Aaron 🇨🇦

Capitalism is a religion. Banks are churches. Billionaires are priests and pastors. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. And obviously, money is God.

“Don’t talk about politics” is how you get diarrhea lettuce. #ampoli #americanpolitics

"Can you explain the gap in your résume?" *sigh* I spent nine months applying for jobs and couldn't get hired. Three of those months were spent waiting to get through your hiring process.

Talking about things that disable you is not learned helplessness. Talking about things that disable you is not weaponized incompetence. Talking about things that disable you is not playing the victim. Talking about things that disable you is self-advocacy. #actuallyautistic

The average Roman didn’t know their empire collapsed. They just noticed their roads stopped being repaired one day.

If disabled people are forced to live in poverty because disability benefits are so low, it is more than a policy; it is eugenics.

When you worship power, compassion looks like a sin. - Rev Benjamin Cremer

I did some music for Bandcamp Friday Write up from my last album: Aaron Yadao makes music that sounds like a dial-up modem arguing with a washing machine in the key of existential dread. Critics have described his work as "courageously unlistenable" and "what happens when you give a Moog synthesizer anxiety medication." He records exclusively in abandoned call centres between the hours of 3 and 4 AM, insisting that fluorescent lights "have something to say if you're willing to listen" (they don't). His breakout album, consisting of poorly composed Korg DS-10 tracks, spent one hour on best-selling experimental Bandcamp listings despite being forty-seven minutes of what one reviewer called "aggressive ambience" and what his mother called "that beeping thing." Aaron claims the album was inspired by being put on hold with his internet service provider, an experience he describes as "spiritually formative and rhythmically compelling." When he's not manipulating field recordings of industrial machinery or teaching his modular synthesizer to "feel emotions," Aaron enjoys long walks through hardware stores, where he records the ambient hum of different light bulb displays. He has been permanently banned from mega-churches, Safeway, and Toronto for "philosophical differences regarding the phrase 'musical instrument.'" His live performances have been described as "part concert, part science experiment, part rants against Christians, the man-o-sphere, and billionaires, and part cry for help," and he once cleared an entire venue in Vancouver by performing a piece consisting entirely of the sound of his aunt snoring, amplified through seventeen speakers. He considers this his greatest artistic achievement. Aaron currently lives in a converted water tower in River Heights with two broken drum machines he refuses to repair because "they've earned their retirement." New album is made with Sonic Pi. Who on Earth still uses Sonic Pi? Experimental artists of course! Expect shoegaze nonsense, randomized FM and analog synths, dark ambient pads, and piano riffs in obscure scales such as Hungarian and Dorian. Enjoy! https://aaronyadao.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-pi-bangers #experimentalmusic #bandcampfriday

Here's the rush of Liberal bills that will establish Canada's digital cage: C-8 - Cyber Security (Royal Assent, becoming law this week) This new law gives the government broad secret-order powers under the rationale of cybersecurity over telecoms, banks, and energy companies, including permitting government ministers to direct telecom providers to suspend services or disable equipment by order. C-9 - Hate Speech (Passed Parliament and awaiting Royal Assent) This new law amends the Criminal Code to provide new measures to manage hate propaganda and hate crime. It redefines hate, criminalizes intimidation or blocking access to schools, places of worship, and other community spaces, bans certain hate and terrorism symbols, and streamlines the justice system to administer hate-propaganda charges. Critics state the law has the potential to criminalize peaceful protests, chill free speech, and hinder Muslim and Islamic and even Christian religious expression, potentially exposing faith leaders to legal action for preaching traditional beliefs. So many Christians have spoken out against this one. C-11 - Broadcasting Act amendments (Royal Assent, became law in April 2023) This Trudeau-era law established new broad measures for the CRTC to regulate digital content in Internet video and streaming services. The CRTC can now compel foreign streaming services to make expenditures towards the production of Canadian content. C-18 - Online News (Royal Assent, became law in June 2023) This Trudeau-era law established a framework for the CRTC to regulate digital news content on online platforms. It empowered the CRTC to compel digital news intermediaries (i.e. Google search engine, Meta - Facebook to pay Canadian news sources for content accessed on their platforms - resulting in Meta blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram services. C-22 - Lawful Access (Currently in the Senate) This legislation enhances warrantless access and police and security agencies surveillance of an individual's digital content. It requires telecom and Internet providers to retain user metadata and to install "backdoor" systems enabling government access. Conservative MPS, tech firms, civil liberties groups, and a number of progressives here have all raised objections to the potential overreach of government and security agencies. C-34 - Digital Security (Introduced last week) This legislation creates mandatory identification controls (either government ID or face scans) for access to the Internet and bans social media for persons under 16 years of age. It also creates a new Digital Safety Commission with sweeping (undefined) powers to set the online access rules, manage compliance of platforms (everything from Facebook to Snapchat), and approve or deny exemptions. The commission will have the authority to instruct platforms to censor content deemed to undermine "social stability" - defined by the government. C-36 - Digital Privacy (Introduced this week) This legislation empowers the new Digital Safety Minister with sweeping (undefined) powers to regulate digital content. It transfers authority from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (an independent agent of Parliament) to the new cabinet-appointed commission (created by Bill C-34). Critics fear government overreach and abuse, as the legislation has the potential to usurp private sector privacy laws. Future internet use in Canada is going to suck hard. #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics

