Film/media production - @lifechangerfilm, @clapboardjungle. Run @RMLittleTerrors, program for @TADFilmFest, and acquisitions for @IndieCanEnt, am @cathoderaid
Toronto, Canada
Joined April 2009
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If you’ve noticed I rarely post personal stuff on this account, and mostly just retweet news, I’m doing this consciously. Instead of leaving this toxic platform run by one of the worst people out there, I’ve chosen to stay strictly to help stem the tide of toxic rhetoric 1/
Justin McConnell retweeted
El-Sayed: You guys love to play the condemn game. I've already been clear that that ad was not made by me, and I do not agree with the contents of that ad. Please ask me questions that are relevant to the voters of the state of Michigan. I'm running to win an election in Michigan.
Most people don't care about this like intrigue stuff that you all love to carry. It is not of concern to the vast majority of Michiganders. People here are struggling to afford their gas. They're struggling to afford their groceries. They're struggling to see a doctor. They really could care less about all this stuff that you all push for clicks
Justin McConnell retweeted
May those who live, work or holiday on top of this have nightmares about what lies beneath them. May they imagine the cries of the dying and may it keep them awake at night.
Justin McConnell retweeted
The same guy who was caught fixing the price of bread for years now claims that the big grocers have no control over prices.
Give me a break.
Canadians aren’t stupid. We see Galen getting richer and richer as grocery costs skyrocket. We know we’re being ripped off.
It’s time to break up the Big Grocery Cartel and drive down costs with a national network of public grocery stores that Canadians can actually afford to shop at.
ALT Graphic of a headline from the Toronto Star: Loblaw chair Galen Weston says grocers 'cannot control prices', jokes he was 'traumatized' by public outrage.
Justin McConnell retweeted
If the new Iran war plans are “insane” — and I have no doubt that they are — it would logically hold that it would be utterly and completely insane for Democrats to follow a landslide in November by passing a continuing resolution in December that funds the war into February.
Yet bizarrely that is what Sen. Chris Murphy told reporters is the plan, even though they would have the votes to block it:
Justin McConnell retweeted
If you kill a person *knowing* they are with their families, you also targeted their families
דיווח: שב"כ יצר קשר עם מחבלי חמאס בעזה והציב בפניהם ברירה - או שיחוסלו עם בני משפחתם, או שיצאו החוצה ויחוסלו לבד
@OmerShahar123
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Justin McConnell retweeted
Haley Stevens ran her entire primary campaign on the premise that as an Obama staffer she helped save the auto industry and she strongly suggested that Obama was endorsing her. Now Obama is rallying with El-Sayed and the UAW is calling out her “disgusting divide and conquer politics.”
Justin McConnell retweeted
Haley Stevens is now demanding Abdul El-Sayed "begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford." Doing so would be a lie.
The U.S. government itself, in its official explanation, says that we launched the war on Iran in significant part to defend Israel. Marco Rubio said it out loud too. It's obvious. So it would be a lie not to include Israel in any explanation for why life in Michigan is less affordable now.
On the eve of the eve of the eve of our BIG and important election, a unifying moment has arrived, our democratic nominee for U.S Senate disavows the Rebellion PAC ad made by Hasan Piker’s uncle that claims Jews are responsible for America’s economic woes. We have learned from party leaders and emissaries, as reported in the news media that he has.
On Sunday I will join with the Great Democratic leader, Jim Clyburn and Dr El Sayed for a church service in the beautiful city of Detroit.
The political coalition of Black and Jewish voices that have carried Michigan and this country through so many storms to the righteous path of liberal democracy and equal opportunity for all will ring out. Full statement here:
Justin McConnell retweeted
Multiple hospitals have brought back mask mandates just this week. And last week. And the week before that. There have been school closures due to COVID, too. Harassing people who choose to live in reality and to mitigate the harm of COVID is pathetic behaviour.
I mean this with sincere compassion:
What you are experiencing is likely medical OCD. You’ve been traumatized over several years and the result is now a maladaptive behavior. This feels reasonable to you and I understand that. There are entire cohorts of people who are also experiencing medical OCD just like there are cohorts of people with disordered eating. I say this gently, but the vast majority of people are simply existing among the elderly without issue or concern right now. If you want to take some steps towards normalcy and relaxing in public again there are behavioral health pros who specialize in this exact type of issue.
Justin McConnell retweeted
Angel Studios co-founder & president: “we won’t say fuck or show a bare ass, but supporting fascism is totally cool. that’s what Jesus would want.”
