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Senior Israeli officials have told Reuters that Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is dead.

The latest from Al Jazeera on the widespread but still unconfirmed reports:

It’s wild watching non-academics who clearly, at the time, misinterpreted Carney’s Davos speech in the same way I did — as him professing he’d stand up to a bully, not simply focus purely on Canada’s pragmatic self-interest— who are now pretending they knew the true nature of the speech all along.

We got duped, folks.

We heard what we wanted to hear, not what he actually intended. That may have been his intent.

It’s okay to admit it.

It’s funny — a lot of folks enjoyed it when Trump, based on his desire to hear what he wanted to hear, was pleased with Carney’s intentional use of the term “transformative.”

Now that so much of the world fell prey to the same sort of desire to hear what we wanted, I wonder how it’ll go over.

Safer Internet Day: it’s never too early for online safety – CIRA For Safer Internet Day, CIRA helped bring online safety to life for young students through a local classroom visit featuring storybook readings and interactive activities that teach kids good online…

Earlier this month for #SaferInternetDay, we visited a local #Ottawa school with Morty the Moose for cyber-themed classroom fun—showing it’s never too early to teach kids good online safety habits.

Read the blog for a closer look: www.cira.ca/en/resources...

The call to be the first to take down the sign was widely interpreted as a call for Canada to lead the charge in standing up to a bully.

It turns out it was just a call to accept the world as it is and pragmatically pursue Canada’s narrow interests in the context of that.

Anthropic’s showdown with the US Department of War may literally mean life or death—for all of us Why the showdown between Anthropic, a major developer of artificial intelligence models, and the US Department of War lead to existential-level catastrophe.

AI expert Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social on why the showdown between Anthropic, a major developer of artificial intelligence models, and the United States Department of War could lead to existential-level catastrophe.

if we really loved people we wouldn’t let so many suffer – I am sure our work on earth is to learn love and empathy. Art and poetry helps us in that goal as it’s made from an impulse of love and wonder of the world

Unserious clowna** country

They intentionally make it difficult. Yes, advocate for yourself and keep fighting. This is bullshit.

The big monkey did what we all wanted to do and gave Punch a huge hug.

An incredible embroidery by Reddit user u/a_warm_garlic_yurt of Punch the monkey with sleeping against his brown Ikea Djungelskog orangutan.

Someone on Reddit made an embroidery of Punch the monkey with his Ikea orangutan and it is ADORABLE

punch the baby monkey sleeping on his orange stuffed orangutan

punch the monkey with his orange stuffed orangutan

punch the monkey being HUGGED BY REAL MONKEYS

thank god punch has made friends with other monkeys i didn't know what i was going to do otherwise except for have a continuous inexplicable meltdown about it

He found a family last I knew.

“When cultural hegemony fades, so does this source of national self-confidence. It might be replaced by a more brittle kind of superiority that needs to be asserted not assumed.”

East-end youth say they are isolated by Montreal's public transit options They argue the lack of transit is a safety issue, restricts access to education, makes it harder to work and contributes to social exclusion.

“East-end youth say they are isolated by Montreal's public transit options”

Maybe we should build an automated light metro in the east end of the city, connecting it to downtown. It could work similarly to Vancouver’s SkyTrain.

Fair.

Not sure exactly where you are now, but these all exist in Montréal, where the Oh The Urbanity! folks live. Hubby and I would live there ourselves, but his pension job in our province, and we don't speak French very well...

A thousand times this.

There is no sense in which a chatbot can "help" with your schoolwork by making it easier; if it is easier, it is less useful for actual learning (effortful practice is HOW WE LEARN) and therefore the chatbot has not helped, but has only hindered.

A broken button with an helpful sign, a metaphor for my mood.

In 1922 Alfred Stieglitz made a series of photographs of cloudy skies, calling them Equivalents because they matched an emotion or mood he was feeling.

This is my Equivalent for today.

This. I'm concerned about places that don't necessarily have reliable internet as well.

Probably the most significant reduction from the Met Service. Curious how many rely on it... a number of mariners I have talked to, even in the Arctic, use "Windy"

There might be a better long-term solution.

The rising anti-trans bullshit over the past decade is a 100% fake, deliberately engineered moral panic that has escaped laboratory confinement. The fact that the news media is incapable of recognizing and reporting on that adequately is a searing indictment.

Oops! You're very welcome! ❤️

STOP LAUNCHING CRAP WE DON'T NEED OR WANT

It's staggeringly depressing how blithely they plan to ruin everything. Everything.

I went to a dark site last week so I could say goodbye to the sky. Took a little hand-held photo and guess what? A satellite trail appeared.

Just stop!

So, I genuinely appreciate Americans who have been vocally supportive of Canada.

But it’s also been... chilling seeing how many others (even left-leaning) tell us it’s all just a “joke” or “distraction”.

Or act like it’s totally OK to have not voted.

Or in general downplay / deflect from Trump.

Oh. And there is a Pharmacare program available for those on income assistance, too. I think you have to hit a certain threshold, but once you do, it's covered for the rest of that year.

THIS Supreme Court?