Hard Pass

EDIT: obvoisuly this is fake.

Someone tried to tell me this meme is an unironical mocking and introduces further divisions lol. What do you think?

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Liberal MP Judy Sgro said she still plans to lead a delegation of MPs to Taiwan this October, despite China’s decision to impose sanctions on New Zealand lawmakers who recently visited the self-governing territory claimed by Beijing.

Ms. Sgro is chair of the Canada-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Group in Ottawa.

The veteran MP, a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberal caucus, said she’s not deterred by the punishment China is levying on Western politicians.

“I will not be told what to do by a foreign government,” Ms. Sgro said in a statement. “I am a duly-elected parliamentarian who believes in democracy and thinks it’s time China did too.”

She said her trip will include both Conservative and Liberal MPs.

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The Chinese government confirmed Thursday that it had barred four New Zealand MPs from traveling to China for a year because they visited Taiwan on a parliamentary trip. It considers such visits to be interference in its internal affairs.

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Canada ended formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1970 and instead, under then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau, recognized the PRC.

Since then, Canada’s One China policy recognizes the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China but at the same time neither challenges nor endorses Beijing’s position that Taiwan is China’s territory. Like many Western countries, Canada maintains robust unofficial relations with Taiwan.

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China’s envoy in Canada recently warned the Carney government that a new strategic relationship it struck with Chinese President Xi Jinping would be damaged if Ottawa sent more military vessels through the Taiwan Strait or if Canadian parliamentarians kept travelling to Taiwan to meet with the territory’s government.

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Shortly after, Conservative MP Michael Chong visited Taiwan and met with Taiwan’s President, and Canada sent the frigate HMCS Charlottetown through the Taiwan Strait on May 22-23.

Mr. Chong, the Conservative foreign affairs critic, predicted China would increase the pressure on Canada to stop parliamentarians from visiting Taiwan.

“This is a precursor of a test of the Liberal government’s new strategic partnership with the People’s Republic of China that will come when Canadian MPs travel to Taiwan in the coming months,” he said in a statement.

“Under the strategic partnership, it appears that Beijing wants to stop MPs from going to Taiwan and wants the government to remain silent when Beijing uses belligerent tactics against those MPs.”

Mr. Chong urged Mr. Carney’s government to publicly state “its support for Canadian MPs visiting Taiwan and by publicly defending those MPs against Beijing’s coercive tactics.”

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Organisation says last-minute ban intended to protect safety of players, fans.

Water will be sold at prices "consistent with other events held at each stadium"

“These are regular people who are saving to finally see something that's important to them, to have that once-in-a-lifetime experience in their own city, and now they're going to be told to spend more money on a Coca-Cola product,” he said. “That’s just wrong.”

The Linux Association of Canada announces the official launch of the Canadian Open Source Library, a national platform dedicated to preserving, promoting, and sharing Canadian open source projects and knowledge.

For years, developers, educators, students, researchers, and organizations across Canada have contributed valuable software and resources to the global open source ecosystem. The Canadian Open Source Library provides a central place where these contributions can be discovered, shared, and preserved for future generations.

Here we go: https://www.linuxassociation.ca/library.php

The Canadian Open Source Library serves as a central hub for Canadian open source projects, documentation, educational resources, and community initiatives.

Canada's spy agency and close international partners warn that China's military intelligence services are using professional networking sites and online job platforms to target current and former government and military personnel.

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The alert was issued Wednesday by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Australia Security Intelligence Organization, the New Zealand Intelligence Community, the United Kingdom’s MI5 and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

They say China ultimately seeks privileged military, political and economic intelligence that can provide Beijing with a strategic and tactical advantage over the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance.

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CSIS says Chinese intelligence officers or their affiliates pose as employees of private consultancies, think tanks or human resources firms, and place online job advertisements for foreign policy and defence analysts.

It says that while applicants often have no direct access to classified information, successful candidates are then pressured to provide "non-public" information, including unclassified data on government policy or on military strategy, capabilities and installations.

CSIS says that even a small piece of information can be collected and combined with more sensitive reporting to undermine Canada’s interests.

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Blanche, whom Trump plans to nominate to replace ex-attorney general, served as Bondi’s deputy at DoJ

Former attorney general Pam Bondi told lawmakers that Todd Blanche, the man Donald Trump has lined up to replace her, was “in charge” of the US Department of Justice’s controversial handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Appearing before the House oversight and reform committee, which is investigating the late financier and convicted sex offender, Bondi also said she was “not certain of the extent” that Trump knew about the crimes of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Epstein who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, before they became public.

Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, claimed in a statement on Thursday that Trump had been “totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein” when contacted for comment on Bondi’s testimony.

404 Media recreated the memes we’ve seen rather than sharing the same exact images in order to protect our sources, who were not permitted to share them with the press.

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Jetski is Google’s internal AI coding tool.

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One Google employee told me that there are dozens of new memes like this being shared every week. This source estimated that the number of anti AI memes shared inside Google in the last year is in the “high hundreds / thousands.”

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"We’re finding that AIs have relieved the pressure and bottleneck of code generation, but that everything else has become the bottleneck, Google-wide testing and build times, human review delays, comparatively slow infra and VCS,” one Google employee told me. “The conclusion many colleagues are arriving at is that Google’s infra [infrastructure] and eng [engineering] culture was built to be stable and intentionally slow, and that pressures to accelerate using AI are bumping into that.”

Just when you think the bottom of the barrel has been reached, Trump once again proves there are more layers beneath scum.

Ya'll are so screwed. This idiot is going to cause others to die.