At the top: “World Health Network – Science for a safer, healthier world.”
Main message: “You can develop Long COVID even after a ‘mild’ case of COVID-19.”
Supporting text: “You do not have to be hospitalized or severely ill to develop lasting symptoms.”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

Thus, any evaluation of LLMs that involves looking at either language produced by some software, or language input into the system for that matter, needs to be done with extreme care to avoid projecting our interpretation of the language onto the system. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

I will point out, however, that serious scientists are cautious with their claims. Furthermore, as we wrote in 2021 (in "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜"), p.616: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... >>

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This can seem counter-intuitive given the
increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we
have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language
text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own
linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether
or not they do [89, 140].

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I am not the one making the extraordinary claim, so it is not my job to specify what the evidence should be. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

3. Okay, so what would convince you that a piece of software (often phrased here as "an AI", gah) is conscious/can feel pain/etc? Honestly, I'm really tired of this extremely silly question, but here is my answer: >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7h

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 8h

1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 8h

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12h

As Canada becomes increasingly known for exporting wildfire smoke, is now the time to build oil pipelines? I speak to Jaime Poisson at CBC’s Front Burner about what Carney is prioritizing for investment with little to no public debate.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6h

"Our machines will kill all humans." and "They're sensitive creatures who deserve human rights!" in the same month

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 6h

does it make any moral difference whether you're mean to another human being, who is conscious and will feel bad as a result, or an LLM, that is not conscious and will not feel any type of way as a result? yeah i'd say that makes a pretty big difference. that's the main thing that's bad about it

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h

It’s not crazy or alarmist or naive of me to think this more about speech prohibition than good manners considering *waves hand* alladis

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h

Based on very recent history, still freely available to read online for an undetermined amount of time, this is the far more likely scenario.

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Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social · 17h

they've been claiming neurodiversity is over-diagnosed for at least 30 years now. Its almost like they're worried that if too many people are told that the reason they're failing is the system, not them, people might actually start questioning why the system lets so many people fail.

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 6h

They saw how much bullshit they could get away with when it came to trans people and now they won't stop until they are stopped

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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 20h

the report, from professionals in the relevant fields, says that ADHD and autism is under-diagnosed and people affected by that are not given enough support in an appropriate and timely manner. but that’s not the result the government wants, so that means the spin apparatus has chosen this form.

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 6h

public health is dead. Just full ideological capture by neoliberals

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Markwayne Carney ☭ @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 7h

Wash your hands and “be mindful” to prevent the spread of airborne viruses. Great advice, public health professionals

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today, the Senate began second reading debate on Bill C-22, the controversial "lawful access" legislation. I rose to raise my concerns with the bill's threats to our civil liberties, our privacy rights - and our online safety. #cdnpoli #Canada #C22 #LawfulAccess

youtu.be

Lawful Access vs Unlawful Access: Bill C-22 leaves us vulnerable to many threats

YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 12h

Opposition to AI data centres is growing significantly across Canada “Two-thirds of Canadians want to limit AI data centres over concerns of high water use and electricity costs.”

cultmtl.com

Opposition to AI data centres is growing significantly across Canada

According to a new study by the Angus Reid Institute, opposition to AI data centres is growing significantly across Canada.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/10/2026

Maybe not the main point here but it's ... interesting... that they're saying that remote school creates learning loss / loss of future GDP, but 80,000 more deaths (many of them likely the kids' relatives and teachers, killed by virus spread by kids) would have no impact whatsoever on those kids

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

I'm doing 1000 calculations per second and they're all wrong!

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12h

A batch of previously undisclosed documents also reveals Exxon promoted climate-solution claims, such as its work on biofuels and carbon capture and storage, that its own scientists said were unlikely to reach commercial scale: arstechnica.visitlink.me/tPZG9V

arstechnica.visitlink.me

Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For every taxpayer dollar Mark Carney uses to promote the use of household heat pumps, which are a good move for the climate, he is directing twenty taxpayer dollars towards a new pipeline which is unspeakably catastrophic for the climate, & that's only a fraction of his climate hostile spending.

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