Other than Trump saying so, is there any evidence that Venezuela is under US control right now? Everybody on here seems to be taking his word for it but nothing in today’s events suggests that is the case.

A spicy thought: There are a multitude of reasons that running a country like a company is a lousy idea but one of the most paramount is that in the post Jack Welch era, most of the people who run companies are absolutely terrible at running companies.

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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

I was all set to be “ah I see the scolds of Bluesky are at it again” and then I watch this abomination.

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I bought a Mac so I could use Vellum. If you create ebooks, it will relieve your life of HUGE amounts of stress. If it’s on sale today, and you’ve got the cash and the inclination, GO GET IT. 😄

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You do absolutely have to hand it to Yamamoto.

What a painful loss. So many things had to go exactly wrong down to that bat breaking.

Well this is stressful.

The winning run on the third pitch of the game

I have never seen a team get two homers in the first three pitches before.

Dammit

Just get a grand slam already Lukes I need to go to bed

This game, man.

L.A. remains a great team but all those pundits saying they were going to walk all over the Jays not looking too good right now.

But honestly as delighted as I am to see the Jays go to the Series that was a brutal way to lose for Seattle. Of course it was going to be a brutal loss for either team at this point but still.

World Series!

Urgh

5 outs…

Let’s goooo Blue Jays!

Urrrgh is this what being a Leafs fan feels like c’mon Jays.

blue jays fans rn

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

Well there go all the tech companies…

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I mean as crackpot as this is I also feel the need to point out that these guys don’t know much about organ transplants. They don’t make you immortal! The immunosuppressants have side effects and you can’t just keep transplanting.

For the first time in my life I am being impeded in my work because the org chart is down. Not because a reorganization is underway but because the host is not connecting. Sigh.

We absolutely do not need to “remove the power” from this word. Naziism is evil.

I mean, what did you think was going to happen in a world where ATS means you need to hit all the keywords for a job to get a resume looked at by a human and you have to submit hundreds of resumes to get an interview?

There’s too much news, can it slow down and let me catch up?

It’s a little surreal watching students get tested on material I wrote a decade ago. Like my old opinions coming back to haunt me. Mostly, though, it’s the recurring sense that this isn’t the best way to teach this stuff.

“Uncontrolled Reentry” is right up there with “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” as a good name for a book about Musk.

Uhhhh……..

Biden and the people around him should have recognized earlier than they did that he shouldn’t have tried for a second term, it might or might not have changed the outcome, and nobody but the terminally media-brained will care in 2028. Also I hope his treatment goes well.

This is exactly the problem. If AI can do the work of a junior team member, it still needs to be supervised and managed—so how do you teach that?

If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages

The most recent retweet from the new pope is 👀.

Still time for Pope Lando II!

Habemus papam.

Pollievre losing his seat is the kind of thing you expect to see in a landslide election, which this was not. A weird campaign leads to weird results.

It is not Prime Minister-elect Carney. It is not Prime Minister-designate Carney. In this case, it's simply Prime Minister Carney.

“Prime Minister Carney” is the correct usage since he's currently in office.

Please note that if you use "prime minister elect" to refer to Mark Carney, a Canadian constitutional scholar will come to your home and smash your windows.

Oh for God's sake, I thought I was being hyperbolic

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