Richard Pierpoint was enslaved for two decades before he gained his freedom. He then fought for the British and Canadians through two wars with the Americans. youtube.com/shorts/PCn1U...

I dunno, man. I kind of think the depiction of Chomsky as having a naively trusting nature does not gel with the guy who wrote Manufacturing Consent, Failed States, and Hegemony or Survival.

Do Americans not understand what global disdain for U.S. media is going to do to their beloved cultural hegemony?

Every level of government and every elected official in Canada should stop using X. Bravo, NB. Cc @wgreaves.bsky.social

The president of the US posing memes of one of his predecessors and his wife being apes feels like a thing the news should be covering but anyway here's another debate about whether DEI is bad

Thank you, Premier Holt. Excellent decision. Hopefully this example will motivate journalists, institutions and other governments to reconsider the moral cost of supporting a website that shrugs off child exploitation and gutter racism.

There is a possible future where shops make more of their own software, but enterprise development teams would need to be a lot more serious about the quality of what they do. If you don’t ship product to external users, quality work is mostly optional today.

Perhaps Canada should update its U.S. travel advisory if this is the advice the most famous and privileged Canadians are getting.

If Americans want their country to survive they should take this excellent advice.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

Parties can't actually be trusted with nominations. EC should run them.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Brother, I have pitched your outlet on this for half a decade.

Rotten to the core.

Like I said, I’m just glad Chomsky found someone he loved as much as Pol Pot. I worried he might never love again.

What I’m getting from this latest dump is that you can just assume any household name in business, media, or politics is one of these guys.

Yes. Code that is going to have more than a one-day lifetime has to enter the codebase at the pace of comprehension, not the pace at which the machine can shit it out. Any faster and you’re mostly kidding yourself until the bill comes due.

It’s deeply disturbing that those named in the Epstein Files, many of the world’s most powerful, including the US president and the richest person alive, still move freely in society and retain their positions of power. What a horrible world we live in

An inescapable win condition for Tories going forward is creating distance from MAGA. Poilievre is fatally tainted in this respect I think.

Schumer and Jeffries negotiating to limit the number of journalist arrested by the Department of Justice each year to a maximum of 20.

It is in the interests of everyday Canadians that the government’s travel advisories be accurate even if they make big men in other counties mad. Does seem like a basic test of the seriousness of our independent policy direction.

woke 2 is gonna be LIT

Thinking about Armored Core VI Rusty

“Sure they’re helping against fascism, but let’s wait for the real test: whether or not they correctly ascribe historical change to materially-rooted class conflict”

Give it all back to Woz.

New US tourism ad just dropped.

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Canadian Forces helping with snow clearing counts to our NATO spending targets.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

All this is sort of amazing to me. No question in my mind that Poilievre needed a lot of skill plus strategic and tactical smarts to put JT in a box and set up a showdown he was sure to win, but when conditions changed he turned into an empty suit instantly.

how come John Titor never warned us about any of this

we should expel the ambassador for this, not even joking

Nobody will want to hear this but I think slow development of good LLM UIs plus light requirements for the most popular use cases may end up reducing the value of cloud LLM APIs a lot. To zero, potentially. Which is not to say it’s a dead-end, but you don’t need a 600b monster to summarize an email.

mesh radios gotta be shouted out more (and also need to get more beginner friendly), the government shouldn't be able to track us just because we want to exist in modern society

Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.

Parker is quite empathetic & gentle in the piece. Not me. I find the passivity discussed in the piece *utterly damning* -- of US institutions, US leaders, and the US people. Non one wants to just say it, but Trump has exposed this country as hollow, callow, spoiled, & ignorant.

Allen Institute is doing cool things.

It might occur to someone these chyrons are exactly the "signs in the window" Carney just told everyone to take down

This is exactly why the relationship between Canada & US is forever changed & ruined. Even if Trump goes, there's an entire establishment of Dems & Republicans who barely raised objection to so much of it. There's nothing left to trust.

If you haven’t checked it out lately, AI-assisted software development has reached a point where slightly technical people can produce useful local apps. A revolution in personal productivity on the scale of the advent of VisiCalc IMO.

Exactly this. Remember the Ford CEO grinning onstage while Trump called Americans garbage? Not a moment of hesitation.

Read this excellent piece. Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan. Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists. Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.

big business guys for instance. maybe half of them are just pro-Trump but the other half are looking down the barrel of potential extreme ruination and going "I can't see anything" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/big-busine...

This might be a wild idea but I think we need to admit that the Emperor has no clothes.

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

The shocking cowardice of virtually all the famous and elite parts of American civil society is going to leave an indelible mark, whatever else happens.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

Going all-in to the point of preemptive layoffs on unproven tech like this is so obviously dumb that you’d have to be a corporate executive or fancy consultant to think it is a good idea.

The kind of respectful, dignified content you get on the primary channel of public communication for the CBC and the Canadian government.