This man stabbed his three children — aged five, eight and 10 to punish his ex wife for leaving him. Now he gets to be free. Our justice system is a joke.

This sucks....

I warned Elections Alberta about the potential Centurion Initiative data breach on March 31. They did Sweet FA for almost a month. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/thelin…

Fourteen year old Mohawk and future Olympic gold medalist Waneek Horn-Miller cradling her younger sister after she herself was bayoneted in the chest by a Canadian soldier. Quebec, Oka Crisis, 26 September 1990.

Do. Not. Normalize. Renting. Your. Computers.

“He acknowledged he had issues with alcohol in the past and said he "briefly lapsed" on the day of his daughter's death because he was emotional about her leaving.” So Kris Harrison had been drinking, got in a heated argument with his daughter over trump, a little later decided to “show her his gun” and she ends up shot dead in the chest. Fucking bullshit. Justice for Lucy and for all victims of the global pandemic of violence against women and girls.

The reason this story is making headlines in the British press is because Lucy Harrison’s death is currently being investigated by Cheshire Coroner’s Court in England, where she lived. Last January, Lucy was shot dead by her father, Kris Harrison, at his home in Texas, but a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him so no criminal case was brought. He has been walking around freely since.

RT @ikraaria: ever since I moved my lectures from 9am to 1pm so many of my students family members have stopped passing away, look at me sa…

Legendary Blue Jays Broadcaster Buck Martinez Announces Retirement Press Release: rogerssportsandmedia.com/the…

The bootlicking responses in this thread are even more upsetting than the photo. "He deserved it". What a bunch of authoritarian enablers. Who knew so many Americans were so cool with authorities doing this? Bootlicking.

Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.

RT @mattgurney: Hey guys. This is going to be the most personal update I’ve ever shared publicly. I live in public view — my work does, an…

Private equity firms control the top 3 providers of fire department software This NYT story details how they take over affordable services, retire them, and then jack up the price of new tools by 3-5x, selling modernization while feeding off a reliable stream of taxpayer funding

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

I know this girl who increased body weight 30% in one month. Literally all she would do is eat, sleep, and sh*t. Constantly waking up in the night to snack. She couldn’t even talk because she was so focused on bulking. Anyway, happy 1 month to my baby.

iHeartRadio has banned its radio stations from playing AI-generated music or using AI-generated personalities, as part of its “Guaranteed Human” program.

Colleen Jones has died. One of the greatest curlers in Canadian history, she appeared at the Scotties 21 times, winning six championships. She also won two World Championships. Jones was also a broadcaster on CBC for four decades before she retired.

For fans of old barns, these are the rafters at Pacific Coliseum. The bones are indeed very good here.

Congrats 🇨🇦! 🥳 A day after the budget passes: Canada Post is declared “effectively insolvent” & its CEO is cutting 30k jobs—about half its work force. I wasn’t exaggerating when I said the gov is debt stripping: they literally sold Canada Post’s revenue tools to amplify debt.

She cried, I cried. The last bit of our mum ♥️