Ben WerdmullerThe thing about so-called 'creeping fascism' is that it doesn't actually creep. It's loud and overt. What's insidious is how quickly those loud, overt changes are normalized.
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one last blog post, from Scotland. goodnight, and joy be with you all.
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if Ford had Ontario's interests at heart rather than his own, this election would NOT be happening.
but it is. so. please get out & vote if you can, at all, #ontario here are some sites for strategic voting in YOUR riding...if your riding has candidates yet, lolweep 😉
https://votewell.ca/
https://smartvoting.ca/
THE POINT: this is not good democracy. ppl are already overwhelmed. a lot of ppl are already booked to be elsewhere in the last ten days or so of February...the ONLY window in which civic mechanisms like fully registered candidate slates & voting options will be available. there is neither enough time or information to make this a solid election about issues. Doug has pushed this on us, hoping more than ever of us stay home amidst all the uncertainty & inconvenience & fear.
note: we are 3 weeks + a day from this election & one of the major parties still hasn't even announced a candidate in my riding. the elections worker handed me a ballot & told me to write in a name: i had to ask her what my options were.
the runway on this Ontario election is so short that the fact that i have two work trips in the second half of this month (& a tight unplanned turnaround btwn them thx to Air Canada's usual bait & switch) means i miss both the actual vote AND the mail-in window.. so...after two phone calls & an inconvenient half-hour drive...i voted, this morning, to make sure i got the chance.
#OntarioPolitics rant
i voted, today. one little swell of anti-Trump boisterousness & Doug Ford calls this Ontario snap election...though he still has 15 months left in a majority mandate & has been a Trump-lite politician all along. Ontario funds health care/higher/other public services at the lowest rate of all provinces, but Ford's betting he'll get away with this pointless squandering of $$ bc we'll vote for his tough little Made in Canada hat. 🙃
spoiler: voting for a hat=going poorly.
"Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week." #AI https://werd.io/2025/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/ [Maxwell Zeff at TechCrunch]I know "don't be evil" is from another era of Google, but still, this rankles: "Google removed a pledge to not build
Kate BowlesThis is an unmistakeable call for ethnic cleansing.