Chris W. Cook

Edmonton guy. Actor dude.

[Chris W. Cook @ElChrisCook]

This dog comes out to watch me cut the grass and runs away when I try to give her a pat. Resumes watching when I start cutting. Goes back into her yard when I’m done. This dog is my boss now and I couldn’t be happier.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield]

The fallout from Alberta’s decision to phase out photo radar: “The City of Edmonton and University of Alberta study found number of drivers travelling 30 km/h over the speed limit increased up to 128 per cent” https://t.co/n6T3wtovvV

[Amelie Magazine @vickyslyth_]

I saw a post on the TL saying that people are not truly alt anymore a lot of genz-ers were complaining, but this is true. The problem is that many young people larp. They try to pretend they were from the time these subcultures were born, but they simply lack this:

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Chris W. Cook @ElChrisCook]

@jkenney

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

Ok, you know what to do. Blow this up. My latest on Indigenous Insider, link below:
A free press holds power accountable. That’s not radical. That’s democracy.
When a government deliberately ignores questions from a credentialed journalist about sick children, adults and elders— not by accident, but as a calculated choice — they’re not ignoring me. They’re ignoring you.
Fort Chipewyan is being poisoned on their own land. The government answers to the industry extracting wealth from that land.
So who is really paying who here?

https://t.co/kRTfp8CQNX

[Alberta Advantage 🌾 @BertaAdvantage]

wow I love the Alberta Advantage

https://t.co/ymi2yg7kaN

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Yesterday the US defended free navigation, accused Iran of behaving like pirates & said over 100 states are calling on them to re-open the strait

Last year 165 states demanded the US end its blockade of Cuba. But instead of doing that the US started seizing ships. Like pirates

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇧🇷🇨🇺🚨 BREAKING: Lula just said what the world has been thinking. "Stop this damned blockade on Cuba and let the Cuban people live their lives." Cuba has problems. But they are Cuba's problems. Not Lula's. Not Trump's. Not the empire's.

The US has punished Cuba for decades. Sanctions. Blockades. Regime change attempts. None of it worked. Cubans are still standing. Still surviving. Still waiting for the world to let them breathe.

Lula is not begging. He's demanding. The blockade is not policy. It's cruelty. And the world is tired of watching.

Spread the truth. Free Cuba. Not from its leaders. From the blockade. Let the Cuban people live.

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

Barely six months after Israel gunned down unarmed protesters in Gaza, Chrystia Freeland said Canada's support for Israel is "iron clad" and promised that Canada would be an "asset" for Israel if it won a UN Security Council seat.

She is the very essence of this hypocrisy.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔹NBC: We saw people living in severe poverty in Havana. Is it time to take responsibility and change the Cuban system? Why not follow China or Vietnam which have embraced one-party rule while also embracing market economies?

🇨🇺 President Díaz-Canel: We study their models closely. But they were under sanctions for about a decade. Cuba has faced more than 60 years of blockade.

That is the difference. They were able to develop once restrictions eased. Cuba has not had that opportunity. We are an island 90 miles from the United States, under constant pressure.

When China and Vietnam began their development, they started from less favorable conditions than Cuba has today. So the real question is: lift the blockade and see what Cuba can do. If we have achieved this much under pressure, what could we achieve without it?

If Cuba is truly weak, as some claim, then why has the United States spent decades trying to isolate and undermine it? Why not let it fail on its own? The answer is clear.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

It’s mind blowing how spray paint on a synagogue wall in the west gets more outrage and condemnation than an actual bombed synagogue. Israel can get away with anything even bombing Jews

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[Christo Aivalis 🌹🍊 @christoaivalis]

If you hear "Epstein Class" and think about "Jews" rather than than "billionaire pedophiles and their friends"

Than you're the one engaging in rank Antisemitism

[Amneezy @amneetbali]

Federal politicals in Canada

https://t.co/vd9Z082Taf

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@Xtian375 To believe this all begins in 1979 is to show exactly why you don't understand what's happening.
If you don't understand the Shah's regime and how we bolstered it (oil)as the secret police tortured people is to miss the "forest".
Why were they so mad at us in 1979? Just because?

[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

You’re allowed to go back 47 years to 1979 to explain why the US is angry with Iran, but don’t you dare go back another 26 years to 1953 to explain why Iran was angry with the US in 1979.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

You know you’re a 90s kid if you remember when the U.S. government would at least make up a fake reason to attack the Middle East

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Depressing part of growing older in a collapsing imperial gerontocracy (among many) is not only have I heard all these bullshit justifications for war before but I've literally heard them from the same people