shogun is such a great show for so many reasons, but seeing the englishman’s growing respect for and embrace of japanese culture over the season is truly beautiful

When the trailer for The King Tide played in front of Civil War I could tell right away it was filmed in Newfoundland, even though I’d never heard of it before.

Lot of 'serious' people keep trying to say these encampments are frivolous and don't matter.

I dunno, feels like this matters.

Just to be clear: Anthony Housefather made a stronger statement against students protesting the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the IDF than he did of the guy waving the Nazi Swastika in front of Parliament.

#cdnpoli #CampusProtests #FreePalestine

Israel says Hamas seeks Israel's total destruction.

But a top Hamas official tells AP that it will lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established.

#CeasefireForGazaNOW

apnews.com/article/hamas-…

I asked the provinces if they think housing is a human right, and plan to make rules protecting that right. Quebec sent this:

'Do I ghost her again? Otherwise, a general response that doesn't answer, to say housing is a priority for our government?'

thestar.com/news/canada/ca…

Memorial to the Palestinian journalists killed by Israel, outside the White House Correspondents Dinner which is filled with the those who sponsor this slaughter and those who provide the propaganda for it.

Housefather encouraging and pre-empting a massive police response to the McGill encampment.

If anything should be happen, we know who should be held responsible.

This man cares more about defending the genocidal Netanyahu regime than he does about human rights.

Imagine being the college dean who escorts snipers to the roof to take aim at your own students.

the least reliable video calls you will ever use — coming soon!

In this engaging Paris Marx episode O'Gieblyn reminds us that Kurzweil's transhumanism - ('to go beyond our limitations') is rooted in Christian eschatology. (Worth noting: there r other tech stories about American dreams of limitlessness as told by historians of the emotions).

Want to know how Uber assigns a driver a passenger, and vice versa?? Think it’s because you are the closest? Nope. Not about efficiency.

This is what makes algorithmic wage discrimination so so so insidious, immoral, and terrifyingly dystopian.

«The Vision Pro is just one in a long line of tech failures that includes everything from Juicero to the metaverse to the crypto financial system to the self-driving cars that were supposed to be ubiquitous by now.»

Sensational

“The concept of the Vision Pro might have excited some developers in an Apple lab in Cupertino, but most people are never going to use computers in the way those engineers and their managers imagined”. Quelle surprise…

disconnect.blog/the-vision-pro…

We can and must have democratic conversations about what tech is going to serve us positively and must be encouraged (always aiming for public ownership), versus what is a waste of our collective finite resources and should be taxed and regulated out of existence

British journalism is when you do an investigation to find out a series of very obvious things that have been widely known and discussed for at least seven years

Incredible things happening on Chinese internet