you studied defense procurement, seapower, sociology of the military......but its secondary to the fact that a likely dying old man has been hypnotized by the mercator projection into wanting greenland

@rolandparis.bsky.social is bang on about Canada's approach to Trump: "Now, if we speak up, we put our economic security at risk, but if we retreat into silence, we risk losing the very international norms that protect our sovereignty, along with a sense of who we are.”

It's always fun to accidentally cause a longform post.

Gatebox Returns, lmao

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People really need to start boycotting news agencies that decide to become vatniks for imperialism.

i completely agree that this is the key problem with Bluesky discourse right now: The Circumstances are genuinely toxic right now. log off. go scream at an inanimate object. dig a hole. continue digging until you've got a burrow. hide in the burrow. do not bring your phone

This completely. I grew up surrounded by migrants in my family and communities, and find the discussion in the UK, US and EU that reduces fascinating people into mere fuel for an economic machine disgustingly dehumanising👇🎯

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.

Did Heated Rivalry spill into the World Juniors this year, or does someone at CBC need to have a talk about phrasing?

For some reason work music today wandered over to doom metal so: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFfZ...

It's so embarrassing to be an American these days: "In a late-night Truth Social post, the president announces that the Danish territory is now an American 'protectorate.'" 🙄

Guitar is a mid-range instrument and mid-cut tones very rarely sound good.

I said this as a reply but it is worth putting on main:

somehow, Defence Scheme No. 1 returned

Anyway this should probably be self evident by now but people really would benefit from punching in the Japanese for whatever IP they're fans of and following some artists to add some content diversity to your feeds

I'm taking this as an invitation to post more esoteric industrial metal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20...

1. London's historical smog was from burning coal to heat and cook 2. 1960s-80s films look like that because the air was that polluted 3. The first faucet to use a combined cold and hot water outlet was invented in New Brunswick 4. Rome had hydraulic mining techniques 5. Iceland was mostly forested

And that goes for the Canadian response as well: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please share: looking for postdocs to work on the theory/ concepts of multiple factor impacts.

wccftech.com/nvidia-to-br... lol if true.

The rules of the international order benefit the powerful, but they are essential to the relatively smaller states. We are all worse off with with their loss, but the weaker will miss them all the more.

It is also threatening Denmark's, Colombia's, and Cuba's sovereignty. It has previously threatened Canada's and you can be sure it will do so again. Maduro was an authoritarian unworthy of any sympathy, but the US is embracing lawlessness. Failure to oppose that now only invites further violations.

Canada's response on Venezuela is both right, and wrong. It is right to call for all parties to adhere to international law, but the problem is that the US clearly is violating it. Canada needs to be explicit about this, because the US is not just violating Venezuela's sovereignty.

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

I have one specific quibble with this article, which I already reposted from Andrew: Instead of arguing that a new oil pipeline is a "national imperative", spinning up new industries in oil-dependent places to reduce our vulnerability should be the imperative. A pipe to a harbour can be blockaded.

Refreshingly clear-eyed editorial in the Globe and Mail: Venezuela's fate is a warning for Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

there's too much to cover here. See this, which I promise is more than just a hot take hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

In plain speak, this reaction would be translated as えーちょっと

i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized

This is part of a bigger trend of the political valence of oil disconnecting from the actual economics of O and G. I keep telling people to do a little humorous anthropology and read the industry sub Reddit. Half the posts are joking that the industry boosters are morons or old and out of touch.

I have apparently finally managed to get the youtube algorithm to start suggesting random Japanese rock and metal bands successfully, so, today in that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__2... The 80s are alive (complimentary).

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On some level, this website becoming practically unusable without raising my blood pressure is an extremely bad (for the world) cosmic gift to me.

European and Canadian politicians tomorrow when they get asked to comment on this

This is a worst case scenario. It's as likely that Trump is just bluffing or does a minor hit that doesn't change much in Caracas But that what were once considered wildly scifi scenarios for the whole Western Hemisphere are becoming plausible should profoundly worry the EU and the wider world too

I'm going to bed but a lot of people on this website are making statements tonight that have good odds of aging badly because you couldn't allow yourself to sit in uncertainty. I think it's a good idea to reflect on why you feel compelled to react in real time to a thing you have no control over

not now, Moby Dick bot

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If you're a normal person taking bathroom or makeup selfies bc you feel cute, you should just stop. Return to tradition, share it with your friends on group texts. Any public photo is now fuel for the Porn Machine. If your career/hobby involves sharing pics of yourself, it just sucks.

I feel for the people who post their selfies and discover, instantly, weirdos using grok to pornify them. Had a hunch where this was going in 2021 and stopped posting pics of myself/any pics/details about family. But if you're, say, a cosplayer who can benefit from a big audience, you're screwed.

The one good thing to happen in 2020 finally has a video about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgQ...

With which professors, at which (oversaturated, underfunded, understaffed) universities, for which jobs? Lots of Canadian press pointing at this without looking at the actual case in the country.

Finished Dispatch tonight. Game good.