The story notes that Hootsuite lists one of their core values as ”give back to our communities and be an ally” and their terms of service prohibit use for law enforcement, surveillance and tracking. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

FYI, William Shatner was photographed eating bowl of cereal in his car at stop light. www.tmz.com/2026/01/20/w...

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

These numbers actually seem pretty reassuring to me. 15-30% of people will support pretty much anything, so I'm not particularly alarmed by anything below that threshold. (whether public opinion affects government actions is another matter)

Hey. You good?

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

It’s a bizarre experience listening to Robby Hoffman talking on a podcast about the segregated cafeterias at my CEGEP and realizing, “Oh yeah, I guess it WAS weird that we had a Jew Caf and an Italian Caf.”

I actually cross 2 municipal borders and one provincial border to see a movie.

God, I hate when this happens www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ewoks at the Battle of Endor-level tactics:

This is incredible youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...

What do you call it when you round up a bunch of ethnic minorities, put them in a camp and kill them?

Today I watched a fox strut around with a big fat dead squirrel in its mouth, then bury it in the woods.

Currently drinking: Les Wiwis

Elon Musk and X are facing a widening probe by Canada's privacy watchdog over its sexualized deepfake controversy. globalnews.ca/news/1161470...

HOLY SHIT, have you guys heard about this?

There's a lot more basketball than I expected in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8_2...

CBC is opening 11 new bureaus in medium-sized markets -- including my hometown of Châteauguay, Quebec! It's just over the bridge from Montreal, but feels like a whole other world. This is very cool. www.cbc.ca/news/editors...

Hey, big stuff happening over here.

Hey, anybody I know on here have experience with nonfiction book editing and/or ghostwriting? Looking to help out a friend find some info for an interesting project. Could turn into a good gig for a freelancer. I'm sure there are some people in my orbit on here who work in that space.

I've been freelancing since 2020 and I have to pay my sales tax in instalments. EVERY YEAR, I have zero memory of how I'm supposed to compare those instalments to my final tally, and how to pay or collect the difference.

There‘s an episode of The Daily today with Minneapolis‘s Police Chief, talking about the chaos ICE has caused. In one part, he talks about ICE arresting people and leaving without putting their cars in park. He said they took one person and left a dog in the car. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Ever since this performance, I've become obsessed with Jim E. Brown, who claims to be a 19-year old alcoholic from Manchester and writes sad sack songs like "I Am at My Happiest When I'm Unconscious," "Every Time I Speak I Regret It Immensely" and this gem here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrTc...

Put in other terms, should the government be posting on a website that not just displays but helps to create sexualized images of children and deepfakes of women?

Your move, Sutcliffe!

Land of the free.

As governments weigh investigations or even bans over X.com's AI-generated CSAM scandal, Canadian ministers are just posting through it. globalnews.ca/news/1160665...

I think X (the band) doesn’t get enough appreciation for the fact that they released albums for over 40 years and every one of them is good and worth your time.

And it’s still in the App Store, folks!

Stuff like this makes me wish I watched sports. See the incredible statement from the Senators GM berating "the lowest forms of trolls and sick people who scour the internet."

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

This Conservative MP claimed his campus event was cancelled by the student union and cried censorship. But the student union had nothing to do with it, and by all accounts it seems his booking request was rejected for boring administrative reasons. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/con...

putting it behind a paywall is not "turning it off" lol what www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm fascinated by this ALS interpreter for the Minneapolis mayor's press conference. You can see the mayor's anger translated through her movements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ghk...

Minneapolis Public Schools leaders are canceling classes Thursday and Friday “due to safety concerns” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I’m watching the last season of Stranger Things and it’s been so long that I remember nothing. What is Eleven? Where did that stoner pizza guy go? (Dead, I hope). Wasn’t Paul Reiser here? What happened to those Russians under the mall? Why is Will back in Hawkins? What IS Eleven?!

don't you see they're killing us as a distraction

You've got tall Canadians being discriminated against on those aircraft.

Sometimes we need an arbitrary reason (like a date on a calendar) to do something we've been putting off. If you're just thinking about whether you "succeed" in your resolutions, you're doing it wrong. It's about reflecting on your life and what you want/don't want, and trying to make those changes.

How am I expected to work when I could be reading this?

Relabelled based on what media they respectively own: X Google / YouTube Wapo / prime Google / YouTube Paramount / CBS Facebook N/A N/A N/A N/A

Many people still think of poverty as something that happens when people don’t work. But the reality is different: majority of people who live in poverty in Canada are working or live in families who work. @gillianpetit.bsky.social and my 2026 chart to watch www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

There's no legal difference between kidnapping Maduro and kidnapping Mark Carney.

Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

One thing about the shrinking media industry is not only are there less jobs, but there's less room to grow. When everyone has a skeleton crew and is scrambling, there's less time for collaboration and feedback. That can translate to freedom, but it also means less opportunities to learn.

We maybe need to stop naming robots. It's a lot clearer when you say "Robot created by world's richest man apologizes for producing child sexual abuse material."

Everyone’s all worked up about Macaulay Culkin‘s appearance on Fallout, but I was way more excited to see Martha Kelly!

the National Gallery has free entry Thursday evenings, which I think is pretty great! They have an exhibit about winter right now, where there was the expected Lawren Harris and whatever, but I ALSO got to explain Miss Chief Eagle Testickle to my son.

lol, ok buddy.

My podcast goal for 2026 is making more use of silence and slowness. Everything is edited so tightly now. Expect some long pauses from me. To any bosses/execs reading this: just TRY to stop me! Your feed is dead air now.