ChatGPT: Our faulty arbiter of the truth
This blog was written by my son Blake, who teaches junior high school in Edmonton. By BLAKE TOUGAS I want to create a commercial for ChatGPT. It can feature well-to-do…
#ndpldr Links
I haven't yet put together the candidate profiles and other posts I'm planning for the ongoing NDP leadership campaign. But for now, I'll take time to survey a few noteworthy…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Samantha Hancox-Li writes about the need for the U.S.' citizenry to retake power from a militarized surveillance state through nonviolent organized resistance. And Philip…
The Cowardly Racist
I have been doing a lot of reading lately, and a book that I highly recommend, especially to Americans who deny their country's innate racism, is The Warmth of Other…
Friday night wrap-up: Stephen Marche on Canadians, Paul Krugman on Americans, plus Greenland, Olympic cheers & boos, ICE Gestapo, Trump racism, Minnesota brave, Ian McKellen does Shakespeare
Ken Danby - At The CreaseStarting tonight with some good news stories. In the New York Times, Stephen Marche writes a brilliant opinion piece: We Are All Canadians Now (gift…
Musical interlude
Metric - Victim of Luck
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Seybold writes about the message sent at Davos that AI will be forced on people regardless of whether they want it (or whether…
2 Men Attacked By President
Here are two famous men attacked by the Orange Menace. I was impressed by this interview, especially given that he is facing unfounded charges. The goons doing this to journalists…
Daylight Saving Time Is Stupid
So will this be the year we stop having to change our clocks twice a year. We have a month to make the decision. If I understand it we change…
Today’s News: The Olympics!!!
Canadian curler Brett Gallant (photo Carmen Mandato Getty Images)There was lots of actual news today -- bitcoin crashing, Trump making a fool of himself at a prayer breakfast, Poilievre desperately…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Seva Gunitsky notes that the same culture of elite impunity is behind both the Epstein files and Donald Trump's Russian connections. And Alan…
Pasting Facebook is blah
Nothing says trust the antiwaxxer more than them saying they hadn’t heard of a form of heart disease before they thought they could blame the COVID vaccine for it. Below…
Trump’s Nazification of the USA
Project 2025 was the MAGA world’s blueprint for turning the USA into a totalitarian state run by President — now dictator in all but name — Donald Trump. But the…
OK, Stephen Harper didn’t sign the separation petition, but he needs to say and do more
It’s all very well that Stephen Harper has assured Canadians he didn’t sign Alberta’s separation referendum petition, but that’s not good enough. It was, as the CBC’s online wordsmith put…
Updates: Our Teflon prime minister, some Epstein updates, Elon’s despair, and admiring American courage
Just a random bunch of updates tonight.I think we can call him Teflon Carney As Canadians get to know Prime Minister Carney, we're seeing that he is becoming one of…
Wind 5 – Trump 0
The issue on which the world’s most dangerous man is most dangerous is the environment,... The post Wind 5 – Trump 0 first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
The Perfidious Lust for Unbridled Power
Saving this here. It's the beautifully penned order, in full, from Fred Biery, U.S. District Judge, a federal judge who ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Arias and his…
The Fakeness of Poilievre’s Leadership Victory
Mainstream media disingenuously called the vote to keep the rage-farming Trump mimic, Pierre Poilievre, on as CPC leader “a resounding endorsement.” Global News claimed “Members of the Conservative Party of…
The End Won’t Be The End
One day, the orange popsicle will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West.
Epstein files reveal the scum who think they can do whatever they like
In a comment on my post yesterday, Cap writes: Three Canadian billionaires have been accused of serial rapes of young women/girls in the last couple of years: Robert Miller, Peter…