The craziest thing about the madness about Greenland is that the only reason Trump wants it is to make the US look bigger on maps. All the other stuff about how they have resources or they're in a critical position for shipping lanes or whatever is post hoc rationalization. He wants flag big on map.

It is not an accident that virtually all societies throughout human history have tried to limit (or even outright ban) gambling. Gambling has a destructive effect on any society where it is widespread. It does weird things to our brains.

Hmm, seems bad. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

As feckless as Starmer is, at least the media in the UK is pressing this issue. Has a single outlet gotten a comment from Canada's Minister of AI on this? Does Evan Solomon even do anything other than broker art sales?

Cowboy Bebop

If you write fan fiction about mythical figures from Greek history getting together, and you swap one of the people out of the pair for someone new, and then later you swap the other person out of the pair for someone new, is it still the same couple? This is what we call the Ship of Theseus.

The cities that built the most new housing consistently saw the biggest price drops in older rental units. What can it mean?!?1? www.statesforum.org/january-book...

With homicides and violent crime plunging in cities across the country, I can't wait to read all the encomia to blue city governance! 🦗

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.

I think one thing that makes peoples' social media experience worse than it needs to be is the idea that it's impossible - or even immoral - to just ignore people who insult you. But most of the time you really can and should just ignore them (plus block, mute, close the app for a bit, etc.).

TIL that a deepfake nude ban, sponsored by none other than Ted Cruz, was signed into law last May www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.

If you screenshot a Matt Walsh tweet you should get hurled into space by a comically large trebuchet.

Goodreads has a ton of fake quotes for a website ostensibly about being proud of reading books. Then A.I. factwashes it because it’s just mindlessly regurgitating the existing misinformation it’s been fed with no awareness of context or intent.

If the government wasn't asleep at the wheel, I'll bet you could get all parties to agree to quickly pass legislation banning "nudify" apps in Canada.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

Been reading Thirty Below, which is a fascinating book, and frequently serves as a reminder of how recently in our history women were barred from participating in many aspects of public life (women weren't allowed to run in the Boston Marathon until 1972!).

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Imagine if Canada had a Minister for AI. Maybe that person could have something to say about this. Alas.

Why does CBC Gem have ads now? They’re a public broadcaster and I already pay for these shows through my taxes.

Coming this fall: Julius Caesar hijacks an airplane full of criminals and flies it towards Rome in … RubiCon Air. (Featuring Nicholas Cage as Pompey.)

Was given a board game that came with some minis for Christmas, so I decided to do some painting.

This seemingly widespread idea that the invasion of Venezuela marks a sudden collapse of the "rules-based international order" rather than a continuation of it is absurd. I am begging people whose job is to cover politics to learn just a little bit of history. Or even, like, remember a few years ago

LOL, nothing more perfectly Globe and Mail than writing an editorial that references ancient Greek history to explain why Trump's invasion of Venezuela means Canada has to build more pipelines.

Both sets of classic jerseys in this COL/CAR game are beauties.

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

“Grok apologizes for-“ The hell it does. Do you also think your toaster is deeply sorry for starting an electrical fire? What are we talking about.

Canada’s response has shown why we need the NDP: Poilievre applauds Trump. Carney's government cannot muster a single world of criticism. Whatever you think about Maduro, Canada cannot be an accessory to this blatant violation of international law.

Next stop on the War Tour: Trump to Fox: “Claudia Sheinbaum is a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. “She’s not running Mexico — the cartels are running Mexico. “Something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

This is all obviously horrific, but people acting like this is some major break or escalation from how US foreign policy has operated under previous presidents . . . come on, man. Read a book.

Just thinking for no reason at all about how Trump placed sanctions on a Canadian judge who authorised an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan, cutting her off from the international banking system.

Welcome to all the new followers who I assume are fleeing Twitter. I hope you’re ready for a lot of posts about rock climbing.

All these stories (and I've seen several today) are all citing Grok as a "source", but like all LLMs it is just producing statistically probable text, it does not have any idea what the humans who work at Twitter are doing to the code, or whether they are doing anything at all.

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

I genuinely don't know what to say to anyone who still has a Twitter account at this point. In addition to the owner being a Nazi, it's increasingly a hub for people creating and spreading images of child abuse.

there’s even a community note on posts about this saying that grok’s statements aren’t reflective of the company … ??? we are just shrugging away what should be a global outrage

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

I was once told that I have the perfect voice for hosting game shows, and I’m still not sure whether it was a compliment or an insult.

Me seeing people talking about how they read 100 books last year: 😵‍💫 Me thinking about how many books I could have read in the time I've spent playing Final Fantasy 14: 🧐💡

Congratulations to everyone's email inbox. You made it through the end-of-year fundraising push, and now you'll get a reprieve from receiving an email approximately every seven minutes reminding you that this is YOUR FINAL CHANCE to earn 2025 tax credits.

This product should be removed from the market by regulators immediately.

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Because I think it's important to always believe in the possibility of things getting better, I have faith that 2026 will finally be the year we get the one thing that could heal our fractured planet: Dark Cloud 3.

To close out the year, I'm re-sharing my lists of things I enjoyed this year. So here are my ten favourite games and twenty favourite albums released in 2025.

No one’s ever back with another one of those block rocking beats any more.