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tjradcliffe.bsky.social
Physicist, Breakthrough Prize Laureate (SNO), poet, engineer, writer, actor, sailor, canoeist, kayaker, boat-builder, businessman, philosopher (Bayesian), executive, entrepreneur (unsuccessful), consulting scientist, inventor, husband, father.
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I have signed this and encourage all Canadians to do so.

submitted 6 minutes ago • 0 comments

How anyone feels about this is irrelevant. Trump's threat to our sovereignty is a violation of international law. End of discussion. I am so sick of the quislings in the media legitimizing the criminal actions of a fascist dictator.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

CBC trying to explain how a "conversation" about whether Canada has a right to exist as a nation will be good because they have asked an American DJ to co-host. Like asking Ukraine to join a "conversation" with Russia about their borders. But don't worry it will be done with "care."

submitted 1 hour ago • 65 comments

Seriously, an adult needs to shut this down.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

~The St. Albert Gazette has been knocking it out of the park in exposing #UCPCorruption Timeline of how lobbyists with ties to UCP pushed coal policy rewrite The coal industry hired at least 14 UCP insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/t...

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Canadians, I propose we annex @ianhanomansing.bsky.social 's house! What are your thoughts? Should we let him still live there? Or put him out on the street? Maybe just build a wall out front unless he gives his house to us? We should really have a totally normal discussion about this, right?

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

When the CBC has made Charlie Angus an opponent you know they've screwed up as badly as it's possible to do.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

I actually managed to not swear! I did, however, call them "miserable quisling numpties."

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the predictable result of Hanomansing sanewashing the situation. It's not "comments" or a "proposal". It's an existential threat to Canada.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

i love how elon has just re-invented needless bureaucracy

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

Doug Ford needs to cancel Ontario’s contract with Starlink now. Absolutely solidarity with Ukraine but also to avoid it being used as a bargaining chip by Musk and Trump against Canada. Right now, Premier Ford.

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

I know we’re all used to getting our voter card before voting, but this is a snap election and you may not get it in time! You don’t need it. Go vote! #topoli #onpoli

submitted 6 hours ago • 22 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1499 comments

Rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. /c @lizdye.bsky.social @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

"Effective reform requires a nuanced understanding of how power operates. It means addressing regulatory inefficiencies and overreach without dismantling the fundamental structures that disperse power and protect liberty." Clear and insightful analysis of power. All power gets used.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

In the course of six years of rainfall measurement I've gone from a simple cup/ruler, to a cone, to an RPi0-driven computerized gauge. The cup-to-cone was a step back in a lot of ways: the cone is mis-calibrated by 30% so I have to correct every reading. We'll see if the RPi0 is an improvement!

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

"After the war they tried to persuade public health officials to take the threat of airborne infection seriously. But infectious disease experts, fighting against outbreaks and preparing for emergence of new diseases mostly ignored them, even when it meant accepting basic mistakes about physics."

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Robustness--what is described here as "error tolerance"--is among the most important virtues of any epistemology. If a way of knowing can't accommodate our proclivity for being wrong, it is useless. Bayesian epistemology embodies this virtue like nothing else I know of.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Sigh. Having a viral moment over on The Bad Place and so much of it is folks who are infuriated at the idea of historical expertise because it doesn't flatter their notions that history is about Great Men and the Greatest Man, invariably either Donald Trump or Elon Musk.

submitted 8 hours ago • 28 comments

Opinion: Any competent strategist knows that to win wars, you must seize, and keep, the initiative. Surprise the Trump cabal.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

Kipling, "The Old Issue", 20 and 21: 'He shall peep and mutter; and the night shall bring Watchers ’neath our window, lest we mock the King— Hate and all division; hosts of hurrying spies; Money poured in secret, carrion breeding flies.'

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

As an American, I am BEGGING Canadians with brains and hearts (which I think is most), to learn from our mistakes. Do not validate hateful aggressive rhetoric as though it’s just another idea to be debated fairly.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Part of the point of the past month was to overwhelm the system — journalists, the civil service, lawyers, NGOs, etc. It was to make Trump seem prepared, powerful, and disciplined. But his movement is none of those things. Their victory is not a foregone conclusion.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 12 hours ago • 1185 comments

Coming soon “Canada Bleeds”! Five prominent Canadians each select one form of unconventional warfare with which to counter US war crimes! After each day's debate the Capitulation Broadcasting Corporation trivializes all forms of resistance, until only one winner remains, the US.

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Freedom of press means freedom to ask this question, which is fine. It's his right. But freedom of speech means the rest of us get to compare the choice to French media discussing the benefits of a Vichy collaborator government, minutes before the actual Nazi invasion.

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

Wittingly or not, garden variety idiot or outright traitor/quisling, @ianhanomansing.bsky.social just shifted the #OvertonWindow FOR Trump, FOR the annexation of Canada. Argue about Ian's intent (and that of the #CBC etc) if you like but that shifting work, that damage got done either way. #cdnpoli

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

The quisling who's drizzling with contempt for his audience while chiseling away at Canadian democracy, wants to know how we feel about it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

submitted 12 hours ago • 135 comments

Updated version. H/t to @ladyscorcher.bsky.social

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

alt cross country checkup topic: How will you personally fight the efforts of the USA to annex our country?

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments