Now here's a guy who saw the light

No, you cannot fool me. You are not carrying any suitable soul gems.

Failure to retain promising companies and attract global talent has thrown the UK’s science and technology sector into a crisis, a UK Parliament committee has warned. cen.acs.org/policy/uk-sc... #chemsky 🧪

Green Line test never lies 😭

*Barack Obama voice* Are you gonna eat that?

She looks like Jared Kushner bro

I'd like a beaker of sweet cider and a big pastie, a shrimp one; after that I think I'd go for a piece of hot preserved plum crumble, with sweet nutmeg cream poured all over it.

Documentarians are people who eat pdfs

imagine the first caveman who realized he could paint his clan rival as a weak, inferior gatherer of berries while drawing himself as the stronger and more bountiful provider of reindeer meat and hides

I know the conventions are what they are but I think this is actually what you would call "answering" a question rather than "raising" one

wreck of the edmund fitzgerald is a wikipedia song, which is probably why bluesky millenials like it so much

Some of us think there is nothing cooler than a muddy guy with a musket. russet coated captains, things of that nature

Few.

JUSTIN TRUDEAU: You know, I was something of a "dark horse" myself when I led the Liberal Party of Canada to a dramatic come-from-behind victory in 2015 over Stephen Harper's Conservatives and Tom Mulcair's NDP, forming the first Liberal majority government since 2000 KATY PERRY: cool

Started watching blade 2 and said in the first couple of minutes "man I wouldn't even mind if they did the vampire nightclub thing again" and man was I not disappointed

Explaining my "John Yogurty" costume concept to my wife to new levels of bemusement

I don't really understand the pro-Lansdowne 2.0 case in any way that doesn't just boil down to the sunk cost fallacy tbh

I've agreed to join your cause.

I don't understand why people indulge themselves in this. It's not funny. It's not cute. It obviously helps normalize the idea. So much damage has been done by media people wanting to feel a little frisson of naughtiness over the last decade.

Interesting Ottawa thought exercise - Jim Watson loved parts of the job (the parts where he wasn't being criticized for making decisions), Mark Sutcliffe seems to me to be very checked out

There is nothing like sticking your head under the bath tap and blasting it with cold water on a hot day. being bald rocks

Happy launch day to CCI's new report, Building at Scale, about how innovation can help solve Canada's housing crisis! We have to break out of the vicious cycle - unaffordability and low productivity in construction - by going from artisanal to industrial www.canadianinnovators.org/content/buil...

i have a black walnut tree in my new backyard and i thought, oh how fun, im going to collect and process all these black walnuts. lessons learned!

frantically googling

My unironic pitch that makes people mad: turn the central experimental farm into a dense, transit oriented missing middle neighbourhood

apple google and meta proud sponsors of the epstein ballroom

Big W for God Emperor Tobi

we are so back

ICYMI: ThinkOn, Hypertec Group, Aptum, and eStruxture have teamed up to keep data under Canadian control with a sovereign cloud initiative.

let's go mariners love da mariners

i love and have always loved the seattle mariners base ball team

Oh yeah, pick two birds, sure. Fuck off Kingston. What a little kid move. This is why you're a third tier city.

Sánchez came to power in 2018 as a dead man walking. He has only ever led wobbly minority coalitions. Yet he has built a strong left-leaning project rooted in its own achievements: public investment, secure work, social openness. The result is a remarkably resilient government and a booming economy.

Macron won near-total power in 2017 (presidency + legislative dominance). He gave grand, sweeping speeches - but sought his majorities to the right, while the horizons of his project became gradually smaller. Today's France is marked by social unrest, political instability and a troubled economy.

There's a fascinating case study to be done on the different strategies of Macron and Sánchez. Both emerged, against the odds, from centrist milieux in the mid-2010s to lead their countries since 2017/18. But their fates are totally different.

Dagoth Ur would be considered a moderate in today's GOP

There's a Nash Equilibrium here too - if you think that the scaling hypothesis is both true and the dominant effect here, your competitors buying infrastructure compels you to try to beat them.

Do read the story. The potential mismatch between $ capital needs and the useful life of the resultant physical capital stock is the central conundrum here?

This is a great story with a big takeaway IMO. What characterizes AI investment is exceptionally high capex needs (like railways or grid) but with one big component— semiconductors—obsoleting/depreciating exceptionally fast (unlike RR or grid). Chip Transit Gloria Mundy www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

politics and the pen baby!! great to see @vassb.bsky.social and many other fine individuals. (buy the book!! At the Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada's Corporate Welfare Bums, available wherever fine books are sold!)

Well, I should hope so!

i thought he was doing OK - not amazing, but OK - until I got the Henry Kissinger Star Wars bit

Yes, the Fields of Kummu are a most holy place indeed.

hotel for work trip to toronto is right next to congee queen, fuck yeah

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

at the beginning of this year I would have said that the big US edges in any kind of long competition with China were 1) fundamental science and innovation leadership, 2) rule of law, 3) reserve currency, and 4) immigration. woops.

New Paper out in Development & Change (open access): "Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch-up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism" with @lindsaywhitfield.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @devandchg.bsky.social