It not zero yet, but good job with the trend 🇨🇦 https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115542666969171764

Let a thousand OSINTs bloom https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-flock-surveillance-images-are-public-records-that-can-be-requested-by-anyone/

Continuing their long tradition of being the most geometrically adventurous chocolate manufacturer, Toblerone have a range of enneahedral chocolates.

this is pretty neat too https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115528272456864445

MASCARA APPLICATORS IN SPACE! https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115528277832448997

If there is any more complaining just say "trickle up" or "economics 101" and nothing more. That's how this works I think.

"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink. I want […]

“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.” Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com

⚡️ THERE IT IS — Trump pardons disgraced former speaker Casada and his chief of staff Cade Cothren after their federal corruption charge convictions. (More proof the law no longer applies to Republicans) www.wsmv.com/2025/11/06/p...

One of the most corrupt organizations on the planet launches a "peace prize" whose first recipient will surely be the most corrupt political leader on the planet. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/fifa-to-award-new-peace-prize-at-world-cup-draw-in-washington

Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin family sues Tesla over crash that killed 5 "...According to the lawsuit, the car lacked safety features that could have prevented its batteries from catching fire and causing an explosion — or at least could have slowed down the process long enough to give the […]

For people who missed this Electrek: Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla’s robot army. https://electrek.co/2025/10/22/elon-says-quiet-part-out-loud-he-needs-1-trillion-so-he-can-control-a-robot-army/ #robots #fascism #aipocalypse

at least it wasn’t spelled the way it’s pronounced 😆 https://tldr.nettime.org/@aramba/115505187763048278

Tradwife? More like RADwife!

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

New: The FBI filed a subpoena trying to unmask the person or people behind archive.is/archive.today, which have been running anonymously for 13 yrs. Site was widely used by GamerGate, and then to bypass paywalls but has become kind of core archiving infrastructure […]

the 1950s called and they are worried that their psychopathic obsession with atomic technology might have been a mistake https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115500902678430666

Per #perplexity: The #sermononthemount is not typically described as "#woke af" in its original theological context, but it has been perceived by some modern audiences as radical or #subversive regarding morality and social #justice. The sermon, delivered by #jesus, contains teachings on […]

I used to be reasonably cautious about f-bombs but now I’m saying fuck a lot and I don’t know why. Anyhow, if you’re offended please let me know. I’m more likely to be apologetic than confrontational

I want to live but I need something to live for https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115500668849676177

I’m no expert, but when I was walking to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, and each wife had a basket filled with eggs, and when passers-by bumped her eggs, the man didn’t waste a whole lot of time arguing about math. https://mastodon.social/@regehr/115497899137064898

From a friend here, if you're wondering why what the GOP is really saying: "no food stamps until you agree to no insurance" "Yesterday we got a letter in the mail saying that our insurance in 2026 is going from $226/month to $2984/month. Let that sink in. More than our rent." #politics

The World Bank’s latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write, up from 87% in 2000. In many regions, including East Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful […]

KTLA: Major fast food chain offering $1 meals in SoCal amid government shutdown Carl's Jr. will provide "a Kids Hamburger, Small Fry and Kids Drink for just $1 to qualifying guests.... To receive the discounted meal, guests are asked to show one of the following: A federal government employee […]

When asked, America’s space agency was unable to comment. “NASA is currently closed due to a lapse in government funding,” a spokesperson replied, via email. https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115497014384976109

As air traffic controllers face a second missed paycheck next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds the alarm that the system is nearing its breaking point. https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115495000666984559

This all comes at a cost in the form of a $78.3-billion deficit for this fiscal year https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115494417686211590

The federal budget contains a statement that the oil and gas emissions cap will be scrapped. #canpoli #canada #co2

Canada is getting a new financial crimes agency with an investigative mandate. This will require serious resources (likely drawing from RCMP) to be able to actually investigate illicit finance issues.

Hey Canadians, I've been in the budget lockup all day. You can follow along with me (and the rest of the @thestar.com team) here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Well this much is guaranteed to be pissed away #canpoli #canada #aislop https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/federal-government-to-cut-another-28000-public-service-jobs-by-2029/

https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/parliamentary-business "Ways and Means Motion regarding the Budget Presentation"

I need to see Paul Martin's new shoes to really believe this is a Federal Budget

LOL flight to nowhere in particular, if you are on Air Canada JZA869 (Ottawa to DCA). Soon they will need Bruce Willis out there. https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/115492474215659351

***dying of "cute puppy scratch/bite" because of rabies is a startlingly common thing.

Enjoyed reading The Atlantic's take on the highly incestuous and circular investments that are powering AI companies as they scrape and scrounge for more data centers. Or, why all this AI investment promises to be a lose/lose for everyone but the super rich. Tranches. Packaging and repackaging […]

PBS: Climate-fighting efforts have ‘barely moved the needle,’ UN report finds https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/climate-fighting-efforts-have-barely-moved-the-needle-un-report-finds #Climate #climateemergency

it is no longer cybersecurity awareness month. you are hereby ordered to stop being aware of cybersecurity.

I especially liked this bit: The President of the United States of America doesn’t know the difference between “asylum”, as in (sometimes) “a place where mentally ill people are treated”, and “asylum”, as in (sometimes) “a refuge from persecution and/or violence”. And thus he believes that […]

"It's simply untrue to claim that Canada’s deterioration in housing affordability is roughly the same as everywhere; ours is far worse than most over most time scales, & many countries have experienced an improvement in affordability in recent decades... we cannot forget that housing […]

Teaching Wilderness FirstAid, interesting to see how much blind faith people have in their smartphones, even when you are there to teach them how to deal with emergency situations in the wilderness and you tell them smartphones fail and are a problem. (almost a religion!) Me: "You don't want to […]

[Death of a beloved cat by Waymo] https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/waymo-confirms-its-car-killed-kitkat-mission-bodega-cat/

"python is the JavaScript of programming languages" * offended * agreeing * confused * giggling(meanly) * offended(again) * confused (again)

Oooh, That's NO Space Rocket The last "GT" launch was a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. It's an #ICBM I once watched one fail spectacularly, thought it was a nuclear strike for sure. Strange pulsing glowing in the skies […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Just over the weekend, 15 UCP MLAs have been targeted by constituents motivated to recall them, with at least two more starting the process. #ableg #abpoli #totalrecall #generalstrikeab https://operationtotalrecall.ca/

"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” " […]

@swart #GiftLink https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNKGP23LycsE_a8cWgocTK_I

Listening to the guitar solo from bytor and the snow dog after that requiem bit reading my students proofs and crying my eyes out rn #rush #prog_rock #mathteachers #emotional

What a load of absolute garbage — people are being rooked by charlatans like this and the Toronto Star just platforms them without any analysis […]

I wish I got to go on Quirks and Quarks and talk about a less depressing topic, but hey, this is SUCH a great opportunity to teach a *lot* of people in Canada about the terrible things that are happening in orbit, and in the upper atmosphere, and on the ground due to the wildly unregulated […]