He/Him

Sneaking all around the fediverse.

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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • tl;dr It seems sketchy.

    The founder of notice news (and author of this story), Andrew Springer, is a real dude. He seems to have mostly worked at news organizations running their social media. He claims to be an “emmy and peabody award-winning journalist,” but he was not working as a journalist when either of those awards were won. In 2012, Good Morning America won an emmy. He was a “social media producer.” In 2013, ABC News won a Peabody for Hurricane Sandy coverage. Again, he was a social media producer. His bio/CV is here.

    Looking at his author page on that site, they claim that he’s published nearly 20 stories in the last 48 hours. Seems unrealistic. Plagiarism? AI? Both seem more likely to me. They don’t have an entry with any bias monitoring organization that I can find.

    As for Voldeng, I can’t find much on her but she seems like a bit of a grifter. This is her bio on her brand page:

    I create what others often call impossible. I stand for my brand. I build to protect. And I protect what I know in my own knowing way, is right for me to protect.

    My work spans every sweep of civilization, and beyond.

    From advertising, aerospace, defense, education, energy, environment, finance, governance, law, media, science, and technology, to realms of sheer starlit wonder.

    She does it all!

    She sells access to different tiers (prices not listed) of “The Knight League”, which is described like this:

    The League of the Almighty, on Earth.

    It is a fellowship and a calling. Where warrior knights are trained in courage, discipline, and joy. Where oaths matter, crests are borne with honour, and training is effortless lived practice. Where knights rise — noble, ferocious, joyful, Jedi-esque — to stand for something higher. The Most High.

    What the fuck is the Knight League? No idea. All her descriptions are master classes in assembling words to say next to nothing. The link that @loppy@fedia.io posted is another great example. I have no idea what it is but I know it wants your money.

    I’d be very skeptical of either of those people in terms of vetting sources or doing serious journalism.













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    Molson, Kokanee, Sleeman, Alexander Keith’s, Coors and Moosehead are all made in Canada . . .

    Molson is owned by Coors. Coors is American. Sleeman is owned by Sapporo. Keith’s and Kokanee are both owned by Labatt’s, which is owned by InBev (Belgian). Granville Island is owned by Molson (Coors). Moosehead is actually Canadian though.

    You really have to go smaller to find Canadian-owned breweries. P49 is fucking great if they can find it.


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    Labatt Brewing Company is owned by AB InBev, which is actually not American but Belgian. Definitely not Canadian though.

    The answer probably depends on where you are. There are tons of small Canadian breweries that ship to the US. Steam Whistle Brewing is a very large independent brewery that just makes a Pilsner. They’re probably big enough to be fairly widely available. Buy it in cans though. They’re idiots for packaging in green bottles.












  • It’s still the same thing as birthright citizenship. He has Canadian citizenship because his mother is Canadian.

    An online petition calling on the Canadian government to revoke Elon Musk’s citizenship is on track to become one of the most popular in the history of the House of Commons.

    There’s just one problem — Canada can’t revoke Musk’s citizenship.

    Immigration lawyer Gabriela Ramo says that under Canadian law, someone’s citizenship can only be revoked if it can be proven that they committed fraud or misrepresentation to obtain it.

    “Before they could move to do this, they would need to introduce legislation, there would have to be amendments to the current Citizenship Act,” said Ramo, former chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s immigration section. “There’s no provision that would allow them to pursue revocation of citizenship of a Canadian birth, by virtue of his birth to a Canadian mother.