“TD Bank created an environment that allowed financial crime to flourish,” Garland said. “By making its services convenient for criminals, it became one.”
I hope no one indeed will be “off limits” in the criminal investigation, let’s see…
I agree with you, I’m also missing context. I agree this looks very fishy for the police to be paying her a visit with the “you are walking a line” comment, but without knowing all the details, I’m reluctant to jump into definitive conclusions. I really hope this story gets picked up by media so we at least get that side as well, however imperfect it might be.
“A few stakeholders were concerned that the release of the report would result in new legal action (criminal prosecution, citizen revocation, or otherwise) being brought against the individuals named in the report,”
Also known as “justice” and “law”.
This is informative on the differences between the ActivityPub any AT protocols: https://youtu.be/-R9CWq5CBlk?si=BzW7c5U0WXH8VxrO
The intro explains some history and things which ppl here probably already know, but overall I find it provides a pretty good analysis of the current social media landscape, and these two protocols in particular.
Congrats! Java is a good language to learn, and it’s gotten a lot better over the years. The tooling and the ecosystem are very mature. Enjoy your newly found super powers!
Blockchain mathematically guarantees trust… for info stored on the blockchain. What guarantee do you have that this info matches things that happen in reality?
If you say: we need a social contract to ensure people update the blockchain, then I say: that defeats the purpose of the heavy lifting you need to mathematically guarantee info on the blockchain is genuine. Let’s just have a social contact to pay the artist when appropriate.
I don’t see what other way could exist to keep the blockchain and reality in sync.
Ok, ok, hold on - what’s being sold here? A link to a digital asset or something else? If it’s a link, I still don’t get the point. Does that link (or whatever it is) confer some kind of license? What’s the use case for faking this data and why are we defending from this?
If you are referring to scam artists, you are 100% right! Also, some actual artists might have got some money out of it, but I suspect the majority of dough that exchanged hands went to the former kind.
Awesomely described - you have a way with words… mindbleach.
Removing books is so misguided, and whoever instigated this should not be running anything related to schools, let alone the library. Books reflect our history, and the school is there to teach the kids about values, why they are important, and how societies and time periods that espoused different values looked. Only this can reinforce our commitment to these values. Censoring history does the opposite. Books are not monuments that celebrate their content, they are historic records of societies, events, values and people.
Yeah, I figured. I just couldn’t resist taking a stab at the latest scandal 🤷
I beg to differ! Ford keeps talking about it even when asked about -ahem- different things.
Awesome article. Funny, serious, smart and insightful at the same time. It cracked me up and worried me all at once.
“And how to unleash a house-building frenzy without protective bureaucrats when any rush to mass construction clearly requires adult supervision, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford so dangerously discovered in his greenbelt housing debacle.”
How indeed. I look on transfixed…
Let’s see how far they’ll go: https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-says-the-province-will-review-and-re-evaluate-all-lands-in-the-greenbelt/article_ca13c0f6-9f64-5413-97ac-33eb9ef14d0e.html
Edit: Oh wait, they aren’t re-evaluating the 14 sites that were carved out using the flawed process! They are just looking to give out more land swaps to other land owners!
Hopefully not. There’s no (legitimate) reason why this would prevent an investigation by the RCMP. Also, Ryan Amato’s resignation didn’t sweep it under the rug either, on the contrary. In my eyes, this puts everyone in the spotlight to get to the bottom of what actually happened here.
I agree, that’s what I’m saying. I used “this” ambiguously, I just realized. I edited “this” to “this comment”, and added another clarifying sentence before the quote.
Here’s an excerpt from the older article which isn’t paywalled, that I linked in my comment (before the edit):
"Constructed more than 20 years ago, the turbines at the small Keyenberg wind park are less powerful than modern equivalents, with each producing about 1MW of energy per hour at a wind speed of 15 metres per second, roughly a sixth of the output of a more efficient state of the art turbine.
Since windfarms in Germany are no longer eligible for subsidies after 20 years in operation, the park would probably have been “repowered” with new technology or wound down even if it were not for the nearby mine.
Nonetheless, North-Rhine Westphalia’s ministry for economic and energy affairs on Monday urged RWE to abort its plans to dismantle the windfarm.
“In the current situation, all potential for the use of renewable energy should be exhausted as much as possible and existing turbines should be in operation for as long as possible,” a spokesperson said."
The title, paired with an expensive paywall and the fact that the quote below is the only part visible for free would certainly suggest that this comment is true.
Here’s the un-paywalled article intro:
"German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.
One wind turbine has already been dismantled, with a further seven scheduled for removal to excavate an additional 15m to 20m tonnes of so-called ‘brown’ coal, the most polluting energy source."
I think this article from last year is relevant to this story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/26/german-windfarm-coalmine-keyenberg-turbines-climate
Ouch, not sure how that happened. Here: https://www.humanetech.com/course
I updated the post as well, thanks for flagging!
Wow - “you don’t attack me, I don’t attack you” - that’s not how the government - free press relationship is supposed to work.
I thought this was about ending the practice of moving the clock back and forth twice a year, but no, it’s just about soon moving the clock