THIS is what Canadians mean by the relationship between Canada and the USA is broken and we cannot trust Americans any more. It will take decades to repair this relationship. Expect us to continue resisting buying your produce and alcohol and whatever else we can find substitutes for.

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

When corporate tax rates were 90% it created incentive for money to go back in to the company, so a lot went to R&D. Now it all goes into the pockets of executives and shareholders. Tax corporations.

Yup (Source: lived in another country for 18 years and counting)

woke is when you can eat salad without shitting your pants

Yep. When increasing someone's salary meant most (to almost all) was taxed away R&D, infrastructure, more personnel, maintenance, pension, was where companies put the money instead. Bread on the waters.

after 13 years and multiple industry upheavals, warframe is still here. not only that, it's about to release its most ambitious update yet: tau, a whole new star system. but as recent events have shown us, nothing lasts forever. warframe's developers know that all too well

“The low cost of public transportation in Seattle reduces the overall cost of living for residents by balancing out housing costs to allow Seattle to be the fifth lowest in housing and transportation costs among major metropolitan cities” From @jimaloisi.bsky.social www.mmi.mit.edu/_files/ugd/2...

related-- kids need kids movies that show these things happening to children or characters they are explicitly invited to identify through

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Here's a story on this absurd attack ad against Will Lawrence, hitting him as a Wall Street investor for having $11,000 in a 401(k). The half-million-dollar ad buy itself cost 48 times more than the value of the retirement account. prospect.org/2026/07/11/s...

Household water costs could nearly double in some American cities, new research suggests, as climate change further stresses municipal water systems. buff.ly/X4Lx5ye

political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)

Being able to write a passable 10-page paper on no sleep and inadequate notes is like basic for a lit degree... But if you need ten pages to make your point you've probably overworked it, and you've definitely overworked your professor. The real trick is making your complicated point succinctly.

I mean, that's not even really it, it's Netflix that abandons shows after a season. Especially genre fic. They expect everything to do Stranger Things numbers and/or don't tell creators what the expectations/metrics even are and then just drop stuff.

it's a little disorienting that they declassified emails between elite pedophiles talking about their intention to create and maintain the sociopolitical conditions to keep transgender women as uniquely vulnerable and oppressed sex slaves and the world kept turning because nobody cares

A lot of liberals have been negatively polarized into being pro-apartheid because they think Palestinians were invented in 2023 specifically to make life inconvenient for Joe Biden.

"The Satanic Temple is in the process of building a new abortion clinic!" Do *not* give these motherfuckers your money. More than $11,000 has already been thrown away on these fucking ghouls this time around. Please know better than this. It's happening again, and you need to tell your friends.

Idk know how many more times that we see examples to understand that anti woke is anti black Literally anything that is woke just means Blakc were involved and they weren't happy to be slaves A black doctor? A negro could never be a real doctor! A black pilot? Woke A black professional? Woke!

Protecting myself against these scams by having cultivated a lifelong distrust of anyone expressing interest in my writing.

months of continuous fellatio based on theor builds and money

I have been saying this for twenty years: To be good at an art-form you must also understand what exists beyond that art-form or you are doomed to do what has already been done but worse for better only happens when you bring yourself and what you see uniquely to the work.

Sometimes you see people act like you have to read between the lines to understand Paul Atreides is meant to be a villain or that’s a woke modern interpretation and meanwhile in the book he explicitly compares himself to Hitler

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

yeah we gotta destroy this thing

I think the desire for greater media literacy is at its core a desire for a vastly improved theory of mind. The ability to understand—and, crucially, MODEL—other people as fully realized people with their own inputs that constrain their outputs.

The last thing I read on this subject was not directly about *media* literacy but just about literal literacy, and the contention was that the primary result of low literacy is that you inevitably get scammed all the fucking time because you can't easily evaluate the quality of written claims.

ICYMI: New report on swing voters from @dataforprogress.org spells good news for economic populists. Policies that will make swing voters support Dems: - Taxing the rich - Medicare for All - AI regulation More in my story: newrepublic.com/article/2128...

The "creatives" who use genAI at any part of their process need to understand I'm not desperate for new media. There is such a backlog of arts, movies, books, and games WITHOUT genAI that if nothing new was made again, I'd still need a hundred lifetimes to consume even a fraction of it.

We really should stop calling it "age verification." Because that is not what it is. Call it "forced doxxing" instead. Most people think the concept of age verification and protecting kids online is common sense. So we must rebrand it to reveal its true purpose, which is something they will fear.

After reading an excellent piece going into the enshittification of ice cream and how Breyers and Dreyers are now legally 'frozen dairy dessert' bc they're less than 10% fat content and pumped full of air, I checked my Kirkland Signature vanilla tubs and confirmed they were 15% fat, egg base. #PBUC

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

Good to see this getting attention, but it's unbelievable that after 18 months of lying, journalists still treat government officials as truth-tellers who have to be rebutted instead of lairs who have to prove their cases in the first place.

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

i’m just a widdle feathery guy, nothing to see here mr. bird

I had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

it's exhausting and frustrating how many fucking times KOSA and similar things have been shot down by voters but they just will not stop pushing and pushing and pushing and reintroducing it over and over and over again until they get their way.

You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

Just in case you thought being ghoulishly tacky was somehow a modern invention: The 1st movie about the sinking of the Titanic was released 31 DAYS after the ship went down, starring a real passenger, wearing the clothes she had on the night of the sinking as wardrobe. youtube.com/shorts/Cj9CQ...

What news out of Colorado, where Victor Marx’s emergence as the GOP nominee for governor manages to startle even in the Trump era.

Also Dan Moraff needs to go work for republicans

Oh, this is *excellent*

I really do wonder what kind of sideways journey people like this take through rationalism to arrive at this sort of stance. The supreme dedication to the concepts of 'claim' and 'evidence' combined with the total inability to apply basic critical thinking in practice is honestly fascinating.

God I miss the days when every other news item wasn’t “this awful person with way too much money just made your life worse in unimaginable ways for no good reason.”

my husband reports that a trend has arisen in the backpacking/hiking community where people keep posting about their "Garmin watch tan", which is actually just their skin rotting because never take the fucking things off

where have all the costume designer budgets gone, and where are all the gods....

Ohio lawmakers are trying to fight for regulations on ticket resellers as scalpers continue to upcharge hundreds of dollars for local theatre tickets. Sometimes, those seats don't even exist ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/09/a...