Real Time Street Level Vehicle Exhaust Emission Monitoring
A team of researchers have used the NYC traffic congestion charge as a place to test out some of their hypothesis. Spoiler: the city got better and air quality improved.…
Surgical services minister says Alberta plans to set up a ‘voucher’ system for patients awaiting surgery
On April 21, “Hospital and Surgical Health Services Minister” Matt Jones got up on his hind legs in the Alberta Legislature and spoke the following words: “We’re looking at developing…
Southern Poverty Law Center tries to avoid angering MAGA but still gets targeted [ThreeWayFight]
Matthew N Lyons For decades the Southern Poverty Law Center was a mixed bag. On the plus side, it produced valuable research reports about the far right and brought lawsuits…
Bears And Ad Hominems
It has been said that wounded bears can be particularly dangerous. They can lash out and put others in peril. Their rage often knows no bounds.Something similar unfolded in the…
Disinformation For Profit
A medical student in India needing to pay his tuition asked Google’s Gemini for help making additional money and turned the responses into a lucrative fake AI-generated MAGA influencer he…
Sunday Funday: Catching up with the news about Iran and Ukraine, plus lots of fun posts, Getting Old(er), NSFW, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers
We had quite a year this week. Sunny and warm, then windy, then a foot of snow! Anyway, it looks like its all over now - we might actually get…
Carrie Tait named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by National Newspaper Award judges for scoops about UCP corruption scandal
On Friday, Globe and Mail journalist Carrie Tait and four of her colleagues received a National Newspaper Award for their work exposing dodgy health-care contracts tied to Alberta’s United Conservative…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Rita Bhowmick writes about the importance of care services both in keeping people healthy and ensuring equitable work opportunities. And Steven Lewis examines the…
Parking the cat
A large cat with wheels looking for a parking spot
Noted in passing: Maritimer and Arlene Dickinson on Poilievre; Andrew Coyne and IFLOZ on America; Black Cloud Six, Philippe Lagassé, and Shankar Narayan on Canadian defense
I have said for years the secret of Trump's appeal is that his followers worship him as The Golden Calf - because he has no philosophy of his own, he…
Musical interlude
Metric - Tremolo
Thoughts on Education
This is not intended to be a comprehensive treatise on education but some thoughts on certain aspects of the education system. It is written within the context of the Ontario…
Public grocery stores—a good idea, or not?
Government-run grocery stores have become an item among progressives lately. Inspired perhaps by the new... The post Public grocery stores—a good idea, or not? first appeared on Views from the…
The Unknowable and Inevitable Mourning
I’m curious about the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and spirituality, and the more I read, the more closely they all appear to intertwine until they’re sometimes indistinguishable. Buddhism overlaps with…
Today’s News: Watching the Dunning-Kruger Effect in real time. Plus an Epstein-gate Update
The Dunning-Kruger effect is when incompetent people do not have enough knowledge to know that they are incompetent, nor do they recognize competency in others. They don’t know what they…
Danielle Smith launches tax-funded propaganda blitz to pump fall referendum drive
What we do know is that the United Conservative Party Government led by Premier Danielle Smith yesterday launched a propaganda blitz that will use all Albertans’ tax contributions to persuade…
Thursday Night Cat Blogging
Curled-up cat.
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Samantha Hancox-Li writes about the need to build a new woke political movement that actively fights against the forces of reaction rather than…
Palantir, Part 2.0
Palantir, as discussed by Dean Blundell. The post Palantir, Part 2.0 first appeared on Excited Delirium.