That’s assuming too much, though. One can post on Slack from their phone outside of the building. This is all we know:

A colleague wrote to a Slack channel ‘Fire alarm in the office building’, to start a thread if somebody knows any details.

Regardless, moon, not finger.

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I came here to say that only an idiot would ask an AI to explain a fire alarm, but then I actually read the post and holy shit. It was an AI agent responding on slack. So yea, this is serious.

Poisoned by repeatedly using the “explains a lot” dismissive and rude passive aggression, since your very first response to me.

We’re done.

See that’s the problem. You’ve poisoned the space between us, I have no patience to engage with you further and have this discussion on the actual merits of the fucking political point which I would have liked to have in the first place. Do better by our community next time.

Hate the guy all you like. I’m not a fan either. But that’s not what I was talking about. I was talking about the political point he made. You turned it into a debate about his character, and with the weird “explains much” shit, into a debate about my character. You could have said “that guy’s a douche” and I’d have responded with “yup but the douche is making a good point”. Instead you chose toxicity and vitriol. Maybe chill a bit.

The passive aggressive “explains much” angle you have now repeated twice is kind of weird.

You’re judging his internal state of mind and disposition. I don’t give a flipping fuck about it right now. Even if he is just a champagne socialist virtue signaling, the objectively observable thing is “popular influencer is putting a political blackmail of the dem establishment in the discourse agenda”. Even under your set of assumptions his champaign socialist virtue signaling is not without real political impact.

I mean fuck, an even shallower piece of nothing is sitting in the white house and his vapid brainfarts are for sure creating political impacts.

My sibling in christ, even virtue signaling is a kind of politics.

What a bizarre response. Nowhere did I claim that he’s an organizer. Public political speech by a prominent political broadcast commentator (yea that’s what “viral streaming influencer” used to be called in the 1900s) is …not nothing. Saying he isn’t doing anything is like saying that political speech doesn’t do anything.

Edit: you added the champagne socialist bit. Do I look like I care about this guy personally? He’s an influential political commentator that made a good point. In this thread it drew reactions from the “blu no matter whu” crowd and I called that out. That’s it.

If your reaction to this is outrage, you’re politically juvenile. It’s early 2026, this is exactly the time to be doing this kind of politics. If you already now signal to the Democratic Party establishment your capitulation, why should your concerns even be taken into account. Piker is putting the gun on the table at exactly the right time. Grow up.

Hold on to your tuques for the transphobic right wing shit deluge that’s coming.

European xenophobia is just fucking pathetic. Pathetic. On the one hand we make a big stink about the rules based order and liberal values. And in the other we make a mockery of all of that to appease the worst among us. Pathetic.

Ukraine doesn’t have the luxury of not being on the table when the US and Russia talk, even if both are vile jackals.

If the US and Russia were talking about reshaping balances in the Arctic, Canada cannot stand in the sidelines.

Similarly, if the US and Turkey are talking about reshaping balances in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece cannot stand on the sidelines.

Here’s the rub:

Turkey is expected to be represented in Washington and is considered a US partner in efforts to reshape balances in the Middle East and the wider region.

If Greece aligns with the rest of Europe, they are leaving Turkey a wide open lane to “reshape balances in the Middle East and the wider region” however they like. And as Carney said “if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu”.

I didn’t make fun of them though.

No, in fact our federal government has lowered immigration limits and the Quebec government recently abolished an important permanent residence pathway program. We also are still considering the US a safe third country for refugees, which is bananas.

That’s how you got Irish Americans

If we have learned anything from the last decade, the centre-left now is faced with a dilemma: deep reforms to drain the abscess that oozed out the fascists or continue with neoliberal business as usual, effectively giving the far right time to regroup and try again next time.

That’s how you get student radicalization, neat!