Bob Jones called this out MONTHS ago. I guess now we know why the right wing keeps screaming for CBC to be de-funded.

they used the phrase “freeze in the dark” again, eh? Man they know how to hold on to a grudge for well over a generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_Program#Legacy_and_Western_alienation

I keep waiting for Amazon to start generating AI-driven online profiles spouting Ai-driven selling points for AI-generated media.
It’s the AI version of “Flood the zone with shit” except the entire internet is The Zone.

this is the “can it run DOOM” of manufacturing

waiting for religious fundamentalists to get upset at the numbers ‘666’ appearing in the petition title.

rather than uninstalling adblockers entirely, can’t they just whitelist YouTube? Ad Trackers only have value when they track people across multiple sites: if the tracker only functions on YT then users get the video views they want and YT gets near-worthless tracking data.

Vertical Integration Government

Bingo! If accountability hurts the bottom line, then The Big Money will argue against accountability in any form.

Big Money got a mighty voice.
Big Money make no sound.

I’d love to go a goddamn day without hearing about this man. The media’s bizarre fascination with him is entirely unhealthy.

FTA
“Postmedia should have gone bankrupt in 2016, when its revenues fell to where they could no longer service its more than $600 million in debt. Then-CEO Paul Godfrey pulled a fast one, however, by replacing its majority hedge fund owner with one from New Jersey and axing about half of the company’s debt to keep the shell game going. Few in Canada noticed the change in ownership, noted the New York Times a few years later, because it “happened so quietly that Postmedia’s own financial news site described it as a debt restructuring.” Postmedia is again under water and facing bankruptcy if Ottawa doesn’t bail it out.”

Postmedia is done. They exist to pull the country apart. Let them rot.

just his cock, like usual.

I just want to mention the clever graphic design of the Illustration by Ben Kothe

and every single professional practitioner thereof

Just do what the kid says.

to be fair, “doing shit” really means “doing shit that benefits people without much power and influence”, so, there’s basically no incentive other than “because it’s the right and just thing to do” which has never been the M.O. , despite everything people have been taught in the movies you make.

we also have a historical problem of demanding a perfect solution to a complex problem and then being upset when nobody can provide it. Even if someone provides a Very Good solution, the moment it causes financial discomfort for wealthy people you’ll see next-level lobbying and media saturation of “the plan isn’t working.”

Seeing as we’re currently lacking a multi-faceted plan for this multi-faceted problem, I’d settle for taxing the fuck out of those who own more than 3 single-family houses as a good first step.

Any decision made has to be supported by 51+% of Canadians

A referendum model? Best of luck with that. We don’t even elect political parties that represent 51% of voters. You’d end up with a) almost nothing getting done , and b) probably no way back to the current model.

Cotton-Polyester Christians

that’s fucking impressive

FYI a chunk of the money for those legal bills came from Texas. Their attorney general went on record to complain that the money Texans donated wasn’t getting through to the convoy. Make of that what you will.

Tu peux.

I appreciate the sentiment. Hopefully the soulless will fall to good old-fashioned heart disease first, like God intended.

“Inflation” my arse.
Handwaving the obvious profiteering on groceries as “inflation” is disingenuous at best. Gasoline has been overprices due to obvious profiteering for years, but all people complain about is the tax portion of the cost (which is significant but not the lion’s share of the cost.)

They need to listen to more Kris Kristofferson:

Everybody’s gotta have somebody to look down on
Whom they can be better than at any time they please.
Someone doin’ somethin’ dirty the decent folks can frown on
If you can’t find nobody else then help yourself to me.

When evenings dip below 20C we like to sit in our 101F hot tub.

They believe in the Ivory Tower model of accountability: let people say what they want but under no circumstances will they respond to any criticism.

They can keep saying “Let them eat Weston Foods brand cake” because there are no guillotines in sight.

The article is great. The top comment under the article caught my eye:
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but at least I’m real…last I checked.
That’s very suspicious since that is exactly what I would expect a bot to write.

Point of order: in order for a bot to write that text, it would need to have been already written by someone else. So if a bot didn’t write it before, it might the next time.

I still say his hard-on for defunding the CBC goes all the way back to The Mercer Report.

I had people challenge me on that belief awhile back, saying that nobody could hold a grudge that long. And yet we find out today that one producer stopped Babylon 5 in its tracks for 20 fucking years. So yes, Internet, people in power can hold a grudge as long as they goddamn please.

honestly he looks like Milhouse with or without glasses.

Cory’s been “kind of a big deal” for decades. Boing Boing was as relevant as you could get back in the early 2000’s. It had consistently good and interesting stuff on it.
I’m glad the enshittification article became widely read: it’s remarkably astute.

Microsoft cares about dual-booters about as much as Meta/Facebook care about people running anything other than FB on their phone.

They’re like a vampire: once you invite them in you are rendered powerless to them. Source: “The Lost Boys”

They’re just jealous that we even still have trees that can burn. Sorry, Manhattan.

Sue stood up against the puritanical and the tyrannical. She helped us feel understand our bodies, and feel better about ourselves. What better service to humankind can there be?

just wait until Canada puts together a left-of-center media conglomerate (whatever the fuck “center” even is these days) and buys up a Timbit 20-pack of newspapers and talk radio stations in Maine, upstate New York, Michigan and North Dakota.

Then they’ll be sorry.

I like that name, I gotta say.

| We’re pretty passive when it comes to being gouged

Only if you include cell phone plans, internet access, air travel, housing, and food. Oh, and pet food.

I maintain the only reason Google ever shut any product down was because they weren’t able to extract useful data from it fast enough. It’s the only reason any of their products exist.

and where proponents of the untrustable attack those with even a shred of integrity remaining

I was tinkering with a script idea like this, where some Random Internet Human kept having increasing difficulty trying to contact a human at a company (spoiler: no humans) , then tried to complain to online support (spoiler: no humans) , then tried to go to social media to complain about it all (spoiler: no humans).
By the time I have time to write these damn stories they won’t be prescient anymore: they’ll be passé.

how about a day’s profits? okay, a half-day’s profits, final offer.