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Canada's English language papers, big city papers, small town papers, provincial papers, national papers are all owned by an American Republican who bought then all, bought 98% of papers, for just this reason. To subvert Canada.

Vancouver Sun same owner 🇺🇸
The Province same owner 🇺🇸
Calgary Herald same owner 🇺🇸
Edmonton Journal same owner 🇺🇸
All SUN papers same owner 🇺🇸
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98% of 🇨🇦 papers have the same US Republican owner including your small town.

#cdnpoli #canada #canpili #invasion

There’s an entire rant buried in here but, in short, I absolutely agree.

Sometimes the news is not enough. So I made "No Time to Discourse"—a speculative atlas of (endless) climate disaster. https://notime.now

Ok serious question, I'm a little spooked because I found out about today's wildfire conditions AFTER I was breathing it. Is there an Android app which will allow me to set a spot in Canada and get like, an Android notification when a wildfire state is entered, an Android notification the night before?

The deal?

Yum! Brands would only by from farms that had signed on to a fair food program with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. They'd pay extra for those tomatoes, and the extra $ would be passed through directly to tomato pickers as a raise.

This deal nearly doubled tomato pickers' wages.

And guess how much this big, ground-shaking deal raised the price of tomatoes?

ONE PENNY PER POUND.

That's it.

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

We should stop calling them “ad blockers”. If a site serves up a few banner ads as images like the old days, that’s fine. I don’t object to a site paying the bills, or seeing a banner ad.

They’re malware blockers and privacy protections. I don’t want a site popping up bullshit and trying to track me across the net. If that’s what a site is serving, it’s more than an ad, and I absolutely want to block it.

Boosting is really important on the Fediverse because it makes whatever you boost federate to the entire servers of all your followers. A boosted public post appears on your followers' timelines, but also becomes searchable to everyone on the servers of your followers.

Instead of an algorithm, the Fediverse relies on human beings sharing stuff they find interesting. This process creates a wonderful chain of discovery.

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#FediTips

LLMs are mansplaining as a service, but more specifically that type of mansplainer who googles your question and replies authoritatively with the first result that comes up, despite having zero understanding himself.