Max Tide

Avi Lewis won the ndp leadership race. Let's see if we can organize some socialist power in this country.

The first week: Avi Lewis is killing it. - pundit.

It's getting exciting!

https://youtu.be/0vFl9WvlqfE

I thought @avilewis@mstdn.ca 's public option grocery stores were a risky bet -- I didn't think they could be anything but a money pit.

But, I read an article by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatiives and watched a youtube from America, and I've come around to: stoked to try!

America runs public grocery stores -- food is cheaper! (small subsidy supports less food deserts)

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/how-public-grocery-stores-could-work-in-canada/

https://youtu.be/PQOXdtPBGXI

#ndp #ndp2026 #canpoli #canada #socialism

24 new people following me in recent days... What happened? Did we get an influx of new people?

What do you want from me? :)

here's a beautiful short film about a better world that we can make.

It's made by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. Avi is currently running to lead the NDP. It's an exciting time, full of potential.

You are needed to help it flower. Help Avi win, keep him on the path, help clear the way.

The film includes a call for digital commons, and anti-surveillance. (is that popular here on mastodon?)

https://lewisforleader.ca/ to get involved, even if you're not a member of NDP

https://youtu.be/2m8YACFJlMg

Wealthy international right-wing conservatives/libertarians are using wedge issues in small towns!

Corporations are worried about our power and our trajectory of continuing to try to make the world a better place -- they know where it leads.

If the system was truly rigged for the rich, why would they bother? Or to put it another way, funding the narrative in society is how the game is rigged -- and this is evidence that we live in a very democratic society.

https://www.bchistoryboy.ca/p/the-big-money-behind-powell-rivers

woah, protonmail now has video meeting! in addition to rollouts of docs, sheets, a privacy focused Ai chatbot... switching to proton is easy. Use my link and we both win. https://pr.tn/ref/WCZ9SM5S

if you pay tax in Canada, you probably also pay CPP -- your pension plan!

this plan is investing in climate disaster... enjoy your retirement in hell!

learn more
https://www.shiftaction.ca/reportcard2025/tale-of-two-pension-managers
and take action:
https://www.shiftaction.ca/shiftcpp

As tension escalates between US/Canada (as well as separatists within canada) -- one big weakness we face is social media disinformation, owned by americans, used by canadians (all too often.

where's the elbows up re: billionaire social media and US disinformation?

important national news relevant to all of us:
https://youtu.be/zAhPvXJRyYA

@ZebKing@mastodon.online @Paulatics@mstdn.ca @avilewis@mstdn.ca @votetanille@socialbc.ca @tonymcquailgreenprogressive@mastodon.social @emilylowan@mastodon.social @mlabotterell@socialbc.ca @pluralistic@mamot.fr @tboyblues@mstdn.ca @jerico44@mastodon.social @StephenCrozier@mastodon.social @jsatre@mstdn.ca @MarkRuffalo@mastodon.social @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social

This is really important viewing. He's said all those things elsewhere too I think, but this is concise.

I wrote to the Canada's Ai minister, and it did not sound to me like they were attending to these risks. Especially the part about creating international agreements.

Public pressure needed.

ICYMI: Obama said aliens are real. Trump said 'that's classified, you could get in trouble'. Then he said, 'I'm telling the war-master to release the alien files.' And now the war-master guy is saying, 'yep, we're on it'.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/pete-hegseth-president-trump-task-classified-files-release-ufos-aliens-extraterrestrials/507-bfba100b-eefc-497f-81d2-46cd68887ba7

Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota

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good news: trump retreats on several big issues. the power of the people can be seen at work. keep it up. tell your friends: what we do matters (so so much).

https://youtu.be/PbVKaVcu7fk

so, one of the objections to the concern that AI would take over the world is often that AI can't do mining or run electrical wires or whatever. Well, that may be true for a minute. But really, only for another minute.
China just demonstrated their insane robotics superiority.
they're kungfu masters today. If they can't run a wire yet, it'll be only a moment.
When do we pull the fire alarm on all the things?

https://youtube.com/shorts/hpf5NLmwKQU

@WaitingForTheSign@mstdn.ca @edwiebe@mstdn.ca
Etymonline gives:
cognitive(adv.)

1580s, "pertaining to cognition," with -ive + Latin cognit-, past participle stem of cognoscere "to get to know, recognize," from assimilated form of com "together" (see co-) + gnoscere "to know" (from PIE root *gno- "to know").

Free PSA:
in case you missed it... AI is getting scary-good at doing cognitive work. if you haven't wrestled with the implications yet... Start wrestling.
For myself - -I think we're going to need a lot more socialism. If the owners gain all this productivity and people keep only getting paid for 'work', then we'll have a big problem (on top of our other big problems).
good news: socialism is kinda awesome, and is what all people want until they get broken/jaded.

Brazilian ufo case witnesses visit us congressional representatives, including a working neurosurgeon who saw and interacted with a live alien... Also a great documentary recently revised with new evidence.

https://thedebrief.org/landmark-brazilian-ufo-case-reaches-capitol-hill-as-varginha-incident-turns-30/

today is the last day to sign up to be a member of the NDP in order to be eligible to vote for Avi in March.

sign up here!
https://act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-ndp-member?r=L5NLbrwn

You can check your membership status here https://act.lewisforleader.ca/membership-check

(Consider getting one or two pals to sign up with you?)

Thanks!
:)

RE: @NewsBot@assortedflotsam.com

Fossil fuel subsidies:

@edwiebe@mstdn.ca thinking. Or facsimiles of. Have you read some Kahneman? Thinking fast and slow? Humans don't think all that often, but where they need to try or produce work that reflects what we think of as thinking, we might call that cognitive work: not working with your body/muscles to get things done. But neither does it need to be groundbreaking progress in ideas or revelations or creativity.