This is apparently on the wall at Team Canada’s workout room. Big fan of this. (Alt text for easier reading.)

It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice

Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world' www.thebookseller.com/news/unredac...

Melania reviews on Letterbox are amazing.

Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...

For some locals in Kitimat, B.C., confirmation that LNG Canada burned more gas than planned brings relief — and renewed frustration over the noise, emissions and unanswered questions. @writermjs.bsky.social's latest: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-f... #bcpoli

TikTok's ownership transition isn't off to a great start, but it has more to do with a data center outage and widespread mistrust than any deliberate censorship (so far):

“Letting people talk about utter nonsense as if it is scientifically valid is not being balanced. Factually incorrect positions deserve only ridicule, and they should not be discussed as if they have merit.” thelogicofscience.com/2022/01/14/j...

Thanks to streaming, we’re in the era of Black Hole Movies, a vortex where films go to die. archive.today/26FMc

It's a good day to stop using Hootsuite and tell them why.

Please support Minnesota by donating to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. www.ilcm.org

Vancouver council is back in session today Which means they are once again only providing real-time updates on city business to a single website that's under investigation for child exploitation They've stubbornly defended their approach Which reaches approximately 50 people

Canada is now the food inflation capital of the G7," Dalhousie University Agri‑Food Analytics Lab director Sylvain Charlebois said as Canadian food prices spiked by 6.2 per cent in December 2025. montreal.citynews.ca/2026/01/20/c...

ICYMI: Tech companies are investing billions to quickly construct tons of data centers. But they require huge #s of electricians & plumbers—sometimes 2-4x the membership of a local union shop. I wrote about how all of this is affecting local trade talent on the ground: www.wired.com/story/why-th...

Data Centers Will Consume 70 Percent Of Memory Chips made in 2026, RAM Shortage Will Last Until Until Atleast 2029 As Manafacturing Capacity For RAM In 2028 That Hasnt Even Been Made Yet Is Already being Sold

Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...

Remember when tech companies vowed to do more to stop the flow of disinformation on their platforms? Instead, courtesy of genAI and lax moderation, it's never been harder to discern what's real from what isn't -- especially during breaking news events like today. From @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the United States spend $107 billion per year, including $93B on binoculars, feeders, cameras, and other equipment; and $14B on travel. That’s more than the GDP of New Hampshire.” [probablyinteresting.substack.com]

Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of people in Iceland are Costco members” and “In Sweden, the largest size of Hellmann’s mayonnaise — 600 grams — is called “American size”. [fritinancy.substack.com]

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Happy Mithras.

Billionaires pay less, so we pay more. It has to stop. Add your name to demand Canada’s wealthiest pay their fair share. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/U1Pi3miX

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is silencing SA victims with NDAs. archive.ph/857qb

A growing number of tech companies have found a way to unlock additional (and much-needed) cash: a special purpose vehicle, it’s a legal entity that allows a company to take on a lot of debt without having to hold it on its own balance sheet. Last used before the bank crisis. archive.today/MRlqh

B.C.’s energy regulator has the power to grant exemptions — without notifying the public. Experts are raising the alarm about the process, saying the regulator is playing soft with fossil fuel companies that break rules. thenarwhal.ca/b-c-quietly-...

A Vancouver Landlord Keeps Being Allowed to Evict Tenants. Why? | The Tyee thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Carney’s Pipeline Deal Lifts Up Alberta and Demotes BC to Second-Class Status | The Walrus thewalrus.ca/alberta-bc-p...

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

PSA For you "DEI is bad" people Equity is bad only when it's you with the privilege and you want to keep your position in life If you're screaming about DEI you likely have all the privilege and none of the struggle In a true democracy everyone participates and has rights

Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business. archive.today/94yDh

Great to have @nathangrayson.bsky.social back on the show to understand how video games are part of Saudi Arabia reputation-laundering effort. We also discussed the @aftermath.site refresh that you should definitely check out!

I missed the detail that Mark Carney ditched the luxury tax on private jets, yachts, and vehicles over $100,000 in the budget, though I also can’t say I’m surprised. The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.

Sign the petition to establish policies to safeguard domestic control of media. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

For years, the Liberal Party of Canada has promised to end charitable status for anti-choice organizations like unregulated ("crisis") pregnancy centres. www.bchumanist.ca/antichoicech...

Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them.

The ‘Anti-Woke’ Tax That All Americans Are Paying. “Tariffs are the most obvious example” but also food prices rising due to the immigrant crackdown, rising energy prices bc of the regime’s anti-solar bias. And the tax is flowing into corporate coffers. [theatlantic.com]

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Sinclair Broadcasting Corporation TV stations akl reading thr same script written by corporate headquarters as news. www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

@unocha.org should be investigating this.

It's cool how Nexstar and Sinclair are making the point in real time that it would be incredibly dangerous for any one company to have a monopoly on the distribution of television shows, given the implications for free expression. Unfortunately I think this administration will view that as a plus.

Does the City of Surrey not do any auditing?

We’re being pushed into groups. It makes it easier for us to hate each other.