2/ kiss any summer plane travel plans good bye
Everyone's out of jet fuel just before peak travel season...
"Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer as war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring"
apnews.com/article/air-...
There’s some good stuff on that table!
Do Canadians know how awful Indigo Books & Music is to their in-store workers? Support inpendent bookstores whenever possible.
The image shows the exterior of the National Archives building with large American flags hanging between the columns. A text overlay reads: "The AHA and American Oversight seek emergency court action to block Trump effort to evade Presidential Records Act."
Records that show how presidential decisions are made could be lost permanently.
These records are essential to understanding decision-making at the highest levels of government. The AHA and American Oversight have taken emergency legal action to protect them.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ccLGzA
Oceanographers, simultaneously the most mild-mannered and the most terrifying people you’ll ever meet
The old media regime dominated by TV and newspapers has perished, and the social media "revolution" has demonstrated its inability to fill the void left behind...now is the time for serious folks to be imagining the shape of what might come next.
The incomparable @samamidon.bsky.social and @jakexerxesfussell.bsky.social sharing the stage in Toronto last night. Wonderful!
IMF'S GOURINCHAS LESSON FROM 1970S, IS YOU DON'T WANT AN ENERGY SHOCK TO TURN INTO AN ONGOING INFLATION PROBLEM
Footnotes > endnotes every time.
We've built an entire economy around selling people the feeling of control through bets, hacks, subscriptions, and optimization. But the model only works if people stay desperate.
New essay on control and agency, financial nihilism, belief markets, the manosphere, and spectacle during war.
🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated:
More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector
$925 million for AI
$81.8 billion over 5 years for military
However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.
Oil futures markets were, from the start, a neoliberal fantasy about efficient price discovery. The last chapter of my book covers this. This article, too: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...).
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
Historians--is there any interesting work on the 'price of eggs' as a standin for inflation, pocketbook politics, etc. It is the go to right now--any previous examples?
Oil futures markets were, from the start, a neoliberal fantasy about efficient price discovery. The last chapter of my book covers this. This article, too: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...).
I really hope the gov can see it through! Unfortunately, this kind of sensible development gets politicized, as if conservative voters wouldn't benefit from better public transit. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
This past fall I was lucky enough to get to take a train from Paris to Lyon. It took 2 hours to go 467km. The distance from TO to QC is a little less than double that (805km). If we could get a train to do that in, say, 4-5 hours, we would really have something.
It takes way, waaayyy too long to take a @viarailcanada.bsky.social train from Toronto to Quebec City in 2026. Way too long. #Canada #transit
Reminder: Stocks of Suncor, the owner of, once public-owned, Petro-Canada, are up over 12% in the past month of war.
@avilewis.ca @ndp.ca
You can now order the paperback directly from @princetonupress.bsky.social at a 30% discount by entering the code PUP30 on their order form!
I'm thrilled to be taking part in a public dialogue re: energy and society at @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social with Steve Keen on May 15 at 1pm EDT. It's online and free, so please join us!
davidgraeber.institute/end-of-the-w...
I'm thrilled to be taking part in a public dialogue re: energy and society at @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social with Steve Keen on May 15 at 1pm EDT. It's online and free, so please join us!
davidgraeber.institute/end-of-the-w...
‘Without the labour of social reproduction – nursing infants, caring for children, cooking meals, laundering clothes, making beds, tending to sickness – there could be no wage labourers marching off to the fields and the workshops.’
Tom Johnson on early modern work.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I wish science could explain what’s happening.
I think about this every day. The reading habits of even the most dedicated readers are being eroded by labor intensification.
Jesus literally said not to do this ⚓
Headline: Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
The federal government *dramatically overcompensated* for abuse by some colleges in international student visas, and now Canada's long-term prosperity and its university systems both get to suffer unnecessarily as a result.
Rude @professormusgrave.bsky.social
