“Postmedia is the nation’s leading supplier of climate change denial and pro-oil industry propaganda, so it’s not surprising that they would dismiss academic research and rail against bike lanes when they provide an inexpensive solution to interrelated emission, pollution and congestion problems.”

I thought Tyries Adams looked good until his injury (and I wondered if his build was too slight for pro football). Hope he gets a chance to play.

I feel like we’re going through a crisis of credulity as a culture. You can see it with this, you can see it with woo, and you can see it with AI. Nobody’s willing to stand up and say “this is stupid, what are you talking about?”, so people keep spinning out of control.

2025 Edmonton Elks, game 16: Here’s why winning wasn’t good enough. #CFL

"Altogether, this estimate yields a 3.4% chance that the Elks qualify for the playoffs."

This interview on Politico today is worth a read too

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I was wondering if she's now on medication or something.

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet....

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Ditto.

This one is hard to bear. Damn.

I read that Leto is also a producer on the film, which means Disney was so eager to acquire his services they sweetened the pot?

🇨🇦 Canada wants to have agency to have more autonomy and control over the data of Canadians here in Canada.
#Canada #CdnAI #technology #CanadaFirst #cdnpoli #richmondbc #OpenAI #techtrends
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

For every Element that they have we have two is great

Fuck the AI cult

Dear Tilly Norwood, https://bit.ly/3J4jNOk?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=3595fdbe-1ecb-4c91-9af4-e131186a6f3c&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

After his UN show I got to thinking about other Great Presidential Speeches, and how he could improve on them.

#comedy #humor #Trump #Gettysburg

“Habeas Corpus is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”

A nationalist Christian group helped make a Tonight Show clone hosted by an unfunny 2020 truther, with guests like Carrot Top and a guy from the Partridge Family. It sounds incredible.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

I wonder if current and future generations will understand why it was funny when Lisa Simpson was forced to read the question "Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?" That is now every Trump meeting.

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

If you're ever in Russia, stay away from the windows:

Pravda Publisher Dies in Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow www.thedailybeast.com/pravda-publi...