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Opinion: In the age of AI, the fog of war thickens Amid the global seduction of using AI in all aspects of work, the military is now leaning on AI tools to carry out the ugly business of war

My latest op-ed. The fog of war in the age of AI will become thicker. Science fiction has become realist and under the Trumps administration, any potential guardrails are being degraded at warp speed 🧵https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-the-age-of-ai-the-fog-of-war-thickens/

I'll be in my office …

“Can anyone argue now that we are at #peace with the #US? Psychologically, accepting nightmare as fate is difficult.” #Canada

Canada Is Already at War with the US—We Just Don’t Know It Yet | The Walrus Conflicts don’t always start with an invasion

“Nourished for hundreds of years on a literature in which Right invariably triumphs in the last chapter, we believe half instinctively that #evil always defeats itself in the long run . . . But why should it?” thewalrus.ca/canada-is-al... #Canada #US #longuedurée

Canada Is Already at War with the US—We Just Don’t Know It Yet | The Walrus Conflicts don’t always start with an invasion

Longue durée analysis is so important.

What the author describes here are (potentially) self-reinforcing feedback effects. The direction of change points to some form of vassal state pathway. Only one, but unfortunately not an entirely unrealistic scenario.

thewalrus.ca/canada-is-al...

Another innocent man dead.

Big night Yonge St., Toronto - 2012

Artist: Brent Arlitt
Medium: Acrylic painting
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#2010s #torontoart #art #downtown #jeremyhopkin

More #RussianWarCrimes

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

"Trump seems to believe that he, like his fantasy America, exists on a different plane, utterly untouchable by the swirl of global events. The devastating consequences of his actions are not just someone else’s fault. They are someone else’s problem, too."

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‪@jaywingold.bsky.social‬
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Sunset west of Gallatin Valley, Montana on Feb 26 2026 at 622pm. #sunset #clouds #landscape #mountains #photography

“I got a call from a manager who was trying to drag him out of obscurity. We jammed daily, but he was away with the fairies”: Rick Fenn on the time he tried to help bring Peter Green back into the lim... The late Fleetwood Mac guitarist was a hero of Fenn's, so when the call came in to help Green out, there was only one answer. But whatever happened to the music?

“When I was a teenager he was one of my greatest heroes, along with #Hendrix, #Clapton and #Beck,” says Fenn. “Peter had such a glorious touch thanks to his wonderful simplicity, but then he went off the rails and became a gravedigger.” #PeterGreen www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit... #GuitarSky

Jimmy Webb's "Galveston" The familiar yearning of every soldier on the battlefield

“Campbell’s recording of the song was produced and arranged by #AlDeLory, a member of the elite group of studio #musicians who comprised what became known as The Wrecking Crew.” #GlenCampbell #Galveston #music #JimmyWebb #MusicSky open.substack.com/pub/newdirec... #songs #song

Does this look like a Canadian company to you? JK it's very Ottawa brutalist, so it sort of does. We looked through public procurement data and you won't believe what we found, etc.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

This is interesting. But it is more interesting that Trump is rewarding Moscow for doing this by helping Russia sell oil, repeating Russian propaganda points, and senselessly burning through weapon stocks.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

He's chasing the ultimate rush for a dominance junky:

Among the 92K jobs lost in today's dismal US jobs report, were 12K MORE jobs gone from US manufacturing. That brings the total toll to 138K US manufacturing jobs (-1.1%) lost since Trump's '24 election. His policies are hurting blue collar workers; Canada can outlast him #cdnecon

Visions of Life / Agents of Death: On Love Thy Neighbor and Love Thy Nature Donald Trump's world is a dead and lonely world, a world in which everything is for sale and nothing really means anything and no one else matters. Earlier this year, he pressed Nobel Peace Prize winn...

“ #Trump, on the other hand, perfectly embodies the worldview of extreme #capitalism in which everything is essentially dead: a commodity to be owned, exploited, destroyed at will.” www.meditationsinanemergency.com/visions-of-l...

Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

“It is unsettling how often #Trump affects astonishing indifference, as though the most powerful man in the world were merely a spectator to events he himself has set in motion — and who in any case has little investment in the outcome.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

John P. Hammond, Pioneer in 1960s Blues Renaissance, Dies at 83

Mr. Hammond was self-effacing about his talent and legacy. For all his musical power and bravado, he considered himself a humble steward of the blues.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/a...

Visions of Life / Agents of Death: On Love Thy Neighbor and Love Thy Nature Donald Trump's world is a dead and lonely world, a world in which everything is for sale and nothing really means anything and no one else matters. Earlier this year, he pressed Nobel Peace Prize winn...

“Donald Trump's world is a dead and lonely world, a world in which everything is for sale and nothing really means anything and no one else matters.”
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/visions-of-l...

It’s something that we need to be reminded of all the time …

Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

“Over the past six days, as #Trump plunged the #UnitedStates into a #war with #Iran, that fantasy of #omnipotence has come crashing into reality.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

‘I owe Iron Maiden my English A-level!’ The great literature our writers discovered through pop music Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday, Guardian music writers pick out the musicians whose literary references illuminated them – from Adam Ant on Joe Orton to the National on Grace Paley

“And Hegemony, which leads explosively with Italian anarchist Antonio Gramsci’s framing of dominant culture … basically introduced me to radical politics, even while its foundation in English folk sailed over my ears” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m... #music #books #ScrittiPolitti #MusicSky

Yes! He sounds like a pretty cool guy. I actually used to listen to the band he was in, the Sadistic Mika Band, decades ago …

“At some point, my record company asked if there was anyone I wanted to perform with,” Takanaka recalls. “I ended up performing a joint concert with #Santana at the Yokohama baseball stadium.” #music #MusicSky #SadisticMikaBand

‘Do what you really want to do while you’re still alive’: Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese guitar hero surfing a second wave in his 70s Playing a surfboard-shaped axe, Takanaka was a stadium-level artist at home but little known in the west – until YouTube brought him a huge new audience

“nearly 10,000 people will flock to see a 72-year-old #Japanese #jazz #fusion #virtuoso play a surfboard-shaped #guitar in March. Come the summer, he’ll headline an outdoor festival in London’s Crystal Palace park.” #guitarists #GuitarSky #music #MusicSky
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

“War-a-Lago”

By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com