The Value Of Our Fear: PM Mark Carney is using Canadians’ fear of Trump’s expansionism to quietly sell us out to his true allies - US finance & tech oligarchs
The Value Of Our Fear
PM Mark Carney is using Canadians' fear of Trump's expansionism to quietly sell us out to his true allies: US finance & tech oligarchs.thedabbler.patatas.ca
Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept there.
Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here.The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport.
Greens call for expulsion of US troops following abduction
Greens call for expulsion of US troops following abduction - Scotland must stand against lawless White House.Scottish Greens
Phishing attack: Numerous journalists targeted in attack via Signal Messenger
Phishing attack: Numerous journalists targeted in attack via Signal Messenger
In a phishing attack, unknown actors are apparently attempting to gain access to accounts of journalists and activists on the Signal messaging service. We explain how the attack works and how you can protect yourself against it.netzpolitik.org
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato all…The Nerve
U of A partners with City of Edmonton to study hydrogen-powered vehicles | BetaKit
U of A partners with City of Edmonton to study hydrogen-powered vehicles | BetaKit
The partnership is the latest turn in a long saga of Edmonton attempting to green its fleets.Jesse Cole (BetaKit)
ICE is at the border of New Brunswick and Maine, premier says
ICE is at the border of New Brunswick and Maine, premier says
Premier Susan Holt said the presence of U.S. ICE agents at the New Brunswick-Maine border was affecting people with cross-border family and business ties.Sean Boynton (Global News)
We don't need a bunch of toothless hillbillies with guns to take matters into their own hands for "National defence". You want to defend the nation part time? Join the reserves. You get to shoot more powerful guns than you're ever allowed at home, and you can ACTUALLY defend Canada.
We also have enough gun rights for everything you need a gun for. You want to hunt or shoot targets? Have at it. All you have to do is prove you can operate a gun safely and you can have as many guns as you want.
You want to shoot a human beings outside of sanctioned war? Thanks for outing yourself as someone who shouldn't have guns.
You weren't talking about gun rights in any of these contexts. You were saying Canadians should have more powerful guns so they could shoot ICE agents (or similar potential invaders) that dare cross the border for "National defence", which is LUNATIC logic.
We already have national defence and it's not going to be improved with a bunch of poorly trained, undisciplined, disorganised half wits roaming the countryside making rogue decisions on who gets to live or die between sips of bud light.
Don't move the goal posts to an easily defensible strawman position so you can copy paste right wing gun activist rhetoric.
Is Ubiquiti helping the Russian Military?
Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement
Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement
ARLINGTON, VA—In an apparent attempt to guilt his children into eating their vegetables Monday, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller reportedly reminded one of his sons, a picky eater, that there were starving boys and girls in the baseme…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch
Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch
The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.Sean O'Kane (TechCrunch)
Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further
An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.
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Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email
Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email
The technology giant confirmed the redundancies hours after it told staff in an email sent in error.Kali Hays (BBC News)
Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further
An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.
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My dream Linux gaming setup would be a fully configured isolated container that can be run on any host OS. Games are the prime candidates for containerization because they're all proprietary, and there's absolutely no reason a game needs user level permissions or to interact with any other program on the system.
Imagine if you could just pull the OGC container from a public registry on your distro of choice, run your game, and then just shut it down when you're done.
I suspect the biggest barrier would be sufficiently low overhead GPU access though.
This is basically how steam on Linux works.
Windows games are run inside wine
Wine is run in a container (they call the tech pressure vessel, the version of the container most games use is called sniper)
Linux native apps are not forced into a container, except they are on steamos, so guess its coming everywhere later
The container is based on ubuntu
Linux native apps are not forced into a container, except they are on steamos, so guess its coming everywhere later
I think they actually are by default. Steam Linux Runtime has been around for quite awhile, and if I'm not mistaken, it's basically just a container full of either Debian or Ubuntu.
DPS meters, trade tools, stat trackers, and a host of other tools. Full isolation is a huge pain in the ass. It's why I hate flatpak games too. They tend to fucking suck or flat out not work at all the moment you want to use community tools.
There definitely is a line here that goes too far.
The nice thing is you can give a container full hardware access if you wanted too. So if perf was a must, just steal the whole GPU for the container.
Though my ideal would be sidecar container to base desktop container. Just share what you need bus, and device wise.
Good initiative, not the best name.
Open Geospatial Consortium (also OGC) is leading in its domain and has been for years. ogc.org/
Advancing Open Geospatial Standards for Interoperability | OGC
OGC leads the development of open geospatial standards that enable trusted, interoperable location data for governments, industry, research, and global solutions.admin_ogc (OGC)
“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
The copyrightability of fonts revisited: Matthew Butterick
Recently some other participants in the type-design industry asked me to endorse a letter to the U.S. Copyright Office about copyright registrations for digital fonts. The impetus was a set of concerns arising from ongoing rejections of font-copyright registrations and a recent opinion in a case called Laatz v. Zazzle pertaining to the infringement of font copyrights.I didn’t add my name to the letter. For several reasons. First: I avoid doing free work for bigger companies. Second: I’ve never registered a copyright in my fonts, so the relevance seemed faint. Third: digital fonts (probably) aren’t protected by copyright, so the whole premise of the effort seemed fatally flawed.
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in reply to patatas • • •Anyway for anyone wondering if this is really a big deal, check out Palantir's operations in the UK and consider the fact that Carney is doing much the same as Starmer in other aspects of governance.
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Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
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in reply to patatas • • •This is very suspicious indeed. The abuse or lack thereof depends on a recedningly small set of people's beliefs. In a best case scenario, it could enable much faster than normal economic growth. In a less than good scenario.. yeah.
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in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •Yes, and the CCLA's brief on this is well worth reading. It looks far more closely at the lack of parliamentary oversight and vague wording (direct link to pdf) ourcommons.ca/Content/Committe…
And as I say, I'm not opposed to a thriving economy, but we have rules and regulations for a reason: to try to make sure that this "thriving" doesn't come at someone else's expense. And as we tumble further into climate catastrophe, "growth" often becomes one of those double-edged swords.
That aside though, sounds like we agree that this concentration of power is really concerning.