This is nuts. Absolutely nuts.

“Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control. “

Really interesting thread.

Yup.

Watching this now. I grew up in a similar small community where this would be met with the same resistance and not because of moderate livelihood or out of season concerns. Good reasons to never go back. Worth your time to watch.

Same.

Quite a headline

“Always believe something wonderful is about to happen”

New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson. “Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

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Property tax caps are intensely corrosive! Nova Scotia’s cap distorts the housing market by piling the burden of maintaining our cities on “corporate” landlords - who then pass that cost on to renters. Meanwhile, actually wealthy sub/exurb dwellers who bought twenty years ago get subsidized.

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Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

I’m so sad to see this. This is not that far from Greenwich Beach/National Park. A golf course. Another golf course that is. Jeez.

Powerful.

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

'What I found in Lucy Maud Montgomery's pages was thrilling': Antonio of Green Gables CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I. www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...

I rarely shop at the big 2 grocers but today I needed to go to both(specific item) and the absolute RAGE I had looking at the prices of everyday things. I’ll continue to avoid and shop local and alternatives.

Make no mistake: The widespread outpouring of fury forced this decision.

We just seem to enjoy destroying things.

I'm beginning to suspect that those who run the world are not good people.

I’m sure a golf course would totally rectify this in future droughts.

Crazy. And crazy it’s even being considered.

So it’s NOT Sunday AND dark at 5pm? I mean the not Sunday part is actually good news I guess..

This is a genuine gesture of our appreciation for the help provided to us at a horrible moment in our history here in N.S. It is a thank you even all these years later. Don’t let anyone ruin this story.

On this day in 1918, the Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia received a top-secret coded message from Europe stating that all fighting would cease on Nov. 11, 1918 at 11 a.m. The news leaked, and an impromptu parade and celebration was held in the community.

Equal parts embarrasing and infuriating.

"At least three attendees wore the uniform of the recently formed Second Sons Canada ... Second Sons Canada is run by Jeremy MacKenzie, the founder of Diagolon, who this year filmed himself making a Hitler salute in a video shared on Telegram" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“Never draw more from an aquifer than nature could replenish. That wisdom, once central to survival, has been buried under decades of short-term thinking and political negligence. What we’re witnessing now is the direct result of those choices.”

Fine today. Teens in much of the south & west. Rain (snow at first parts NB) develops tonight. Rain at times heavy Mon night-Tues & strong SE winds Fundy & Atl coasts. Models are indicating chances over 100mm (flooding) along Atl coast. (EU has risk over S Shore. CDN has risk E shore-CB). Stay tuned

At it again. I hope I am not irritating you with these posts, forgive me if I am, but this kindness project is important to me. After having a debilitating illness, all the little things are now the big things. I don’t take things for granted like maybe I did before. Grateful. Thank you. ❤️

Or just don’t go there??

Poilievre prevents more MPs from leaving party by locking doors, swallowing key

U.S. billionaire financier of Cabot Links golf resort in Cape Breton is Trumpian climate denier, Mike Keiser. Now the Cabot Group wants to take West Mabou Beach provincial park for a 3rd luxury golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia. Keiser originally got his hands on the Cabot Links land for $1. 🧵

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.