Mark Hamilton

How can you have private property rights on land that was never ceded by treaty?

This is a very good and spot on. I hope Americans are paying attention.

This isn't a "roadblock": it's a peace that never happened, according to this article.

So if Trump wants a swap, which parts of Russia is Putin putting up?

I have just tucked into Sarah Kendzior's The Last American Road Trip. It's a copy from the library, but I know I will have to buy this book and keep it on the shelves alongside Travels with Charley and Blue Highways and the other road trip books that are of such value to me in explaining the world.

The Nelkocracy The idiot interviewer and the propaganda problem

It's posts like this that keep my subscribed to Justin Ling's newsletter Bug-eyed and Shameless. Reading "The idiot interviewer and the propaganda problem" is enough to make one weep. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-nelkoc...

Reality seems to be a problem for him so, of course, he's a National Post "journalist."

This is very interesting.

Why? Is Trump going to give it back?

Jeebus. Let's stop damaging the environment just so we can prove how bad IA is at, well, just about everything it seems.

We really are stupiding ourselves to death, aren’t we.

Picking up on this, the furthest in Canada:

North: Watson Lake, Yukon
West: Tofino, B.C.
East: Montmorency Falls, Quebec
South: Toronto, Ontario. (passed through on a train)

Soul Stripping Against AI, again.

"A song written by AI isn't a song any more than dust is skin." Sarah Kendzior is telling truths in her post Soul Stripping. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

FFS, he has no soul, no decency, no humanity.

This is interesting and seems to come with all the potential benefits and risks of publicly owned media.

Canada Needs a National Vaccination Registry - Macleans.ca COVID made it clear. Measles made it an emergency.

In which the author lists federal privacy laws as a barrier and not the fact that these records are provincial jurisdiction, so getting a federal database would require provinces to agree to participate, which is the actual hill to climb.

Hell, yeah. I'm not destroying anything (but I won't be buying Apple for a while).

Man, oh man. When you read articles like this, you can't help think that the human race looks likely to stupid itself out of existence.

Why do I suddenly feel like selling all my Apple products?

To those claiming these freedoms, they always come with the attendant "freedom from consequences" for my actions.

Good story by @isabellazavarise.bsky.social on how Vancouver Police quoted a small community event $3,500 for two police police officers, and then nobody from the police department or the city would explain why

When the inevitable pandemic rips through the U.S., I want the Canadian border slammed shut.

Interesting. She's feeling much like the people of Ottawa felt during the three-week occupation.

Me, too. This is sad.

All the president's men are either cowards or barely educated. There's no other explanation for the depth of this nonsense.

We saw these in most cities in Sicily last year. They make so much sense as urban cars for when a bicycle or transit just won't cut it.

That’s dreadful.

Smith knows all about driving away millions in investments: that's what she did with her ideology-driven moratorium on wind and solar power, robbing her province of revenue and jobs.

Are American citizens really going to stand for this destruction of one of their country's most potent symbols?