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From Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
September 17 at 7 pm PT for this year‘s Rosenbluth Lecture with Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, who will be speaking about their new book Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us. Linda needs no introduction as one of Canada’s top journalists and progressive commentators. Neil is a lawyer and academic, and his work was extremely influential to me when I was starting out as a progressive economist. They will be available to chat and sign…

Rosenbluth Lecture 2026: live at Vancouver's Harbour Centre | CCPA
Where: Challenge Theatre, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre campus, 555 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

Interviewer: “When you see Gaza destroyed like this, how do you feel?”
Katz: “What do I feel? Feel good.”
Hey boy, are you a work of art? Because you’d look great hanging in Nuremberg. @…

Drop Site on Twitter
🇮🇱 A new Channel 14 report shows senior Israeli government and military officials openly celebrating the destruction of Gaza, the mass killing of Palestinians, their forced displacement to the coast, and Israel’s permanent occupation of the territory. One senior officer described all 70,000 Palestinians he said Israel had killed as “terrorists.” The full video is linked below. Here are some of the remarks: 🔹 Defense Minister Israel Katz: “The important thing: those neighborho…

Let your freak flag fly
Shrek The Musical
Originally Produced on Broadway by DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions
This Summer outdoors in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s historic
Allen Elizabethan Theatre.
https://www.osfashland.org/en/season/2027/

AMC's stock jumps 14% after reporting Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.6B, driven by a box office rebound and its highest quarterly revenue in its 106-year history (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/amc-entertainment-ea…

AMC Entertainment Stock Surges 14% as Q2 Revenue Climbs on Box Office Rebound
The theater chain's second-quarter revenue grew 14% to $1.59 billion, though it posted a widened net loss of $11.4 million

Ryssland söker vägar rakt in i pojkrummet – via träningsklipp, manlighetsideal och influencers. Om Clavicular, looksmaxxing, manosfären och Kremls påverkan.
https://carlheath.se/ryssland-tar-sig-in-i-pojkrummet-vad-clavicu…

Ryssland tar sig in i pojkrummet - vad Clavicular lär oss om Kreml och den toxiska maskuliniteten
”Nästa resa blir Ryssland, om visumet går igenom.” En amerikansk tjugoåring skrev inlägget på X, det som förr hette Twitter, den 12 juli i år. På bara tre dagar hade det setts över tre miljoner gånger.

@… "Can emojis be removed from Unicode? Or are they there forever once they are in?" - As of now, once they're in, they're in. The code point in Unicode is then reserved for this symbol. This can be a problem because emojis are kind of open-ended (other than alphabets and many other symbol lists). And it's possible that some emojis turn out to be rarely used. I could imagine that eventually some platforms just stop supporting a certain emoji - but it's really useful to have an international encoding standard which is fully supported by most technology (as anyone who has programmed or written online text in the early 2000s can attest). That's why getting a new emoji approved has become so hard - we're basically creating a kind of tech debt for a potentially long time.
Funny story - you could try creating a post now with a Unicode character from an "empty" code point in the emoji range, in the hope that it will get assigned in a later round. I've seen such a post on the old Twitter, which later was filled with all kinds of random emojis, when you look at it in a few years. #linguistics #emojis #WorldEmojiDay

It must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…

Scott MacFarlane on Twitter
Brutal response from FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to Trump's call for ABC and NBC to be stripped of licenses "It is ridiculous to call for broadcasters to lose their license simply for making the same editorial decisions they've made under presidents of both parties. Those editorial decisions are protected by the First Amendment, and the FCC has no authority to punish a station for refusing to air a blatantly political speech. This is a naked attempt to bully broadcasters, and the FCC should ha…

OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans "are losing the ability to evaluate them" while humans rely more on AI to lead research (Daniel Kokotajlo/@dkokotajlo)
https://x.com/dkokotajlo/status/2099600298855829616

Daniel Kokotajlo (@DKokotajlo) on X
Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over …

Letter: movie theater trade organization Cinema United, which previously supported the AGs' lawsuit against Paramount's WBD deal, now favors settlement talks (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.…

Movie Theater Owners Reverse Course on Paramount-Warner Bros., Now Favor Settlement Talks
The CEO and board chair of the trade organization Cinema United suggested that the merger dispute could halt box office momentum and inject disastrous uncertainty into the marketplace.

"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html