I also liked this piece, by @davekarpf.bsky.social - which, in fact, is the subject of our upcoming techtonic.fm interview on Monday: davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...

Alexis Lapointe (Le Trotteur) believed himself to be a stallion born in human form. An eccentric individual, his running exploits are the stuff of legend. He raced horses, trains, cars and became a Québécois folk hero. This is his story 📸 Société historique du Saguenay 🧵 1/8

Love Jon Shell's message in this piece. Everything about the proposed Ford land grab at Billy Bishop stinks. We need a real ownership strategy not stunts. ca.news.yahoo.com/we-dont-work...

Happy Pride month to the whole LGBTQNJ+ rainbow!

eastwood's movie arc since "unforgiven" is a fairly frank skepticism about the redeeming power of violence and imperfect attempts to understand experiences different than his own

This is almost as difficult to explain as the difference between the Quebecois "ben, la" (roughly: "so then") and "ben la, la" (roughly: "listen, motherfucker") (I exaggerate for humorous effect, don't @me)

Nowe! What do we wante? Tyme travel! Whenne do we wante it?

This is how you attack a Friday

Taste ys the enemye of power & wealthe. Unpurchasable. Acquired through communicacioun. Collective. Untrackable. Appearinge anywher that weirde, lovelye, sexye, wondirful, powerful art kan manifest. Taste groweth from obsessive learning & powirful commitment, from the sharing of the mynde & heart.

A panel that included two Trump judges dealt Jim Crow a temporary defeat in Alabama. Whether it holds up at the Supreme Court will depend on whether John Roberts hates Black people more than he loves his own power. My latest in @thenation.com

What we need to let go of is the idea that we will make the people in power care. They do not, and they will not. They cannot be convinced, they must be overthrown. Because the crystallizing truth is: They want us dead. www.welcometohellworld.com/they-want-us...

Totally agree with this. Think the key is not to rush it. Make it the priority of every committee to gather testimony and evidence of corruption and wrongdoing of Trump admin officials. keep it in committee and the news for months. find out what resonates and turn it into Benghazi.

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

White House tries to tamp down questions about Trump’s health … youtu.be/PJ6bDrBGdrM?...

Thys hath been shared recentlye by several folks on thys syte

Woody Harrelson and Harrison Ford on Trump's second term: "How many wars do we have to have going? Including the internal wars with the brown shirts"

Carl warned us

"In all likelihood, these areas of overlap are not incidental but part of a broader effort to harmonize Canadian law with American surveillance expectations ahead of a potential Canada–US CLOUD Act agreement." 👀 thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-...

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

And they are still reaping the benefits while they have their foot on our necks.

the noise this made

Took this twice, got the same extremely specific result twice, but it did not change my mind that there is only one true God, Donald J. Trump. (Fun quiz, though!)

For the overwhelming majority of our evolutionary history we lived in a calorie-scarce environment and there was no incentive to optimize away any of the side effects of infinitely abundant food. Now it turns out we have a drug that can do that

First Nations look to flip the script on Canada’s power buildout www.aptnnews.ca?p=288704

Dear Stephen Colbert, You may be no fan of dictionaries or reference books, but we're fans of yours. ❤️ -The Wordinistas at Merriam-Webster

This is a fascinating conversation between @thenation.com's @jeetheer.bsky.social and Branko Marcetic about the alliance between Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, and Jeffrey Epstein.

this is a masterpiece

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

In terms of things to read, I’d suggest: Old Welsh: The Mabinogion Old Irish: The Táin Old English: Beowulf All are wonderful and should be reasonably accessible in modern English translation.

The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism. www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...

I wrote an explainer on Carney's pitch to radically alter environmental assessments of projects. It's a big deal and about more than economic zones. It would change rules for extinction of wildlife, fossil fuel and nuclear oversight, First Nations consultations and more thenarwhal.ca/canada-major...

Arthur Lipsett was an innovative National Film Board filmmaker whose work influenced George Lucas and Stanley Kubrick. An Oscar nominee, his films were described as "neither underground nor conventional". This is his story. 📸 NFB 🧵 1/10

I really gotta recommend the podcast Sold a Story, which offers another powerful explanation for this nationwide trend. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

With his presidential library, former President Obama is unveiling an oligarch-funded shrine to himself amid everyone in America being fleeced by oligarchs. www.levernews.com/the-obama-sh...

i bought this book for my godson (itll be a few years before he can understand it), because this book left an enormous impression on me as a kid. its the first time i saw vaccination explained, as an army you inject in your body to fight off illness. i hope he gets the same pro-science vibe from it.

Crows going nuts, dive-bombing the top of a pine. First 6 then 12 then 24. A gigantic red-tailed hawk emerged, crows swarming, pulling wing feathers and tail. Hawk dropped a large rabbit with a loud thud on the neighbors roof. Now the crows are celebrating like they just won the World Series.

Katie Phang visits the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, an exhibition that displays the 3,437 volumes of The Epstein Files. “Each of them weighs about 5 lb. … 3.5 million files bound into 800-page volumes. Altogether, it weighs about 17,000 lb.”

If there's one thing I care about more than trans rights its that people at the lowest rungs of society have gifts and talents that equal that at the highest, and their gifts are being squandered, and no one really internalizes that or cares.

Unearthed clip of Joe Rogan talking about watching a 16 year old do porn. Yikes.

“Since Lester B. Pearson’s generation, Canadians have understood a middle power earns its standing by showing up, convening other nations and matching its words to its budget. That standing is not heritable: it has to be re-earned. And it is being lost in real time.” Lloyd Axworthy nailing it.

So...the system is working as the oligarch class planned?

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave an answer that redefined what it means to be a civilized society. It wasn’t about politics or ideology. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😎💙😎

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

Most people get this wrong

On this day in 1813, the Battle of York took place in present-day Toronto. The capital of Upper Canada fell to American forces, who looted and burned key buildings. This attack helped spark the burning of Washington in 1814. #OnThisDay #BattleOfYork #WarOf1812 #TorontoHistory #jeremyhopkin

A message from mom (h/t @Ry_Bass)

Summer is around the corner and soon you'll read a bunch of posts about how every man should have a pair of loafers. I don't think anyone needs anything, but if you're shopping for a pair, let me show you how to think about loafers. This applies to any wardrobe item. 🧵

An outstanding, comprehensive rebuke of AI mania in K-12 by @winterjessica.bsky.social that rounds out by highlighting the growing coalition of parents, educators, and other concerned humans that is working fast and hard to tamp it down.