It was a hell of a love letter.

The party of free markets, of Reagan, the intellectual heirs of Milton Friedman, the champions of market forces over big government, and of free enterprise and small business over the jackboots of government intervention.

The High Seas Treaty has officially come into effect 🌊

High Seas sustain global-scale ecosystem functions and provide essential benefits.

As stated in the IPBES 🌍 #GlobalAssessment , improving shared governance is crucial to facing these challenges and protecting biodiversity. 🏡🧪

Next Artemis missing needs a bigger Nutella pump. @nasa

Almost?

N.S. provincial funding offers lifeline to six museums | CBC News Half of the 12 provincial museums that were slated for closure are going to reopen with support from a provincial funding program, but the executive director of the Association of Nova Scotia Museums ...

Budget cuts made in secret. Now secret side deals to allow some NS Museums to stay open but at the expense of others. Its almost as if theyre making it up as they go along. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Now Trump Reportedly Wants Nation’s Highest Military Honor... For Himself The president has been talking about giving himself the Medal of Honor, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Well that would be some exec. order on his last day.
But i refuse to believe it. gossip not news.
Giving mad man madness in news. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This war is so damn confusing. It’s why we shouldn’t let drunks and dementia patients run it.

If you think BECCS (using wood as an electricity source, hoping to capture carbon) will save us, you should really read this paper.

Postdoc Fellow - Spatial Variation of Youth Health & Well-being.

Apologies for super short timeline as closing is 2026-04-24 (just came across my email) dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/20847

From being a mere scientific curiosity, universally believed to be of no practical Value, it has now become an important factor in the daily business and social life of this and other large cities" 3/3

and it is not only wonderful, but deeply interesting to the student of science, as it involves several of the most prominent physical discoveries of modern times. It is a monument of persevering and difficult study and experiment. 2/3

More fun from SciAmer Jan 1880 "The Future of the Telephone." (don't know why I'm diving so far into the past ? :-) )

"It is difficult to conceive of an invention more marvelous than that which enables persons to converse with each other without regard to the space that separates them; 1/3

Excellent point. I forgot "don't like books. brain work hard."

Carney says Canada’s strong economic ties to US are ‘weakness’ to be corrected Prime minister details efforts to attract investment and sign trade deals with other countries in 10-minute video address

Donald's not gonna be happy...
not about the details,
but about seeing the words
Canada, Carney, strong and weakness
in the same sentence.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Lab colleagues tell me its Monday. Of course. There's a meeting first thing. Dreary view inside and out. :-)

Parkinson's Awareness Month Lessons

When I get timing & med dosage right things "calm down" and there are great "on" times. Tremors minor so I can do things like write, hold glass of water.

When I screw-up (today!) "off" times revenge! Dropping. Spilling. Shaking. Dizzy. shit.

Meds r grand

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Dear Santa. It's almost as sweet as #LEGO
(Halifax roads :-) with the bike lanes as fractured as they are)

A swan's arse in the air

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the river.

Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet…

It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

Canadian astronaut’s bon mots help heal wounds from French language row Jeremy Hansen praised for speaking French in space after Air Canada chief’s linguistic snub exposed tensions and drew rebuke from PM

Just one more reason why he's a the coolest. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half marathon Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing

Do they take oil breaks?
What's next? Ok, I don't want to know.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

I can't stomp, but my fists will pound the table for hours! :-)

Oddly, yes. Weird way to show it. But I think it still works :-)

It will be a seismic event, literally. Seismographs around the world will record the most wonderful tremor of all time. The ground shaking as we all, simultaneously, jump for joy. It will be a time accompanied by a giant sigh of relief, a smile and a spring in our step we forgot we had. R.I.H. DJT

And the winner is....

Good one. DIdn't watch that match, but you've told me all I need to know :-)

Toughest match going from 2-1 to 2-2. From 3 points to 1.
Harder still? It was tied by, literally, the last kick of the match...seconds. That's gotta be sad or bad luck. But mostly huge defensive error by Halifax.

"The future of the telephone." Sci.Amer. Jan 10 1880.

Things really do change, and yet not so much.

"What would formerly have taken centuries to accomplish-or what the most fearless minds would scarcely have dared to dream of undertaking - is now done in a day."

We've gotten fast, not smart.