This is a pretty well known phenomenon. Discount stores sell smaller packages of things so the price per package is lower, but the price per g/ml is much higher… being poor is expensive.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

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My Blissful, Unbothered Life as a ‘Do Not Disturb’ Maximalist I turned off my phone notifications for an entire week. It made me a less disturbed person, but the people closest to me got annoyed.

For one week, I proudly joined the growing tribe of Do Not Disturb maximalists who have their notifications silenced 24/7. My experience as part of the DND crew felt transcendent, albeit a bit annoying for everyone trying to get in touch with me.

www.wired.com/story/my-bli...

"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.

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The 2025 State of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Canada A little over two weeks ago, the Government of Canada released its 2025 Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks in Canada to very little media attention.

From the Insight Monitor archives, here's a look at the state of money laundering and terrorist financing enforcement in Canada. A must-read for anyone in the financial crime space:

newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/the-2025-s...

Industry Day Join us for FINTRAC’s virtual Industry Day.

If you're working in #compliance #AML in 🇨🇦, this one is not to be missed.

I love that #FINTRAC is offering more frequent, accessible, and free events for industry participants 🥳

www.eventbrite.ca/e/industry-d...

Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes) YouTube video by 404 Media

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This is the best use of a chatbot that I’ve found so far: if you get a text purporting to be from your financial service provider, log into your app and ask their chatbot if the number is legit.

Bonus points to Wealthsimple for coding the bot to ask if you want to speak to a human 🤖

Absolutely love this video of two 50 y-o women attempting every Winter Olympic sport (and laughing throughout). This is the #Joy we need to cultivate in our lives.
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Don’t ban teenagers from social media Restrictions would do more harm than good

Youngsters have a right to share in new technologies. Adults must seek to make their time online as safe and as rewarding as possible

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

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Trichomonas and Brooklyn Blackout Cake Emails and texts show a warm relationship between Urologist and Jeffrey Epstein

I wrote about the urologist, Harry Fisch MD, who was a celebrity MD in the 2010s and who had a warm relationship with Epstein that was not just medical. Haircuts, dinner with Woody Allen and Dick Cavett, and Brooklyn blackout cake. Deserves same derision as Attia. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files A note from investigators in the files said some images Epstein had were "POSSIBLE CSAM."

“Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous,” a group of 18 survivors of Epstein’s abuse said in a joint statement reacting to the release of data exposing their identities.

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The big picture to keep in mind is that modern destabilization and foreign interference usually isn’t about invasion. It’s about: undermining trust, amplifying division, convincing people their own system is illegitimate.

Once enough people believe that, outside pressure becomes easier to justify.

Our highest loyalty doesn't belong to people or parties. It belongs to principles.

If you wouldn't accept it from your opponents, you shouldn't accept it from your allies.

Integrity is standing by your values even when your own group violates them.

my girlfriend just tried to describe a podcast to me as "there's two guys yelling at each other about random stuff, and one of them is maybe a little bit in love with the other." babe that's every podcast

Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...

The Life Cycle of Dirty Money 2026

For my fellow compliance & fincrime geeks, these sessions should be excellent discussions of the rapidly evolving financial crime space in 🇨🇦 and the price is right (free).
vaci2026.heysummit.com

If you’ve never added cardamom to butter cream icing, try it. You’re welcome 🫶

One of the most important pieces of advice that I got from a famous friend is that it’s ok to block people. You don’t need to justify it. If someone is wasting your time being awful, you don’t owe them anything. Block and never think of them again. It frees up your time & energy to do other things.

The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent We’re looking for a writer to join us in London for 12 months

Are you a science and technology aficionado? We are looking for someone to report on anything from astronomy to archaeology, particle physics to synthetic biology.

Apply by September 28th:

When you get defensive about feedback, you fail twice. You fail to learn today, and you fail to encourage people to keep teaching you tomorrow.

If you can't handle the truth, people stop telling you the truth.

A key to growth is showing that you're coachable.

I will live forever, if true.

If you would like for me to come to your conference or convening and give a 45-minute rant about what makes good digital privacy trainings and guides, particularly for high-risk populations, hit me up.

After an excellent fireside chat at the Stratford Festival today @drjengunter.bsky.social was kind enough to sign my special edition @fluevog.bsky.social shoe!

Is that why some politicians want to ‘drain the swamp’ 🤔