jace

jace, 2 months ago to Alberta

Orange and purple looks good on you, #Alberta. 🧡 💜 #nenshi #abpoli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGCcTMYY_zo

jace, 3 months ago to random

I am EXTREMELY disappointed by Kathleen Ganley's team's recent attack on a yet-to-announce candidate. It's a clear sign that Ms Ganley lacks genuine leadership qualities.
Leadership is about rising above, not undermining others to self-promote. Her choice to include a column from Rick Bell, (EWW?) further questions her judgment.
Let's demand better leadership and I encourage everyone to reconsider your support for Team Ganley & her endorsers.

#ABpoli #ABNDP #Ganley #Nenshi

ianbetteridge, 3 months ago to TeslaMotors

Well this is quite a thing #musk

https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

chad, 4 months ago to random

People forget that we're way closer to being homeless than having a million dollars.

And we need to vote accordingly.

micropainter, 5 months ago to Canada

Hey fellow Mastolorians,
I'm watching the most Canadian version ever of Handel's Messiah: from every province and territory, in multiple languages including Inuktitut, Dene, and Southern Tutchone! It's free or pay-what-you-can (click on the Home button to get your ticket to watch)

A lovely way to spend Christmas Eve.

https://againstthegraintheatre.ticketleap.com/messiahcomplex-film-release/details

#JoinIn #SitTogether #mstdnca #Canada @chad @jace @stephanie

Hiker_Scott, 5 months ago to random

:mstdn: MSTDN.CA needs your help! :mstdnca:

It's run by volunteers, but the computers that run it are pay-per-use on the cloud. They're running out of money.

Can you donate $10 a month to keep it going? $5 a month?

Maybe up your current monthly donation? I just upped mine to $7/Mth.

Go to HTTPS://mstdn.ca/about to donate now, please. :mapleleaf:

chad, 5 months ago to random

I'm writing this blog post and I don't want to. We're in dire straits and need your support. It'll be out before the end of the weekend with complete instance costing.

If you can donate, we have channels:
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TUYC2QUKR2HQS
Credit Card: https://shop.mstdn.ca/products/mstdn-ca-server-proceeds-subscription

#mstdnca

robsonfletcher, 6 months ago to random

Wow.

The Washington Post is reporting that an Indian government employee hired a hit man for $100,000 and ordered him to go ahead with the murder of a Sikh separatist in the U.S. one day after Hardeep Singh Nijjar was assassinated in Canada, "as both Sikhs were on the same list of targets."

The hit man was an undercover FBI agent.

The CIA Director and Director of National Intelligence later flew to India to demand an investigation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/29/india-us-assassination-plot-sikh-pannun/

50sFarmGirl, 6 months ago to random

w7voa, 6 months ago to random

Activist group on Capitol Hill using a big balloon to float its demand for Rep. George Santos (R-NY) to resign or be expelled from Congress.

amiya_rbehera, 6 months ago to random

Zero electric bills can be a reality in your city. Don’t be misled by the gimmick of a zero fossil fuel electricity bill, and don’t tolerate overpriced fossil fuel electricity. In both cases, the fossil fuel industry profits, either through subsidies or price gouging.

https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/demand-for-50-subsidy-for-solar/

Gigi, 6 months ago to journalism

Most mainstream Canadian media is problematic in their coverage of what's happening to Gaza, but Bell Media even has its own chant at actions¹.

📣 CTV don't you lie
📣 Genocide is a crime.

From the @TheBreach article:

❝
In an Oct. 10 directive telling employees how to write about the violence, CTV told them not to use the word “Palestine” and made the politically-charged assertion that “Palestine…does not currently exist.”

The email, sent to journalists across the media conglomerate, stated that all Bell Media platforms should use the same language.

“Given radically conflicting viewpoints and the sensitive nature of the current situation in the Middle East, this note is not to be circulated externally,” the email from CTV News assignment editor Mark Khouzam stated.
❞
https://breachmedia.ca/ctv-bell-media-forbids-palestine-suppresses-criticism-israel/

It's always mystified me how large corporations think they can keep documents they send out to hundreds of people from being leaked, unless EVERYBODY they're sending it to agrees.

It's easier for military orgs to do this with a stronger implicit threat.

