Can we send @margaretatwood.bsky.social to smack Dylan upside the head?

Can they transfer us to the right department. 🤡

A close friend wrote: “They will reap the whirlwind. Never forget that the Talmud describes any court of law that institutes the death penalty more than once in 70 years as cruel and unusual. There is no clearer evidence that we are regressing into dark times as a civilization than this”

When vocabulary enrichment goes bad: Ottawa's mayor casually assumes everyone knows what a 'spalling issue' is by now. 💀

Today the Knesset passed a deeply immoral populist death sentence law. Its existence is abhorrent, and its content is discriminatory and disgusting, and even if it's struck down its passing is a shame. I miss my grandfather. I think Israel does too. 2/2

This critique by Jessica Kolopenuk & Rick W.A. Smith is important for Indigenous public health, which stands to benefit from realizing the potential of precision public health. That requires starting with an adequate Indigenous-guided funding program design for data collection & governance.

Very good piece by @epress.bsky.social. All of these schisms are replicated in Canada too of course.

The atmosphere layers of central Ontario in pop culture

My migration into a place - culturally enriching, unfairly maligned, our right to stay a matter of justice and equity. Your migration into a place - basically an invasion, theft of our heritage, a metaphysical attack on the deep spiritual connection we enjoy between our bodies and the land.

Discuss: when a report specifies that an organization's recommendations were produced through 'iterative and transparent subgroup ideation' is that more or less impressive than 'working group meetings'?

Another good night for Russia, somehow, in the fog of war

Literally laughed out loud at the end. A real one.

No one is protesting Palantir in Canada, even though the OPP has been using it for years, and the federal government is using it too. The Prez of Palantir Canada is our former ambassador to the US, and he chairs the company building the "spa" at Ontario Place. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

the new york times can try and fail to recreate mcmansion hell however i can take comfort in the fact that no one else on god's green earth has written five essays about the incest twins from the ring cycle

This piece by @sproudfoot.bsky.social complements Kathryn May's wonkier analyses over at @irpp.org. Carney's right that the federal public service can't be fixed fast enough (or ever?) to meet his agenda's timelines. But there's much outside his agenda that the public service is needed to advance.

Thankful for foreign governments telling us what our government is hiding.

Revealing words from Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister of Israel.

This is the first time I've ever seen 'stridently' applied to a man 👀

Great read on the scientific chaos that led to the discovery of insulin and now to new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, with huge impacts on health, markets and profits.

Meanwhile, is it any wonder why Putin has shut down cell service in Moscow and is in hiding? Drones are changing everything.

"Bill 21, then, should be understood for what it is: not the fulfilment of the Quiet Revolution, nor the expression of a deeply rooted secular tradition, but a modern political response to anxieties about diversity." Important commentary by Jack Jedwab

Chatbots entering teenage years, soon to be of DOGE-bro age

Same vibe, in Emily Dickinson's poetry:

The last giant standing of whom such a tribute will be written is Charles Taylor. So many exMcGillites have been turning over the ambivalent themes of that tribute to come.

Seems bad that people's first reaction is "uh, did Whiskey Pete bomb the Mexican Navy?"

Because our regulators are idiots. Seriously. Many of our economic policy makers see what's going on in the US and want to emulate it. They think it's GOOD. And that Canada is weak for not embracing nihilistic capitalism. The tech bros make everything that they touch worse.

[anxiously listens for Werner Herzog narration] phew

Interesting write-up about some of the big purchase orders that got Canada to 2% of GDP defence spending. Short version: $1 billion for ammunition is going to an American defence giant, when it probably could've gone to Canadian suppliers. www.linkedin.com/pulse/defenc...

In 2006 the late Tony Judt wrote a prophetic op-ed in the Israeli newspaper @haaretzcom.bsky.social He diagnosed all of the malodies that have since lead Israel to such disaster. www.haaretz.com/2006-05-02/t...

This was the magnificent present he was boasting about receiving from Iran as imperial tribute?!?!

Does this list remind anyone of the advisory council to Canada's AI minister

High praise for Mark Carney that Singapore's MFA is recycling his Davos speech in ultra-technocratese....?

People get it especially when politicians refuse to act Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/t...

The Craven Thanking Economy™ of this regime should fuel a thousand dissertations.

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your moment of zen (sound up for harpsichord soundtrack)

We love a catastrophic molt, don't we, folks

Context for the abstention of Canada (plus Australia & New Zealand I'd guess): in light of the horrors of colonialism inflicted on Indigenous peoples in this country, Canada could not vote to affirm a different crime against humanity as 'the gravest'.

Partly due to the demand for reparations inherent in the resolution, yes. But formerly colonized and colonizing countries such as Canada, Australia & New Zealand could never endorse a resolution casting their own treatment of Indigenous populations as a lesser crime against humanity.

[cue AI slop illustrations of Nazi moon-boats sailing victorymaxxingly through US-dominant lunar Straits for all eternity]

This is the entire history of modern ethics and I will not be taking questions at this time.

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These AI & transnational repression issues identified by @rondeibert.bsky.social will bring natsec complexities into university research offices & researcher collaborations over the years ahead. What if Ottawa wants to protect trade relations w China & India at the expense of free uni research?

conflict of interest & ethics laws/regs are going to need to be updated pronto The recent experience in the US suggests the big problems are not so much “ordinary” consumers as the consumers w/ insider knowledge of / influence on the very events they are betting on

the more public health expertise in congress, the better — especially right now. awesome news

Highly recommend this episode (which just kept me alert amid boring exercise). On the socsci/research/ security front there's also plenty to be concerned with about doing research on sensitive diasporas, persecuted populations etc.

An Israeli strike on a naval outpost in the Caspian Sea targeted Russia’s support for Iran in the war, hitting a supply line that the countries have used to move ammunition, drones and other weaponry, people familiar with the matter said. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Attention @mark-carney.bsky.social & @evansolomon.bsky.social: Canada is overdue for this too. Sue and regulate asap please.

I fail to see how this is different from Putin saying the Donbas must become part of Russia.

Does it have ACME on the side and was it presented by the Roadrunner