@Aecernist

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Profile picture, a drawing of a grumpy, blue, & bald version of me, was done by my nephews. I am neither bald nor blue, but I am often grumpy.
@johnefrancis Fuck me. I think I hate Carney's Liberals more than Harper's Cons. I cannot believe it has come to this.

Carney assures Canadians that AI the fastest way to give all our money to US billionaires

www.thebeaverton.com/2026/06/carney-assures-canadians-that-ai-the-fastest-way-to-give-all-our-money-to-us-billionaires

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark has unveiled his new federal AI strategy, promising Canadians that artificial intelligence technology is the most advanced, efficient way to surrender all of our collective wealth to US Tech oligarchs. “AI is the technology of…

Carney assures Canadians that AI the fastest way to give all our money to US billionaires

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark has unveiled his new federal AI strategy, promising Canadians that artificial intelligence technology is the most advanced, efficient way to surrender all of our collective wealth to US Tech oligarchs.

The Beaverton
My milkshake brings folks to my garage
And they're like, is that Nigel Farage?
Damn right, it's Nigel Farage
So I tossed it
Like a fuckin' barrage

Donald Trump is talking about Canada being the 51st State again, and US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is retweeting him on social media.

Ambassadors who engage in blatant disrespect of our sovereignty are not welcome. I have signed this petition to have him sent home.

Carney, if you're listening, you talk about elbow's up. The puck dropped. They're spitting on our country's flag.

Are your elbows up?

🇨🇦💪🏽

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7124

#canada #canpoli #elbowsUp

Petition e-7124 - Petitions

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116674283040110293

Paraphrasing again:

We’re in a power struggle between those using “AI” to centralise and consolidate their hold over the economy, education, media, and politics and are willing to sacrifice much of the environment and society to that end (i.e. "rule the ashes") and those who think that would be bad

Standing in the middle and going “actually, I think we could find productive uses for LLMs” is not a winning move and it won't protect you from the winning side of the power struggle.

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/116672142544119982

Deposit systems are a proven method of reducing waste.

I remember growing up every adult saved their beer bottles because you could take the case of empty's back to the beer store for a refund (which was inevitably applied against another case of beer).

We should be looking at more ways of implementing reusable / returnable containers rather than continuing allow disposable plastics, and deposits are a core feature of that system.

When one of the Liberals’ biggest climate champions feels he must leave the Liberal caucus in order to fight climate change, it says everything you need to know about the government’s sense of urgency on this file.

There is none. In what is forecast to be one of the hottest years on record, Prime Minister Carney has abandoned climate action at our collective expense.

#cdnpoli #climate

So we've been getting rinsed by Palantir... go figure 🤷

Turns out we're quid's in when we junk them from our digital systems.

Now we just need to replicate this across the UK State, getting rid of all the other Big Tech suppliers that over-charge and under-deliver.

Bring on Digital Sovereignty with open source tech 🌱

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #palantir #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol

UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system

The government said its in-house IT system was "more flexible" while meeting "high standards" of security.

BBC News

One of those moments where you look back at your previous voting record during the #Blair years (never voted #Labour during this era) and the protests you went on, including the big 1 million anti-war march on London…and think yup, zero regrets.

The man was a neoliberal Thatcher wannabe then and now just wants the UK to live up #Trump and the techbros collective arsehole.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/26/tony-blair-labour-abandon-net-zero-support-donald-trump

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

The Guardian