mtlgrl🇨🇦

Visual artist, educator and political junkie until I have to look away. Attache ta toque let’s go #elbowsup #glovesoff #GOHABSGO

[MaaikeDx 🖌 @RembrandtsRoom]

Tridacne, Vulci (Italy), 650-580 BCE.
Schelpen die als make-up dozen dienden, leefden niet in de Middellandse Zee maar in de Rode Zee of de Persische Golf. Dit exemplaar werd in Etruria gevonden. Een vrouwenkopje is erin gebeeldhouwd. Prachtig en tijdloos.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Local man suggests jailing own boss.

[mtlgrl🇨🇦 @quaiculture]

@MrJoKeR604 That wig is nasty lol

[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

This dumb shit is how we got Trump twice

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Joe Biden had a bad debate. Approximately 765 stories and opinion pieces in the NYTimes.

Donald Trump had 300 bank accounts closed because of evidence of money laundering. Nothing to see here, says the same NYTimes.

[Rosina O @techysaavyteach]

My fourth grade nyc colleague does not use social media and is heading back to school soon. She is in urgent need of desk nametag holders and a classroom reward store. Please repost. Thanks https://t.co/mumbTCaQG1

[Rosina O @techysaavyteach]

I am a nyc teacher and would love magnetic borders and bulletin board sets. Please repost. https://t.co/kKhGFUUtFf

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Max Miller’s livestream was all about denying his ex-wife’s allegations. Abusers do that.

Notice what he didn’t address.

Not the former girlfriend who also accused him.
Not the allegations dating back to high school.
Not the pattern of police reports and court records examined in the Mother Jones investigation.

When the story spans multiple women over many years, it’s bigger than one messy divorce.

Read the reporting and judge for yourself. Max Miller needs to resign.

https://t.co/R2KlvtlDjG

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The West was incensed when the Taliban blew up the Buddhist Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan.

Crickets as Israel blows up a UNESCO heritage site in Lebanon.

[Noah Karl🌏🌌🚀 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @NoahKarl1]

The difference between

"There used to be hot summers too."

and
climate crisis.

[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

No, covid wanted yall dead and it got 1.5 million of you

[mtlgrl🇨🇦 @quaiculture]

@RoryStewartUK lol for real😂

[VIA Rail Canada @VIA_Rail]

The Government of Canada has announced a $1.95B investment to renew VIA Rail’s pan-Canadian fleet, with 45 new hybrid battery-diesel locomotives and a new assembly and maintenance facility in Montréal: https://t.co/29VYg5rO4q

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Calling the 87,000 people who participated in the Billy Bishop Airport consultation a “fringe group” because you disagree with them is lazy, but it is also antithetical to democracy. We shouldn’t tolerate this behaviour from an elected official.

The consultation process is only legitimate when it produces the outcome you want?

This is the same rhetorical tactic Donald Trump has repeatedly used: dismissing critics and opponents as illegitimate rather than engaging with the substance of their arguments. Undermine those whose views you don’t like by making things up about ‘who’ they are. Nice. Very nice.

We shouldn’t normalize this kind of politics in Canada.

We’ve seen where it leads.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

DIDN'T MARTHA STEWART DO LIKE 6 MOMTHS IN JAIL FOR WHAT TRUMP AND HIS CHILDREN DOES SEVERAL TIMES EACH DAY 🤔

[🇨🇦 Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

“Most coverage of the Gordie Howe Bridge is pure politics."
Here’s the actual finance: Canada’s concession is under 5% of the project’s net present value — roughly $5 on a $100 bill.
#GordieHowe, #WindsorDetroit #cdnpoli
Full thread 👇

[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🤗

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

All hands on deck: only buy Canadian honey. Our beekeepers need us.