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Victoria Stuart
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Vancouver, B.C. 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
YES: social justice/human rights/environment
NO! capitalism/billionaires/inequality/fascists/genocide/misogyny
Transgenocide https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf
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🏳️‍⚧️ From Alabama to Alberta: Canada adopting U.S. Anti-Trans Playbook
www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/from-alaba...

🇨🇦 Alberta government uses same tactics used to pass anti-LGBTQ bills in Deep South

#transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
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From Alabama to Alberta: How Canada is Pulling from America’s Anti-Trans Playbook
An Uncloseted Media investigation finds that Alberta’s government is using many of the same tactics that were used to pass anti-LGBTQ bills in the Deep South.
www.unclosetedmedia.com
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A Chinese dissident died suddenly in British Columbia, Canada. This ex-spy who snooped on him says it may not have been an accident
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

Man says he was tasked with surveillance on artist Hua Yong, who secret police wanted to 'deal with'
This Chinese ex-spy says kayaking death of a dissident in B.C. may not have been an accident | CBC News
A former spy for China's security services has provided thousands of text and voice messages, as well as financial documents, to journalists. Among the records: instructions from his bosses to snoop o...
www.cbc.ca
December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#LLM #AIchatbots Far-right extremists see AI as their next frontier
www.salon.com/2025/12/08/f...

Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet
Far-right extremists see AI as their next frontier
Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet.
www.salon.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Stephen Miller’s Rhetoric Reminds Me of Nazis Says Rep. Ilhan Omar
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

White House adviser's white supremist comments

🇺🇲 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

Stephen Miller
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Stephen Miller’s rhetoric “reminds me” of “Nazis,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar
During a Sunday interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Minnesota congresswoman critiqued the top White House adviser’s “white supremist” comments.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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A compact camera built using an optical mouse
petapixel.com/2025/11/13/t...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613...
This Guy Built a Compact Camera Using an Optical Mouse
Low-res camera fun.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Americanization of European Conservatism
jacobin.com/2025/12/amer...

Comment: blame Steve Bannon; Stephen Harper; Viktor Orbán; U.S. Christian right

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag #AmeriKKKa #Trumpism
The Americanization of European Conservatism
Europe’s conservative politicians are increasingly obsessed with online culture wars rather than broad projects for society. It reflects a postmodern shift in which once deep-rooted party organizations are replaced by skirmishes on social media.
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/americanization-europe-conservatism-us-media\
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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🇺🇲 RFK Jr.’s vaccine overhaul puts pregnant women/children at risk
www.salon.com/2025/12/06/r...

Ends recommendation that kids receive hepatitis B vaccine at birth

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

#transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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#capitalism #inequality #socialism #justice
RFK Jr.'s vaccine revamp would put pregnant women and children at risk
A vaccine advisory panel on Friday voted to end its recommendation that kids receive hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
www.salon.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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LLM: From DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL Updates
sebastianraschka.com/blog/2025/te...

Understanding How DeepSeek's Flagship Open-Weight Models Evolved
From DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL Updates
Similar to DeepSeek V3, the team released their new flagship model over a major US holiday weekend. Given DeepSeek V3.2’s really good performance (on GPT-5 and Gemini 3.0 Pro) level, and the fact that...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🇨🇦 Some Halifax Explosion artifacts pulled from the harbor will have a new home
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A car-size chunk will be placed on display outside the Naval Museum of Halifax

#Halifax #NovaScotia #CanadianHistory

How Halifax explosion cf. atomic bomb
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Some Halifax Explosion artifacts pulled from the harbour will have a new home | CBC News
Almost a year and a half after pieces of the Mont-Blanc were discovered during dredging in Halifax harbour, plans are starting to take shape for what to do with some of the wreckage from the famed shi...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Indigenous cultural belongings return to Canada from Vatican
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Arrival of 62 items expected Saturday at Montreal airport
Indigenous cultural belongings return to Canada from Vatican | CBC News
A delegation from the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and four First Nations youth are accompanying 62 items on a flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Montreal.
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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HHS replaces Rachel Levine's official photo w. deadname
www.advocate.com/politics/hhs...
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
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HHS replaces name on transgender admiral’s official portrait with deadname in act of ‘pettiness and bigotry’
Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine’s name was changed on a display that honors previous officeholders.
www.advocate.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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🇨🇦 BC NDP aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use
themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...

