Hey•Mme•G🍉

“During COVID” is today.

[Hey•Mme•G🍉 @HeyMmeG]

@Bob_Wachter @NewYorker @emmaogreen What the hell is a “public health hardliner”? If your job is in PH, you have a responsibility to the PUBLIC. Would you suggest that PH take a laissez-faire approach to water contamination? Food-borne illness? Indoor smoking?

…actually, you probably would. #BringBackMasks

[Liz McFie a/k/a Mat0 🐫🌗🌴 @fie_liz]

@Gianl1974 "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

PS. - Frank Wilhoit

[Hey•Mme•G🍉 @HeyMmeG]

@ABC The so-called "end" to the pandemic was sociologically manufactured by a US President, but that is not how a pandemic is declared over. Media outlets such as this one are complicit in propagandizing lies and putting lives in danger.

[Elementary Educators @ETFOeducators]

"So far, there are around 800 job cuts at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), including 300 elementary teachers, 145 model school teachers, 72 English as a second language teachers, 40 special education assistants and 150 lunchroom supervisors." #onted

And who will be most impacted by these cuts, courtesy of Ford's underfunding? It's children! Shameful. https://t.co/0QDHO9EWcA

[a little corner 🐘🐳🌥️ @a_darkcorner]

Doesn't the owner of the Star have an online casino licence? @corruptario

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

A profession where you can get away with murdering a 1-year-old baby and then be placed on paid administrative leave needs to be abolished.

[Hey•Mme•G🍉 @HeyMmeG]

Exactly this!

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

As a psychologist, what concerns me is that SARS-CoV-2 reinfections in perpetuity are damaging children (cognitive dysfunction, worsening health, bereavement, lower achievement). It's too painful for people to own that, so they'll blame tech & give away privacy in the process.

[Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh]

People *need* to understand this: the under-16 bans hit adults too.

Whether you’re 15 or 55, your ability to speak freely and anonymously online is at risk.

This. Isn’t. Just. About. Teens.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

As physicians struggle to explain rising cancer rates and excess mortality, it’s remarkable how often magical thinking fills the vacuum.

We’re living through a mass disabling and carcinogenic event driven, at least in part, by a pathogen many healthcare workers no longer bother to mitigate against…for themselves or their patients.

Expect a lot more explanations involving fate, luck, karma, ‘good people,’ and bad luck.

Anything but the risk factors staring us in the face.

[thinkingcap @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[Hey•Mme•G🍉 @HeyMmeG]

@ShwaewiMMM @drseanmullen I've been telling people since the onset of the pandemic that it lingers in the air like smoke, hoping they catch on to the idea...nope. If inhaling it led to immediate rashes or something, maybe that could turn the tide. But who knows at this point

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

The Shopify CEO is an all time loser, up there with Elon.

Just a mortifying wealth glutton.

You can’t “make” this much money. You can only steal the fruits of others’ labour.

The fact that billionaires exist — while Canadians can’t afford groceries — is a societal failure

[Data Report @CovidDataReport]

This is why we have TV's so we can avoid big crowds like this and AVOID getting sick!
World Cup creates perfect conditions for infectious diseases to spread – here are the biggest threats health experts are watching for https://t.co/GUamLFe0tk

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Journalists in this country are unable to be completely honest about what role Bari Weiss is actually playing and why she specifically is being chosen to do this, even when they share their most intense critiques of her. Her role is simple: to protect and uphold pro Israel narratives and propaganda.

Nothing has been as transparent in intention of the explicit reconfiguring of Zionism’s paramount position in our news media than the placement of Weiss at the top.

Our news media can’t say that, the big name journalists can’t say that, because they are complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians and for most of them, Israel, Jewishness and Zionism are still too sacred of a cow.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This is why I think outlets should not allow rando non journalists to write journalistically styled freelance pieces. As experts have pointed out, this WIRED piece fails to meet journalistic standards. The guy who wrote it is a religion prof who promotes modern day faith healing

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:

[Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters]

The girl in your freshman social studies class who raised her hand to ask why there’s no white history month is running half the major news outlets.

[Hey•Mme•G🍉 @HeyMmeG]

@shawnmcdonnell2 @ArfinNathaniel Yeah they are the biggest benefactors (and swindlers)

[Hey•Mme•G🍉 @HeyMmeG]

@kadamssl @WellBeforeHQ Beautiful!

[Hey•Mme•G🍉 @HeyMmeG]

@susan_finley @ESL_fairy @divergentTea 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[Hey•Mme•G🍉 @HeyMmeG]

@HamiltonNMNews @ESL_fairy There are many different people going through schools in the summer months, ex. summer learning instructors, camp counsellors, etc. Anyone that has to work in a school building over the summer months should do so with A/C. Caretakers included.