drew brown

It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.

18ish months so i have lots of time to be normal about it

nobody wants to hear it but the corollary to the "everybody is 12" theory is that "everybody is 40".

'in this house we believe in science' of course man. you're 40. 'our political opponents will respect the rule of law' they won't bro but you're 40, it's fine. 'its too loud, i have tinnitus' dude,

"I didn't say I wanted to. I said I will" got damn

ugh i guess i should update my linkedin too

oh whoops i dont think i posted about it here but i started a clinical internship last week. and it rules!!

finished my first week of seeing participants in a community clinic. i know it won't always feel this way, but right now it feels energizing, restorative, & affirming to do this work. savouring this sense of living the dream for the inevitably hard days later. but i am definitely in the right place.

This was one of the most interesting, candid conversations I’ve had while reporting from the tech beat.

@anildash.com did NOT pull any punches diagnosing what is happening with the tech industry.

If you feel like tech shit is melting your brain lately, read this

it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

deeply annoyed to learn that irv yalom's line re: "sooner or later the patient has to relinquish the hope of having a better past" also applies to me

getting really into the spirit of the season by reading the personal memoirs of ulysses s. grant

actually that's a lie. the 18 month window when i rented a midcentury condo in a heritage building on jasper ave in edmonton was awesome and did fix most of my problems at the time

it has never actually worked before but this time i'm pretty sure that moving into a new apartment will fix me

Microsoft Logo w/ the Four Humors written on individual blocks of the window. Orange is Sanguine Green is Melancholic Blue is Phlegmatic Yellow is Choleric

this is me browsing sweaters on poshmark

one of the more bleak aspects of ai chatbots is it’s starting to blow up real marriages

sorry everyone. i kept saying "environment minister chris tibbs" as a joke about the NL election outcome so this one's on me

famously, the best way to de-politicize an issue is by putting it to a referendum

the really cool thing is that the situation gets worse the denial will get stronger

about two weeks ago i got together with two friends and we went down through every district in the province and we couldnt see the liberals winning more than 15 seats. which seemed so unreasonable at the time that i just assumed we were extremely pessimistic and out of touch. anyway. we live in hell

it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this

Wakeham says no link between N.L. wildfires, oil industry in campaign where climate change largely absent | CBC News The 2025 provincial election is happening in the direct aftermath of one of the worst climate-related disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador’s recent history.

To be crystal clear: it's not about what the scientists "told CBC News", not just informed opinion. The science itself is very clear. You can question perhaps the degree of NL contribution to climate change, but it's fact that the oil from here is a contributor. Full stop. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

‘You’re a liar’: Fiery debate between PC and Liberal candidate in Grand Falls-Windsor sees both hurl accusations PC incumbent Chris Tibbs and Liberal challenger Barry Manuel spent time attacking each other, and afterwards said they would do it again. The CBC’s Troy Turner has the story.

i stand corrected. feeling a lot of hometown pride rn www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

unfortunately they don't make em like this anymore

Seismic shift needed to address N.L. housing crisis, experts say – The Independent Housing is a human right in Canada, yet unchecked rent hikes, Airbnb pressure, and landlord-lawmakers have left thousands in Newfoundland and Labrador one paycheck away from homelessness

Twelve out of 40 MHAs elected since 2021 are landlords, a higher percentage than most provinces and an unknown fact to most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. #nlpoli #Election2025

Read the story from Isaac Peltz 👇
theindependent.ca/news/seismic...

How N.L. became the life (and death) of the party – The Independent We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up

We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up

Read Part 2 of Drew Brown's analysis of N.L.'s political system ahead of the 2025 provincial election on Oct. 14.
#nlpoli
theindependent.ca/commentary/a...

How N.L. became the life (and death) of the party – The Independent We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up

for part 2/2 of my "NL Politics 101" series, I survey the breadth of newfoundland history to show that the reason all the problems keep repeating is because the party system hasn't changed since the last time it broke our democracy.

it doesn't have to be this way! theindependent.ca/commentary/a...

The Anna Karenina principle states that for success to occur in a complex endeavor, all key factors must be present and work correctly. The endeavor does not succeed when even one essential element is missing, meaning there are many different ways to fail. It is named for Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel Anna Karenina, which begins: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This suggests happy families resemble one another because they possess the necessary traits for happiness, whereas unhappy families may have any variety of

The whole discourse about whether the plagiarism machine is a person, has been poisoned by the fact that the people on one side of it have used the plagiarism machine to destroy their ability to think.