“Canada should anticipate that the petition and likely referendum on Albertan independence will be subject to foreign interference over both the outcome and the process itself.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

To write this, I built a data center model from scratch in discussion with numerous analysts and experts. It's available to subscribers today. The results were damning. Every data center I modeled can only financially survive with 100% tenancy at all times. www.wheresyoured.at/data-center-...

Notice how those who wanted to overthrow the government for being asked to carry proof of their covid vaccination, claiming it’s an infringement on their freedoms, are suddenly all in favor of needing multiple proofs of identity just so they can exercise their constitutional right to vote.

Absolutely dead on on every respect. The ride is going to be rough, but Canada will remain strong and free... of US hegemony.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

Of you look at Sumerian history, early on you see a bunch of short-lived city-states, because city-states were a NEW THING and we hadn't figured out how to city-state yet. International order is a NEW THING, so sure our 2nd attempt is going to have issues. Doesn't mean it's not a practical idea!

Is it normal, in a Canadian city, for the police to beat and tear gas hundreds of people for more than an hour, injuring six, to protect a company providing guards to concentration camps, and for it not to be in any major local or national news media the next day? Asking for a friend.

When I hear that American police are uniquely violent and short-fused I think of things like this.

Many interpreted Carney's Davos speech as an attack on Trump - but it was always a counter to "Starmerism": a constant attempt to work with the bullies that are extracting their lunch money and looking for more. Starmer seems to have interpreted it that way as well and said so at Munich #MSC2026:

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

TIL that a 3/4 inch sheet of plywood, wet, weighs in around 75 pounds. Which explains why my muscles ache a bit. But the floor on the studio is done, which was my February goal! Next up: framing, which is going to be mostly reclaimed 2x4's from the old shed-thing's roof.

My bet: if this person didn't stumble on the issue, they company would *not have been able to see any effect*, because the C-suite, like most people, use numbers to excuse, not to cause, decisions.

Smart career move right now is to manually check any AI metrics and surface the (real) results. You’ll get through this ridiculous bubble with your reputation and integrity intact

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

Denmark also has heavily regulated non-US style non-UK style non-US style private care. Two tier health care, just not of the dysfunctional kind Canada seems fixated on (and which we've had for decades, and which is getting worse.)

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

"Profession" by Issac Asimov quite literally.

This is the fundamental experience of learning: internalizing--in your mind, your body, your soul--something that was previously outside of you. In the past six months I have gotten my basic drone license, learned the foundations of statistical mechanics, and developed a new technique for bending...

"The analysis evidenced that effective classroom air filtration costs pence per pupil per day, making it one of the most affordable health and attendance interventions available to schools." #school #education #workers #teachers #students #cleanair #CleanAirForAll #SafeSchools #covid

Tomás Sánchez Contemplar, 1995

"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that

James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes. The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.

You can't say you weren't warned.

Concentration camps. Say it. Concentration camps.

Had an IC class where I read a bunch of interviews with former warlord/terrorist recruits and it was very interesting how many of them were using ideology as a vehicle for violence instead of using violence to pursue an ideology. "Excitement" was one of the main reasons a lot of them joined!

This week on the blog: Against the State! Another military theory primer, this time focused on groups that take on the state itself, both with violent and non-violent means. Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won? acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...

Duh. If this isn't staggeringly obvious, you are one of them. Everyone who has an ideology is like this. It's literally what differentiates ideologies from moral principles.

This is why the people who show up to protests ready to burn things down aren’t “allies” with “different tactics.” Overwhelmingly they’re there for the thrill of rationalized violence; they will find some way to commit some violence against somebody if they have the thinnest excuse.

⚡️IMF lifts prior conditions for Ukraine loan program, Prime Minister says. According to Svyrydenko, the program will be considered at the next meeting of the IMF Executive Board, while there has been "much discussion about how this will be done."

I hope our American friends see how Canadians are treating companies that collude with the Trump Regime and take heart that they're not fighting alone.

If New Brunswick can do it so can the rest of Canada! bsky.app/profile/nbco...

🧬 My haplotype paper is out! We show that deviations between within-sample and population-level haplotype frequencies can be used to estimate how many individuals contributed to an eDNA sample. No tissue references needed, just metabarcoding data and some population genetics. #eDNA #PopGen

I live in a society where many of the best-paying jobs are thought work. Why would I endanger the performance of my thought organ? Or the organ that powers my thought organ? The math is so simple on this

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.

From this follow simple recommendations: as a default, meta-scientific studies of published research artefacts need to include 1) a full, identifiable list of included studies, 2) the full coding instrument and decision rules, and 3) the individual ratings together with a codebook.

I've been asking for decades where the "Journal of Neo-Liberal Studies" is, and no one has ever been able to tell me. Any supposed ideology that has no one willing to stand up and say, "Yeah, that's me!" is probably just a bogey-person designed to obfuscate and impede thought and communication.

So at the beginning of the pandemic I said it would take about 5-7 years for people to figure stuff out using heuristic learning methods. I am a crystal ball.

A pleasingly meta-meta-analysis with a very displeasing outcome: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Vladyslav Heraskevych, Ukraine's skeleton racer, was scheduled to compete in his third Olympic Games on Feb. 12. He was barred from taking part in the competition after refusing to change his helmet, one depicting the faces of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's full-scale invasion.

Moderna refuse to bribe?

They think good is weak & evil is based, because they are wicked. ICE is doing wicked things & hiring wicked men to do them. It is difficult to look such a thing in the eye, but that is all there there is to them

I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Damned straight. Canadians are nice and polite, but we can hold a grudge forever.

By "posted about race" they mean "spewed the most racist racisting anyone has ever racisted".

“History shows that wars can be lost [quickly] if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle.”