we have to go back. to warn them.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

Sweet Potato Dish Stopped Being Healthy 5 Ingredients Ago

I’ll Follow the Sun 24” diameter round Acrylic on panel 2025 This painting in my new collection was inspired by a stunning photo taken by my brother of a sunset in Saskatchewan before a Paul McCartney concert at the stadium. canadahouse.com/collections/...

Interviewed my friend @markkersten.bsky.social on genocide - what is it and when is it. A good primer for those new to the topic. For the CIDP podcast: youtu.be/9nLuYt9qL_s?...

Vietnamese food has a concept I don't often see in western cuisine - "ngán." It's translated as being bored but applies when your palate is dulled by the sameness in texture, taste. We want our food to hit different notes. A bánh mì is simultaneously soft and crunchy, spicy and cool, fatty and sour.

The problem with this article is that it assumes that the Canadian terrorism listing process hasn't been politicized to the point of irrelevance. It assumes process, deliberation, and rationality. I'm not sure any of that is true anymore. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

It's the <audio files> part that should really get noticed

BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.

Really looking forward to co-hosting this event on the Indo-Pacific and Japan-Canada cooperation with the Japanese Embassy and the Asia Pacific Foundation. Please sign up using the link below! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Really looking forward to co-hosting this event on the Indo-Pacific and Japan-Canada cooperation with the Japanese Embassy and the Asia Pacific Foundation. Please sign up using the link below! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hey Ottawa folks: I gave some kids' books to Twice Upon a Time and they said they've receved fewer donations than usual for this time of year. So if you have any kids' books in good condition, or time or money to spare, here's the info:

I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada doesn't pick a side in the biscuit fight. But we certainly stand with the USA in the flapjack war

We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!

It’s like the people behind the Fyre Festival decided to throw a little war

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

We now have leaders of allied nations unable to trust a word the US tells them. We are witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic and foreign relations blunders of our lifetimes.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Blessed are the peacemakers

Aye

This weekend I'm at the Halifax International Security Forum, which — for the first time — has no official delegated from the U.S. government. I'll post some occasional thoughts from the Forum over the weekend, below 👇

Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially but makes no sense in the Canadian context, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

There’s not even “dozens of us”

"What does cyber really achieve, strategically?" is a recurring question in the cyberwarfare debate. In this article for the Journal of Cyber Policy, I try to tackle it focusing on one of the most dreaded cyber weapons: Wipers. A few highlights from this study...🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Better morning #Ottawa

🚨 Postdoctoral opportunities! 🚨 Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics* Term: 2 years Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance Start: July 2026 Details in next two posts 👇

Relationship counseling but just blind texting each other your semiotic and power analysis of Mamdani and Trump meeting to see if you’re compatible.

Driving at 10:00 pm in July: being out on a summer evening feels amazing Driving at 5:30 pm in November: we must find shelter or the wolves will eat us

Preliminary details in this story suggest an insider actor sent these emails. But the fact that the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has been notified is interesting. Could simply be covering the bases. Either way, the leaking private data of MPs is bad. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Seriously just look at this. The name, logo and colour scheme are just chefs kiss. Cartoon logos of any kind are garbage. Give me typography, wordmarks and cool symbols any day.

It never stopped being February 2022 for these guys and they are on a desperate quest to recapture that energy.

Germany was planning to cut funding for global polio eradication. Then it found polio in its own wastewater in Hamberg. And suddenly, Germany found 4 million Euros for global polio eradication efforts www.reuters.com/business/hea...

DOH. HUGE NEWS in the tariff wars! (Point Roberts is a tiny sliver of America you can basically only reach from Canada.)

Very pleased to co-host this event with the Japanese Embassy in Canada and the Asia-Pacific Foundation on December 1 at 6pm. It's online and free to register! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Ottawa has been so gloomy but for Max it is just an excuse to get cozy with the unnecessary yet completely necessary Christmas pillows. Happy Friday, folks!

The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face after facing intense scrutiny for a previous policy change which downplayed their display as merely “potentially divisive.” https://cnn.it/48syNPR

Attn: Toronto/GTA folks - please share. 🐶

Bizarrely, for the first time this year, I gave my MA students the opportunity to use AI within parameters so long as they documented and reported their prompts - and only about 5-10% of the class did so. They really don’t like it. Could be a cohort thing and will see if it changes over time.

Everything is bad but yesterday I watched my students deliver a fantastic set of presentations on their term projects. Getting to this point was hard and often frustrating for them, but they showed great determination to get it right. I can lead them but they need to do the work - and they did. 🏆

Well, Canada's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development ( #FAAE) is talking about "Canada's Africa Strategy" again... www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...

I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.