Angshu Chatterjee

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Tech lover, amateur πŸ“·, and Indian import to πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦. I'm basically a human version of the 'I Want It All' button on Amazon. In my free time, you can find me trying to read a book or, just for kicks, trying to explain why socialism isn't that bad to my conservative relatives. πŸ˜‚
WhoJust another Joe from πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
WhatI do things on πŸ’» for work. I do things with πŸ“· for fun.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/quebec-british-columbia-wildfires-los-angeles-1.7426060
Incoming US president is promising to ruin Canada's economy and threatening to annex us, but we're helping to extinguish the LA fires anyway. This is the good neighbour you guys are gunna lose forever.
Canadians join the fight against Los Angeles-area wildfires | CBC News

Political leaders say provincial resources and military personnel are ready to join the Los Angeles wildfire battle as some Canadian crews are already on the scene.

CBC
Firefighting aircraft provided by the Quebec government and a B.C.-based company are helping to battle the massive wildfires tearing through the Los Angeles area. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/quebec-british-columbia-wildfires-los-angeles-1.7426060
Canadians join the fight against Los Angeles-area wildfires | CBC News

Political leaders say provincial resources and military personnel are ready to join the Los Angeles wildfire battle as some Canadian crews are already on the scene.

CBC
β€œWe’re all DeSantis supporters!" one marcher shouted. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/neo-nazis-florida-march-1234817532/
Videos Show Angry Neo-Nazis Cursing and Screaming Slurs During March in Florida

Members of white supremacist and antisemitic hate groups Goyim Defense League and Blood Tribe marched outside Orlando on Saturday.

Rolling Stone
Mugshot profile.

Please keep up the good work, Canada.

#startrek #canada

American Airlines Pilot Goes Off On Rude Passenger Behavior In Divisive Rant Caught On Video

Does he have a valid point?

Comic Sands
@georgepenney Here's mine - I'm VERY conversant in UK phrases but was absolutely stumped by "going up the golden stairs" (also known as "'going up the wooden hill"). If you're reading this and don't know either, it's going to sleep.
I released the final update to Apollo for Reddit! πŸ₯Ή It tidies up things for the closure later today, adds some really cool easter eggs, and lets you migrate your pixel pals from Apollo to the separate Pixel Pals app, which also unlocks an Apollo Pixel Pal so he can live on ❀️

Google and Meta are threatening to pull news content in Canada in response to a law that will force them to pay news publishers.

For Disconnect, I explain how the tech giants have effectively directed criticism at the government with the help of local commentators to distract from the power they wield in Canada and their own culpability in starving news organizations.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/google-and-meta-go-to-war-with-canada

#tech #meta #google #canada #journalism

Google and Meta go to war with Canada

As the platforms threaten to remove news content, it's time to challenge their power and fight for a better future

Disconnect
Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the end of Google Reader. So I tried to figure out what went wrong, and wound up with a story about a better social internet we could have had and instead threw into the trash https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
Who killed Google Reader?

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

The Verge