|
Bruce Arthur@brucearthur.bsky.social |
4792 followers 250 following 456 posts
Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter.
|
lowtax speedrun enjoyer
@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
[ View ] |
have said this before but trump’s brain is pretty obviously far more cooked than biden’s if you listen to what they actually say. but the presentation - basically trump being a spaz - makes trump *look and sound* less cooked to many people i think
15 replies 37 reposts 239 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The tendrils go back and forth, side to side. When I went and reported on an anti-vaccine hospital protest in 2022, one guy who had become attached to the movement told me, "I've never met so many flat-earthers in my life."
1 replies 1 reposts 12 likes
|
Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth
31 replies 107 reposts 641 likes
|
Zander🚈🔰
@kohiwonomu.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Transit funding = antifascist praxis
2 replies 97 reposts 350 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Bingo
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The judiciary could be compromised, but it's harder to dig out the Senate. We'll see, probably
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Official act. Immune.
57 replies 690 reposts 2002 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
That, and mayyyyybe the Senate
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
[ View ] |
the conservative theory of law in one headline
51 replies 1054 reposts 3760 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A safe supply doctor effectively being threatened with jail; economists attacked. Under Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party's attacks on experts have accelerated: blunter, nastier, and more personal. Is this the future in Canadian governance? www.thestar.com/politics/peo...
4 replies 17 reposts 29 likes
|
ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
[ View ] |
this is 100 percent right. the SCOTUS decision here is part of Project 2025, it is preemptively helping Trump consolidate his dictatorship crookedtimber.org/2024/07/02/s...
8 replies 131 reposts 526 likes
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
RFK Jr. is still somehow only the second worst guy running for President
7 replies 24 reposts 170 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Wait what
3 replies 3 reposts 5 likes
|
Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Quietly, maybe the shittiest, most despair inducing moment of the debate was Dana Bash asking Biden "Do you support any legal limits on how late a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy?"
10 replies 24 reposts 202 likes
|
Basquiatball
@basquiatball.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Fast tracking a Judge Dred type world where Federal Judges ride around in their motorcycle thrones demanding bribes from all they oversee.
3 replies 18 reposts 90 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Good luck, Tim. Hoping for good news here.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
[ View ] |
anyway I have a hearing in less than three hours about whether i'm a journalist
3 replies 18 reposts 125 likes
|
Bill Stinkwater
@klausbromi.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If the human race lasts another 1,000 years they will look at this time as another dark age because almost nothing that we have done and poured our lives into will have survived.
1 replies 7 reposts 19 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Connor McDavid has carried the expectations since he was a boy, and last night he came as close to the goal as he ever has, and he wasn't enough. This is the life of a great one, and the Oilers owe it to him (and to Leon Draisaitl) to give him another chance. www.thestar.com/sports/nhl/c...
0 replies 0 reposts 13 likes
|
Jesse Hawken
@jessehawken.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Get their asses
5 replies 12 reposts 120 likes
|
Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Hey @washingtonpost.com remember when you understood what happened on J6?
9 replies 213 reposts 752 likes
|
Patrick Nathan
@patricknathan.bsky.social
[ View ] |
“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.
16 replies 717 reposts 1513 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Listen, mistakes were made
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
He's good in some things! He was good in Dune!
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Daniel Drezner
@dandrezner.bsky.social
[ View ] |
What in the ever-loving fuck… www.rawstory.com/trump-attack...
17 replies 90 reposts 348 likes
|
TW
@twesq.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Was just reminded of the funniest news story of my adult life.
10 replies 87 reposts 459 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I accidentally watched Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and let me tell you, I hate AI, but sometimes it's not so easy to defend the creative arts
3 replies 0 reposts 28 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Ford government allows the Science Centre to fall apart, underfunds education, underfunds health care, and wastes money on boondoggles that, oddly, seem to often benefit their lobbyists or friends. And it's not CLOSE to the worst provincial government in the country right now. (I'd say third.)
7 replies 49 reposts 118 likes
|
CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
[ View ] |
[stares directly into the camera]
9 replies 16 reposts 150 likes
|
Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Oh hey tech firms what’s up, I found the miracle solution: throw this unwanted AI shit into the fucking trash where it belongs
54 replies 615 reposts 1991 likes
|
J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Like, it's super-hard to make bombs even when you know what you're doing and have access to good instructional material and training. This? Nuts.
3 replies 5 reposts 44 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
And Brian Lilley defends it. This is modern Canadian conservatism.
8 replies 16 reposts 46 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Rebel took money from a radical, anonymous, pro-Israel group and sent a truck around Toronto with Great Replacement messaging about Islamic invasion, and is now trying to leverage a police investigation into fundraising. This is modern Canadian conservatism. www.thestar.com/news/gta/reb...
18 replies 67 reposts 128 likes
|
Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Everyone is rightfully praising his film roles, but Donald Sutherland was also one of the best golden age SIMPSONS guest stars. The way he said "You had arthritis?" always kills me.
0 replies 14 reposts 62 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Donald Sutherland was so cool. A giant, an icon, and someone whose voice felt like it was right in your ear.
2 replies 1 reposts 43 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Whatever happens in the Cup final, congratulations to Edmonton, because you have Connor McDavid, and nobody else does. www.thestar.com/sports/nhl/a...
0 replies 0 reposts 15 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Private health care starves the public system
4 replies 14 reposts 30 likes
|
Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
[ View ] |
so in addition to causing significant light pollution that harms astronomical research, the sheer volume of starlink low earth orbit satellites constantly burning up on re-entry could prevent the ozone layer from healing, scientists warn:
35 replies 272 reposts 620 likes
|
Megan O’Toole
@meganotoole.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A newly surfaced document has revealed that the Israeli army had comprehensive knowledge of the plan by Hamas to raid Israel and kidnap 250 people, via ‘Detailed End-to-End Raid Training,’ distributed on September 19, 2023 - just weeks before Hamas’s incursion, according to an Israeli media report.
6 replies 171 reposts 346 likes
|
Micah
@rincewind.run
[ View ] |
Voyager 1 is on the shortlist of the coolest shit we've ever done, just incredible that we sent this thing to space in 1977 and we're still expecting to keep talking to it and getting data until 2036 hats off to the incredible debugging team, as a software engineer I'm in awe
42 replies 281 reposts 1323 likes
|
Justin Ling
@justinling.bsky.social
[ View ] |
On debunking, prebunking, Croatian Wikipedia, and Muammar Qaddafi's hit squads. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/does-prebu...
3 replies 7 reposts 11 likes
|
Arjun Basu
@arjun.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Because they believe “caring” about other people’s feelings makes you dumb. It’s self-fulfilling.
1 replies 2 reposts 7 likes
|
Will Oremus
@oremus.bsky.social
[ View ] |
The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...
56 replies 2218 reposts 5105 likes
|
Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Basically every person who thought about this for even 10 seconds warned google this was going to happen. Google's entire incentive structure is monetization-via-ranking-via-SEO-&-clicks. People are clicking "AI" porn, & people Making "AI" porn are manipulatively lying in their SEO to drive traffic
10 replies 144 reposts 410 likes
|
Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
[ View ] |
washpost hired back a former editor specifically to oversee coverage of their terrible new publisher and incoming executive editor. incredible
26 replies 124 reposts 569 likes
|
|
Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
[ View ] |
It is identified as AI-generated on the stock photo page www.freepik.com/premium-ai-i...
5 replies 4 reposts 22 likes
|
|
Bruce Arthur
@brucearthur.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Happy Infowars Might Die Day to all who celebrate
3 replies 11 reposts 56 likes
|
|
Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Breathlessly waiting to see if the press trailing Trump switches from asking if he got off any good jokes to asking why he let the Defense Department run antivax campaigns and other unspecified disinformation programs
4 replies 28 reposts 242 likes