"Feel hopeful in knowing that after strip-mining the only habitable world we have, the billionaires may build themselves a second one somewhere colder, lonelier, and even easier to keep away from the rest of us."

This is a wonderful article exploring home, democracy, faith/no faith, in a healthy, pluralistic way. Very helpful. h/t Grace Y. Kao religionnews.com/2025/11/03/w...

And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....

Parenting a 7 yr old means I’m now intimately familiar with the K Pop Demon Hunters…and we had a great time at the big screen theatre doing-a-long showing today.

On a candy mission.

Overt racism masked (well just playing lip service) under language of dignity. Garbage.

LLMs hallucinate because they are trained to guess, not admit ignorance. Standard benchmarks reward confident fakes. A preprint suggests a fix, but this creates a dilemma: an AI that says "I don't know" too often may lose its users. #MLSky

Looks like the kids are going back to school tomorrow…and all it took was the violation of collective rights and the further erosion of our democracy.

Author unknown. But correctly well stated.

What a fantastic first game of the series! youtube.com/shorts/CURfR...

I’m not a conservative (big or small c), but this is a very thoughtful article from one I thought was quite good on Alberta politics. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A very helpful and informative interview from the standpoint of labour on the Alberta teachers’ strike. youtu.be/h8j-LpHVlF0

I’ve never felt more connected to the first sentence of a book.

Going to the World Series!

A little municipal democracy to liven my day.

I did not have high stakes heist of Crown Jewels from the Louvre on my 2025 bingo card. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

7 hours at the vet hospital with this guy yesterday. The old guy has IVDD (intervertebral disc degeneration), but he’s home with meds and resting.

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"Charles Taylor understood that delusion and fullness are different sides of a coin. A relationship with a chatbot is not relational – there is no one on the other end. The synthetic agent that affirms every impulse doesn’t represent the divine, but another instance of surveillance capitalism."

This is a beautifully written and thoughtful book so far.

My wife bought The Handmaid’s Popcorn Maker

An interesting history of municipal parties in Alberta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I got to see the great Daniel Lanois tonight. What an incredible concert.

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The teachers’ strike is entirely of the UCP’s making due to their efforts to undermine public education. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a really clear yet meaty interview with @mark-bray.bsky.social about the actual tactics and history of antifa movements. Will be sharing with students! www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

Spinoza indicting our times. (Theological-Political Treatise, ch. 3 [1]).

Incredible job opportunity at VST: vst.edu/about/job-op...

This one hits hard. A trailblazer and incredible human. www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

Contemplative and peaceful. emergencemagazine.org/feature/brea...

Climate is doing interesting things to jays. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

“In a major surprise, the court ruled that the 70-year-old will be incarcerated despite his intention to appeal.” America could learn something re: its felon-in-chief. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...

Listen to climate scientists. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

I love watching these guys live.

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

Happy first day of autumn. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

You don’t say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Pope is exactly right. No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the vast majority struggle to just survive — trying to put food on the table, pay rent and afford health care. We can and must do better.

H/t @aleach.ca

This spring @pewresearch.org asked people if they were happy with how democracy is working in their country. In the US, just 37% were satisfied. Countries with higher #s: Sweden 75% India 74% Indonesia 66% Australia 61% Germany 61% Canada 60% Mexico 51% UK 48% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Well this is terrifying. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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This is what happens when Catholics don't learn/read Catholic Social thought. Even the arch conservative usccb has a primer on it if Loyola Marymount management need a crash course : www.usccb.org/resources/Pr...

He’s an absolute narcissistic sociopath.

Cardinal Dolan is terrible. He’s little more than a far right culture warrior and always has been.

Professor of European Studies at Oxford says the clock is ticking. www.kyivpost.com/opinion/60302