Back to the future: 1934 ad for electric car charger

Do they DID know that smoking was bad for health in 1934

“Stalin’s method of accusing a fictitious enemy of the crime he himself was about to commit” (Yes, am reading Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism for the first time.)

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Interview with @manongarcia.bsky.social On the Pelicot rape trials in France

This op-ed published in the @nytimes.com by Stephen Witt thoughtfully captures the urgency and complexity of navigating AI's risks, but also my sincere conviction that technical solutions are possible — we still have agency and an opportunity to act. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Super interesting challenge to the current banking regime by Aaron James:

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve

Institutional food policy matters. When it comes to addressing food insecurity, school lunches matter most. But I would be remiss not to note mine and my co-authors' article from Lancet Planetary Health arguing that universities should lead on food sustainability. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“My standing piece of advice for those who live in North America who pine to see the best-practice streets of dozens of places in Europe or want to educate colleagues/friends what’s possible: just go to Montreal. It’s much closer. They really have it all.”

I’m thrilled that my paper “Elicitory Structural Power and Agential Power” has been accepted for publication at 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺. It’s taken over 5y of rejections, so I’m especially pleased. #poliphil #PolTheory #socialphil

An Albertan Tale: “They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits.”

"bike lanes are still used as political scapegoats. But to what end? ...To deflect attention from real government failures – or from the inconvenient truth that bike lanes do not increase traffic congestion?" www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Ontario premier says he was elected by the people of Ontario to remove bike lanes in Toronto put in by the city council elected by the people of Toronto.

Shopkeepers in Montreal ordered to greet clients with “Goeiedag, Bonjour” instead of “Bonjour-Hi.” The truth is in my neighbourhood we actually just say the ambiguous “Allô”

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas" our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

The Digital Tax capitulation has longterm consequences. One is to reduce Cdn bargaining power. Reminder to gov about bargaining power: If A is trying to get B to do X, A can either: threaten: “if you don’t do X, we impose big tariffs” Or: make an offer: "if you do X, we scratch your back” /1

Not only has the language evolved from “based on” to “based off of,” we now have “spaced off” for “spaced out.” So ‘out’ and ‘on’ are out, ‘off’ is in. Or rather: ‘Out’ and ‘on’ are off, ‘off’ is on.

“Don’t find too many slaves”

Selon l’étude, les demandes d’admission d’étudiants internationaux ont chuté de 45,9% dans les universités québécoises. #immigration #enseignement

GRIPP Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award 2025 co-winners: Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social Dates TBA

Co-lauréats 2025 du Prix de l’atelier annuel de théorie politique de Montréal du GRIPP: Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social Dates à venir

“Alchemist Review will use advanced AI capabilities to automatically extract key manuscript insights, including central claims, methodology assessment, reference validation, and research originality… to support OUP's editors in making more informed decisions while reducing administrative burden.”

Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

They called her a mad cat woman and tried to destroy her reputation. Then they dragged her through the courts and tried to destroy her life. But @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is standing tall and continues telling the inconvenient truth. A must see. youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...

Tomorrow I'm joining a @uclopenscience.bsky.social panel, Scaling Up Diamond Open Access Journals along with @theblochian.bsky.social and @abizadeh.bsky.social as part of the UCL Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025. You can book here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

One of the world’s foremost political scientists continues his observations about the breakdown of the USA into a more authoritarian and repressive regime. @adamprz.bsky.social

meanwhile www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Arbitrary incarceration and abuse at the USA border continue, this time Australian ex-cop en route to visiting her husband, a USA army lieutenant.

I'm in @canadiandimension.bsky.social with some ideas about rebuilding Canada's NDP: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Social housing with a fire station, nixed this time but maybe not the next

I recently co-authored & circulated (with @polphilpod.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric. Over 100 of my UK-based colleagues signed it. Read the whole thing here: www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Don’t know the source but truth

Iran assassinations etc worldwide

10% vs la moitié de « certaines rues ». Wow: « Une Ville bien administrée doit allouer ses ressources au prorata des utilisateurs de chaque service. Or, à peine 10% des gens se déplacent à vélo. Mais les vélos occupent jusqu’à la moitié de l’espace de nombreuses rues. »

This is an enormous story. Thankful that ProPublica has pursued it so well, especially considering the way other media have snoozed. (While embracing Afrikaners as genocide victims, no less.) www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Cut back on immigration, bc housing shortage! = Cut off nose to spite face bc immigrants build houses, innit?

Canadian exports to USA and China drop post-tariffs, but hold steady worldwide, b/c massive increase to Germany, UK, South Korea, Netherlands, Italy. Source:

1/🧵 What if Democrats' best strategy to fight GOP corruption isn't matching Republican billionaire money but refusing it entirely? My empirical analysis shows why rejecting mega-donors and corporate PACs is both principled AND pragmatic. Let me explain…

Political scientists: the moment you have all been waiting for. The governing party wins a parliamentary seat by 1 vote (23,352 votes to 23,351). That brings their tally to 170 seats, two short of a majority.

For Mother’s Day I am asking for me and other wealthy Canadians to be taxed at a higher level. Read about it at the link below, and find out more by following @patmillscanada.bsky.social 🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. www.wired.com/story/why-ca...

Canada: No more quo? -> time to trash quid. “Anticircumvention laws prohibit bypassing software locks that control access to copyrighted works. Countries that passed such laws got tariff-free access to American markets.”

Jonathan Bennet was a model for philosophical writing: clear, smart, humorous, charming, compassionate, generous, even beautiful. A sample: “If Dudman’s theory were correct, most of this book would be wrong;…

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New from 404 Media: the age of realtime deepfake fraud is here. Scammers in Nigeria are using realtime deepfakes to change their race, facial hair, gender, more to appear as someone else on video calls. Results very realistic now. Also tricking verification systems www.404media.co/the-age-of-r...

It's impressively confusing that two large Commonwealth countries are having elections in the same week where the Liberals are one of the two contenders, but in Canada they're the centre-left party who're expected to win and in Australia they're the centre-right party who are expected to lose