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The headline is an Alberta provincial party is changing their name. The story told by the body of the article is that the UCP is absolutely losing their shit.
They passed a bill that bans parties from putting a list of words in their name to prevent "voter confusion" which they blame their losses to the NDP on.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-ucp-progress-tory-party-conservative-9.7024279
PC party renamed to Progressive Tory Party of Alberta: former UCP MLA | CBC News

A former member of Premier Danielle Smith's government caucus says Elections Alberta has approved the name for a new political party, after the province banned a list of monikers it could use, including "conservative."

CBC

A citizen e-petition has been launched in the House of Commons calling on the Federal Government to its disallowance power to override Alberta and Saskatchewan’s use of the notwithstanding clause to violate the human rights of trans Canadians.

Sign here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7027&fbclid=IwdGRjcAOxhOlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEecVgQoZ7Epho_hgvlD4t9U2FXPWs8osOzl6GZi6Cy3YlDJ0SU8mi_O0DXfLA_aem_nsaSfEycgxm78pTmLFYSMQ

Petition e-7027 - Petitions

Final look, the auction for the big version of the poster is starting soon! #db2025 http://www.twitch.tv/desertbus

It's that time of year! The Desert Bus charity event starts this Friday and once again I'll be making the poster for it!

Every year I watch the entire week long event and add their antics to the poster over time, which you can buy! Find out more info about the event at https://desertbus.org #DB2025

Someone in the room is responsible for the trickle of accounts that post slop images and AI booster news articles in the federated feed that I keep blocking; and I can't do anything about it because most of us have correctly and appropriately set our follows to private.
Truly a trial of our times.
Social media was one step in de-democratizing the web because if you made something on your website, and posted it on your social media, the social media companies could bury those links in favor of posts that keep users corralled on a site they control. The meaning of the new "Agentic AI" browsers is that even if you can get people to visit your website, a corporation will be removing whatever you wrote or created and constructing in its place something else that suits their interests better
Feels productive for a day and a half of work.
A pair of gardening tables for around the yard built from scratch.

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it.

Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 update is working through about:config menus to toggle off everything under browser.ml.* and grumbling about it, or just straight-up abandoning Firefox in exasperation.

Turn the ship around. *Please*.

FYI the ebook of Old Man's War is going for $1.99 here in US/Canada at (most) ebook stores, for, I think, today. Get it! Cheap! And then buy all the rest of the series including the upcoming seventh installment, The Shattering Peace! The cats need tuna!