Or, and I know this is going to sound crazy, but stay with me, how about you just refuse to fund them until the government proposes something systemic that will stop the murders, kidnappings, and concentration camps. Because nothing here will even help a little.

I know that the US treatment of Canada has been lore in the Fallout universe from the very beginning of the very first game. But it still feels very topical to see a Canada-US border with "The Big 51" painted over it in the closing credits. #TeamStef #Fallout

Yeah, yeah. Now is always the most important moment. Next is always the most important decision. Blah blah blah. 🙄 That's not how anything works, though, is it? Things change slowly. It is the constant pressure over time that determines the ultimate new direction. Cultivate pressure.

We'll stop "immigration enforcement" if you give us your voter records? Voter records. That's straight up extortion. Like, they don't even pretend not to be a criminal enterprise, anymore. They have no intention of facing democratic accountability, so they don't care.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

In a perfect world, deaths of protestors for no reason at the hands of ICE would be less frequent, and less predictable. That's not the world we have. Minnesotans have another unwanted opportunity to prove that they are better at democracy than the US government is at fascism.

100% tariffs on Canada if we deal with China? Imagine how much faster our trade would shift away from the US and toward China if that happened. Like rehab for US economic dependency. Don't hate that idea at all.

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

Really impressed with Minnesotans this year. Protests are nice. General strikes are better. Effective resistance is golden. Create friction at every opportunity. Make retreat the path of least resistance. When they react in violence, shame them, and persist.

This is the thing. Canada doesn't live because of the United States.We, like many others, have died for the United States The disrespect, saying that we have done nothing, that we should be grateful for trade wars and threats of annexation. Coming from someone below contempt that you re-elected.

Everything is fine www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

It's almost more surprising that they pretended to care about needing a warrant.

Jesus Christ, AI journalism is so bad right now. Exhibit one, Gizmodo is raving about an article that 'proves' LLMs have a "mathematical limit" and can't possibly do tasks that are too complex. Let's look at the actual paper, shall we? gizmodo.com/ai-agents-ar...

“Exercise commanders had to ask Finnish reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans,” the source said. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them.”

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Trump is literally threatening to invade an ally, then when other allies object he threatens to tariff them, and then he refers to those tariffs as "it's awful what Europe has done to themselves." This is "stop hitting yourself" level shit, but with the global economy. The US must be so proud.

Just saw the last portion of the Passion of Joan of Ark, a silent black and white French art film (perhaps the first art film) from the 1920s, and it was genuinely excellent. Natalie Portman's haircut in V for Vendetta was homage? Wild.

Love #puzzles and #Canada? Want a puzzle you will want to do again, and then give to a friend? A puzzle where the shapes of the pieces is also a work of art? (Zoom in! Check the Alt text!) Absolute winner in our house this year. Getting ready to do it again. www.stumpcraft.com

There should be a magazine that rates individuals and companies on socialist scales. The Sebrof 100 corporations that contributed the most money to governments through taxation each year. The Sebrof 50 CEOs of big firms with the lowest salary spread from their employees. Etc.

I had an experience almost ten years ago that is the reason I pointed my career at computational law, and have been working on §Blawx full or (very) part time ever since. I learned to do legal knowledge representation in logic programming languages. 1/

That dude in the Ford factory called him a pedophile protector in self defense when the President of the United States tried to kill him with a car. The video is too horrific to watch, honestly. The worker is recovering in hospital and lucky to be alive.

Blawx is officially no longer "pre-revenue"! 🎉 Big milestone! But more excited to hear about lawyers having fun using it. Did I make legal knowledge engineering fun for lawyers? Not really. It was always fun. Blawx just makes it easier to learn! 😅 #RulesAsCode #LegalTech

New release of §Blawx tonight, v2.0.2, that fixes a small bug with NLG in explanations. Also, a blog post that illustrates how #RulesAsCode can be used in software development by exposing symbolic AI encodings to developers' agents over MCP. app.blawx.dev/content/usin... #LegalTech

Hey Pod Save America bros: no one in NATO would be stupid enough to go toe to toe with the US militarily in Greenland? True, but irrelevant. The Taliban couldn't and didn't go toe to toe in Afghanistan. But who runs Afghanistan today? You can only torch US good will for a rental. You won't win.

Fuck me. Thank you MN. Everyone else, this is how you fight authoritarianism. Whistles, car horns, cameras and voices. Targeted at the agents of the regime, not just the feel good marches. Protests AND active resistance, in mutual support of one another. That's how you do it. Don't stop.

