I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.
The biggest change in software development is not AI code, but a permission structure for disregarding quality in the pursuit of velocity
#Canada's #oil #industry might not be great at building pipelines, but it has become expert at creating scapegoats for its #failures and PR nightmares for even modest proposals to pay for its own pollution.
@nationalobserver.com
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/24/o...
"there has always been kind of a greater fool who has been willing to buy these kinds of #SpeculativeAssets, in the hope that the price will go up, and they will continue to be able to sell them off to some other greater fool ...and that bubble seems to be popping."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m2R...
“the reverse movement of history”
...strengthening an ascending tendency also strengthens the opposition to it, laying the seeds of its own unraveling.
@noemamag.com #Inequality #Economy #Wealth
www.noemamag.com/extreme-ineq...
American people: they are not who they think they are, and far short of what they once were. Americans as a people today are unequal to their nation's history and to their own sense of greatness.
@thelineca.bsky.social #America
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Prime Minister Carney's speech at Davos is sending a message of Canada's determination to the world.
Canada is united at this time in the face of staggering levels of threat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5aQ...
"The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently. And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us."
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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026
"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit of integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination." // @mark-carney.bsky.social
#WEF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStu...
“We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be”
The world as it is, and not as we wish it to be. The year 2026 is still just a newborn thing, and yet those words feel like its epitaph and savage lesson in one.
#Canada #Economy #Trade #Pragmatism
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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3bd5040...
Hi there, I would like to talk about paywalls
Today I had a rather large article drop in Slate and there was a soft paywall. A lot of people commented upset about that paywall
Let's talk about:
a) how to get around paywalls
b) why you shouldn't be mad about them
...a warning that the #propaganda that empowered this bubble is failing as it hits reality. It is a sign that the financial booby trap Big Tech has set for itself is about to go off in its face.
@groktr.bsky.social @microsoft.com #OpenAI #AI #Hype
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-ind...
Lol. Guessing they just wanted to keep the operation a secret from the Russians.
Presidential Panic
#Americans saw a #president drenched in #panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
QUOTE OF THE YEAR:
"If you really can't see the difference between Zelensky & Putin, between Churchill & Hitler, between good & evil, between the aggressor & those who are attacked, then fuck off" — #TimothyGartonAsh
#YaschaMounk #SabinaCudic #NathalieTocci
www.persuasion.community/p/the-good-f...
We still seek material resources, however much they change. Ours include oil, uranium, and rare earths, but the shape of the quest remains the same. The center is here; the resource is there. The line between them is a lifeline and a noose.
#StephenPiment
letter.palladiummag.com/p/the-bronze...
Image from The Onion featuring a photo of House Speaker Mike Johnson standing stiff and emotionless at the U.S. Capitol podium. Accompanying the photo is the satirical headline: “Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’”
Another unspoken truth, via @theonion.com:
Was literally thinking ~2 weeks ago how the era of JavaScript frameworks was so much more fun than what the industry is obsessed with now.
The JS era was democratic, anyone could invent, innovate.
The AI era feels like an oligarchy creating a tragedy of the commons.
Hey #Canada! Let's crush the #US #AutoIndustry, just like we are crushing their #TourismIndustry and #WineIndustry.
Fuck 'em.
It's easier than you think
@clauskellerman.bsky.social #DougFord
#BoycottUScars #BoycottUSAcars #BoycottUSauto #BoycottUSAauto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtRq...
US Pedophile In Chief, Donald J. Trump, in the middle of the dumbest speech in history, at the UN general meeting.
It was not the longest #speech in #UN history...
It was not the most provocative speech in UN history...
It wasn’t even the most dangerous speech in UN history...
But it was definitely the #dumbest speech that delegates have ever had to listen to...
@billmckibben.bsky.social
bit.ly/3Ikri3x
American Arrogance off the charts
youtu.be/4mdDy7MLEb0?...
We are ditching them fast.
youtu.be/WgWXsCUGAwM?...
Hey #Canada.
We definitely made the correct choice back in the Spring.
@cfr.org #CanadianPM @mark-carney.bsky.social #UN #BuildCanadaStrong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuZ...
#America has become a country where armed officers of the state shout “Papers please!” on the street at men and women heading home from work, a vision we associate with the Gestapo in Nazi Germany or the KGB in Soviet Russia...
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Canada leads the World in US boycott
youtu.be/WhcyJLKrSX4?...
A richness of embarrassments.
[#Trump] may imagine the world admires him the way his hangers-on pretend to. The truth, however, is that the world sees him as a dangerous buffoon.
@paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bonfir...
"Like all the best Americans, I'm a Canadian."
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy #Enshittification #Copyright #RightToRepair #Monopoly #BuildANewInternet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...