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Justin McConnell retweeted
Almost the entire US media and political establishment wants us to ignore this
Justin McConnell retweeted
these are the ads the gop is running, but i can't say that the people who believe these narratives are like modern day klansmen?
Justin McConnell retweeted
Also Palantir
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On Vals.ai’s coding test, Command A scored 7.8%, dead last out of 88 models.
Cohere AI is not world-leading in objective or subjective analysis, based upon the data.
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Justin McConnell retweeted
Woke up this morning to the CEO of Cohere calling moi a bot.
🫠🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am not a bot.
Aiden Gomez seems a bit nervous.
Justin McConnell retweeted
Ahead of the impending crash. AI companies are already offloading their debt onto pension funds, reminiscent of the 2008 crash
Justin McConnell retweeted
Whew! Haven’t seen a ratio like this is a looong time
We’re not waiting for the future of AI to be decided somewhere else. We’re building it here, the right way.
We’re investing up to $1.6B CAD in Cohere, a Canadian company building secure, sovereign AI.
1,000+ high-skilled jobs. $1.7B CAD in new compute in Canada.
Canadian AI. Canadian jobs. Canada strong.
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Nous n'attendons pas que l'avenir de l'IA se décide ailleurs. Nous le bâtissons ici, comme il se doit.
Nous investissons jusqu'à 1,6 milliard de dollars dans Cohere, une entreprise canadienne qui développe une IA sécurisée et souveraine.
Plus de 1 000 emplois techniques bien rémunérés. 1,7 milliard de dollars en nouvelles infrastructures informatiques au Canada.
IA canadienne. Emplois canadiens. Un Canada fort.
Justin McConnell retweeted
.@the_andrey_x and I were charged with assault, along with five other offenses. After being kept up all night and interrogated for seven hours, we finally saw a judge. He watched the footage and concluded it was clearly a one-sided attack and that we were the victims. His response was to ban us from the West Bank for two months, let the police keep my phone, and bring no charges against the settlers he had just watched attack us.
Hi, I'm free.
Beat up but fine. Police stole my phone. Settlers punched me in the face several times, likely broke @AdeleShoko's wrist and gave @the_andrey_x a concussion. They threatened to shoot us with an assault rifle over and over.
Will tell the full story later, but for now, I just want to be clear about what happened. We witnessed two settlers locking a military gate in Umm al-Khair, blocking the only way to more than twenty Palestinian communities: trapping families inside, preventing students from reaching school and workers from their jobs, blocking delivery of food and access to ambulances, etc.
It's a crime that the military has this ability at all--but last night, we discovered that random settler terrorists also have the key. We confronted them and began asking questions on camera, and they nearly murdered us for it. When the police finally arrived, they arrested Andrey and me and charged us with assault.
The gate is still locked.
Justin McConnell retweeted
It fucking sucks so hard that our money is going to line these people's pockets.
Justin McConnell retweeted
I fully believe Bari Weiss when she says she doesn't care about collapsing ratings. The only reason to care about ratings is profit, and that's not why Larry Ellison, at the age of 82, suddenly went on a frantic shopping spree to purchase Hollywood's studios (Paramount and Warner Bros), news outlets (CBS, CNN), and social media (TikTok).
Ellison is the second-richest man on earth. He is not motivated by money-making in the last stage of his life. He bought all these news and entertainment outlets to turn them into Israeli State TV, to try to stem the rising disgust Americans harbor for Israel.
Ellison is one of Netanyahu's best friends. He's the single-largest donor to Friends of the IDF. His only political cause is Israel. All the key people he and his son hired as Israel loyalists. So Bari Weiss is telling the truth: her job isn't to increase ratings but to convert CBS into Zionist propaganda.
During her on-stage interview, according to the article, Bari Weiss dismissed concerns about weak ratings at 60 Minutes by saying: “I could never build anything if I were focused on the precise number of people that happen to tune in to the second feature on 60 Minutes on a given Sunday.” theinformation.com/articles/…
Justin McConnell retweeted
Senator @ChrisMurphyCT reveals that war plan briefings by the administration show that Trump and Israel are planning an extreme escalation to win the war of choice wth Iran.
Murphy calls the plan "insane." Not only will it fail, but it will also lead to "the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law."
What Sen. Murphy says here is that Trump and Israel are planning a military campaign that violates every rule of war, including every American law regarding the conduct of war.
It is not a war plan; it's a war crimes plan.