Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺
@justinbeach.ca
I go ding when there's stuff: Work at UOIT + Freelance writer on STEM, politics, music, film+tv. ex PBS & CBC, fan of science & reason, but also folklore, mythology, and stories. Neurospicy. I also do this https://bsky.app/profile/can4eu.bsky.social
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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺
@justinbeach.ca
· Mar 6
Why Canada Should Apply for Full European Union Membership
As the global political landscape shifts, seemingly by the hour, the European Union could offer Canada long term security and prosperity…
justinbeach.ca
Instead of the "51st State" how about the 28th member state?
This is pretty good except - move Rogue One up to #3, Return of the Jedi down to #4 and then just eliminate the rest of the list. Star Wars Christmas Special is #5.
Honorable Star Wars Rankings, Pritzker.
Here is the correct list:
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Rogue One
6. Last Jedi
7. Force Awakens
8. Phantom Menace
9. Solo
10. Attack of the Clones
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11. Rise of Skywalker
Here is the correct list:
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Rogue One
6. Last Jedi
7. Force Awakens
8. Phantom Menace
9. Solo
10. Attack of the Clones
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11. Rise of Skywalker
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is pretty good except - move Rogue One up to #3, Return of the Jedi down to #4 and then just eliminate the rest of the list. Star Wars Christmas Special is #5.
I agree with the premise. We shouldn't just photocopy US China policy, but I would be friendlier than this suggests. Even a lot of the author's points reflect U.S. anti-China propaganda. We need a new trade deal, renewed cultural exchange, and an open, ongoing conversation with China.
Canada’s trade dealings with China often uncritically mirrored Washington’s moves. But now the U.S. has gone rogue, it might be the time for Canada to engage pragmatically with China. https://macleans.ca/politics/canada-china-relations/
Canada Needs a New China Strategy - Macleans.ca
We’ve copied U.S. policies for too long. Here’s what we should do instead.
macleans.ca
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I agree with the premise. We shouldn't just photocopy US China policy, but I would be friendlier than this suggests. Even a lot of the author's points reflect U.S. anti-China propaganda. We need a new trade deal, renewed cultural exchange, and an open, ongoing conversation with China.
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
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China is not only doing better AI but they’re giving away what they make because they don’t see it as very profitable long term venturebeat.com/ai/weibos-ne...
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
China is not only doing better AI but they’re giving away what they make because they don’t see it as very profitable long term venturebeat.com/ai/weibos-ne...
This is what an Israeli cease fire looks like
Israeli air raids have taken place in southern Gaza as well as Gaza City.
More Israeli air attacks across Gaza as it continues deadly West Bank raids
Israeli air raids have taken place in southern Gaza as well as Gaza City.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is what an Israeli cease fire looks like
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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🚨 NEW Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as a Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Bannon, who offered to help him “stave off" the #MeToo movement in return for support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Bannon, who offered to help him “stave off" the #MeToo movement in return for support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🚨 NEW Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as a Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Bannon, who offered to help him “stave off" the #MeToo movement in return for support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Bannon, who offered to help him “stave off" the #MeToo movement in return for support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
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When did pedophilia become a partisan issue?
The American people deserve to know the full truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every powerful person who enabled him.
Every name. Every flight log. Every cover up. All of it.
The American people deserve to know the full truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every powerful person who enabled him.
Every name. Every flight log. Every cover up. All of it.
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
When did pedophilia become a partisan issue?
The American people deserve to know the full truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every powerful person who enabled him.
Every name. Every flight log. Every cover up. All of it.
The American people deserve to know the full truth about Jeffrey Epstein and every powerful person who enabled him.
Every name. Every flight log. Every cover up. All of it.
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Allowing "blood libel" to be generalised from a very specific Medieval European conspiracy into "anybody getting mad at me ever" is one of the most shocking pieces of historical revisionism of my life
Israel’s Defence Minister is accusing the IDF’s top lawyer of spreading blood libel because the lawyer leaked a video of IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli military's top lawyer resigns over leak of video allegedly showing abuse of Palestinian detainee
Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was facing an investigation into how the video at a detention facility holding detainees from Gaza was leaked last year.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Allowing "blood libel" to be generalised from a very specific Medieval European conspiracy into "anybody getting mad at me ever" is one of the most shocking pieces of historical revisionism of my life
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Hoekstra Out Of Canada!
Lying Pete Hoekstra is now dropping f bombs in his attacks on Canada.
He has the gall to accuse of us foreign interference. That was his entire MO when he was ambassador to the Netherlands. They sent him packing.
