Everyone deserves housing. Everyone deserves healthcare. Everyone deserves food, water and clean air. These are not things you should have to “earn”. Your ability to survive should not be based on economic output. Help people meet their basic needs & watch the world change.

Some people are criticizing that, I agree. Others are being absurd. I don't want to see anyone get shot. I also don't want to see anyone showing up to warn child sex predators that law enforcement is there to get them.

URGENT. Ali is a 74 year old from G a z a. He has bladder c an cer. He urgently needs food and medicine, but he can't afford it. His campaign barely gets ANY d0nat1ons. He will literally DI*E without d0nat1ons. Pls sh*are, qt, d0nat3 if you can.

After over 100 days of suffering from the worst America has to offer, the Vatican and God has now seen fit to bless us with this humble, incredibly smart and truly pious man to lead the church. A true respite from a disastrous and cruel US gov't. Congratulations to Leo XIV!

This is actually an extraordinary admission to make for a US Vice President x.com/OopsGuess/status/19023… Vance explains that "the idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things." But he laments that it didn't quite work out this way: as he explains it turns out that poor countries (mostly China) didn't want to just remain cheap labor forever and started moving up the value chain themselves. Which is why, according to him, globalization was a failure. Meaning that the objective of globalization wasn't to reduce global inequalities but very much to maintain them, to institute a system of permanent economic hierarchy where rich countries would maintain their hold over the most profitable sectors while relegating poor countries to perpetual subordination in lower-value production. This is basically all you need to know to explain 90% of U.S. foreign policy these past few years: colonial thinking is alive and well, and America's shift of strategy in recent years - away from the previous "Washington Consensus" of "free" markets towards a much more overt attempt to contain and restrict China's development - stems precisely from this mindset. From semiconductor export controls to investment restrictions, these policies aren't about 'national security' in any genuine sense - they're about trying to preserve a global economic order where, simply put, poorer nations know their assigned place and stay there. At the very core, that's the "China threat": a China that stepped out of the economic lane assigned to it by the West. It's deeply ironic when you think of it: a global game allegedly designed to "spread market principles" worldwide is being abandoned precisely because it worked too well. When China succeeded better than expected, the response wasn't to celebrate the validation of the game's effectiveness but to change its rules. Precisely because the real unspoken game - but now clearly stated by the U.S. Vice President - was to maintain global inequality, not eliminate it. All in all, in case they hadn't yet gotten the memo, this sends a very clear message to the developing world: economic development will require challenging a U.S.-dominated economic order that views their advancement as a threat rather than a success. Which incidentally is why Vance's words might actually help accelerate the very redistribution of global economic power he laments, pushing more nations to recognize that genuine development requires strategic independence from a system intended to keep them in their place.

Dear @mitchtremblay, on the eve of your 42nd birthday. Listen, I know you think you're worthless because... well... I am you. But you've turned your darkest shadows into beacons of light for others to gather around. Just four years ago you were near the very end, on a mattress on a cement floor, the room covered in black mold, too scared to leave to even pee. I'm not saying you are better now, but you've turned that pain and suffering into anthems for change and that is a good thing. You are so close to being a good person - something we never dreamed could be possible as we sold our body to strangers to survive from the age of 18. You are not a whore or a loser, you are a very broken man who can articulate the struggle and try to include everyone despite your privilege as a white man. You look out for the underdog, having been one your whole life. There may not be a happy ending for you, Mitch, but youve made a happy middle by making sure voices are heard, unlike yours back then. You don't have to be strong or happy, you just need to keep a death grip on to this meaning you've found, this sense of purpose, a true raison d'etre, and let's make this place better than we found it and treat people better than we were treated. You have moved mountains to get here, stop worrying about the ant hills. I can't say I love you, it's been too long since we felt that, but I like this version of you. I don't see a hero or a victim, I see a survivor who is challenging the very core of his being: Fear, so that others don't face the same life. Happy Birthday Mitch, and be well. -@odspoor

You know that cousin of Galen's I'm always talking about? The one on the board of the LCBO, and the board of SickKids? Well, she also worked on education policy for Fraser Institute, promoting "school choice", aka charter schools. Couldn't make it up. Cartoonishly corrupt.

Excellent primer on the corruption in Ontario’s politics and governance. Thanks goes to ⁦@corruptario⁩ for explaining this so clearly. IDU: Harper's Worldwide Winning Network corruptario.ca/idu-harpers-w…

#Apple #WWDC2023 #WWDC #VisionPro #applevisionpro Who wants to bet that it were not for recent events, Epic was Apple's first pick to collaborate with instead of Unity for Apple Vision Pro?

Thanks to AI, soon everyone will be affixed with that label.

Can you believe this is not a video but full CGI? artstation.com/artwork/KORaE… @MelindaOzel

Much of our technology that we take for granted was originated as a result of innovation originally intended for military applications. The gyroscopic camera is one such example. The one benefit is that those patents eventually expire and become public.

Seen this? @MelindaOzel

#UltimatePlay @beebole49