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Thu, 08/01/2026 - 23:20

“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

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Thu, 08/01/2026 - 17:24
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…
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Thu, 08/01/2026 - 11:25

“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.

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Thu, 08/01/2026 - 08:08

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:

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Thu, 08/01/2026 - 06:33
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 […]