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In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.

Alaska should join 🇨🇦
Then they can have CBC. 👍

So, shiny yellow objects.... 🙄

Good to know.

I have a dream that one day MSM will do a story on Stephen Harper's International Democracy Union and how they've helped some of the worst anti-democratic parties get elected throughout the western world

It doesn't have to be Canadian media, it could be any large outlet

I have a dream

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Are they still doing that?
My kid knew how to read before GR1 and "unlearned" in the first month. I figured out the problem, told her to ignore what the teacher said, and talked to the teacher. They called it "whole language", and it worked for criminals.
"My kid's not an adult criminal, duh"
c. Y2k

Run!

and that he just tried to avoid a direct war with Russia and a global conflict and that NATO was not prepared for a war with Russia

Well guess what,
ready or not,
it seems we are heading there anyway

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"

Well, if it's going to be a disaster for AB, we'd better start doing something for them. No point in waiting until the last minute, like we did for codfish, and like we're doing for trees.

Let's get our act together, regardless of Dani and the Mar a Lago crowd.

maybe we should start a rumour that the LLM is inhabited by a satanic spirit?

a new satanic panic is what we need

new can’t-miss growth strategy for the struggling wine industry: be the president of the united states and force the military to sell your wine

Pretty sure that's what the report on The Plague of Athens said too...

*trained by teenage boys

There's a huge knowledge gap in any of this because it relies on digitized information + usage.

So Minecraft gets integrated, whereas local newspaper does not. Anything pre-1980 basically doesn't exist because it hasn't been digitized.

Card catalogs were better.

Generating clicks, which in turn generates money.

You asked 🤷

Yeah, but you're encouraging it.
I refuse to get involved with using the dam things, on principle. They suck up energy to produce garbage - I refuse to encourage that or pay them to generate garbage. 🤷

Think about values, and value. Is that where we should invest our clicks?

Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US.

ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point?

If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?

It's part of their job. It just hasn't been necessary in 🇺🇲 for a while now.

Now it's time again.

Newly unsealed Epstein records shed light on years of his financial transactions with Wall St. figures The documents are the latest in a slow release of materials tied to Epstein as public demand for accountability and transparency about Epstein has gone global.

A reminder that the #EpsteinFiles are more than a vast sex trafficking operation. They also involve an international money laundering operation that includes Russian banks, greedy corrupt billionaires & political operatives. Incredibly powerful people have shut down 🇺🇸’s gov’t to keep their secrets.

Justin Wolfers Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Professor at the UNSW. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Princeton,…

Finally got organized and set up my YouTube channel. In just a few weeks, it’s passed 10,000 subscribers—maybe there’s something to this! For now it’s mostly talks and interviews, but it's sparking some exciting plans for more econ-goodness.

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Yes, then again in a few weeks. There's definitely not enough gold yet.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

FWIW, when I went to school back in the 80s, R0 didn't exist. I'm guessing it came along to fit into an Excel spreadsheet, and from there, well, everyone uses the same spreadsheet so 🤷

Whatever happened to FIRA?

It'll make them happy. He's blowing up the USA's nukes.

On who?
Or is this just to get rid of them?

Withdrawing from NATO countries and redeploying them to US cities...

Is there any question who he's working for?

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for…

Maldives eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. No babies were born with HIV or syphilis in 2022–23, and hepatitis B has vanished among children. The WHO is calling it a “triple elimination,” the world’s first of its kind. buff.ly/lH7h3BW
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