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RE: https://humanwords.party/@pinhman/116756044725654891
rights for me (white Canadian business men) but not for thee (Indigenous Canadians)
#water #canada #carneyCons #LiberalParty #NotSoLiberal #HumanRights #Alberta #Ontario #endFossilFuels #RipAndShip
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@johnefrancis/116799592548887830
The Toronto Star (owned by two billionaires) can fuck right off. Carney is no centrist, he's further right than Harper.
I double checked, and it's real.
https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:zwae4pbf7fal2es3on56t7ed/post/3moxmulw7qs2y
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When a Photographer Turned His Focus on Social Injustice, It Helped Usher in the First Child Labor Laws
Lewis Hine didn’t consider his job as taking pictures; it was “detective work.” Sometimes gaining access with ruse and subterfuge, he captured stark images that touched hearts and changed minds
"West Side Studies: Boyhood and Lawlessness; The Neglected Girl" at PG contains some of Hine's photographs
"...Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found...."
A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use.
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"The problem is, there's no such thing as 'age verification' for the internet. What we call 'age verification' is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia…"
Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/
@rickf @kimlockhartga and THEN they sell your data, and the data of all of your contacts to others.
Still you can refuse to use it. Fill your cart and if you don't like the price at check out, tell them you don't want it and make them remove it. If enough people do it during peak shopping hours, It will slow down their process and add to their re-shelving expenses so significantly that they will drop it. Also make sure to share your displeasure on their customer satisfaction survey
"Close #Trump advisors have been informing him🚨the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled,🚨which he immediately denies to blame liberals."
-J Bourscheid
#Waste #Fraud #ReflectingPool #Kakistocracy #Kleptocracy #Incompetence #Scapegoating #Uprising #USPol
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