Búi Petersen

Frozen lake covered with snow with trees in the background

Snowy trail with trees

Snowy trail with trees

Beautiful day in the snow yesterday by Sackville Lakes.

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

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I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

LLM will make society less intelligent, and we should be honest that we're not exactly starting from a high bar.

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

February 23 6:30pm a townhall to discuss Bill 12

Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein The crypto community is reeling from the discovery that Epstein was a huge backer of early Bitcoin efforts.

'"75 percent of bitcoins code comes directly from [Epstein’s] investments,” a crypto account called Crypto Bitlord agonized in response. “We’ve basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick.”'

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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free Neil Young has escalated his fight against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
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A poster with a blue background that features a photo of the Halifax Central Library. Superimposed on it is a red book, with the title Dear Mr. Smallwood: Confederation in the words of those who lived it. A white circle with the text: Open to the Public. Below this, text reads: MFA Author Talks Sonja Boon on Dear Mr. Smallwood. February 3, 2026, Halifax Central Library, BMO Room.

Looking forward to next week's chat about letters to Joey Smallwood, and this time, in Halifax!

MFA AUTHOR TALKS
Tuesday, February 3 at 7 pm
Halifax Central Library

Open to the public and free!

I highly recommend this book and the event. It has been fascinating to follow its development in the background over the last few years.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Don't use LLMs unless you want a diet of Big Tech propaganda

"GPT-5.2 is not the only large language model (LLM) that appears to be citing Grokipedia"

"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal

The rich get richer, while others ...

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If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

With Greenland Threats, Trump is Destroying the Western Alliance A point-by-point breakdown of Donald Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre about a Nobel Peace Prize and control of Greenland

Trump demanding control of Greenland—which the US already has access to—is based on multi-layered lies. Threatening NATO allies to get it undermines the Western alliance.

I did a point-by-point breakdown of Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Støre about the Nobel and Greenland.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but now can think about what is good and proper for the United States of America."🙄

This is a great article breaking down the insanity and lies in Trump's letter.

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?

This is probably approaching "And *now* a warning?" levels, but truly he's gone completely insane.

Trump ties his stance on Greenland to not getting Nobel Peace Prize, European officials say Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.

A madman is running the USA.

No other word for a guy who says he’s prepared to invade friendly countries and destroy the world order because he didn’t get a trophy.

Is there anything this lunatic could do that would make Republicans say enough?

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The answer is right here: emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/is-canada-...

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I am so tired of this toxic billionaire-owned tech industry and their techno-fascist death drive.

How many of the commentators, op-ed writers, and politicians *outraged* about the SCC's decision striking down mandatory minimums in child porn laws have said anything about X, or quit X, as a result of it propagating CSAM?

They also made sure there was a lot of blue in this. Maybe Carny is running for the Conservative leadership.

Scotiabank CEO sees ‘Trump doctrine’ as positive for growth - CMT News Bank of Nova Scotia’s international business could benefit from a rightward political shift in Latin America alongside rising U.S. influence in the region, Chief Executive Officer Scott Thomson said.

Is Scotiabank OK with their CEO expressing such extreme right-wing views? Definitely time for people to take their money elsewhere.
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I assume all the Canadian commentators outraged by the recent SCC decision on mandatory minimums and child porn have quit X after all this.

Imaging the big debates going on right now at FIFA and IOC about the need for consistency and therefore when to announce the suspension of the USA from #WorldCup and #Olympics.

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lol. As if.