Wayde Compton

Books: Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics, The Blue Road, The Outer Harbour, After Canaan, Performance Bond, 49th Parallel Psalm.

[Wayde Compton @WaydeCompton]

@museumer @BBCWorld So same diff?

[remx @biigrem]

if AI disappeared tomorrow, the only thing that would change for most of us is that life would slowly start getting better again.

[Yxng. @PapiiL0rd]

The fact that generative Al has created a fundamental doubt in reality. We now pause to check if an artwork, video, or design is even human-made before we can fully appreciate it.
It has damaged the instinctive joy of it. It's sickeningly tragic.

[Fav @favwontmiss]

Hear me out: a completely separate internet for the people who want absolutely nothing to do with AI.

[Mario Canseco @mario_canseco]

43% of #bcpoli voters want the BC New Democratic Party (NDP) and the BC Green Party to consider a formal merger into a single provincial political party.
https://t.co/SUuikyP1Bp

[Wayde Compton @WaydeCompton]

@Khelsilem Christine Boyle (@christineeboyle)

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Eby lost this election through multiple egregious mistakes, arrogance & lack of political skill.

But we also need to see his catastrophic loss as proof of what happens when "progressives" swing to the right.

Eby is not the first centrist to be shown this.
#bcpoli

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.

Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.

Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.

Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.

In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

Canada announces: Telesat, homegrown satellites, will be expanded and Starlink usage will soon be removed.

This is what every country on earth should do asap.

[Andrea Reimer (she/her) @andreareimer]

For those interested in election results:
* Vancouver - https://t.co/YCTisB2lKe
* Surrey - https://t.co/8GWC41Asc8
* Richmond - https://t.co/sQETw9jLmS
* Burnaby - https://t.co/Mk1UGr8bTh

Full provincial results @GlobalBC https://t.co/LUGAnT8gXh

[Stuart Richardson - Co Producer Latin Waves @LatinWavesMedia]

If your not voting NDP due to this snap election your being foolish, the BC Cons have tried to take down the gov 12 times in the last yr, your misplaced anger will result in higher auto insurance, bridge tolls and MSP pmts coming back, #BCpoli

[Wayde Compton @WaydeCompton]

@Conservative_BC @rparmar_BC So his defence is he's not racist, he's just incredibly inept at speaking about serious issues without being both convoluted and brutally offensive. Sounds like a winner. 👍

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

If Musk lived in Canada, the most he could give to a candidate would be $1,775. That is one of the most important safeguards we have of democracy in this country. 1/2

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Canada records 60 per cent spike in arrests, detentions of Canadians in United States https://t.co/zIR2KG03uW

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis."

Rinaldo Walcott argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition. https://t.co/H5enULJrJC

[ʚɞ flowers 🇵🇸 @lesbianbaird]

gen ai should be banned universally as a whole we dont need it

[Andrew Guidarelli 🌪️🛸 @a_guidarelli]

Hey @google I’d like to report an error.

The lake that borders New York and Ontario is an international body of water, and it is widely agreed by the entire world, except one rogue leader, that the name of this lake is “Lake Ontario”

Grow a spine and fix it.

[Wayde Compton @WaydeCompton]

#9: An Interview with Wayde Compton https://t.co/mrJCalOZqy

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

[Wayde Compton @WaydeCompton]

"Creating abundance in the wake, Part 1: Black philanthropy, memory, and spatial justice in British Columbia" by Chantelle Ohrling https://t.co/fHZpsCnLCE