Just read the Yale report on Trust in Higher Education. You will be shocked, no doubt, to learn that it did not occur IN THE SLIGHTEST to a committee at a top American university looking at trust in American higher ed to use any other country's experiences to pose intelligent counterfactuals.
Count Bacula over here
WHAT?! They should have made him wait in the parking lot.
This is amazing...
Dr Ioannidis (9 April 2020): "I would say that COVID-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA."
Dr Howard: "The USA reached 40,000 COVID deaths the next week."
The US has been even more unserious and hypocritical about this than one would think, given everything else. It seems like it’s only dumb luck it hasn’t kicked off another pandemic already.
Also hilarious that the new subreddit mod is the YouTube Canadian libertarian gun lawyer. And of course he might have a personal axe to grind against Jesse (but the axe is just a perfectly innocent tool and certainly not intended as a weapon or possessed for any personal defence purposes).
I for one enjoyed this episode. I have been aware of the incoherent, dedicated spitefest that is the Canadaland subreddit and it seemed obvious that it wasn’t strictly authentic but it is still surprising (and funny) how parochial, pathetic and petty the reality turned out to be.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
Last June, the man credited with introducing President Trump to his wife asked the administration for a favor. Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity. He reached out to a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, explaining that his ex was in the country illegally, according to records obtained by The New York Times and a person familiar with the communications. Could she be put in ICE detention? That could help him get his son back. The official, David Venturella, promptly called the agency’s Miami office to ensure that ICE agents would pick up the woman from the jail before she was released on bail, according to the records and a person with knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity to discuss it. During the call, Mr. Venturella noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House.
Oh.
Holy hell please let this be the reason Melania ran to the press: the guy who imported her, Einstein visa and all, used ICE to deport the mother of his child.
Zampolli was in Hungary w/JD.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
Is that a maple handle?
I guess the US indictment didn't go anywhere, but there's pretty compelling evidence that Roaming Millennial breached Canadian sanctions. Disappointing to see our law enforcement unable or unwilling to address this, yet again.
It’s actually more honest than the real one
My god it works perfectly
Portes is right. I have definitely come to see the value in political education, because "emotionally cathartic slopulism" has already taken over the Right and I think it could easily do so on the left too if we don't hold the line on, like, actually insisting that it matters you get things right.
Eastern Tunnel Chubby!
A fine Snapping Turtle, you are correct!
A Hall of Famer here:
"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images."
Well this isn't good 😮
arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687
They don't even require masking in NICUs. It's immoral.
Also, loss of canopy due to all the ashes and elms dying is facilitating takeover of damp woodlands like this by Glossy Buckthorn. A search for GB biocontrol agents found no good candidates.
My phone recorded this as if it were a soft landing but in person it was a huge crash I am sure was audible as far as the next concession. There’s actually three trees coming down; 2 smaller limb-locked trees were set up to be knocked over by this one but that action is obscured by the cloud of snow
Large standing tree with axe and chopped face cut in a snowy forest
This White Ash is a victim of Emerald Ash Borer and turned out to be 100 years old when I counted the rings. I felled it with an axe whose handle is made of a Rock Elm that was a victim of Dutch Elm Disease.
I am starting to dislike these invasive species.
The US becoming a revisionist power is insane. Like legitimately it is the stupidest fucking thing that has ever happened.
A screenshot with a block of text: Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965. Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
A Bellingcat and @mongabay.com investigation has identified nine Facebook groups, in which coded language has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade bans on the platform for years. Facebook says it prohibits any form of animal trading on its platform.
youtube.com/shorts/uwQNZ...
Not good. The Carney government cannot wish-cast foreign interference away. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
"This is an archetypical populist formulation. And we encounter this style of politics everywhere now. This tendency toward promising easy fixes on things like healthcare and affordability, often uninformed by basic facts and diligence, has earned the epithet 'slopulism.'"
Whass up MAGA? Wait for Trump to screw with your SS checks.