Canada needs to give this guy the bum's rush.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v6J...
He has the gall to accuse of us foreign interference. That was his entire MO when he was ambassador to the Netherlands. They sent him packing.
Canada needs to give this guy the bum's rush.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v6J...
RESPONDING TO LYING PETE HOEKSTRA
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hoekstra Out Of Canada!
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
When AI and Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How
Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues
www.eff.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Mark Walter, principal owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, serves as CEO of Guggenheim Partners, which holds ~$12 million stake in the GEO Group, a private prison corporation that operates ICE detention centers.
This is why the Dodgers won’t directly condemn the raids destroying immigrant families.
This is why the Dodgers won’t directly condemn the raids destroying immigrant families.
I don’t mind that the owners of the Dodgers are squirming right now.
Because they also own a piece of a growing system of concentration camps that hold folks like me in dark, painful, & deadly environments.
Because they also own a piece of a growing system of concentration camps that hold folks like me in dark, painful, & deadly environments.
October 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Mark Walter, principal owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, serves as CEO of Guggenheim Partners, which holds ~$12 million stake in the GEO Group, a private prison corporation that operates ICE detention centers.
This is why the Dodgers won’t directly condemn the raids destroying immigrant families.
This is why the Dodgers won’t directly condemn the raids destroying immigrant families.
"By 2030, generative AI could require the power of 44 nuclear reactors."
How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries?
All generative AI queries could hit 329 billion per day by 2030. See the big picture on AI's energy use, and how it's reshaping our world.
spectrum.ieee.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"By 2030, generative AI could require the power of 44 nuclear reactors."
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Jobs said the Mac is a "bicycle for the mind". That vision of the Mac is now buried deeper than he is, but I suppose Linux is something akin to being a cyclist.
Everybody knows you're getting there in half the time they are, and for free, but they'll be fucked if they're ever trying it.
Everybody knows you're getting there in half the time they are, and for free, but they'll be fucked if they're ever trying it.
I am not going to tell you to use Linux, but what I am going to tell is you is it is *very* satisfying being your computer's boss and not the other way around.
October 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Jobs said the Mac is a "bicycle for the mind". That vision of the Mac is now buried deeper than he is, but I suppose Linux is something akin to being a cyclist.
Everybody knows you're getting there in half the time they are, and for free, but they'll be fucked if they're ever trying it.
Everybody knows you're getting there in half the time they are, and for free, but they'll be fucked if they're ever trying it.
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This didn’t start 2 years ago.
The world has watched decades of dispossession, occupation, and genocide - in silence, in complicity.
End the genocide.
Freedom and justice for Palestine.
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The world has watched decades of dispossession, occupation, and genocide - in silence, in complicity.
End the genocide.
Freedom and justice for Palestine.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This didn’t start 2 years ago.
The world has watched decades of dispossession, occupation, and genocide - in silence, in complicity.
End the genocide.
Freedom and justice for Palestine.
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The world has watched decades of dispossession, occupation, and genocide - in silence, in complicity.
End the genocide.
Freedom and justice for Palestine.
🇵🇸🍉
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I'm a single issue voter and my single issue is "do you want to feed my friends into a wood chipper", if your bitch ass can't manage a weak little "no" then get the fuck out of my face!!!!
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
October 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm a single issue voter and my single issue is "do you want to feed my friends into a wood chipper", if your bitch ass can't manage a weak little "no" then get the fuck out of my face!!!!
I'm struck more and more by how much the Trump administration is handing global leadership to China. He is yeilding leadership in intl dev/aid to China, alienating allies who turn to China and doing damage to the US gov, economy & society that will take generations to fix, while China races ahead.
October 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm struck more and more by how much the Trump administration is handing global leadership to China. He is yeilding leadership in intl dev/aid to China, alienating allies who turn to China and doing damage to the US gov, economy & society that will take generations to fix, while China races ahead.
Private companies, NGOs and foreign governments are going to scoop up these people like it's Black Friday, and they are the last TV in stock at Walmart
Many fired CDC employees began receiving emails communicating that despite the earlier notice, they would no longer be terminated. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre
Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.
www.msnbc.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Private companies, NGOs and foreign governments are going to scoop up these people like it's Black Friday, and they are the last TV in stock at Walmart
I wonder how long it will be before some governor calls out his national guard to protect citizens from another state's national guard - sent by Trump?
October 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I wonder how long it will be before some governor calls out his national guard to protect citizens from another state's national guard - sent by Trump?