Izabella Laba 🇨🇦

Love that people are finally waking up en masse to the fact that they don’t need or want a lot of the stuff that’s been marketed for the past 25 years as “the future” and “making all our lives better”

This is a great interview.

The pulling of gold teeth. If you grew up in the aftermath of that, some things are impossible to forget.

Here is the entire syllabus 2/2

Here is the entire syllabus 1/2

I have a few signed books and special editions I want to keep, but other than that? When I retire, I'll keep maybe 4-5 books from my office and give away the rest. And if I move, that'll be another giveaway.

Me too, so that's two of us. I like working things out on paper, or sometimes reading in depth. But if I only need to read something once... yeah.

ICM 2026 out of USA? There hasn’t felt like a good time for me to post this; I have written and rewritten drafts of this over the course of the last year. But now that several established journalistic outlets hav…

Boosting a little delayed:

inclusionexclusion.org/2026/01/29/i...

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Tumbler Ridge is a small planned resource community, a winding 90 minute drive from the nearest city of at least 10,000 people.

A massive number of people are going to descend there tomorrow.

May those that arrive have respect and grace for the unimaginable grief.

Horrible and devastating.

Oh, absolutely. And because I saw the movie before I read the actual book, I was not at all prepared for how much darker it gets *after* Cathy dies.

Is Putin by any chance threatening to cut him off from golf?

Also a good description of math/tech guys "solving" sexism and racism over the last couple of decades, so yeah, that did not come from nowhere.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

YouTube video by National Book Ursula Le Guin

So, here's Ursula K. Le Guin, looking like a normal human being who has earned her age and wisdom: "Hard times are coming... We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...

Wow. That preview pic... just wow.

I may or may not have read this thread a couple hundred times

I wish that Chadwick Boseman were here for this.

ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next | CBC News Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intention...

I’m very happy that the CBC is on the story and published this Evan Dyer piece. Now is the time to take the Trump admin’s destabilization tactics seriously. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Fog over the ocean, with the sunlight on it forming a full white arch.

Fog rainbow.

I’m so sorry. This sucks so much.

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I live in Vancouver. If you come here again I'm going to have some recommendations...

A person working for a university does not need $650K per year to live and feel rewarded. Especially not when others working as instructors for that same university have to make do with one tenth of that.

Not even close

Your president, dear United States of America.

My neighbour is looking for a math tutor for her kid. Pay is $40 an hour. Must have either a Fields Medal or a full professorship at Harvard.

I’m all for it if he wants to participate in person.