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YouTube video by CTV News Why Trump's tariffs could trigger a recession | CTV Question Period

Professor Paul Krugman commented on the incompetence of demented Donald Trump tariffs.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.

Paul Krugman, in his Substack musings this morning—blissfully unaware that China was about to drop a 34% tariff bomb on U.S. imports—sounded like a man trying to explain Keynesian economics to a room full of cats.

The narcissist in chief.

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Great depression or global financial collapse.

Ice storm in Prince Edward County. 2025

Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America|Hardcover This “stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet” (Booklist), in the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change i...

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"This is no abstract crisis—it’s the porch you can’t sit on because the heat chokes the air, the well that’s dry for the first time in a century. We’re not waiting for the end; we’re living it ..."

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/before-its...

Big oil gathers in Texas – but beneath the bravado, Trump-induced anxiety Energy summit in Houston makes clear US is nowhere close to curbing fossil fuels, but tariffs are causing disquiet

Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 15, 2025 ~ Friends of the devil.

"This week, the world’s most influential fossil-fuels conference, which has been dubbed the 'Coachella of oil', featured an industry displaying outward glee ..."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The smallest red carpet ever. And it’s in a puddle.🤣🤣🤣

Bravo Canada 👏🏽

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Unclear what purpose the apology for Wayne serves, given the origins of his privilege. That said, he has undeniably operated within the far-right accelerator communities and the broader post-humanist debate. Notably, discussions on AI & SAI have been Musk’s in Trump's Brain.

What is this era of calamity we’re in? Some say ‘polycrisis’ captures it The term ‘polycrisis’ has gained traction as we face one disaster after another. It’s overwhelming – but diagnosing the catastrophe is the first step to addressing it

Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 7, 2025 ~ Collapsmogeddonocalypse?

“We’ve moved so far and so fast outside our species’ previous experience that many elites don’t have the cognitive frame to grasp our situation, even were they inclined to do so”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If the trend continues, we're about a week away from global sea-ice extent re-entering "Gobsmacking Bananas" territory.

Stay tuned!

'Spare a thought for the poor old King,' is not a feeling I ever expected to have...

Back to back to back to back snow storms through eastern Ontario without a break, and severe cold temperatures were very unusual. The question we all collectively asked was when would it stop.

He certainly didn't come to the defense of Canada.

YouTube video by jesse mcfaul We Will Survive

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social European unity will begin to resemble Canadians' unity in light of threats of annexation by Trump. We'll never be the 51st State.

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 5, 2024 ~ Going dark.

“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.”

www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Why do we not care for one another. Luigi reminds us we need to.

Professors @ Berkeley built a thinking reasoning model for $450 last week. We can now create these thinking machines without the need for massive spending on pretraining the model. OpenAI will now need to rethink their entire business model about compute power but rather manpower. Sputnik moment.

January, 2025, will likely be the warmest January since 1940, and possibly the warmest January in the last 120,000 years.

5 days worth of data to go --

I presume it’s all Rachel Reeves’ fault?

Marshall McLuhan often reminded us that all hardware becomes software.

For anyone who wants to make a bet on the end of the world with a friend, relative or work colleague:

My estimate on passing 2.0°C above the pre-industrial baseline is no earlier than 2035 and no later than 2040. So, take the "Under" on 2040 and the "Over" on 2035.

Starbucks is going to be renamed Megabucks.