Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity
Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity
On September 2, the US military bombed a boat in the Caribbean, killing 11 civilians. Regional leaders denounced the attack as murder, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney remained silent.canadiandimension.com
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
Google has filed a lawsuit against the web scraper SerpApi, claiming that the company is illegally accessing Google Search results “at an astonishing scale.”Emma Roth (The Verge)
Russia ready to organize voting for Ukrainians in case of legitimate elections in Ukraine
Russia ready to organize voting for Ukrainians in case of legitimate elections in Ukraine
"If Ukraine opts for legitimate elections and we are tasked to organize voting for Ukrainian nationals in Russia, we will do everything we can to make this happen," CEC chairwoman Ella Pamfilova statedTASS
Hamas: We Did Not Surrender and Will Not Abandon Our Struggle for Liberation
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 19, 2025
DOHA, QATAR—Since President Donald Trump falsely proclaimed the dawn of a new era of peace and harmony in the Middle East in early October, Palestinians in Gaza have lived in an Israeli-imposed purgatory. The scorched-earth terror bombings and full-spectrum blockade on any life essentials entering Gaza have been replaced by sporadic, though daily, Israeli strikes and a trickle of food and medicine deliveries in quantities far below the terms agreed to in the October 10 “peace” deal. What is happening in Gaza is not a ceasefire, but a lower intensity, slower-paced killing operation by an Israeli regime daring Palestinians to fight back.As the White House struggles to convince even a single nation to deploy forces in Gaza on a mission to disarm the Palestinian resistance, Hamas negotiators say there has been no formal communication from the U.S. on how it intends to proceed on any of the terms laid out in Trump’s sweeping plan.
Hamas: We Did Not Surrender and Will Not Abandon Our Struggle for Liberation
As Trump scrambles to push his nebulous Gaza plan forward, the Palestinian resistance says Israel is continuing its pattern of abusing “peace” agreements to further its war of annihilation.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms
Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms
J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.J. Nathan Matias (Tech Policy Press)
Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia’s market leader
Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia’s market leader
Researchers harnessed the power of light to create a chip that could perform complex generative tasks with vastly improved energy efficiency.Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
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BYD and Huawei join forces to connect vehicles and homes via HarmonyOS ecosystem
BYD and Huawei join forces to connect vehicles and homes via HarmonyOS ecosystem
BYD and Huawei are working to connect vehicles with smart home devices via HarmonyOS.Adrian Leung (CarNewsChina.com)
University of Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Dec 19, 2025
by Tom Perkins
Last year, the pro-Israel regents of University of Michigan (U-M) ignited controversy by recruiting State Attorney General Dana Nessel to crackdown on campus Gaza protesters. Now, members of U-M’s Board of Regents are making large donations to Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald, a candidate who may replace Nessel.McDonald is the prosecutor in a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit. McDonald also received the highest level of corporate donations from the state’s largest businesses and executives, and is viewed as the establishment choice to replace Nessel.
McDonald is also receiving significant backing from donors that include prolific GOP contributors and those connected to pro-Israel organizations in metro Detroit, as well as from national organizations like Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces and AIPAC.
University of Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.Drop Site News
How long does it take for pirate copy quality to improve?
I obtained a recent release (like, not even been 24 hours) and the quality is shitty. That's normal, that's expected, it's probably someone with a camera in the movie theater. However I want to ask...
How long does it usually take however for pirate versions of movies to approach anywhere near streaming service quality?
Like everyone else said, when it gets released on streaming or physical.
For the Minecraft movie we saw a version that was missing visual effects and had real people heads on villagers.
Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
Windows 11 can't move the taskbar, and four years later, Microsoft still has no plans to bring it back. Here's why, according to Microsoft.Abhijith M B (Windows Latest)
Maple money myth persists for new polymer bills
I came across an old story from back in 2013, when the world was seemingly a little brighter, that I thought might be worth a share as we near the end of 2025.
Canadians have been raising a stink with the Bank of Canada about the new plastic bank notes.Emails to bank officials from the public in the months after the polymer bills were introduced repeatedly ask whether a scent of maple syrup has been added to the notes.
The correspondence, obtained under the Access to Information Act, asks the bank to confirm whether a scratch-and-sniff feature has been quietly added.
