Today in "Profiles in Courage":

Cross-posting this comment from Jeet Heer over on Twitter. It really is kind of funny that Musk is just totally unable to pick up on code and innuendo.

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

I don't think people appreciate enough the fact that, at a time where global warming was approaching an inflection point yet renewable energy was finally becoming economically viable, we decided to squander that opportunity because literal death cultists decided we needed Infinite Bullshit Machines.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

But why do they need financial help? I thought Alberta was the richest, most entrepreneurial free-market place on earth, and all of its difficulties are the fault of the East and/or the Liberals? Shouldn’t independence instantly solve all their problems? 🤔

NEW: I compiled a list of 27 Canadian journalists who have gone on sponsored Israel trips organized by a Zionist group whose co-founder previously worked for an Israeli intelligence firm. The list includes some of Canadian media’s most-senior editors. www.readthemaple.com/a-list-of-jo...

I must take issue with the idea of Stephen Miller being exceptional, even in terms of being evil, when he is basically every Young Republican I ever knew

My sense of the Alberta separatist movement is that it is mostly being driven by people who simply don't believe in democracy. They think they should be able to do whatever they want without consequence, and they think opting out of the constitution would let them do that.

Minimum wage job: 12 hours of delicate, finicky, painful hard work Medium wage job: 8 hours a day of delicate, annoying hard work. With emails CEO of company: 4 hours of gooning to his AI secretary with a suspiciously childlike face, with word salad about quantum physics and how smart he is

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

@matthewgreen.bsky.social is no longer an NDP MP, but he hasn’t stopped trying to transform the party. He talks to @desmondcole.bsky.social about a campaign to renew the NDP—and what it will take to pry control from consultants, and put it in the hands of the grassroots.

The federal government has occupied Minneapolis. And everyone can see the abuses that come from this situation day in and day out. Even people not protesting cant keep their kids safe. Now imagine 77 years of this.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Opposite of furries? Smoothies

lol you already did- just not the way you think

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

Elon Musk achieves dream of automating child sex abuse

Elon Musk: Grok will be a truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe *2 years later* "Show Anne Frank wearing 'juicy' sweatpants"

1. A mixture of horror and sadness but with an unexpectedly powerful element of nausea. 2. Just keep scrolling!

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

well at least we don’t have to hear charlie kirk’s opinion about what happened yesterday so there’s that.

Liberals will be like ‘don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good’ & it’s like dawg that is what you tell someone on a diet, we are talking about basic human rights.

CANADIANS! Please sign and share this Parliamentary Petition backed by MP Heather Richardson re returning IDF soldiers and HESEG. *Don’t forget to check for an email from ourcommons and confirm yr signature. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Re-Post - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social We've unlocked our episode with Stuart Schrader on the evolution of American policing and how it got to this point. Link in the replies.

Thinking about the delta in the Venn Diagram of people who think five year olds in Gaza had it coming and people who probably have a very elaborate explanation for why they aren't responsible for the actions of their president even as adult citizens in a democracy...

NO SHIT

[Russia attacks Poland] Globe editorial: Putin's aggression must be countered with a new pipeline to the West Coast [Trump dies] Globe: Canada must seize the moment by building a pipeline to the West Coast [Canada builds a pipeline to the West Coast] Globe: It's time for a third p

reshare if you agree wall adapters with a single USB C port have a surface area differential ratio that looks weird

Shot, chaser

“The site of the collision was approximately 280 metres from a previously-stationed mobile Automated Speed Enforcement camera, which was removed following provincial legislation that came into effect in November 2025” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... #onpoli

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord

Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms

Want millions in tax payer 💰 from the Skills Development Fund? Hire a lobbyist. Proportion of successful applicants using a lobbyist is up 60% Lobbyists include Labour Minister's wife, Doug Ford's Campaign Manager, Conservative Party President. #PaytoPlay #ONpoli

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy. My new piece for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

I don't know why people aren't having more kids. We've tried everything from soaring inflation, suppressing wages, stripping rights, destroying public services, making literally everything more expensive, making literally everything more expensive in a different way, and sending in the marines

[Guy who’s profiting from the bubble]: “We’re not in a bubble!”

“Nobody has to sleep at the office” “But you’re tracking who isn’t right” “We measure our employees commitment to the mission in a variety of industry leading metrics”

oh so like when all PCs were going to be touchscreen tablets so let’s reorganise the OS entirely around that assumption

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews

Interesting choice of words coming from PP

you can tell america is going great because every day an important institution must post something like "please do not listen to the president, we promise that water is not going to turn your blood cells trans"

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.