Decent leader (Eby)/party but all politicians prone to democratic backsliding, obfuscation ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eby

#capitalism #socialism
themainlander.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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🇨🇦 Ontario: Police find 'I hate my child' search made on couple's device 2 days before boy, 12, died
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney on trial for first-degree murder in child's death
Police find 'I hate my child' search made on couple's device 2 days before boy, 12, died | CBC News
The first-degree murder trial of Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber in Milton, Ont., heard texts in which the women questioned whether a boy in their care might be dying a month before his death in Decemb...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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🇨🇦 Vancouver B.C. sleezlord Anoop Majithia - Vancouver Landlord Keeps Being Allowed to Evict Tenants. Why?
thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Tenancy board actions/fines are not punitive re: chronic sleezelord predators. Lengthy process to challenge; virtually no punishment; past infractions ignored
A Vancouver Landlord Keeps Being Allowed to Evict Tenants. Why? | The Tyee
Residents want to know why BC’s Residential Tenancy Branch keeps siding with Plan A.
thetyee.ca
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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#LLM: Era of AI persuasion in elections about to begin
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/05/1...

AI capable of political persuasion & could automate it at mass scale. We're not prepared

#AIchatbots #conservatism #disinformation #SyntheticMedia #posttruth #Christofascism #billionaires #oligarchy
#LLM: Era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/05/1128837/the-era-of-ai-persuasion-in-elections-is-about-to-begin AI is eminently capable of political persuasion and could automate it at a mass scale. We are not prepared. #AIchatbots #conservatism #misinformation #disinformation #SyntheticMedia #posttruth #Christofascism #billionaires #oligarchy
December 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Renowned Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry dead at 96
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Frank Gehry
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_G...

Check out the images!! 😯 #FrankGehry #architecture
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Trump administration to end prison rape protections for trans, intersex people
prismreports.org/2025/12/04/p...

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

Wedge issue #transgenocide
🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
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Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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🇨🇦 Delayed introduction of First Nations clean water bill 'unacceptable'
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

* Mark Carney's Liberal gov't plans to table a successor to Bill C-61, the First Nations Clean Water Act
* #Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief says it’s unacceptable it still hasn’t been revived
Delayed introduction of First Nations clean water bill 'unacceptable,' say chiefs | CBC News
Chiefs in Ontario are denouncing the federal government’s delayed introduction of a bill to ensure First Nations have safe drinking water. They're also concerned that Canada intends to weaken proposed...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🇺🇲 🇨🇦 Making the Invisible Visible: How Misogyny Is Driving Rising Political Violence
msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...

We consistently overlook the foundational nature of misogyny and gender-based violence in the histories or motivations of nearly all perpetrators of mass violence.
Making the Invisible Visible: How Misogyny Is Driving Rising Political Violence
excerpt from Cynthia Miller-Idriss' Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, published in September, on men and mass shootings
msmagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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ALEC Pushes Right-Wing Legislative Agenda
www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/12/04/a...

American Legislative Exchange Council
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Model acts, bills, legislation
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🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism 🇨🇦 #Trumpism

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice
ALEC Members Meet in Texas to Push Their Right-Wing 2026 State Legislative Agenda - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The American Legislative Exchange Council is holding its annual States and Nation Policy Summit at the four-star Omni Fort Worth Hotel in Texas this week.Attendees are debating model policies that wou...
www.exposedbycmd.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Legendary songwriter/guitarist Steve Cropper dead at 84 🙏
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Otis Redding: (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyPK...
* co-written by soul singer Otis Redding, guitarist Steve Cropper

Parodied: Screaming Black Dolphins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7uX...
Steve Cropper, who helped fuel soul music with Stax Records and the Blues Brothers, dead at 84 | CBC News
Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.'s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics Green Onions, (Sittin...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This one's brilliant.
How do I make an emoji from it?
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Love PostgreSQL! Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19
www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/super-fas...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605...

#postgres #rdb
Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19
This blog talks aggregations in PostgreSQL version 19. Read in, check use cases and learn more about the feature.
www.cybertec-postgresql.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#LLM #OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race
www.theverge.com/news/836212/...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612...
#LLM #OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Grifters: One on One With Trump’s Black MAGA Pastor
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Lorenzo Sewell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo...
#BlackConservatism

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ
🇨🇦 #Trumpism
One on one with Trump’s Black MAGA pastor
A candid—and sometimes heated—conversation with Lorenzo Sewell, who claims President Donald Trump is actually an anti-racist who is improving Black lives.
www.motherjones.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🇨🇦 Vancouver:As Winter Sets In, Infections Creep into DTES
thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Living conditions mean people struggle to fight infections, risk losing a limb

Unhoused People Struggle w. Street Feet in Rainy Vancouver
thetyee.ca/News/2024/02...
How to help vulnerable keep toes warm, dry, clean
As Winter Sets In, Infections Creep into the DTES | The Tyee
Living conditions mean people struggle to fight infections and risk losing a limb. A clinic offers a solution.
thetyee.ca
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM