Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…
#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874
At this rate there won’t be any weapons left for invading Greenland
@… @… great podcast episode! I believe this is the first time I've heard Brett’s voice… which sounds strange for how long I followed your work.
The episode made me realize that I don't really know how I could create key chords to group together subset of shortcuts. Or even if it's possible at all; which might actually be the case.
For example, let's assume we'd want to have all Moom shortcuts under Hyper W. Then Move left would become `Hyper W Left Arrow`.
What do you think?
There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.
• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…
Last week, while debugging a SwiftUI performance issue, I was running instruments and found that my profiles were plagued with noise.
Godot while idling was using so much CPU time that it was skipping entire frames while rendering.
I set out to fix those, 0.5% here, 0.5 there, and the Godot Editor (and Xogot) no longer skip frames.
People had been complaining that Godot would burn your battery in an hour if you left it idling, it no longer does.
Details:
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
If you’re at #CSUNATC this week then I have a few stickers left. They look great on laptops, water bottles, clients, …
Seven seats left to be distributed from the list votes. All from Highland.
The end result could be beautiful, or a total disaster. I feel ill.
Transit first city.
(Yup, we missed the entire green cycle)
I'm glad I've got another year left on my fixed energy tariff; assuming that is I don't run another provider into bankruptcy. Still this gulf war has got to be good for solar/wind installers somewhere!
Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.
This slide from the #coronagraphs symposium in Boulder from the talk by Sam van Kooten is quite enlightening: it shows two processing steps of a #PUNCH WFI composite, on the left still dominated by the F corona i.e. #ZodiacalLight i.e. interplanetary dust (just as seen in the Artemis II eclipse images) while on the right the - at such distance from the Sun muuuch fainter - K corona has been brought out which traces the Sun's magnetic field.
One of my favorite features in my primary Mastodon client (Mona) - that it has a counter showing me how many posts are left until I get caught up (also, ofc that it remembers where I was)
I would, once again, like to suggest to Apple, that the “Device left behind” notice would be way more valuable, and amount to more than white noise, if I could “Disable warning until…”. It would be very helpful to know that my iPad remains at my hotel _after checkout_, not so much every time I leave for a meal or to explore the city. Presently it’s an all or none situation.
🤩 My son Elliot standing on a fence post and making the hand gesture from 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟
#photo #photography #elliot #portrait
I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace
"A brand new political podcast from Ireland's two best-known independent left wing MEPs, straight from the belly of the EU beast. Unfiltered by mainstream media they grapple with the problems at the very heart of the European project.
Vampires preying on humanity & the planet...the US military is the World's biggest threat ...we are joined by investigative journalist Abby Martin to discuss her mind-blowing film 'Earth's …
Mitch gets left holding the bomb
#DavidHasselhoff #AngieHarmon
Baywatch Nights 1x13 - Payback
#RandomBaywatch
Why did the heron cross the road? Great Blue Heron, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #birds
Interesting how many right AND left leaning posts I’m seeing about prepping for nuclear fallout. Wondering if this really was the past MAGA wanted to return to.
Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
Out with the old catsalad (me who had a tasty 🥯 earlier), and in with the new one (current me with no tasty 🥯 left to nibble)
Stablecoin payments company KAST raised $80M led by QED and Left Lane; sources say the fundraise is at a $600M valuation, and KAST expects $100M ARR in 2026 (Bloomberg)
@… right to left is diabolical!!
Local Computation Algorithms for (Minimum) Spanning Trees on Expander Graphs
Pan Peng, Yuyang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07394 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07394 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07394
arXiv:2602.07394v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study \emph{local computation algorithms (LCAs)} for constructing spanning trees. In this setting, the goal is to locally determine, for each edge $ e \in E $, whether it belongs to a spanning tree $ T $ of the input graph $ G $, where $ T $ is defined implicitly by $ G $ and the randomness of the algorithm. It is known that LCAs for spanning trees do not exist in general graphs, even for simple graph families. We identify a natural and well-studied class of graphs -- \emph{expander graphs} -- that do admit \emph{sublinear-time} LCAs for spanning trees. This is perhaps surprising, as previous work on expanders only succeeded in designing LCAs for \emph{sparse spanning subgraphs}, rather than full spanning trees. We design an LCA with probe complexity $ O\left(\sqrt{n}\left(\frac{\log^2 n}{\phi^2} d\right)\right)$ for graphs with conductance at least $ \phi $ and maximum degree at most $ d $ (not necessarily constant), which is nearly optimal when $\phi$ and $d$ are constants, since $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$ probes are necessary even for expanders. Next, we show that for the natural class of \emph{\ER graphs} $ G(n, p) $ with $ np = n^{\delta} $ for any constant $ \delta > 0 $ (which are expanders with high probability), the $ \sqrt{n} $ lower bound can be bypassed. Specifically, we give an \emph{average-case} LCA for such graphs with probe complexity $ \tilde{O}(\sqrt{n^{1 - \delta}})$.
Finally, we extend our techniques to design LCAs for the \emph{minimum spanning tree (MST)} problem on weighted expander graphs. Specifically, given a $d$-regular unweighted graph $\bar{G}$ with sufficiently strong expansion, we consider the weighted graph $G$ obtained by assigning to each edge an independent and uniform random weight from $\{1,\ldots,W\}$, where $W = O(d)$. We show that there exists an LCA that is consistent with an exact MST of $G$, with probe complexity $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n}d^2)$.
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Vote Left Transfer Left.
Having a cup of tea and a chat together to see how we can continue collaboration for the Galway West By-election like we did on Catherine Connolly's presidential election.
The momentum built during Catherine's campaign will live on. We must keep this as a left seat. And with a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign, we think that can be a reality.
The Defense Department burned through $93 billion in September alone, signing checks left and right
-- in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.
There is pressure to spend:
If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year,
then they lose access to that cash forever,
potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to requ…
McDonald's leaks China: they run their info screens in Ubuntu Linux
It is 2037.
You are being paid $7250/hour for your services. (Before you get too excited, a can of cola costs $129, and so does 15 seconds of LLM tokens.)
There are not many left who can do what you do. You are the tradesperson of your time. It's messy work unclogging these metaphorical pipes, but someone's got to do it.
A decade of nothing-but-vibecoding (artisanal “acoustic" performances aside) has left the world in tatters. The Y2K38 problem looms.
The…
Roe deer bucks competing for territory this morning #photography #Dorset
What's in Jake's pockets? Well, this is in the right front pocket. Left front pocket is for phone.
The rewrite of the Sisyphus server continues, I've got all of the GET endpoints and about 60% of all the endpoints finished overall. Some initial testing on the `/workers` and `/queue` endpoints show some worrying results from the old version and some great results from the new version. The `/workers` endpoint started throwing errors at about 800 RPS on the Python/Flask version (the old one), the rewrite is showing around 4800 RPS (Golang/Gin). The `/queue` endpoint doesn't show a…
Bad news from Kerala.
But it's happened before and the left will be back.
India loses its last left-wing government after five decades | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/4/in…
The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. But now the Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts’ Court — has effectively ended much of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act — setting the stage for voters of color to be silenced.
Now it’s up to us to defend the freedom to participate in our democracy. The actions we take now will help determine whose voice gets heard and which communities get locked out of political power.
Any vexillologists around? What’s the flag on the left? (We’re in Pima county, Arizona)
“History is a bill we keep dodging. The North won the Civil War, the South won the memory. Reconstruction was left for dead, white terror became law, and Jim Crow swaggered in through the breach. That was a political decision to walk away before the work was finished, to protect comfort over Black lives. America pays interest on cowardice, generation after generation, and the bill never shrinks.”
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Trump left America vulnerable to retribution — and that's no accident - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/i7Hzv
"Long a major progressive influence in New York politics, the Working Families Party has released its first national platform ever—and it has the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna on board."
The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-04-27/third-party-thats-pushing-democrats-left
So far #kitsunekamen has the rule that we only talk with the mask up until we've got a voice ready which is 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 different
#photo #photography
Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-ai-anthropic-mythos-regulation-2378971f
The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.
A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …
Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy:
Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called “zines.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Smith asked the FBI agent on the witness stand to identify the evidence.
Special Agent Morris Boatner said he had found the…
A North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…