organizing for a better world 🤍 (she/her) hater of Big Oil, Big Tech, & Billionaires all views my own
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2014
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Didn't have “Ohio Democrat in an R+4 seat demands Jeffries change Israel policy for his Speaker vote” on my bingo board.
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Tonight shows that the path to a multi-racial democracy runs through economic populism. Build an economy where healthcare, groceries, housing, and tech work for working people of every background, not for oligarchs and monopolies. Taking on those fights is how we build solidarity
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So (win or lose) if DSAer Angie Nixon for Senate ends up with a similar margin to literal former Republican David Jolly for Governor, what does that say about the argument that moderates have an electoral advantage over leftists?
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toronto lets all use our brains today and tap into why exactly the tech overlords, disgraced boomer ass columnists and mf turning point canada (MAGA) are behind this cornball!!!!
UPDATE: The list of public figures endorsing Brad Bradford now includes disgraced media mogul and (formerly) convicted fraudster Conrad Black and a former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada!
thegrindmag.ca/brad-bradford…
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Earlier this summer he said that previous climate goals were unrealistic and that we were going to abandon them and raise our emissions. He's also trying to build multiple pipelines. It's insane how two faced he is and how eagerly his cult laps up his bullshit and lies.
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ONTARIO, there're plans to build AI hyperscale datacenters in Scarborough, Mississauga, and Oakville, some of the most heavily populated cities. Tomorrow July 29th city hall meetings will be held for Scarb and Miss. Call your city councilors, mayors, and turn out for the rallies
This Wednesday (July 29th) Toronto City council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres.
Send a comment to city hall and demand they pass a 1-year moratorium NOW!
tinyurl.com/NoAIDataCentresT…
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An apocalyptic scene unfolded on Highway 11 in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, this evening as the sky turned deep red and nearly black.
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"In my judgment, [Trudeau's climate] plan was not sustainable over the long term. It would have been too expensive for Canadians." - @MarkJCarney
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It's straight up criminal to be building fossil fuel infrastructure in this era of climate catastrophe.
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Residents of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation watched their home burn to the ground as they had to evacuate by boat due to a rapidly approaching wildfire.
At least four other communities in the region have also been evacuated due to wildfires.
aptnnews.ca/?p=291434
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The first major university that publicly commits to a total AI ban in its undergrad teaching (no AI in class, in creating syllabi or class prep, creating & completing assignments, or grading) and makes that part of its brand will see a major surge in applications & enrollment.
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The NDP is taking aim at the federal government after the IJF revealed it spent tens of millions on a secret contract with controversial tech company Palantir.
zurl.co/7fFV8
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Carney has announced a new AI strategy to ramp up adoption of the tech-bro-touted technology in a way that he says “serves all Canadians.”
But BIG questions are lingering about how this aggressive ramp up will play out in a world where data centres guzzle water and destroy the environment:
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Huh i wonder of this information could be be used by the cops who are also accused of being involved in organized crime!
Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret trib.al/oJn95hQ
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It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate.
There's also no real data sovereignty in an AI ecosystem dominated by U.S. tech giants. Telus may be Canadian-owned, but it has already transferred 14 petabytes of Canadian data onto Google Cloud as part of its AI strategy.
This is a technology that will bring sweeping changes at a scale and speed never seen before. Canadians deserve real oversight and a robust regulatory framework before we rush ahead.
That’s why we’re calling for an immediate pause on the construction of any new AI data centres until strong federal guardrails are in place.
We can’t sit back and let Big Tech billionaires decide our future for us.
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…
