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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

Cover just dropped. Coming in 2026 from Oxford University Press.

Weissand Effect

In Canada, the 60 Minutes clip about CECOT that Bari Weiss canned was broadcast. @jasonparis.bsky.social‬ captured it. Enjoy. Bluesky only allows 3 minute videos max. I hope this works. 1/5.

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

The United States is broken

Zamboni makes first pass over City of Kamloops' new downtown skating loop #Kamloops

Yes - and as a writer or researcher there are few tasks more annoying than correcting a bunch of errors that you wouldn’t have made in the first place.

Looks like schooling really does causally shift voters to the left. Neat looking work by @danielfiroozi.bsky.social

lol I just saw a clip of his Canadian best friend going on pretty much the same rant about “Liberal racism”

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

When I think about the Canadian TV that has broken out south of the border in the past decade (Schitt's Creek, Sort Of, now Heated Rivalry), not only is it interesting that queerness a key constant, but there is also this unifying theme of human decency at the core of all three.

Trump’s obsession with trade deficits stems from his belief that selling something to someone is equivalent to stealing money from them. His father’s real estate business, selling overpriced apartments, is his frame of reference.

To be honest I think Trump doesn’t even personally grasp the idea of accomplishment, building something yourself. In his mind everyone is always stealing from everyone else, nothing is genuinely created, and you win by stealing the most and forcing people to treat you like you deserved it

Victoria Bc Inner Harbour during Christmas 🎄

“what a year it’s been for all the worst people” sums up 2025 quite nicely

This is very well said. Words matter and who speaks the words matter. When someone in power uses slurs, it really matters.

“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

Learn how to interpret reality challenge: BC-based conservatives. (I have heard the same idea from Ontario-based conservative candidates, to be fair)

JD Vance has made it clear he's on the side of bigotry...

This is the thing for all these questions of people’s rights. The debate is the win for the right.

Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social contra Lindsey @niskanencenter.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/lets-not-g...

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

Honestly I don’t want to watch Jake Paul or Andrew Tate get knocked out by pro boxers. I don’t want to give these shits any more of my attention than they are receiving from typing this post. Call me when Andrew Tate is back in jail for his crimes

Good! Hopefully the Kamloops RCMP will do some enforcement

"Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" Is uite literally what you'd see if coliderbias:

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

The Donald J. Trump CBS News

Canada Geese coming in for a water landing at dusk. #Canadageese #nature #birds #waterfowl #eastcoastkin #westcoastkin

UPDATE: neighbours complain about kids with bikes on sidewalks.

Not sure why but this reminds me of watching Stranger Things for the first time & seeing the gang on their banana bikes. It was an instant warm hug.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

"Generative AI is designed to create things that look real; predictive AI identifies what is real. A misunderstanding that generative systems are retrieving things when they are actually creating them has led to grave consequences"

Canucks are 4 points out if a playoff spot. Make it make sense.

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.