ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

“Some U.S. media began describing it as a terrorist explosion, caused by a vehicle entering from Canada.

Every element of that preceding sentence was dispelled within hours as flat-out wrong.

There was no attack from Canada; the incident occurred entirely on U.S. soil; in fact, authorities don't believe it was a terrorist attack at all.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/border-incident-erroneous-reporting-1.7036978

#canada #media #cdnpoli #journalism #RainbowBridge

pizza levels are currently at 53% but fluctuating wildly

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If you need space to scream today, please do so here. This is the designated screaming zone.

This was meant to be for #WhiskersWednesday #Ketzeleh #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

If you've been noticing an uptick in laws proposed and often passed, that are criminalizing nearly all forms of protest, it's because the oil companies are paying politicians to make the peaceful fight against climate change impossible. #environment
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/study-fossil-fuel-industry-lobbying-anti-protest-bills/

This was the end of tonight’s sunset.

#victoriabc #nature #photography

New Yorkers are lining up at 83rd and 2nd to buy chicken over rice to support Mohamed Hussein, the street vendor who was harassed by Islamaphobic former US State Department official Stuart Seldowitz. You gotta love this city ❤️

#GunControlNow

Every year I invite people who are celebrating the colonial holiday to do something in support of Native people. Amid an overdose crisis and high rates of poverty and illness, our organizers are doing amazing work to reduce harm and help our peoples thrive. If you want to support, here are some options: https://open.substack.com/pub/mskellymhayes/p/support-indigenous-people-this-weekend?r=af4cl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

To get this straight, we CAN’T afford:
- universal healthcare
- affordable housing
- student loan forgiveness
- or anything else to help working people struggling to get by.

But the Pentagon can take $3.8 trillion and not be able to say what they did with it. Okay. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-11-15/pentagon-failed-audit-shutdown-funding-12064619.html

Altman is back in at openAI, and the board has a new composition— which is to say an old composition. The board used to be 2 men, 2 women. Now it's 4 men.

When openAI started back in 2015, i and others publicly excoriated them for their team being all white men. So they've regressed to a startling degree here.

This is not a serious company, and neither it nor its human components should be invested with so much power and influence.

Our #NoTechForApartheid event in partnership with Haymarket Books is gonna be on Monday Nov 27 11:30am-2:30pm pacific. Join us!

We don't have the registration page up yet but you can add your email here: 634jyapidgs.typeform.com/to/t0PwJvkI to make sure to get updates on the event or sign up for our newsletter at (https://www.dair-institute.org/)

Details about our incredible lineup in thread 👇

(PS this is where quote tooting would be helpful e.g.).

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.

And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).

The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the only woman on the old board was replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

Nothing says "this company's purpose is to defend the status quo and reinforce existing economic power disparities" like putting Larry Summers on your board.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altman-return-openai-ceo-2023-11-22/

If you ever wonder what a “not-for-profit that owns a for-profit” means or who really calls the shots at a Silicon Valley “not-for-profit”, remember this.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/22/sam-altman-openai-ceo-return-board-chatgpt

Hint: always follow the money.

PS. What other organisation can you think of that’s a “not-for-profit that owns a for-profit” and gets all its money from a surveillance capitalist? 🤔

#microsoft #openAI #whosYourDaddy #google #mozilla #BigTech #PR