Rumours of the maple-syrup scent got started on the internet soon after the first bank notes were introduced in 2011, and have persisted in YouTube videos, blogs and Tweets.
The bank insists it has not added a scent, maple or otherwise, to any of the new plastic bills.
But the maple myth is likely to persist, with some Canadians claiming the odour might be an unexpected byproduct of the manufacturing process.
Guys, I have one of the first batch in a ziplock and it still smells like maple.
Either they're lying or it was accidental.
The New York Times ignores an essential part of the Jeffrey Epstein story — Israel
The New York Times ignores an essential part of the Jeffrey Epstein story — Israel
The New York Times has published a major exposé purporting to explain how Jeffrey Epstein rose to the top of the financial and political world, but it ignores one key topic: Israel.Philip Weiss (Mondoweiss)
Avid Amoeba
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in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •Then canada should shut the fuck up about sudan where canadian weapons are found. It should shut the fuck up about Palestine , it should shut the fuck up about the bullshit of Israel has thr right to defend it self It should shut the fuck up about human rights and democracy.
Usa is siding with Russia but Canada still rightfully support Ukraine so it has nothing to do with the dependence to the usa it's all about racism towards brown people and the neocolonial mentality. You guys are just hypocrite who don't want to admit our country is complicit with the usa crimes
Avid Amoeba
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in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •If we can be vocal about certain human right abuses we should be silent about everything. Otherwise we are just hypocrites. We also has laws preventing our soldiers to participate in other militaries especially one doing a genocide . If we can't respect them we should withdraw from them
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in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •It betrays that our values are the complete submission to US empire. Arresting Huawei VP, supporting war on Russia, copying US tariffs on China, Defense pact with Philippines, Agreeing Mexican cartels are state sponsored terrorists, has not resulted in our lack of integrity being rewarded. We're just a corrupt shithole sycophantic colony that dares pretend to be freer and more democratic than those who resist our master's evil. No Canadian leader at any level has spoken against the murder spree or the massing Armada.
While there may be American oligarchs with influence who think a war on Canada seems like a bad idea, the shared zero integrity among cowards in the world means no one will say a peep if US extorts/aggresses Canada harder. After all, if we have no morals other than cowardice and evil, should we expect any defense, or strongly worded admonishments, from others, including allies, when we are abused?
No matter how appealing cowardice is, it i
... show moreIt betrays that our values are the complete submission to US empire. Arresting Huawei VP, supporting war on Russia, copying US tariffs on China, Defense pact with Philippines, Agreeing Mexican cartels are state sponsored terrorists, has not resulted in our lack of integrity being rewarded. We're just a corrupt shithole sycophantic colony that dares pretend to be freer and more democratic than those who resist our master's evil. No Canadian leader at any level has spoken against the murder spree or the massing Armada.
While there may be American oligarchs with influence who think a war on Canada seems like a bad idea, the shared zero integrity among cowards in the world means no one will say a peep if US extorts/aggresses Canada harder. After all, if we have no morals other than cowardice and evil, should we expect any defense, or strongly worded admonishments, from others, including allies, when we are abused?
No matter how appealing cowardice is, it is never rewarded, and you deservedly should feel like shit for it.
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in reply to mrdown • • •GrindingGears
in reply to tangonov • • •Yes all that Canadian Fentanyl. Everyone in the world knows Canada is such a massive macro world leading net exporter of fentanyl.
Maybe if a certain country didn't, you know, have such a voracious appetite, there maybe wouldn't be such a problem. But nobody ever thinks about it that way. I mean is the cartel the cartel, for example, should a certain large world marketplace stop consuming? They should stop consuming fentanyl just to spite Canada! (And I mean hey at least something positive would come out of this).
GrindingGears
in reply to mrdown • • •Well I mean in line with the same logic, I don't really notice Europe screaming about it much either.
I think the very big Canadian lesson in all of this, and especially what we've learned with Ukraine and Russia and all of that, is that we are going to be largely left to our own devices. Thoughts and prayers and some token contributions are going to be made from our allies should something stupid happen, and thats going to be about it. So Canada better get double time working on this Citizens Army and all these other initiatives that are supposedly in the plans for 2026. We are going to get caught flat footed otherwise. It's going to be 1936 and we are Poland.
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