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J.P.

@jpturcotte.bsky.social

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Healthcare worker // B.A. in International Studies // Film Studies dropout (Japanese animation history) // Also, international news and Canada-Québec politics. Je publie en français et en anglais, surtout sur Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@jpturcotte

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J.P. @jpturcotte.bsky.social · 7d

UK Think Tank Says Leaked Documents Show #Russia Is Helping #China Prepare To Seize #Taiwan - www.rferl.org/a/china-russ...

UK Think Tank Says Leaked Documents Show Russia Is Helping China Prepare To Seize Taiwan

A recently released 800-page cache of contracts and correspondence shows that Russia is helping China prepare its military for a potential invasion of Taiwan, according to an independent think tank that received the files and had them independently verified.

www.rferl.org

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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Live Work Well Research Centre @liveworkwell.bsky.social · 17h

Our partners at DAWN Canada just launched their powerful new podcast Reimagining Disabled Futures!

Check out their first episode on #Spotify where they explore disability, gender, and justice through lived experience and bold ideas. 🎧

#DisabilityJustice #Podcast #Feminism

dawnca.bsky.social @dawnca.bsky.social · 5d

Bonne nouvelle de la part de DAWN Canada ! Notre nouveau balado Reimagining Disabled Futures est maintenant en ligne. Chaque épisode explore comment le genre, le handicap et les inégalités façonnent nos vies-et comment nous imaginons des futurs meilleurs. open.spotify.com/show/0lrgYy0...

Reimagining DisAbled Futures

Podcast · DAWN Canada · Reimagining Disabled Futures explores how gender, disability, and economic inequality shape people’s lives. Each episode shares stories, ideas, and solutions for challenging…

open.spotify.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

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Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...

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404 Media @404media.co · 15h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 12h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 10h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Massive protests taking place right now in Chicago against Trump this evening.

Keep it up!

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 11h

Nobody needs Windows 11, and I shudder to think how much e-waste this pointless "upgrade" will generate

Windows 10 EOL could generate £1.8B of e-waste in UK alone • The Register www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/w...

Windows 10 EOL could generate £1.8B of e-waste in UK alone

: Recyclers reckon millions of obsolete PCs could yield a small fortune in precious metals

www.theregister.com

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 14h

Five and half years since we’ve known covid is transmitted by aerosols and a provicial health authority has released an AI chat bot that disseminates droplet disinformation.

NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 20h

Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli

Screenshot of asking NS health AI if Covid is airborne. Is Covid airborne?
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
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• Nova
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission. More information on AGMPs can be found here.

Screenshot of asking NS health AI about aerosol transmission. Tell me about aerosol transmission
Nova
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
Airborne transmission occurs when airborne particles remain suspended in the air, travel on air currents, and are inhaled by others nearby or some distance away from the source. Control of airborne transmission requires control of airflow through special ventilation systems and the use of respiratory protection.
An aerosol-generating medical procedure (AGMP)
is any procedy
production of
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aerosols of va
roplet nuclei.
Examples of AGMPs include bronchoscopy

Screenshot of asking NS health AI if breathing generates aerosols You
Wednesday, 10:03 a.m.
Does breathing generate aerosols?
•Nova
Wednesday, 10:03 a.m.
While normal breathing does produce some droplets, activities like talking, screaming, coughing, or sneezing produce larger droplets.
Labour and delivery are also not considered aerosolized events. Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMPs) are specific medical procedures that generate aerosols.

The AI claimed that breathing generates fewer aerosols than AGMPs so I tried asking for more info. How many aerosols are generated by breathing compared to an AGMP?
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Nova
Wednesday, 10:04 a.m.
To best answer your question, could you clarify what context you're interested in? For example, are you concerned about a specific medical setting or a particular activity? #NSPoli

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 18h

La construction de la séparation entre Jérusalem et la #Cisjordanie a bouleversé la vie de ses habitants. #Israel

De l’autre côté du mur

www.ledevoir.com

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MAGA Don’t Surf 🌊 🏄 @spacemonkeygleek.bsky.social · 1d

Trump appears to be setting his “insurrection” threshold at two triggers: people dying—or courts blocking his authority.

In his own words: “If people were being killed, and courts were holding us up… I’d do that.”

Also, reporters got to stop baiting him w/that Q.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump keeps threatening to use the Insurrection Act. What is it?

President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he could invoke the 1807 statute, which gives the president the power to deploy the U.S. military domestically.

www.nbcnews.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19h

"Pritzker and Newsom see it as a defining challenge of this moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily, and using it to subjugate and dominate Blue America as if it’s akin to an enemy nation within."

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Gov. Pritzker after Trump calls for him to be jailed: “I will not back down… what else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Sep 15

[Thread] George Lucas, the three-second rule and the Jedi Starfighter example

It's a story that Doug Chiang (responsible for some of the finest Star Wars spaceship designs of the last 25 years) often tells at his conferences.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 2d

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 1d

Senate confirms scientist with ties to 'Sharpiegate' as top NOAA official

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Senate confirms scientist with ties to 'Sharpiegate' as top NOAA official

Neil Jacobs was assistant secretary for environmental observation at NOAA when Trump displayed a map altered with a black Sharpie to incorrectly show Hurricane Dorian's path.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Boebert & Burchett are complaining that George Santos is having a difficult time with prison.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Schiff: "You were asked whether you were firing career prosecutors just because they worked on January 6 investigations. You refused to answer that question."

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 5d

In all the endless discussions of LLMs, there’s a point that is, on one level, obvious, but that I feel does not get sufficiently foregrounded: LLMs are transforming material that people have put up on the internet.

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Peter Ellis @freerangestats.info · 5d

The western Pacific in 1939 as seen by ChatGPT. American Samoa and the Marshalls appear to be west of Western Australia. Philippines has been mistaken for the Marianas and wrongly shown as Japanese-controlled. France seems in control of all 'Papua New Caledonia'.

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