Brock Baker

Looking for a place to happen... to grow...

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

80 years old cartoon that is still relevant

[Brock Baker @playisaction]

@doctorow The Yes Men showed us what bossware is and the type of centaur boss who uses it… still my go to example for those unfamiliar with bossware. https://t.co/O4zfmf30PN

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Watch this. What if every political debate was moderated THIS way? #Fantastic https://t.co/rxKNN08gQn

[@heathermoandco.bsky.social @HeatherMoAndCo]

Adding this to the body of my thread. One guy was the official agent for 78 candidates in #TorontoStPaul dirty tricks. Who is he & what’s his connection to Toronto-St Paul? He’s from Alberta & lives in Edmonton. He also sued EC in 2017, opening the doors for this kind of f*ckery.

[Brock Baker @playisaction]

@gladstoned420 Couple months back - good show

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.

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[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Just in time for #Davos, here's 'Taken, not earned: How monopolists drive the world’s power and wealth divide," a report from a coalition of international tax justice and anti-corporate activist groups:

https://t.co/3gvxSM8VTn

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[Brock Baker @playisaction]

@BuildSoil was inspired by your threads on biological succession and some new AI tools, so I quickly put something together... wonder if you could leverage similar tools to drive more traffic to your vitally important ecological content.

[chris cross big apple sauce 🍎🗽🍕🥯 @notchrisvolpe]

For the price of letting 10 cops continuously violate NYers rights, we could have installed 2,615 Bioswales.

2,615 of them would be able to collect over 196 MILLION gallons of water & keep it from flooding our streets, subways, and homes.

Letting NYC flood is a policy choice.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

This is why climate change is not "linear" — why it's not a slope, but a series of cliffs.

NYC infrastructure is designed to handle about 1.75 in of rain per hour.

Today's rain averaged about 2 in.

Only 1/4 inch, that tiny increment, overwhelmed most of the system.

[CTV News Toronto @CTVToronto]

Three Wynn Las Vegas hotel employees tell CTV News their records contradict the story an Ontario minister gave the Integrity Commissioner about a chance meeting in a hotel lobby with a developer whose land was removed from the Greenbelt — claiming the pair and a former aide to Premier Doug Ford actually got massages at the same time.

https://t.co/Rg4c8tY3qP

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is obscene that so much of our finest talent is mobilized around innovating new ways to appropriate people's personal data or develop algorithms to manipulate people into clicking on more ads, while fundamental social and ecological problems remain unaddressed.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

We’re told that capitalism is all about innovation. But capital does not invest in innovations that are not profitable, even if they would dramatically improve well-being and ecology. The quality of innovation could be dramatically improved in a post-capitalist economy.

[Brock Baker @playisaction]

@gladstoned420 The world is a messed up place and anxiety inducing at the best of times... know that people got your back if/when needed. Here's a little something that brightened my morning https://t.co/hwG0zHH3Ul https://t.co/SDx0SODcWd

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

who's in the right though?

[Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna]

If Doug Ford gets away with carving up protected Greenbelt lands through a fake, rigged process to enrich his donor developer friends by the tune of $8 billion dollars then basically anything goes.

Be outraged, Ontarians.

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

"Justice is what love looks like in public" - excellent interview with the great Cornel West.