Mike Irv

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Huge news!

Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of Drug User Liberation Front, stayed!

Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that their compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis.

https://t.co/FzZisskDuV

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

Video provided to me, Indigenous Insider, by a source who requested anonymity. This is the Second Sons, white nationalist group in Kamloops, BC earlier today where they gathered near the former Kamloops Indian residential school at Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc Nation. This comes three days before Canada’s National Day of Truth & Reconciliation.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Israeli soldiers took a PR photo with a Palestinian grandma and when they were done, they shot her in the head and executed her.

What a sick and deranged country.

[Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf]

The best way to “help the Palestinian people” is to leave Palestine. Renounce your citizenship (as many anti-Zionists have done). Support the armed resistance with your full chest. Report your sources committing genocide to the Hind Rajab Foundation and The Hague.

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

we've been trying to tell you...

[🇭🇹 ayiti libre! 🇭🇹 @evenmoredan]

category is famous last words

[Davide Mastracci 🎃 @DavideMastracci]

NEW: B’nai Brith Canada won’t rent units in its Toronto apartment buildings to non-Jews, according to property management reps.

I called pretending to be interested in their buildings. Here’s what they told me…

https://t.co/jdT8z7I23t

[Sean @seanhhm]

Imagine you, a Canadian citizen, got murdered by Israel and all your country did was write a tweet.

[Mike Irv @Mike_Irvine]

@_kelindi_ Far more reliable and frequent than the STM that I relied on for 10 years when I lived in Montreal.

[Kaguya’s Top Gal @hayasaka_aryan]

- Israel doesn’t like Spain

- ISIS that hasn’t done anything in years suddenly threatens it for no real reason

- ISIS never attacks Israel

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Grassy Narrows First Nation has declared a state of emergency and the community is under evacuation over water.

[The English 909 (A 5th Dimensional Radio Station) @909isLive]

Nothing to see here folks, move along now.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Stolen land does not become morally legitimate because settlers wrote laws protecting the theft.

[Mike Irv @Mike_Irvine]

@DJAceNBA Probably try move him in a package for an upgrade at center or an elite shooter would be my guess

[Mike Irv @Mike_Irvine]

@listenntalk @JoshMatlow @normsworld Same with Tommy Thompson

[Mike Irv @Mike_Irvine]

@DownToBlack The concept of the "public good" feels forgotten

[Financial Times @FT]

Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. https://t.co/L9Hg3hXwz8

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

eBay will pay $56 million to a couple who were sent insects, a fetal pig, and bloody pig masks by staff

They had been critical of the marketplace on their website

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Mike Irv @Mike_Irvine]

@DiscordAddamsX J Church, Descendents, Jawbreaker, Propagandhi are a few i still love