Oh, Doug Ford. Not the Ford Motor Company, which is the Ford I would’ve thought more likely to complain about having a competitor that’s actually capable of selling EVs at reasonable prices.

The main problem is that 49000 is much too small a number given the rate at which Canadians are buying cars.

Social media takes hundreds of different forms (including e.g. Lemmy) and any study pretending that they’re all the same is useless — unless you can simply replace “social media” with “Facebook”, “TikTok”, or whatever they’re actually about.

For example the first of the studies linked above finds that using “Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram” more than they normally would makes people depressed, and the second finds that an unspecified mix of whatever people normally do that they think of as “social media” did not. Those findings do not contradict each other and do not represent a meaningful controversy.

Politically it’s a controversy, or a tangled mess of controversies. Scientifically it’s just a complete mystery that will — at the speed of science — take decades to unravel. With any luck all the findings about fucking Facebook and Twitter will be obsolete much sooner than that because at some point the enshittification will finally get so bad that people come to their senses and stop using them. The free-world versions of social media, such as the fediverse, continue to get better and will win in the long run.

“Sweden, Canada, and the Netherlands have confirmed deployments as part of the same multinational operation” according to Newsweek, citing “multiple outlets.” I’m pretty sure I heard about it on CBC radio news.

I don’t know, but it would be pretty strange for Canada to be left out.

The technology they’ve come up with sort of works, some of the time, and can make for an impressive demo if you ignore its failings. If you suspend all disbelief and assume that because computers have learned this one new trick they’ll soon be smart enough to magically transform themselves into hyperintelligent AGI monsters straight out of science fiction, if you learn to really believe it, you can convince a lot of people that you might be right. Nobody can prove that it won’t happen, therefore it’s inevitable. Therefore it is existentially important for the future of humanity and it only makes sense to bet the entire economy on it right away without hesitation.

There got to be enough money involved in blogging that someone finally succeeded in replacing it with a convenient, easy, well-advertised platform that they could enshittify and extract maximum profits from.

I don’t trust Mark Carney much and he’s doing a shit job of managing things in Canada so far, but if there’s one thing he ought to be good at it’s negotiating a trade agreement with China.

How else is Science going to pay the rent? They keep raising it. People ask a lot from Science, and to be fair it’s always come through for us in the past, but these days Science is working two jobs just to get by. Science hasn’t even had time to relax and play Crysis since last August.

Maybe, until three years later they’re playing in a band and someone says “okay let’s try it in F.”

You’re missing a few.

Maybe it’s been about 65 years since people started routinely driving cars every time they needed to go somewhere, and thus we no longer get so much practice walking around and tripping over things. The “vehicle miles traveled” data only goes back to 1970 but since then per capita driving in the USA is up by 80%.

I’d like to know how things would’ve turned out if they hadn’t made the decision to start allowing commercial traffic on the Internet.

Toronto police say … Anyone with information is asked to contact Toronto police

Apparently the CBC, normally the closest thing Canada has to good journalism, knows only what the police have told them about this event.

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The Yogscast did a dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol while raising money for charity, which was pretty good.

The world as we know it is rapidly approaching the point where it’s going to cease to function. Ecology matters, and climate change is going to wreck the world economy we know and love if war doesn’t wreck it first. Whether hypothetical future better-organized societies should choose to put as much effort into steelmaking as we do seems highly questionable, but it’s up to them.

So your thinking is that you don’t want to live in a world where people aren’t coerced into doing jobs they hate, because then you personally wouldn’t be coerced into doing the job you hate? Just saying you might consider looking for other work.

Same as the incentives under any other economic system: Ambition, adventurousness, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Meanwhile, how much is their media division spending to increase excessive screen time among teens and tweens?

What if we just vote on individual words, and then show them all in order of popularity?

The universe started out good, and then it took billions of years for large enough stars to form that their collapse could create supernovae capable of reaching the energies needed to synthesize evil particles.