Love the photo. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The great Lise Doucette hosts BBC Newshour and covers the Venice Biennale and The Booker Prize in the culture segment. Refreshing change from the usual obsession with obscure music.

An abrupt end to the MET's annual celebration of childish, ugly, stupid, status-obsessed, attention-starved aesthetics.

So THAT's what the kids are all saying! Six-Seven, Six-Seven is just chat slang for 86-47. Guess they're going to have to arrest everyone under 12 in America.

At the very least, AI is weaponizing the Bullshit Industrial Complex.

Seems to me her taste in husbands is the bigger issue.

This probably suits Trump just fine. The American right loves doing business with military dictatorships. See Franco, Stroessner, Ayub Khan, Park, Mobutu, Suharto, Idi Amin, Marcos, Pinochet, Zia, Saddam, Mubarak, Musharraf, Sisi. Not to mention the Shah.

Trump can't even find "ways to come together" with most Americans. And his only "special relationship" is with himself.

So they're Trump-baiting now? Makes sense, use his lack of self-control against him (and the market).

STFU!

We know exactly what is going on: kleptocracy. And the fact that it's being done in plain sight by MAGA makes it OK, apparently.

Even Iran has adopted Trump's childish language about conflict. Apparently, war is now a card game ... and 80 is the new 13.

Great, funny piece. If you don't understand the appeal of spectator sports, this might help.

Gross...

Let's hope this is a sign of the times.

Maybe a "Can't be Trusted" message would resonate more with voters than "No Kings".

So Trump is openly threatening to kill whole civilizations now. How exactly is this not a war crime? Sociopath or Sucker? Or both?

If America leaves these cretins in charge, the middle powers will need to step up. What would that even look like?

I was never anti-American before, but putting guys like this in charge of anything is way beyond the pale.

“I know I’ve been trying to build trade alliances with middle powers across the globe, but this is more important,” Carney shouted. Damn straight.

Basically, Minnesota is closer to Canada than America.

Given how ubiquitous the Dunning-Kruger effect is, we need to check what we think we know before forming opinions. Journalists could start by asking basic questions: "How big is Greenland, Donald?", "What's the definition of "tariff", "Is the the 'free market' free?" 'Why does anyone need billions?"

Nice to see Canadian media giving this the attention it deserves... "we will immediately give your seat to someone much cooler, possibly Magneto, or that Ice King Guy from the last, best season of Game of Thrones." says Trump.

It's great that Carney said out loud what has become clear to everyone in the last few decades: that the world order as it stands is something of a sham. What he didn't dare say is that any political system that can be led by an ignorant, bullying, corrupt clown like Trump is not fit for purpose.

feeling "the absence of presence... the endless time of never coming back"

Dumbscaling 101.

Nobody needs billions, or billionaires.

Project Kontinuum, a “United Nations” approach to the problem of media.

The Idaho Stop Rule for bikes: Treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs. Makes sense to me. #cycling

"Europe’s liberals are mandating assimilation programs for immigrants in the name of secularism; bolstering the military in service of European cooperation; restricting migration in order to protect tolerance; defying European legal precedents in the name of preserving the larger European project."

AI paranoia is often just more hype that overestimates the power of the tech. But huge insidious risks WILL come with blind adoption. See: "Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development."

Let's be truly Canadian about this. If you try to see everything, even sports, as a non-zero-sum game, you realize that everyone who watched the post-season got to see some superb athletes do some amazing things. And the players all got very well paid to play a ball game. A win all around.

"The invisible Hand of Big Tech" - Brazilian groups are leading the way in criticism of Big Tech Platforms. As good a use of google translate as I can think of.

Bigger = Worse is increasingly becoming a good rule of thumb.

Populism is more about thinking style than content.

Pissed that the terrific writing and political drama of the first 5 episodes of season 3 of The Diplomat takes a cheesy turn towards soap opera in episode 6 and beyond. Why does this always happen in mainstream American TV?

Sounds like a stupid conspiracy theory, but I wouldn't put it past big media to have concocted all this to reassure an increasingly distrustful readership. Or past the administration to throw them a bone for being good boys and girls. It smells of "I'm shocked, shocked!..."

Don't want to be spoilsport, but come on, isn't this a little bit too on the nose?

WTF?

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"a story of a Democratic establishment cynically weaponizing identity politics to stop a Sanders-led populist takeover of the party, a tactic Democratic elites have utilized frequently to protect themselves." Sounds pretty close to the mark.

Foroohar rightly argues that "most Americans really have no idea what socialism is, given that much of what passes for it in the US would be considered middle of the road in much of Europe."

At 80, Douglas Hofstadter is still helping us see the world's patterns in fresh - and fundamentally human - ways. Take that, #AI.

I loved talking to Signal's @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, who is such a consistent, clear voice of sanity (and always a great interview). We talked about (of course) SignalGate, what AI means for Signal, why tech bros continue to be such a disappointment, and much more. Read, listen, etc!

Things have gotten much easier for big tech: now they just need to hack Trump's vanity (a big but very simple system) to get permission to hack everything and everyone.

What will happen when the bullshit industrial complex bursts is anybody's guess. But it won't be pretty. Best case scenario: the "AI" hypesters shut up and startups focus on sustainable, real-world uses for high powered statistical pattern recognition. Worst case: nostalgia for the 1930s.

Nature has been in bed with big AI since at least 2017. It has huge leakage between its marketing and editorial offices and much of the AI "research" it pushes is riddled with hype and bullshit reframing of statistical data processing as "intelligence".

This is great, simple messaging with wide appeal. We are allies, not rivals.

Albanese won't be bullied...

The Globe has a "time use" reporter... ohhh the irony.