Prayer for Uninteresting Times Send me a slow news day,a quiet, subdued day,in which nothing much happens of note,save for the passing of time,the consumption of wine,and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote. Grant me a no news day,a spare-me-your-views day,in which nothing much happens at all,except a few hours togethersome regional weather,a day we can…
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The president says he wants to take on institutional real estate investors, but his track record says otherwise.
“We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada.” — Headline from op-ed in The Globe and Mail.
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Jamming vital infrastructure with Anne of Green Gables souvenirs
Giving birth to future resistance fighters without taking on crippling debt
Using that year-long parental leave to transform dried maple leaves into lethal throwing stars
Locating resistance headquarters in New Brunswick, where invading forces will never think to look
Casually walking past armored vehicles stuck in snowbanks without even offering to push
Conceding Alberta
Establishing an underground network consisting of retired men taking up tables all morning at Tim Hortons
Milk in plastic bags
Smiling politely at invaders but talking shit behind their back
Confounding invaders by using the metric system but also incorporating imperial measures in specific but not especially logical ways
The 13-year-old girl, who she was given parental responsibility over after being abandoned by her parents, could be sent into state care because of the Home Office's decision
I’ve been asked by a couple of friends, who have signed contracts to write nonfiction trade books, whether I have any advice on how to make sure the book gets written. I think in general non-fiction trade writing is quite a different challenge from academic writing, which I discussed here in 2022, when I was […]
As a new year begins and the blog starts afresh in 2026, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the highlights of the blog in 2025. In case you missed any of our posts the first time round, the five most viewed posts of last year were: We hope you enjoyed the blog … Continue reading Our top five posts of 2025
I grew up in a society where collective will was at the forefront and it is true to say people looked out for each other. The state – at all levels – had various policy structures in place to provide levels of economic protection for the least advantaged members of society. Having grown up in…
“It seems that the government is shutting down all avenues to remain transparent. Why does a government do that when there is nothing to hide?”
A former X exec who worked on Elon Musk’s embattled Grok chatbot got a “highly unusual” carveout to keep his company shares while working as the U.S. Patent Office’s “chief AI officer.”
“It is no surprise to either Marimar or myself that this happened and, unfortunately, it is going to continue to happen,” the Chicago woman’s lawyer said.
The post Chicago Woman Shot by Border Patrol Reacts to Minneapolis ICE Killing: “Of Course This Happened” appeared first on The Intercept.
While reporting on climate change isn’t always hopeful, the women I've met along the way are forging a path forward for intergenerational resilience.
The post Cybergene Audio Drama appeared first on Doctor Who Magazine.
Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new vulnerabilities.
It’s way more mundane.
When immensely complex, poorly-understood systems get hurriedly integrated into your toolset and workflow, or deployed in your infrastructure, what inevitably follows is leaks, compromises, downtime, and a whole lot of grief.
Complexity means cost and risk
LLM-based systems are insanely complex, both on the conceptual level, and on the implementation level. Complexity has real cost and introduces very real risk. These costs and these risks are enormous, poorly understood – and usually just hand-waved away. As Suha Hussain puts it in a video I’ll discuss a bit later:
ICE shot a woman point-blank in Minneapolis. The agency’s raids and impunity were always going to lead to death.
The post This Isn’t the First Killing by ICE — and It Won’t Be the Last appeared first on The Intercept.
So, some stuff has begun to come out though so far it’s all from the US and I haven’t seen Venezuelan confirmation. First, Trump: Second, the oil blockade per Hegseth (Secretary of War): And third, Miller: Meanwhile a Russian flagged oil tanker was seized. I’m not sure that it’s legitimately Russian flagged, there’s some indication […]
V1: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box.
V2: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box before breakfast.
V3: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box when company is over.
V4: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box when Grandma, who doesn’t like dogs, is over.
V5: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box in front of Mom/Dad.
V6: I will not eat out of the cat’s litter box as soon as Mom/Dad leaves the room.
V7: I will not growl when Mom/Dad interrupts me while I’m eating out of the litter box.
V8: I will not pretend I have no idea how I got kitty litter stuck to my nose.
V9: I will not wag my tail out of pride for foraging my own dinner when Mom/Dad catches me eating out of the litter box.
V10: I will not sigh deeply as if I am the victim after Mom/Dad catches me eating out of the litter box.
V11: I will not do tippy-taps when I am caught “digging a hole to China” while I’m looking for snacks in the litter box.
V12: I will not bring snacks from the litter box into Mom/Dad’s bed.
V13: I will not make “bad” smells in Mom/Dad’s bed after I eat out of the litter box.
The government’s top administrator of Medicaid and CHIP funds has no prior experience in public office — but he did run a health care technology firm.
In political epistemology, there is a lot of criticism of the metaphor of the “marketplace of ideas,” the thought that people somehow “trade” in arguments or ideas and thereby arrive at true beliefs.* The longer you think about it, the less sense it makes. Ideas come in networks, not as separately tradeable items; “trading” suggests […]
From the courtroom to the newsroom, Nicolás Maduro’s trial exposes how U.S. force is laundered through media language and legal theater, reviving an old doctrine of hemispheric control.
The post Maduro on Trial & Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ appeared first on MintPress News.
Donald Trump's decapitation of the Venezuelan Government opens the door to his Big Tech oligarch supporters' dreams of creating an anti-democratic 'Network State' in the country, reports Nafeez Ahmed
If there’s any question that the US is now more aligned with Russia rather than Europe, recent State Department decisions have removed all doubt