SamuelRJankis @ SamuelRJankis @lemmy.world

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I believe this is the first time a Canadian politician has addressed the algorithm as a thing controlled by a very small amount of people instead pretending it's some magical thing.

This should apply to every social media platform that suggest content to users.

Big thing is that the dev is very active and responsive to feedback. Which is really useful given Lemmy is in its developmental phase for the most part.

Unlike Sync which while good is largely abandoned thses days.

I saw a tiktok video talking about how Instagram starts the redpill/incel stuff early for the young people then they become failures in life at which point they push the guru stuff for "guidance".

EU and even China has at least made a attempt of holding these companies accountable for the algorithm but US and Canadian government just sat there and did nothing.

He had a bit of quiet spell during the India foreign interference in the Conservative leadership things a couple months back. Funny enough foreign interference report is suppose to come out next week.

You forgot Peterson, Rogan, Alex Jones and essentially every turd of a human being.

Instagram is probably notably worse, I have a very establish account that should be very anti that sort of thing and it keeps serving up idiotic guru garbage.

Tiktok is by far the best in this aspect, at least before recent weeks.

Lots of places cropped out Elon arm yesterday and just called it a "questionable arm gesture".

Thanks

Headline source:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/musk-canada-poilievre-trudeau-influence-1.7426954

In the past week alone, Musk has dipped into Canadian politics on his social media platform several times; endorsing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, showering him with praise, reposting his tweets and applauding his speeches and media interactions.

At the end of the day it was all pandering in the first place.

If it isn't a legal obligation then all these mega companies environmental, social and even fact checking activities was essentially just a line item under the marketing budget.

I like to block Trump glazers and quite few other accounts of that nature.

Actually think the the Lemmy style user lookup where you can quickly see what stupid comments people have posted in the past to be rather useful for sifting out the low quality trash.

In this context he was seemingly India's guy

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/patrick-brown-india-rempel-garner-poilievre-conservative-leadership-1.7397282

Then by rhetoric pretty he's been parroting what Russia has been paying people to put out about Canada.

I'm glad that Pierre is dumb enough to start fights with people who don't really care about him.

I really can't understand how Jagmeet has been allowed to lead for so long with the results he's had and Charlie didn't even get a shot.

And then there's this. How do NDP members defended him barely beating Niki Ashton.

And yet, in the end, the result was not even close. Angus — with 19 per cent of the vote — not only finished more than 30 points behind Singh, he barely beat Niki Ashton (17 per cent) for second place.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/in-ndp-leadership-race-charlie-angus-was-dealt-the-hardest-blow-h-bert/article_952370e1-9d86-51f4-bd3d-cf41199878d3.html

I think the biggest difference is that while people probably shouldn't some genuinely like Trump but it seems most people really just tolerate Pierre at best.

The music makes the whole thing more palatable. Should be included for all Conservative videos.

Just want to say Rachel Gilmore one of my favourite modern social media journalist. Certainly worth a follow if you're into that format of Canadian political content.

Thanks for the heads up I'll have to take a look.

It be super useful having a shared block list like AdBlockers across all social media. Certainly make things a lot more pleasant.

The chief actuary's position paper, posted online on Friday, comes to a similar conclusion as University of Calgary economics professor Trevor Tombe. Last year, Tombe calculated that Alberta would be entitled to between 20 and 25 per cent of the $575-billion plan.

"It is a clear rejection of the government's 53 per cent claim that has been quite prominently touted now for some time," said Tombe, who is the director of fiscal and economic policy at the university's School of Public Policy.

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Tombe says LifeWorks derived that estimate by assuming Albertans would be entitled to as much interest as if it had created an independent provincial pension plan in 1966 — when the CPP began — and watched interest accrue.

The chief actuary, Assia Billig, disagreed with the LifeWorks interpretation. Her position paper says the federal law governing the CPP must be interpreted as if all provinces could withdraw from the plan at the same time and take their share.