The things that are in existence in this article are grunt work, not ideas. The things that are ideation are nonexistent. Grunt work in the sciences is hard and expensive and it's great to have better tools to do it faster and cheaper.

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Readers loving Shesheshen and Homily has filled my life with brightness. But the truth is, a lot of really honkin' good books never get published. Wrong day, wrong editor, wrong mood, wrong breakfast. The lack of virtue in the system is why it's so important to lift up writers who touch your soul.

Maybe interview someone who’s been there for more than 1% of that time?

I don't want to brag, but even though I'm terrible at writing, I'm not bad at titles

The closer we get to 2035 and 2050, the more empty promises are presented for what they were. Words are cheap, pledges about policies ten election cycles in the future are proving to be worse than useless.

Watching the Friday Night Lights tv series, and it is almost unfair how someone can both look like Adrianne Palicki and be able to carry so much dramatic heft on her shoulders.

The Disney app for LG tvs is to be the worst media player I've ever had to interact with. Every few episodes watched the entire app starts stuttering and blacking out the screen while playing.

I keep wanting to say something, and I keep not knowing what to say. The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.

Let's never talk about how transitioning is unnatural again, mmkay? www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

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No doubt to launch them into the sun, because if Elon can't be the good guy he'll fuck up some more stuff until they give him a trillion dollars.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Huh. Weird.

Canadians, it's not too early to call your MPs and demand that they support trans rights too. Danielle Smith has already invoked the (cursed) Notwithstanding Clause in our constitution to try and negate that.

As much as I admire Hank Green for his incredibly broad suite of work and accomplishments, I have to say I don't think Zonderia's a great addition. "Rich/popular guy uses wealth/popularity to redirect money to charity" is a sweet story, but in 2025 we know it's not always as nice as it seems.

This isn't the first time she's done it, but I just can't get over Susie Wiles making a talking point of how she can run Trump because she's had to mollify an alcoholic father. There is so much going on there very much including dramatic irony at a level you rarely see outside of Greek tragedy.

You could have given me a billion guesses and I would never have called Friday Night Lights featuring a cover of Devil Town

A Liberal in rural Alberta or a Conservative in downtown Toronto can vote for decades without ever electing a candidate they support. A system that locks regions to one party is not democracy. Proportional representation ensures every vote counts, no matter where you live.

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

This isn't even an outrage bait opinion, this is "Watch me step on this rake and stagger backward into an open manhole" opinion.

I continue to believe that we should be building district/neighbourhood systems, including heating. www.bbc.com/news/article... #nlpoli #canpoli

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It's so strange to me that there are a bunch of comedians with podcasts or similar vehicles whose brand consists primarily of being one or more different kinds of bigot, and most of the people I respect have been on one or more of those vehicles.

Trying to think of another Canadian show that has such a long-running series. Heartland comes pretty close, I guess? Are there any others?

The federal NDP apparently think Mark Carney won by stealing their ideas, and I can only shake my head. Trudeau did that, for sure. Carney started enacting Pollievre's platform before he even got into office. Folks need to get a grip.

Norway has announced the creation of a commission that will map out the country's path in a post-oil economy. Canada should do the same. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/o...

I recognize that there's a difficulty in allowing a company to determine which reviews of their products get published, but if you're going to have any kind of appeal process, it really does seem like you have to put a baseline down that's sits a bit above "racist tropes are valid critique"

As a climate scientist, the most charitable thing I can say is that this guy's a fucking moron.

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I like this proposal to progressively tax high CEO-to-worker pay ratios. This is what every tax should consider—how it can shape behavior in a desired direction. I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.

Elon Musk was literally voted into CEOhood and ultra-wealth by his sycophantic board members, most of whom are so conflicted of interest they should collapse their local spacetime.

So much self publishing advice boils down to "Find a really popular corner, write yourself into it, then stay there for the rest of your life". It's kind of easy to see how a generation raised on that kind of mindset wouldn't feel as attached to the human part of artistic creation.

Saw a video the other day of some old rich dude confronted by a young person advocating for higher taxation on the super-rich, and the ORD said he'd close up shop each year after he hit the earnings ceiling, furlough all his employees, and go on vacation. And you know what? That'd be great.

Also interested to see firm examples of this.

We look back at appeasement and think it's wild to see what can happen when folks fail to act, but then we do it all again and again and again...

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All I Want to Do is Go Home and Sleep: An Autobiography

Well LA DI DA Mr All My Bones Are Still Present and Intact

ICYMI: this is very obviously a crisis every bit as emergent - and indivisible from - climate breakdown.

If you hardly slept while making an AI-generated ad, what the fuck was the point of AI generating it? Even on full sets with full crews, you get to fuckin sleep, kids.

As more and more climate-serious people resign from Carney's government it looks more and more like he's really determined to build these stupid fucking pipelines

Part of me thinks these idiots are going to be the end of human civilization, but then I remember Mark Carney just signed off on a pipeline and there's a nonzero chance he gets rid of EV mandates and the industrial carbon price before he's done.

Can confirm is good words.

One of "my" things at Christmas when I was a kid was making nanaimo bars. We didn't always have easy access to crumbled graham or walnuts, so there's a kind of low-key trauma memory of taking a meat tenderizer and beating the absolute shit out of bags of crackers and nuts.

If you told 25 year old me that what fiscal conservatives would eventually decide to add to the mix for wider appeal was blatant hate speech, I think his head would have fallen off his body like a classic Barbie.

I have been worried about the USA for nearly a decade now, but I must have turned some kind of corner on it because this morning I find myself womdering what happens if Orange Sook quits in a fit of pique.