This article is great! It offers a contribution to conceptualisations of "real abstraction" by asking how music helps us come to *feel* exchange value. MORE IMPORTANTLY it genuinely provides an answer to this age-old question:

The division is that Klein is playing a game that only works if he maintains his proximity to power and Coates actually believes in things.

I would frame this differently: Coates is advocating for leading via principles, Klein via polling.

You'd think this comment was about fine-tuning marginal tax rates or something, but no, it is not

World Population Review: 3 stars. Another reboot of well worn themes.

10 years ago, PM Mark Carney delivered his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech, warning that our financial systems were underprepared for what was to come. 10 years later, very little has changed.  If only someone who understood the financial risks of feeding the climate crisis were in power 👀

@mark-carney.bsky.social you are absolutely awful. It's a public service, you ass. @liberalca.bsky.social you were already in a hole, you're just letting Carney bury you.

Instead of taxing the rich to feed his Military Industrial Complex, Carney has decided to literally take food out of the mouths of babes.

"Go fuck yourself" is a perfectly valid response in many situations, but a lot of people can't see that cuz their eyes are swollen shut from the pink eye they got while sniffing Ezra Klein's wet farts

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social shouldn't you be desperate to justify your proposed 3x military spending?

Hide your pigs, lads! Tony's back!

Live look at the magic portrait hanging in Tom Cavanagh's attic:

Richard Branson after turning into both a vampire and a werewolf

AI was invented as a rhetorical-political buzzword, it has remained so & hence nobody was using it, and it still is a buzzword. Its main feature is it’s not commonly understood so one can bamboozle people with it. A term that can plausibly apply to both Prolog & LLMs is inherently useless bollocks.

hey, i'm gonna say more tomorrow, but i'm starting a reading group for "AI skeptics" - it's called "AI Skeptics Reading Group" i am not great at names; please suggest alternatives if you're creative. i'll be sending an email tomorrow, but here are a few things to get you started

Sometimes I make the mistake of forgetting that social media apps with severely limited character counts are places for declarative posturing and not dialogue

I'm not going to read the article because nothing can top what I'm imagining

Solidarity with the postal workers. They are fighting for all of us. #CUPW

Credit where it's due: Hakeem Jeffries asked him to focus on health care and it worked

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Here's a tutorial I like to share when zines come up, easy way to make bigger sizes too.

Joël Lightbound, federal cabinet minister & bitcoin bro: "Sorry, we have to gut Canada Post, it doesn't turn a profit on letters sent coast to coast for pennies, and can't compete with Amazon's poverty-wage gig-work package delivery" #CdnPoli

Portland's at war, T. Against Seattle I think.

Right? “They should break even” Oh, sorry Gord, you thought they’d be profiting from your one dollar to send a letter from Vancouver to St. John?

“The Government has completely rejected the need to diversify revenue streams and expand services, accepting instead Canada Post’s requests for cuts.” www.cupw.ca/en/public-po...

It's good to see that Zach Woods has only become more powerful and based with time.

“They call him ‘the penguin’ can you believe this guy? ‘The penguin’. It’s terrible. It’s terrible. He’s not gonna be flying when we’re done with him, folks”

Bias deep in AI systems. Here we have two white men representing "Canadian" and "American". Behind them, apparently depicting the danger to Cdn travelers to the US, are people with a red flag and a gun burning down a store. The actual advisory is about gender identity markers on passports.

lyft driver is a young kid listening to an AI generated track with no clear end that is just an old weary man saying grind mindset bromides nonstop. deeply poisoned country. which should be in charge of the world btw

Yeah that sounds about right

Man, how many Shopify execs and board members have to expose themselves as out-and-out Nazis before Carney will publicly disavow all the praise he heaped on the company in his book? tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

[snorts rail through rolled-up treasury bill] BRO I AM A GENIUS CHECK THIS OUT:

I'm genuinely struggling to find any daylight between Musk's DOGE and @mark-carney.bsky.social's AI-enabled slashing of the public sector. The AI coup is coming for us too, if we don't stop it. #CdnPoli

Kneecap’s response to Carney government banning rap group from entering Canada. #cdnpoli #kneecap

A deeply important read.

The censorship of art as degenerate and the control of art to align with a nationalist program is a deeply fascist move that the Liberal Party of Canada is deploying.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVy9... @avilewis.ca launched his campaign for the leadership of the NDP this morning with this video containing a strong left populist economic and environmental message.

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seems about right

Canadian antifascists: time for you to de-google and de-Microsoft your life. You don't want ANY products forcibly connected to U.S. big tech in your life, in light of U.S. plans to designate antifascism as terrorism.

I see a surging trade union movement supported by a resurgent federal @ndp.ca. Add a common front of social movements and we could push the Carney-Poilievre alliance off the damaging path they’ve put Canada on. Sec 107 must go! And it’s just the start. #DrawTheLine

Will continue to beat this drum: whenever anyone asks what you want as a gift for birthday/holiday/whatever, tell them the name of a great journalist-owned media outlet and ask for a subscription!

"While Bill C-8 does not explicitly authorize warrantless data access, its broad, secret cybersecurity directives, which allow government officials to compel operators to 'do anything or refrain from doing anything' without oversight, have drawn strong criticism." 👀 ablawg.ca/2025/09/05/s...

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Punishment for encouraging the Liberal caucus to give a standing ovation for Kirk? Or reward?

Welp, time to look for a different email provider again