This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

"You can't win a war unless you start one." 🤣😳

There’s a kayak barbecue happening in McCovey Cove

New Arthur Erickson documentary available for streaming The documentary, which previously premiered at the Architecture+Design Film festival in Toronto, is now available to view for free via the British Columbia Knowledge Network. 👍👍 www.canadianarchitect.com/new-arthur-e...

Telegraph: One day after Emmanuel Macron's criticism of Trump, Iran allowed a French ship to pass through the Strait of Hormuz

If we bought a few less bombs, we could probably afford nice things. One thing I'd like to see from the next presidency would be to appoint a special commission to prepare a report on the actual cost to defend the United States from attack. Not foreign wars. Just the cost to defend this country.

On this day in 1918, Louis Applebaum was born in Toronto. He composed over 250 film scores for the National Film Board from 1942 to 1960 and was nominated for an Academy Award. He was also the first music director of the Stratford Festival. He died in 2000.

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Inconsiderate Wife Leaves Bathroom A Total Mess After Home Birth https://theonion.com/inconsiderate-wife-leaves-bathroom-a-total-mess-after-home-birth/

Pitcher challenged right away but the manager missed it, a breakdown

"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??

Martin Wolf in today’s FT

“The more you use AI, the more you will use your brain in a different way,” said French Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation" This is exactly why we are organizing a debate series around this topic. See my pinned skeet and RSVP. www.defenseone.com/technology/2...

cleveland baseball resumes tonight, and in this house, we celebrate the runs, long relief, and going going gone. go Guards. #GuardsBall

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This continues to be just crazy in terms of matching priorities with capacities. How can Canada expect to implement an aggressive new diplomatic strategy in a rapidly changing world while gutting the staff tasked with actually implementing it? www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

I wonder at what point people will realize that governments are actively not ”rally[ing] a group of newly energized young people, who want to be part of protecting Canada’s future.“ Instead, they’re mostly just practicing politics as usual, with Canadians as bystanders.

new episode Wednesday!!! this week @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social joins the pod to talk with us about medieval print, why LLMs are crap (they are), and her former life as a stand-up comic... #medievalsky pca.st/1t8mhvg4

After protestors defaced a statue of George Brown with anti-Ford slogans, all the monuments outside Queen’s Park will be covered up

Learn the 5-4-3-2-1 regrounding exercise -- if you're supporting someone this is something you can do with them. My spouse is really great at identifying when I'm starting to get stuck in a loop and doing it with me. headington-institute.org/blog/resourc...

Did a little essay about a remarkable new book that came in the mail this week: "In one incredible paragraph, Mann, an English lit scholar and Black studies theorist, describes the descent of American society into a process of securitization, one which is having disastrous consequences under Trump"

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Holy sh*t. Wab Kinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada. *Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information. t.co/ZugFOj7983

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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

“The world’s largest professional organization of writing educators disagrees with the notion that the rise of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom is unavoidable." www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

What strikes me about this political era is how our public institutions — academic, legal, corporate, media — are normalizing the Trump regime — and how easy it is for them to do so, since the regime is just the inevitable, maximalist version of governance in the longtime fossil-fuel economy.

It’s like no one wants to impress Jodie Foster anymore

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I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Memories made. Memories waiting to be made. Where were you? Where will you be?

On this day in 1857, a Great Western Railway train crashed through a bridge deck over the Desjardins Canal near Hamilton. The wood on the bridge deck was rotten, and the train fell 18 metres to the ice below. The accident killed 59 of the 90 passengers.

Watching Tayari Jones win win win this book season is such a joy It is so wonderful to see a Black woman get her flowers! She has the range as many do but it’s rare that this is acknowledged and welcomed. If you haven’t gotten Kin, get it!

Yeah. Trump is sick in the head! We don't need a brain surgeon to tell us what we already know, but there it is. This explains it. So why is this lunatic still allowed to ruin our country? Watch the end of the video.

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Let's understand trig functions and their inverses

Longue durée analysis is so important. What the author describes here are (potentially) self-reinforcing feedback effects. The direction of change points to some form of vassal state pathway. Only one, but unfortunately not an entirely unrealistic scenario. thewalrus.ca/canada-is-al...

Propaganda Against Black Internationalism & The Violence of Empire with Terri Frick (@chitimacha.bsky.social) Friday at 11 AM EST youtube.com/live/S9qYuEN...

Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings. Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.

fine, here is one full hour of our cake cam with a lo-fi beats track for whatever

Studies find AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live

summary of the event can be found here: niiwin.app/blog/who-con... nya:weh y'all for showing up! I forget what I said but apparently it was good 😎

Borders are colonial constructs and the Jay Treaty gives free passage across that line dividing a once undivided land that has belonged to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Reminder that just about everything Carney has been doing is *directly* linked to Brookfield investments. He was chair of the board of directors until January 2025. 🧵

Incredible. 19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.

lol youtu.be/EVMJrmCHEgE "instead of colonizing in the name of god, all these tech... [slight pause so I didn't say the word I wanted to say] giants they're trying to make you believe that they are now the gods, that you should be following their lead with the same kind of like missionary zeal"

We wrote this because we kept getting asked about "AI". I'd much rather focus my energy on building tech that actually empowers people but instead I keep getting pulled into this delusional discourse about a fantastical future that'll never come. Your "AI" god is a lie. animikii.com/databack/und...

Evan Solomon’s useless statement on OpenAI not alerting police about the Tumbler Ridge shooter. What an absolute waste of space at the Cabinet table.