Patterns, Facts, and AI
Replying to this thread.I think if you scan through a hundred papers and find a pattern in those papers, and use that pattern to make something, you haven't copied anything.Harder…
Tariff Suggestion Box: Maybe we should just send Trump a few million?
So it looks like the tariffs are on, and the suggestions are coming thick and fast -- some funny, some serious: First up, maybe a bribe? When I read Josh…
#American Products and Services YOU Can #Cancel Immediately
The American boycott begins. The post #American Products and Services YOU Can #Cancel Immediately first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Musical interlude
John Summit feat. CLOVES - Focus
Pledge for Canada
Previous generations fought to protect our democracy and sacrificed to build the Canada we inherited. This is our time. In the face of threats of economic coercion from our neighbour…
What If Trump’s Health Is Failing?
There's a bundle posts on YouTube and other places on the Internet speculating wildly about Trump's health, and whether or not he will live through the entirety of his second…
Not for sale
It came! Canada’s (sovereign) future is so bright, I gotta wear shades!
Legal News Post of the Day: January 31, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Ontario advocates launch employment toolkit, say criminal records 'shouldn't act as a life sentence' #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/WOsespePJV - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
What If Trump’s Health Is Failing?
There's a bundle posts on YouTube and other places on the Internet speculating wildly about Trump's health, and whether or not he will live through the entirety of his second…
A fresh new slogan
At least it doesn’t rhyme
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week.- Michael Harris discusses how Donald Trump's taking power has reordered Canadian politics. But lest we be too confident of a united front in responding…
Some Plausible Canadian Responses
With the unhinged one who is now leading the U.S. seemingly intent on wreaking economic havoc upon Canada, astute readers of newspapers have a panoply of suggestions as to how…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from February 24, 2010
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from February 24, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Human Rights Tribunal Orders Money Mart to Pay$30,000 for Failure to Investigate Harassment https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/ontario-human-rights-tribunal-orders....
Here’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our media
Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr The recent national panic over alleged foreign influence on our elected officials has seen politicians and journalists alike issue calls to name the suspected “trai...
Wood fibre insulation — performance-competitive, renewable, carbon-negative product
PBS show This Old House had a segment involving an idle paper mill on Maine's Kennebec River, a site now used to manufacture wood-based insulation. TimberHP is the first wood…
Trump 2 The Revenge Tour: Son of Sharpie-gate
What a shameful day - 67 people die and Trump makes it all about him. This is really just another "Sharpie-gate" -- remember in 2019 Trump insisted that he hadn't…
Raj Pannu, gentlemanly and scholarly leader of Alberta’s NDP from 2000 to 2004, is fondly remembered
When Raj Pannu first won Edmonton-Strathcona riding for the Alberta NDP in 1997, he took the riding by 58 votes. In those days, Edmonton-Strathcona was not the NDP bastion it…
Nothing Left anymore, right turns only
I have never liked the left-right, straight line concept of a political spectrum. I prefer to think of a u-shaped curve that moves from progressive to reactionary, with extremes of…
Everything Is Getting Dangerous
Here we are, on the eve of the US President economically attacking his country’s closest trading partner and ally with the world’s longest undefended border. The Orange Menace aims to…