"I honestly think MAGA would hate their version of heaven. No woke movies to boycott, no ability to play the persecution card, no one to demonize and hate. They'd probably try to take field trips to hell just to find people to yell at." - April Ajoy 🤣🤣🤣

I recently discovered that in mid-July there was a terrifying anti-democratic conference that was held, where Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio spoke to powerful folks from over sixty countries all over the world, including Canada, who are there to build a trans-national "alliance." Here is what Marco Rubio said at the conference: "Our counter-terrorism doctorine has had a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the far-left. Even the idea today that far-left terrorism can be a serious threat is treated as a right wing fever dream. But today, we face a new wave of this old evil here in the United States. The share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades. Americans have seen what those numbers mean. Antifa millitants and their comrades travel from across Europe and to the Americas to participate in each other's attacks to funnel propaganda, training materials, and target information through shared encrypted channels, moving through underground networks of safe houses and finances to sustain their operations through trans-national funds. At President Trump's direction, the treasury is expanding its effects to identify organizations that use charitable and non-profit structures as vehicles for elicit finance, clearly examining where tax exempt status has been exploited where charitable entities are financial conduits for foreign influence or activity. We will dismantle networks that sustain political terrorism. We will pursue those who commit political violence however distant their juristictions are. One of the hallmarks of leftwing violence and terrorism is that it is pre-texual as it appeals to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence. When the leftist who does not believe in freedom, civil right, or any ordinary notion of justice. When the leftist protests that we are violating his rights, understand that he is lying to pursuade people who are not closely following the political scene that injustice has been perpetuated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization [the West]." And here's what Stephen Miller said at the same event: "Leftism is fundamentally motivated by envy, hatred, and jealousy. The leftists look at what is beautiful, good, and natural, and is filled with envy and hatred. Leftists look at the perfect family, the perfect life, and the perfect job, perfect kids, the family going to church every Sunday, and is filled with a feeling of inadiquacy and jealousy. They covet. They turn those emotions, ultimately, into a desire to subjegate, to oppress, and to inflict pain and suffering. It is not a coincidence when you look at these violent antifa demonstrations and see the photographs of the people assembled. To be blunt, no one single person attending and protesting looks like a normal person. They are all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress-code, in their mannerisms. Why is that? When you look at two photographs where in one you see a regular American street and in the other you see an antifa protest: why is it that when there are people who are violently demonstrating, there is not one normal looking person among them? Every one of them, through the course of their lifetime, have made decisions that have scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways, to the point where their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred. Trust your instict. To all people across all civilisations, you know what normal is! You know what beautiful is! You know what good is! You know that 'families' are right!" I'm not going to go into too much of a reaction right now as these comments full of propoganda are triggering enough as it is, but I'll say this: make sure you have liable insurance before posting on social media where it's easy to go viral, make sure you are organized and ready for anything, make sure you have safe people who will speak for you. Do not openly call yourself a leftist or progressive in public. Keep as much private as possible and always maintain your internet footprint. It doesn't matter if we're talking about the US or Canada or Europe, this is EVERYWHERE, RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!! If you have goals that involve trying to change the world, safety is not an option anymore! Sources: Brad Onishi, ex-evangelical religious studies professor: https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/axis-live-how-the-west-became-the-new-rallying-cry-for-the-tech-right-and-christian-nationalists?hsLang=en Sandy and Nora (agree with most but not everything they say): https://sandyandnora.com/episode-385-elbows-so-far-down-that-agnico-eagle-mines-is-trying-to-get-rights-to-mine-for-them/

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I got one of these popups this morning on my desktop that has no webcam. I was just like "nope...moving on to a different site without this shit."

@maxleibman *laughs in Canadian*

@nixCraft That kid has very high potential to change the world within the next twenty years.

@davidaugust Ballroom Republicans...nice 👌

@dgar@aus.social I need to find that verse in Ezekiel again. Can someone help a brotha out? LOL

@leftylabourtech @pluralistic As someone autistic who loves using social media to connect with others like me, this was really concerning. I wrote letters to my MLA and MP.

@knowuh@mastodon.social Oh no! 😂 😂

@joho@mastodon.online Good Lord. I'm so ready to reduce both my screen and internet time significantly.

@maxleibman@beige.party I am ungovernable.

@Remittancegirl I agree with the idea, but what options are there for autistic people like me who have disabling back problems? Genuine question BTW. I want to help people any way I can.

@Pampelmops@wehavecookies.social Being Asian and autistic, I'm going to have to watch my tone with that one. I don't look anything like Ewan McGregor.

@JJ@beige.party Nooooo!! 🤣🤣

@FeloniousPunk@beige.party @tayfonay@beige.party Refresh my memory, what episode was that from?

Had fun getting this chiptune project together. If italo disco and bleeps are your kind of music, don't pass it up!! https://lazynerd.bandcamp.com/album/chiptapes #FediMusic #Bandcamp #BandcampFriday

@GossiTheDog Oh wow. I wonder if OnlyFans has rules in place for creators who purchase Meta glasses.