A disc jockey, then?

"YouTube is testing a feature that makes your lives actively worse" sure is a thing that happens now with alarming frequency.

Do we know when this photo was taken? Was it when they'd settled into their seats and the MC took the mic to ask for their attention, before either Trump or Hegseth started speaking? Was it taken while Trump was speaking? Or Hegseth? The meaning of the photo changes with the timeline.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

I am now firmly opposed to literally anything that might have led me to watching this video, including the Internet, electricity, modern civilisation and me being alive

In honour of Jane Goodall, who has died. educatedguesses.ca/people/jane-...

Behold the top ranks of the US military. See for yourself how they have been weakened by affirmative action programs that promote people of colour over white guys, and women over men.

Hey, none of these guys are wearing masks or otherwise concealing their identities.

If so, the first generals to praise the meeting are going to find favour with the regime.

One thing the US military is not, is chronically underfunded. If the military was like universities, these guys would be the administrators who doubled the size of platoons, halved the number of NCOs, and eliminated the history department at the war college.

Generals gathered in their masses Having to listen to two dumbasses

Type of general Pete Hegseth abhors. Type of general Pete Hegseth admires.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

Pete Hegseth’s idea of warrior culture is this guy. Oliver Stone made a cautionary movie about this almost 40 years ago, drawn from his own experience in combat in Vietnam.

This is America. Where we have turned golf violent. European players have vowed to never return to America to play the sport.

Oh we want to be part of his missile shield, do we?

Seems awesome that a giant slice of the U.S. economy is riding on the promised success of this stuff, which any person who is willing to entertain a shred of skepticism will see is clearly doomed to under-deliver

With everything else going on, not sure this got sufficient attention outside the sports world, but the US fans at the Ryder Cup were a braying, bullying, vicious mob. They were not there to enjoy the golf. They were there in a gang to deliver abuse. They were MAGA on display at a country club.

On one hand I keep hearing about how nobody uses Canada Post anymore, and on the other, my inbox is full of stuff like my local library telling me interlibrary loans are now suspended because they use Canada Post, my bank not being able to send me my new card, frantic apologies from small businesses

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

there really should be a nice option between the psychiatric ward and a spa

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly. Democracy won 🙌🏼

Don't like this terrifying dystopian reboot of Pee Wee's Big Adventure one little bit.

Is the AI sentient if it’s managed to create numbered accounts with no followers that do nothing but advocate for AI?

Yea, this makes the ICE thugs look ridiculous, and it’s very funny. But as others have pointed out, what would have happened to this guy had they caught him? And why did they round on him in the first place? Did he taunt them? Or was he just a brown man on a bicycle who got too close to them?

He couldn’t do much worse.

Excellent point, persuasively made.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Admittedly, there's been a lot going on. I've been a little distracted myself.

A thing that tickles me about the Riyadh Comedy Festival. In August Tom Dillon said he'd accepted $375K to perform. "So what if they have slaves," he said on his podcast. "They're paying me enough to look the other way." Then last week he said he was uninvited because of his crack about the Saudis.

MAGA goes after Colbert, Kimmel. The people bridle. Comedians and their mockery are the last line of defence against autocracy! The Saudis offer six-figure pay cheques to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Big name comedians stampede to perform for autocrats.

Myself, I think Hegseth's Gathering of the Generals is going to be a loyalty test. Will the top brass swear fealty to the president, their commander in chief, over the constitution? I imagine their conversations among themselves before and after the speech will be monitored.

Canada may have lost the game, but this is such an amazing picture of Sophie De Goede being hoisted by her teammates after being named the World Rugby Womens 15s Player of the Year

If hundreds and hundreds of people were to rent costumes mimicking the uniforms of U.S. military generals and admirals, then show up on Tuesday at the Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, joining the lineup of brass shuffling in for Hegseth’s big speech, I for one would find that extremely funny.

They weren't able to burst England's bubble, but it was amazing that Canada's Women's Rugby team did so well and made it to the finals. So damned proud of them!! 🇨🇦❤️ #SilverMedalists #Rugby #CanadianPride #RWC25

The Europeans have made a series titled Mussolini: Son of the Century, about the rise of fascism in Italy. Very timely. (Though my old film prof Patrick MacFadden said that whenever he screened Riefenstahl’s Olympia at least one student got the wrong idea, seduced by the imagery.)

**I got some groceries, some peanut butter/ To last a couple of days**

Someone ensorcelled an angry bird’s soul into this leaf

Aren't ICE officers already federal agents? Armed federal agents to boot. So, she's deploying armed federal agents to protect the already deployed armed federal agents.

For our American friends who may not be familiar with him, Ron James is a notoriously nice guy and a comedian who works clean. So to see him this incensed is an indicator of something.

A California writer named Kaleb Horton has died before his time, reportedly as a result of a seizure. He was a first-rate writer of features and profiles, but he was stymied by an industry that no longer matched the quality of his work, and the demand for it, with the income needed to do it.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Showed up on time, but couldn't see anything. Maybe they were below periscope depth.

Ron James recently dropped a video about Charlie Kirk’s “wake.” Sharp, hilarious, and cutting through the nonsense he nails what so many are thinking. Comedy has a way of exposing truth that pundits can’t touch. He definitely has a way with words! #USDemocracy #Pinks

According to the scripture, first they're supposed to take Manhattan.

Or, god forbid, they use Full Force against "war ravaged" Poland.

Canada Women's Rugby team is on the world stage this weekend as they take on England for their first world championship title by beating defending champs New Zealand. rugby.ca/en/news/2025... #Canada #TeamCanada #Rugby #WomensRugby #Rugby #WorldChampionship #CanadaSky #Sports

The Canada Council for the Arts "lost" $304 million last year. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council "lost" $1.4 billion last year. Parks Canada "lost" $1.3 billion last year.