Not a statistician 🍉

Lies, damn lies, and Fraser Institute studies Maybe they didn't expect anyone to fact check their work. I did it anyways.

The Fraser Institute published a study on the fiscal cost of Canada’s low-carbon economy -- one that (shocker!) found lots of money spent on relatively few jobs.

I fact checked it for them. It didn't go well.

maxfawcett.substack.com/p/lies-damn-...

The feed on Sora's gotten a lot darker as people figure out ways to get around the guardrails...

Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

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An inflatable frog costume throwing a sub in the style of Banksy

Today I wrote about the Thoughtful Gesture Industrial Complex--new things people are expected to buy to be good spouses, partners or parents--and the fact that almost all of this is astroturfed from TikTok.

www.cartoonshateher.com/p/dont-get-s...

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

Auditor general highlights risks of latest plan to retool Lansdowne Park | CBC News The Lansdowne 2.0 redevelopment plan faces risks including a tight construction timeline, tariffs, Redblacks attendance and the uncertainty built into a financial deal that lasts until 2075, according...

Ottawa Auditor General doubles down on her risk assessment for Lansdowne 2.0: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job. Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

Once more, for old times’ sake

Dersh fantasizing about the Budd Dwyer special

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

In Memoriam:

Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

not at all surprised that joe rogan is losing his mind to AI slop

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

Carney government cuts unfairly hit First Nations Budget cuts to Indigenous services violate equality rights and risk legal, moral, and financial consequences.

You failed to mention that Indigenous people are shouldering 20% of your austerity budget cuts.

This is #apartheid in Canada.

Following in your father's footsteps, as predicted.

A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

Transgender Student-Athlete Lia Smith Remembered as a Friend and Fierce Advocate — Assigned Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her com...

Please read more about Lia Smith here. She sounds like she was a wonderful person, and it's an unbearable tragedy that we lost her, and everybody else who's driven to the brink by people like Brianna Wu.

i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.

To manually turn off go to:

Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off

good game

Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud

Rogers execs on Sportsnet+ World Series crash: "You can't expect a streaming service that only costs $30 a month to work every time" TORONTO – With the Sportsnet+ app failing for many viewers during the Blue Jays victory in Game 4 of the World Series, Rogers execs have come forward to say that “honestly, this is kinda your guys fau...

Rogers execs on Sportsnet+ World Series crash: “You can’t expect a streaming service that only costs $30 a month to work every time”

Watch Live: World Series Game 7 on Sportsnet

PSA: if your feed is out, go to www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...

I want to experience joy the way Vladimir Guerrero Jr experiences joy.