At a climbing competition the middlest is competing in, today. Two tops on three attempts on the first three routes in the prelim. 🧗Route setting is a little disappointing, TBH. Too easy. Scores will be very crowded near the maximum, and the only slab route had its beta broken. #Climbing

This week is the reason we have the story of the emperor with no clothes. Do not let respect for authority and self-doubt eliminate your ability to tell true from false. Good was murdered. Anyone saying otherwise is trying to sell you clothing invisible to idiots.

If the person abusing you tells you to remain calm, don't.

Anyone calling that self defense should be punched in the face in self defense.

Has anyone ever received a legitimate chat request on this app? It seems exclusively to be a vector for BS.

Not a great start, 2026. Not fucking great.

Good progress on my first #RulesAsCode #LegalTech experiment of 2026. I have a working MCP server, which will soon be available to all Blawx users with a paid subscription. Some of the the raw Blawx responses are too verbose for the context window, though, so that will be the next thing to fix. 1/

Managed to build an MCP server for the first time this holiday break. I have an experiment I want to run to see if coding agents can use (expert validated) Blawx encodings for development and QA tasks, specifically to generate accurate property tests. Genuinely pumped to find out.

Me, last night: "if the plan is to run a country, you leave behind enough people to defend the castle. They aren't going to run Venezuela. That's just some stupid shit the President said because he is demented." Rubio, this morning: We aren't going to run Venezuela. We are going to pressure it.

Made a couple of bug fixes to Blawx, tonight. Thanks to some early users for the help finding them! #RulesAsCode #LegalTech app.blawx.dev/content/chan...

The attack on Venezuela is a security risk for Canada. Sour oil refineries in the US are dependent on Alberta crude, which limited what Trump.was.willing to do with regard to tariffs on Canadian oil. The other good source of sour oil for those refineries is Venezuela. 1/

Uh huh. That tracks. So kidnapping heads of state is how the game is played, now. That shouldn't ever backfire on the United States. 🙄

New Blawg post #LegalTech #RulesAsCode app.blawx.dev/content/upda...

Here's my prediction. Ukraine did not attack Long Beards, and the US did not bomb a dock in Venezuela. Those are lies told by known liars with no independence evidence. At least Putin has the good sense to lie about being the victim of a war crime instead of the perpetrator.

Not a real issue. On the other hand denying gender affirming care to minors affects thousands of people in ways that can never be undone. #ABLeg

So far this holiday season I have made four toques, and the one I finished today for my wife is closest to target. My knitting is finally where it needs to be, and I have a design that works, but I'm still figuring out the ratio of loose fabric size to head size for the specific yarn I'm using. 1/

Hah. They think Newsom is going to be running against Vance. Cute.

Israel is enacting a death penalty, but only for Palestinians. Trump is renaming things after himself in honor of himself, and starting an illegal war with Venezuela. In my home province, gender affirming care for minors is illegal today. Fuck this bass ackwards timeline.

Anyone who has had land expropriated in the US in the last 50 years, be advised that according to the President of the United States, expropriation of that vintage is actually just theft. Evidently he thinks you should just besiege whoever has the property now, until they give it back. 🙄

Hey, Americans. Your president makes me want to puke. He is morally repugnant to decent human beings. And you as a country really seem super OK with it. Just in case you weren't aware. That's the vibe you are giving off. Very chill with the whole evil Nazi bombing Venezuela and cheering murders.

Today I released §Blawx, a hybrid AI web app for #RulesAsCode. Try it for free at app.blawx.dev. #LegalTech

Oh. Ok. That makes more sense. Trump is using the US military to commit war crimes to drive up oil prices and enrich Russia, which like Venezuela, sells a lot of oil to China. That totally tracks. It's not about drugs, or even about Maduro. It's Trump being played by Putin.

Today, the UCP government passed a law in Alberta making it illegal to prescribe gender affirming care to minors, even with parental approval. And before it could even be challenged in court, they used a provision of the constitution that allows them to violate charter rights with impunity. 1/

All of the high priority issues with the new version of Blawx have been resolved. Unless any more show up, it should just be a couple of weeks of final production checklist stuff before it is live, maybe less. From masters thesis to bootstrapped SaaS #LegalTech in under 5 years! 😅 #RulesAaCode

A financial company, which will not be named, yet, is refusing to release my trans eldest's RESP unless they have the university change their name on their records to their deadname. Our answer was (paraphrased) "No other institution required deadnaming. Gross. Go fuck yourselves." #TransRights