One of the best things I’ve read on the existential threat posed by the alliance between far-right populists and the tech broligarchy. Instead of standing up for the citizens that elected them, politicians are hoodwinked by the tech bros flimsy promises of technological utopia. on.ft.com/3WbdPy4

News you can use

I, uh, that…it’s….hmm.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

So hard to choose, and tomorrow I’d choose differently, but I’ll almost always choose rock ‘n’ roll R.E.M. over emo R.E.M. youtu.be/559eWB93jW4

Great thread for Canadians or the Canada curious. 🇨🇦

But, in the near term anyway, the same logic doesn’t hold for politicians in an election. It doesn’t matter how small the pool of voters is, or how much the voters hate politicians, or how much the reputation of politics is damaged, it only matters who gets more than the other candidates.

This is all from an article I read many years ago: Businesses learned there’s a risk that if, say, burger chain X says that burger chain Y’s food is full of broken glass, consumers will associate broken glass not just with burger chain X but burgers alltogether, and will move to pizza or something

An analysis along these lines is one of the big differences between politics and business, often (not always) and helps explain why “going negative” is common in the former but rare in the latter. In business, the size of the pie often matters, but in politics it doesn’t.

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

Good stuff globalnews.ca/news/1134908...

In other news…

Whoa guys something seems amiss

👀 #Moderna says all Canadian doses of its just-approved #COVID-19 vaccine update will be manufactured in Canada for the fall rollout. If so, this will be Canada's first COVID shot made domestically... juuust under 5yrs after the Govt's original Nov 2020 timeline. static.modernatx.com/press-releas...

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

One lovely way to remember Terence Stamp is through this documentary, with him narrating the making & impact of the 1994 film "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"

Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? Even in the summer, when it was scorching hot? Why is this? 🧵

Life is long

#HappyNewBrunswickDay #NB #NBDay

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

I don’t think it’s even that big a secret?

Too early in the day for a timeline cleanse, posting anyway

Is there anything better than a cool beverage and some brass music on a beautiful Summer evening? Come on out and see for yourself.

Or, translated from the Latin into English, “40.”

I tried to incorporate an embarrassing amount of this movie into my personality when I was a teenager

We are wildly unprepared to think about and manage water as the precious and limited resource it truly is.

This Canadian is not *not* concerned.

Portrait of Atreides

I confess. I have never even tasted Moon Mist ice cream. As a Nova Scotian, this is a point of shame. But one of its three flavors is banana, and I just can't This article on Canada's ice creams is delicious fun. Organizing travel plans now. Gift link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/330b5b5...

See ya on the 19th 💕

Infrastructure needs more work, not less, road closures be damned.

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

Love this place! #HappyCanadaDay 🇨🇦💕 #CanadaDay2025

Did this for #CanadaDay2025 tomorrow, #HappyCanadaDay to my fellow Canucks, keep your #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

Not bad. More please.

That is, I believe, a rutabaga. A bodega is a large, usually colourful kerchief, often worn on the head or around the neck.

Over the course of today, I’ll be a guest on roughly 10-15 CBC radio stations across 🇨🇦 speaking about young caregivers. Hopefully this helps get the word out about these amazing young people 👇

Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.

i don't know why i find the title so funny

This approach works on me more often than I’d like to admit.

I wonder what would happen if we banned pundits from using vague umbrella terms like "The Left" and "The Right" for a week and they were forced to actually grapple with the real organizations and individuals driving the political and media agenda.

a.co/d/c5a3vWs My book 💕

This is sort of the best version of social media, where you have two smart people share their knowledge in a reasonable and insightful way. Both threads are worth your time.

Power, passion, and place — In this recent Saltscapes story, I look at the resurgence of interest in the poetry of Maritime great Alden Nowlan. This one is an Atlantic Journalism Awards finalist in the Arts Reporting category.

Born on the Miramichi, Brett Somers was

Meanwhile…

THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S OFFICE HAS ONE JOB. ONE.