u/creepoftheweak

While Olivia Chow has not been the world’s most inspiring Mayor, the threat of someone like Brad Bradford sneaking in is very real. It’s a very scary prospect to have a right wing mayor under a Doug Ford dictatorship.

However, I have not encountered literally ANY campaigning or outreach from Olivia Chow and her team. Which is odd because my algorithm is heavily politics focused lol…my eyes should be very easy to access for someone trying to draw support.

Are Canadians just the most politically apathetic group, or is there actual energy growing around the stakes of this election building and I’m just not seeing it? Is there another viable more progressive candidate that I’m just unaware of??

I know we’ve been knee deep in NYC elections, but the protesters in Prairieland Texas were all just sentenced to between 30-70 years in prison.

This is setting a very dangerous precedent for what’s to come.

Has this been covered at all on stream?

Happy Juneteenth to the Black members of this community, and to all who’s ancestors fought for their freedom, and those who came after who through the decades laid the blueprint on how we fight for our collective liberation.

We would be nothing without you.

His trials are coming up and there’s a lot of legal-y pre trial hearings I would love to get her perspective on, especially now that they are going with the psych defense.

I tried to find any video of her talking about it but I couldn’t find any clips or videos of her covering it??

It’s such a monumental trial I would be sad to not have her to narrate the trial proceedings.

I recommend this substack. He is a very honest writer who speaks to the core of the reality of the world we live in.

I love it when Marx Carney repeats American propaganda! He’s doing a better job at selling this war than JD Vance.

And how fucking disgusting for him to say that Iran needs to “behave” …like their fucking dogs?

I’m so disgusted by him at this point that every time I see his face it makes me mad.

He also chose the G7 to backtrack on his Davos speech and denied that he encouraged a coalition of the middle powers Lolol what a pussy he’s turned out to be,

A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots and possibly military drones. That represents an intriguing but potentially discomfiting legacy for an augmented reality mobile game that has incentivized gamers to capture short smartphone videos of physical neighborhoods and landmarks.

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The AI company, Niantic Spatial, was spun out of Pokémon Go game developer Niantic in May 2025, after Niantic separately sold its licensed games such as Pokémon Go to the Saudi-backed video game publisher Scopely. But before that deal, Niantic publicly announced plans to use scans from millions of Pokémon Go players along with data captured by users of the company’s Scaniverse app to train and develop a “large geospatial model”—a 3D model of the physical world trained on the geolocated images provided by app users scanning real-world locations.

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“The training data came from people who thought they were catching Pikachu, under a license most never read, sold up a chain that ends at a sovereign wealth fund and a defense prime,” wrote Haye Kesteloo, editor in chief and founder of the news website DroneXL. “Consent obtained for a game is not consent for a weapons program, even if the end use turns out to be defensible.”

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A Vantor spokesperson told Ars that the company “is not using any Pokémon Go data, nor do we have access to any information from the Pokémon Go dataset.” Similarly, Niantic Spatial’s spokesperson said that the agreement between the companies does not include direct sharing of game data.

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But some Pokémon Go players, such as De Hingh, will probably be uncomfortable with the idea that their gameplay data helped train Niantic Spatial’s models in the first place—especially when the company’s visual positioning system may be used for military applications. Vantor acknowledged that it is “exploring adapting Niantic Spatial’s ground-based visual positioning system” to work alongside Vantor’s existing “GPS-denied positioning capabilities,” which currently rely on satellite imagery.

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Niantic Spatial told Ars that it has no ongoing access to data from current Pokémon Go players, because the game license has belonged to video game publisher Scopely since May 2025. But players may still want to stay on top of the game’s Terms of Service agreement and privacy policy to understand how their data is currently being used—or may otherwise be used in the future. It’s a lesson that goes well beyond Pokémon Go.