John Oliver's recent takedown of Benjamin Netanjahu's illegal setler policies is one of the best episodes Last Week Tonight has ever produced.

Thought provoking, frightening even, but very, very important.

If you are against genocide, boost this:

https://youtu.be/NqK3_n6pdDY?si=u_Q1VeoZypVcoao6

This is just priceless:

Ukrainian soldiers have begun reviewing Russian restaurants and cafés on Google with wonderful compliments along the lines of

“Excellent food, but the parking spaces were too small for our Abrams tanks”,

and

“Great service, but the restaurant did not have tables for all 2,000 of us”,

etc., etc.

Putin indeed deserves every moment of this! 😀

Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists!

https://locusmag.com/2024/08/hugo-lodestar-and-astounding-awards-winners/

Just realised that on Mastodon, boosting *is* the algorithm.

There's no code trying to cleverly show me stuff it reckons I'd be into, based on what my contacts are into, instead my contacts are saying "I like this, I bet my contacts would like it too" and that is way smarter than any algorithm.

Thank you, boosters!

“If Pierre Poilievre makes a mistake, his drop will be hard and fast.”

Veteran pollster Nik Nanos on Canada’s strange politics, divisive data mining, how he became a top researcher, and more. Michael Harris reports. #canpoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/07/11/Poilievre-Drop-Hard-Fast-Nik-Nanos-Polls-Canada-Politics-Data/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

I hope Canada is paying attention to the lessons of the France situation.

It suggest two steps required. First, parties on the left need to work together to defeat the cons in ridings where they otherwise split the vote, and second the resulting cooperation needs to install ranked-ballot (like they all use internally, but don't let us have) for a proper proportional system.

#CDNpoli #France

It took five years to write, but here's the full story behind Lambda School, Silicon Valley's disastrous foray into for-profit education.

I explain how they burned through $120 million in funding, why Income Share Agreements failed, the crimes committed along the way, and how one developer turned journalist put an end to the fraud.

https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/