Just as people are starting to really figure out how much the AI thing is a reheat of the Crypto thing, and not in a happy way, OpenAI have named their latest models Terra and Luna, like the Ponzi fiasco that started the big crypto collapse of early 2022

I agree that the current Iran thing is a historic blunder, but, Mr Schumer, history is full of worse blunders - in fact there's one still ongoing on the north shores of the Black Sea, and even that isn't the worst blunder in that part of the world heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-23-2026

You can see here that the Appalachians, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, Scotland, and Norway are all the same mountain range. Also: the Atlantic Ocean was born somewhere near Truro

okay i love this. Roost. a messenger app where you pick birbs, and the message takes as long to get to the recipient as the bird would IRL. Get a free bird when you sign up with my code WZ2RF2. I'm garius on there. roostsocial.app/invite/WZ2RF2 here are my current birbs

This thread is fun - but it underlines the smart new Asian approach to making robots less intimidating: dress them in floppy, sometimes funny clothing. (Still some of these freakouts look terrifying!)

Big if true

People really have to realize that modern air conditioning technologies are way more efficient (and less damaging to the atmosphere/climate) than they were back in the mid-20th century. (I will also note that pretty much every anti-AC person still owns a refrigerator).

An insightful take on Anthropic's "Mythos" branding from Om Malik om.co/2026/06/07/t...

The reason right wingers keep claiming that BLM or anti-ICE demonstrations or whatever must be paid protestors with shadowy oligarch backers is because that's how it often works on their side. Every accusation is a confession

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

I keep thinking about this but from the inventor of Claude Code last week. He had Cowork book his next trip and "it worked perfectly" ... except for oopsie where it booked a $5000/night hotel room. That's NOT perfect, buddy!

People talking about the conservative bias of rural ridings but actually mid-left got more votes, just split up by three parties. Proportional representation anyone?

Well. That’s a helluva thing to say when you’re the mayor. “‘it’s not entirely clear that people are concerned with trust with the mayor’s office,’ Fillmore said.” #halisky

lets circle back to just last week

Like Fillmore kept saying the AG made no recommendations like it exonerated him, but the AG only advises how to comply with rules more efficiently. He assumes you aren't breaking the rules. When you fuck up the rules badly enough he writes a whole ass emergency report about your office expenses.

This is actually the specific shape of corporate workplace disaster I’ve been waiting for. The era of safely typing anything is probably over.

Only Nixon could visit China / Only Trump can rearm Hezbollah www.wsj.com/world/middle...

TBH I've kind of fallen off gaming in the last year or so, but I'm still happy to be supporting @aftermath.site because they do big reports like this

I do in fact use AI for help with coding and various edge case art things, like reconstructing poorly scanned photos from 1904, but I will loudly shout "hey that's not hot dogs, it's *sausage*!" Heck, I'm not averse to mixing some chorizo into whatever I'm cooking.

I love this analogy because hot dogs, like A.I., are a low-value product that has been unrecognizably ground up from untraceable sources

So @philmoscovitch.bsky.social was 🔥 in today's Morning File www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

“Well, well, well. Not so easy to find a Prime Minister than can last longer than a lettuce is it?” –Liz Truss

So after a huge post-IPO boom SpaceX is back down to pretty close to its starting price. See that slope on the left? That's a whole lot of overexcitable suckers being given a bag to hold.

Worth noting, however, that Obama's (expensive) fix really didn't work either, as this 2012 pic shows. It's probably just an intractable problem. Trump's mistake was making a big deal about how Only I Can Fix It and then doing an extra shitty job and funneling $ to his cronies

My Father's Day thing is from a month or so ago when I discovered that my late father was in the famous Halifax "Encounter on the Urban Environment" documentary - he doesn't say anything, he was just in the background at a reception, but it was still nice (if weird) to see him again after so long.

The MC Escher porch columns add an extra $60k to the listing price

Mamdani giving a speech at the Knicks victory parade and Obama giving a speech at the opening of his Presidential Library on the same day is the BARBENHEIMER of oratory, it's MAMBAMA

After the closure of Ubisoft Halifax, Darryl Wright reopened their former studio Punk Science back in March. They have launched a new website for the game development studio and announced they are working with Bossa Games on a contract. #novascotia #gamedev punkscience.ca

So just catching up on the details from last night's game. Qatar plays dirty, breaks a Canadian player's leg, and Canada goes for vengeance and demolishes them for a 6-0 shutout. Damn.

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

well this is the first "the prime minister will be hungover tomorrow" email i've ever gotten

this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

I've enjoyed their funny breezy takes over the years but I don't think I'll be following them to their new homes. I had thought "hard fork" was a Git reference but no it turns out it's a crypto/NFT reference and they were hard into that before AI became the new thing.

The top coming off of that giant oil tank in suburban Moscow is going to be one of the iconic images of this war.

Hey is that the Bluenose in the harbour? I guess showing the Racers that we've been doing fast sails for a while!

The REAL function of SpaceX will be to transfer pension fund $ from millions of Americans, when their index funds buy into the Musk turd-ducken company, into Elon Musk's grotesquely overstuffed pockets.

A tough day for UFO skeptics.

🔥 The density of this morning's air raid on Moscow was simply insane: Ukrainian missiles, AN-196 Lyutyiy and FP-1 strike drones, as well as Shahed-type UAVs were all spotted over the Russian capital, all heading to the Moscow Oil Refinery on official business matters.

The Iran deal gives me hope for NAFTA/CUSMA - play our cards right and we might get Hawaii.

Polling for congestion pricing is always bad before a city implements it. Then it rapidly improves once residents experience faster traffic, quieter streets, and better transit service. As a European city official once told me, " “You have to make people happy against their will."

Do not - especially if you're a professional academic - have AI replace your brain.

To White Hall, and in the garden spoke to my Lord Sandwich, who is in his gold-buttoned suit, as the mode is, and looks nobly.

“industry convinced us to be okay with cars mowing down kids and taking away public space. we can also adjust to all the harms of the product making me a lot of money.”

Wow. I didn't think things would sink this low. This is definitely Vic Toews level rhetoric. globalnews.ca/news/1190824...

This is all great @davidjroth.bsky.social poetry, but I especially like "Dumb old bullies all grandiose and soft from golf and infidelity" and "ruddy tax evaders who fear cities and are insecure about their boats".

Well after a fourth 13-hour-ish day I'm going to call my #bloomsdayhalifax 2026 complete. The app will still work until 3am or and then I look forward to seeing everyone for 2027. Great to meet new and old friends in person and remotely. Let's do it again! #bloomsday

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Love this bit, I wish it had been used! According to wiki it was used on early US issues #pogues #joyce

The ultimate #bloomsday combo: a cold glass of stout with Molly Bloom on top of