Light in a dark time.

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.

Au moins on rigole. « Deux minutes et 18 secondes : voilà l’économie de temps que feraient en moyenne les milliers d’automobilistes de la grande région de Québec avec le corridor retenu par le gouvernement Legault pour le troisième lien, selon une étude. » ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217...

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

NEW: This opinion piece in today’s Washington Post is one of the most important it has ever published. Shadi Hamid on the urgency of calling the Gaza crimes what they so patently are: a genocide. I don’t like violating paywalls, but make no apology for doing so for this. It’s essential.

Il est beaucoup question d'outils à délaisser pour réduire nos émissions de GES. Les faits: le monde se dirige vers un réchauffement de plus de 3 °C. Cela provoquera une explosion des coûts de l'alimentation, en santé et en adaptation, en plus des vies humaines. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

Le gouvernement de la CAQ impose le vouvoiement dans les écoles. En tout cas pour un gouvernement qui était contre les toilettes mixtes, soudainement c’est VRAIMENT important les pronoms.

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Apr 25th - The perfect date, it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket. 📽️📅 Miss Congeniality (2000)

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere

How are Americans not protesting daily? Like, the big march a week or two ago was great and all, but it just lasted one day? And Cory Booker did a performative filibuster and…that’s it? That’s the pushback? The whole country is just rolling over and accepting its fate. What a pathetic populace.

imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism

Same, little pepper, same

If Trump is serious (and who really knows), I think there are a few things to keep an eye out for: 1. Creating economic instability in the country to "soften us up" for annexation: tariffs, attacks on debt issuance, limiting correspondent banking relationships (think FATF action) and access to US$

Poll on Canada joining the U.S. as 51st state: Almost nobody wants this in Canada. Just 10%. Regardless of what the X algorithm would have you think Few Americans want it either. 60% have no interest and 32% say it’s up to Canada. angusreid.org/wp-content/u...

This is the correct framing. And it shows how naive Doug Ford is to think he’s involved in a trade negotiation. He thinks Ontario and the US are negotiating as equals. What he’s really negotiating at this point is the terms of our surrender. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This trade war & 51st state talk isn’t just USA vs. Canada. This is the far-right vs. all of us. Help us give MPs a push & an exit plan by signing the petition telling them to stop using X! Leaving X sends a message, & it helps us build community in better spaces. www.antihate.ca/mps_stop_usi...

"Roughly one-third of US auto parts suppliers said they would move production outside of the US if 25% tariffs on Canada & Mexico stay in place for six months.... Nearly a quarter...said they would cut or delay investments if tariffs lasted just a month" buff.ly/KX7Od5W

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Backstop to prevent invasion of Canada, Panama and Greenland submitted to the US congress by rep Magaziner with 8 co-sponsors, all Democrats www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Got mad, did another thing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We’re going to end up with nukes and a republic and down a national hockey hero out of this mess.

Absolute 100% required reading in re Big Balls and the Federal payments systems and [waves hands around] all this paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...

A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

ENQUÊTE | Une analyse de Pivot met en lumière les nombreux biais systémiques dans la couverture médiatique de la guerre d’Israël à Gaza. #polmtl #polqc #medias #genocide #palestine #israel La première partie de notre enquête, par Sam Harper, à lire sur Pivot 👇 pivot.quebec/2025/02...#polmtl

I was on @johnivison.bsky.social's podcast : -I take Trump's 51st state threat seriously but not literally -Canada should diversify but geography means we have no choice but to manage US relations; we should offer a grand bargain on trade/defence/security nationalpost.com/opinion/ivis...

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

A physicist suggests that we fix climate change with a 50 Gigaton nuclear bomb. This isn’t a joke. And I think it might actually work. A brief summary of this and other improbable physics fixes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGPK...

put it in the chyron hall of fame

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

Good thread; my work has a bit to say about this. First, the constant rebranding/redefinition of the in-group and out-groups is a critical element of extremist ideology. Extremist is grounded on a crisis caused by out-groups, which the in-group must solve through hostile action. 1/x

This is a really interesting explainer of Donald Trump’s negotiating style in business and why it will backfire when he tries to apply it to running a country. By professor David Honig. Worth a read.