I must preface this with: As long as we have airplanes, all people should be able to fly on an airplane comfortably and safely, period. However, my point is: this also reminds me that if Canada (and North America in general) had a working high speed rail network, it is a mode of transportation that is far more conducive to accessibility and assistive devices.

I recognize trains can't go everywhere planes go (they used to!) and disabled people have the absolute right to expect the same speed and convenience of anyone else (thus this story!). But part of the problem for *everyone* is we simply have no options.

We've thrown all our transportation-eggs into the airplane and cars basket and the air corporations are showing to be particularly evil. The stories emerging from Air Canada and others are horrendous. The companies should be absolutely ashamed.

#Transportation #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #AirTravel #AirCanada #Trains #Rail #DisabilityRights #HumanRights
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-hidden-camera-disabilities-transportation-1.7020175

Ontario NDP are imploding after removing a disabled black MPP from caucus over her remarks supporting Palestinians

Even their major union supporters are clapping back harshly, members are resigning from the party

Definition of an own goal

#ONpoli #CDNpoli #BCpoli

Installing an adblocker is the gateway drug into anti-consumerism, which is in turn the gateway drug into anti-capitalism.

Tell all your friends how to install adblockers.

"Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.
Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”
He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.
Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology."

Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind’ Mustafa Suleyman https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/14/google-internet-spiral-of-decline-deepmind-mustafa-suleyman/

#ConservativePartyOfCanada alleged leader, #PierrePoilivre, displays his abject ignorance yet again.

Typically, his low information supporters eat his misinformation up.

Sad what conservatism has become.

#Canada #cdnpoli #canpoli

Why would the #HomeSchoolLegalDefenseAssociation fight against laws to protect children?

Answer: They are there to protect child abusing parents and nothing more.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2022/5/12/23067012/homeschool-lobbying-christian

#Canada #cdnpoli #canpoli #HomeSchool

So far, AI hasn’t been profitable for Big Tech

Microsoft loses around $20 per user per month on GitHub Copilot, according to the WSJ.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/so-far-ai-hasnt-been-profitable-for-big-tech/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

***** Google is making their weak, flawed passkey system the default login method — I urge you NOT to use it! *****

https://lauren.vortex.com/2023/10/10/dont-use-google-passkeys-now

#Google continues to push ahead with its ill-advised scheme to force passkeys on users who do not understand their risks, and will try push all users into this flawed system starting imminently.

In my discussions with Google on this matter (I have chatted multiple times with the Googler in charge of this), they have admitted that their implementation, by depending completely on device authentication security which for many users is extremely weak, will put many users at risk of their Google accounts being compromised. However, they feel that overall this will be an improvement for users who have strong authentication on their devices.

And as for ordinary people who already are left behind by Google when something goes wrong? They'll get the shaft again. Google has ALWAYS operated on this basis -- if you don't fit into their majority silos, they just don't care. Another way for Google users to get locked out of their accounts and lose all their data, with no useful help from Google.

With Google's deficient passkey system implementation -- they refuse to consider an additional authentication layer for protection -- anyone who has authenticated access to your device (that includes the creep that watched you access your phone in that bar before he stole it) will have full and unrestricted access to your Google passkeys and accounts on the same basis. And when you're locked out, don't complain to Google, because they'll just say that you're not the user that they're interested in -- if they respond to you at all, that is.

"Thank you for choosing Google."

--Lauren--