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Nova Scotia SVP for Vapourware Three-time winner of the Stakhanovite medal for labour valour
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STOP THE COUNT!!

Congratulations @usa, you are now the eleventh province

Just going off the three countries I pay the most attention to (USA, UK, CAN), it's crazy how much contemporary conservatives just openly hate their own countries and their compatriots

Thinking about how everyone who worked on this gets paid like $250k+ USD

reminded of something I wrote about Lauren Boebert back in 2020 theweek.com/articles/946...

Really great episode of Front Burner on Canada's right wing tech bros www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Fuck you Google Maps. I'm looking at this from Canada.A

This river catchment explorer thing is incredible. In some places it's completely wrong but it also absolutely nails the tiny little brooks in the miriamichi and st john river systems where my family fishes for trout topography.jessekv.com?lat=45.0543&...

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

The tweet from one of the DOGE crew asking for an LLM which could handle file conversation was like a lightbulb moment for me. What if the push for AI is, in part, because the biz bros replaced the coders but nobody but coders knows even the most basic stuff about computers anymore?

hungary remains an object lesson in how conservative anxieties about The Birthrate Thing lead directly to policies that are horrible for The Birthrate Thing, because--at bottom--they do not treat women like human beings, and women don't like it www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...

Ever heard it said that Canadians know more about Americans than Americans know about anything? This trade flap won’t even make it onto many Americans’ radar, whereas for some Canadians it will factor into every purchase decision they make for the rest of their lives.

there's no excuse for Poilievre's "border security" bullshit. Trump is clear. the tariffs are to crush us until we agree to annexation. there is no placating him. fight for Canada or get out of the fucking way

It’s pretty amazing that these guys are going with “Covid, which wasn’t a big deal, is the worlds greatest bio weapon, that we shouldn’t have cancelled school for a semester for, but also China did almost destroy the world, but don’t forget it’s also just the flu”

Threats aside, Vance is also just full of shit. The U.S. seized 19kg of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year, or 0.19 percent of the total fentanyl seized. Meanwhile, in 2023, Canada seized 27,000 prohibited weapons at the border. The U.S. seized 459 weapons coming from Canada.

"WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES" - Donald Trump (Free attack ad that the Democrats wont run)

Trudeau should have said he was going to increase fentanyl exports by 25%

The Venn Digram of people who think Pascal’s Wager is compelling, and people who refute the existence of anthropogenic climate change is a perfect circle full of the worst people on earth.

The world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake (Treasure Island) happens to be also located on the world's largest island lake (Manitoulin Island)

So is NAFTA/USMCA over? I guess the legality of Trumps tarriffs is super questionable, but either way, from a Canadian perspective, doesn't this end USMCA because the US isn't doing it anymore?

This is so cool - direct imaging of the exocomentary disks of other star systems skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

It's so funny that Musk always performativity claims to be sleeping at the office whenever his meddling caused a fuckup

Again, still, always: in an even halfway functional country this guy would be in prison for fraud, he's on an earnings call telling people outright lies about what his company is going to do