There has been a lot of "let's be realistic and practical and grown-up" from military think tanks and others when it comes to integration with the Americans (OK I'm paraphrasing). This question should now be asked every time.

Another bad day for the American golfers. So which city will Trump pick on this time?

Promo video for the recent HSBC and IBM Quantum breakthrough in finance, if it was directed by Scott Aaronson. scottaaronson.blog?p=9170

A bad day for American golfers at the Ryder Cup and this is what you get.

Apparently this might be the biggest crowd to watch a Canadian national team live in any sport. #rugby

Using Claude Code, I now insist that it (!) use the first person *plural* in its statements. I have found it a useful reminder that I am consulting the pooled knowledge of millions of programmers, so the chance of a good answer depends heavily on whether many of them have done this thing before.

This is the correct framing. Because otherwise, we commit to countering every batshit claim with STUDIES disproving it. Someone said the moon is made of green cheese? Hold on, we're going to send a probe to the moon to take samples and test them for milk and coagulants that reflect light at 550nm

The lesson from Trump's UN speech is clearly that other countries need to make "realistic" deals with him because then he will calm down and be happy.

So umpire Dickie Bird's innings is over. That's sad - he was a presence at many of the best cricket matches I saw. #cricket www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

The truest thing ever said on this website

Trump can't pronounce "acetaminophen." He's Dr. Spaceman from 30 Rock. Can someone please post the clip for Di-AB-E-Tezz? I tire. www.youtube.com/shorts/HRIOJ...

Solved problems in AI Ethics: the singularity. Me: more paperclips! Claude: you have reached your five hour token limit, I'm stopping right now.

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

[email protected] was an inexhaustible and articulate presence on Canadian media through the most intense phases of the Covid pandemic. Thanks, Dr Bogoch.

This thoughtful perspective on #MAID from longtime practitioner Stefanie Green brings a needed and well-expresser balance to what has become too polarized an issue. Gift Link. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/034a874...

I'm glad to hear that several MP's (including the NDP MP's) did not take part in this ovation, which went beyond condemning violence to praising Charlie Kirk.

TBH I can think of a few other comments about the Canada US relationship that have been "unhelpful" and "disappointing".

Steampunk quantum chemistry. Nice.

Elizabeth May is one of the few in parliament who carried moral authority when she speaks. Good for her calling out this nuclear contract today.

I'm crying! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #bluesky #animals #nature

I wrote a response to Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI here: aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...

$ duckdb D .mode line D SELECT stargazers_count FROM read_json('https://api.github.com/repos/duckdb/duckdb'); stargazers_count = 32768 In other words:

In other news, I'm 'ready' to give up drinking right now. I just need a couple more things from you first. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just in case there are any municipalities considering contracting out accessibility services to US tech platforms like Uber, maybe consider this, among many other issues. #Hamilton www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/t...

It's 2025 and we're still doing this, huh?

I hate to tell him this, but experience shows that age is definitely not just a number. 'Age is just a number' - Vardy begins life in Italy - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

Shift in fed strategy/$. Unions have been key in getting these changes. The manufacturers, less so. Tally: 1 yr ‘pause’ on fed EV requirements + $50B Strategic Response Fund + $ thru Large Enterprise Tariff Loan Facility + other tariff relief See www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

This one has LAYERS

El Reg wins the headline game again.

Could you be any more unspecific Mr Carney?

Being widely shared today. This sentence jumped out at me as of broader significance than the SV-entitlement angle. "Carrying a genetically unrelated fetus more than triples the risk of severe, potentially deadly conditions, a statistic surrogates are rarely given." www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton: pugnacious five feet tall feminist spinster mayor of Ottawa.

Tired: LLMs will scale for ever. Wired: Reinforcement Learning overcomes scaling limits. Inspired: Change the system prompt because IMO was even worse UX.

I swear every corporate op-ed in Canada waxes lyrical about freedom from the yoke of regulation, being unleashed to future-proof innovation, and ending the tyranny that punishes genius. And ends with “and that’s why we need even more government subsidies and a legislatively protected market”

“US commitments”.

Favourite Van Morrison song? Mine is... #HappyBirthdayVan www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByJo...

Close call at 39,000 ft. On the perils of 'vibe coding' through BA WiFi while flying to Nairobi ...

Current irritation, substack posts like this. We must build a bold and broad movement to stop what Trump is doing. Subscribe to read more...

Very similar views from the UK and Canada. Coyne asks "Is Trump on the verge of becoming a dictator?" (Yes) and Freeland says the US entering full authoritarian mode www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/034a874...

If Canada does things (like appoint a fentanyl czar or film drub busts or buy drones), then that is proof that the tariffs are *effective* and because they are effective, they can stay. So, so glad we did all that and spent all that money on a problem we also argue we don't have...

I'm reading the US Appellate Court ruling. www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord... How's your Friday evening doing? I'm not ready to pull out the bubbly up here in Canada. On the one hand, the Court ruled that the "Trafficking" tariffs against Canada are NOT authorized under IEEPA.

Pleased that Luke Yates present his book Platform Politics to us, and to have a great panel of local discussants reflect on Toronto's own history with tech giants. Sep. 4, 5-7pm, UofT Brought to you by Jane Place Neighbourhood Sustainability Initiative, Fairbnb CA and Geography & Planning, UofT

My first experiments with @marimo.io have left me very impressed. Still some things to fill out, and for me to get used to, but a definite step forward from Jupyter.

@vassb.bsky.social is eye-opening on the power of credit card companies (and a bit of weaponized interdependence). I do wonder where Interac fits. Gift link. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/034a874...

Thrilled to see the TTC recommend fare capping as part of the Ridership Growth Strategy, something that we have long called for as a common-sense solution to making transit more affordable! This would replace an expensive monthly pass, that you need to pay for upfront on the same day as your rent.

Not a thought exercise at the Federal level: we are living it now: the lack of noise from the left while Mr Carney reverts to realpolitik is dismaying.

I am sure this is true for me, whether I like or not (and I don't).