#press #EndTheSiege #MediaBias

---

¹ https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/111258208529784308

The Breach verified the directive's authenticity with several employees at Bell Media. One journalist at Bell Media told The Breach they found the guidance biased. "The neutral thing to say would have been: 'We don't use Palestine in our copy because Canada does not recognize Palestine as a state. That's a fact," the journalist said. "Palestine does not exist, is a strong opinion."
In 2021, CBC News was criticized for sending out a similar directive. CBC News Toronto told staff the broadcaster doesn't use the word "Palestine" because "there is no modern country of Palestine," and told them to not use the word in rough drafts or "colloquially in our own exchanges." At least one headline this month on CTV News that initially used the word "Palestine" was later edited to remove it.
Senior editorial staff have also openly disparaged Palestinian guests and questioned whether their perspectives are newsworthy, the journalist said. Palestinian guests, according to the journalist, are expected to express grief but not political opinions or context about their experiences. "When it comes to Palestinian guests... they're essentially brought on to cry," the journalist said. "That's all they're good for."

mike, 6 months ago to random

Another classic, incisive post from @mmasnick Re: Elon’s supposed thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters:

“So… within the span of about 2 to 3 pages we are told that Elon Musk and exTwitter are passionate supporters of free speech that allow “all viewpoints” to be shared and that Musk is filing this lawsuit to force Media Matters to take down speech that he admits is absolutely true, but where he doesn’t like how they portrayed things.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/congrats-to-elon-musk-i-didnt-think-you-had-it-in-you-to-file-a-lawsuit-this-stupid-but-you-crazy-bastard-you-did-it/

fraying, 6 months ago to random

I can see how Media Matters got under Elon's skin:

"X’s ad targeting tool is apparently a piece of garbage that companies can’t count on to keep their advertisements from appearing alongside Holocaust denial, pro-Hitler content, and other bigotry.... The “root cause of X having antisemitic content next to Ads” is that there’s a ton of pro-Hitler, Holocaust denial, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi content on X for the ads to appear alongside."

https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/its-antisemitism-stupid

mike, 6 months ago to random

While I personally stopped tweeting in May, it was clear that now was the time for Flipboard to stop tweeting as well.

This is a sad outcome given that Twitter was the platform we got started on in 2010 and I was a board member there with Jack, Ev and Dick. But that Twitter is gone now. And the future is the open social web.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/flipboard-stops-tweeting-launches-new-podcast-about-decentralized-social-apps/

MissingThePt, 6 months ago to random

Pretty harsh for Elon to say that the children run over by Tesla Autopilot were his enemies.

chopaganda, 6 months ago to random

Go @Flipboard!

Btw, if you’re not following Flipboard’s various accounts, you should. They are among the best content aggregators on Masto. Here they are for easy follows.

@TechDesk
@NewsDesk
@ArtPhotosDesk
@ScienceDesk
@CultureDesk https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/111449698050813596

dgar, 6 months ago to random

Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

jantafrench, 7 months ago to random

On Wednesday morning, we'll see the formal plan to dismantle Alberta Health Services. Today, part of a slide deck to cabinet was leaked. It reveals possible parts of the UCP government's plan: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-health-services-leaked-documents-1.7021667 #AbPoli #AbLeg #AHS #AlbertaHealth #healthcare

jace, 7 months ago to random

My Twitter account is suddenly a magnet for absolutely "real" human ladies sending follow requests. 🙄 Must be all that 'anti-bot' magic Elon Musk's been working on. Clearly, another smashing success to add to his list. #BotLife #ElonMusk #TwitterFail

Paulatics, 7 months ago to Alberta

Well. This is a turn-up. https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/20102/index.do #Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli #C69 #BillC69 #abpoli #ableg #SupremeCourtofCanada #SCOC #ImpactAssessmentAct

rysiek, 7 months ago to random

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

> The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic

:thaenkin:

/via @cguess

arstechnica, 8 months ago to random

Israel-Hamas war has X and its users swimming in sea of disinformation

Flooded with old videos and video game footage, X is a bad place to stay informed.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/israel-hamas-war-has-x-and-its-users-swimming-in-sea-of-disinformation/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

TimKarr, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Musk's blue-check regime has incentivized the spread of violent imagery and lies about the Israeli/Gaza Strip conflict.

The only people who are benefitting are those "shameless grifters" willing to tell any lie as long as it juices their "X" engagement numbers:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-israel-hamas-war-disinformation-x/

ClimateHubYYC, 8 months ago to random

YOU pay for this, Alberta. That's YOUR money.

#abpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-marketing-campaign-kenneth-wong-danielle-smith-1.6982839