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To me key detail in this scary report is that the would-be murderers loathed mosques and preferred online bubbles of those who wouldn't challenge them. True of the murder mind in every religion, which cannot tolerate the daily life of a diverse group. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘My blood is boiling, brother’: the foiled plot to massacre Jews on streets of Greater Manchester
Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein thought ‘zero hour’ had finally arrived until undercover operative thwarted them
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
To me key detail in this scary report is that the would-be murderers loathed mosques and preferred online bubbles of those who wouldn't challenge them. True of the murder mind in every religion, which cannot tolerate the daily life of a diverse group. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Hagia Sophia was inaugurated by Justinian on December 27, 537
December 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Hagia Sophia was inaugurated by Justinian on December 27, 537
From Jeff VanderMeer, Authority: "In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not part of a celestial tapestry revolving around the earth but as individual planets ...
December 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
From Jeff VanderMeer, Authority: "In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not part of a celestial tapestry revolving around the earth but as individual planets ...
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Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
n.pr
December 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
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Mr. @deadder.bsky.social in today’s @theglobeandmail.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Mr. @deadder.bsky.social in today’s @theglobeandmail.com
On my erg today:
December 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
On my erg today:
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We've ushered in an era that psychically smells of burnt wiring, makeup, and feces.
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We've ushered in an era that psychically smells of burnt wiring, makeup, and feces.
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
This is grim and unsettling.
OpenAI currently has no policy dictating what happens to a user’s data after they die; instead, the company's terms state that all chats (except temporary chats) must be manually deleted or else the AI firm saves them forever.
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.
arstechnica.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is grim and unsettling.
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Ontario is transitioning from a STEM-based economy to a spa- and snowmobile-based economy.
Interested to see how this plays out.
Interested to see how this plays out.
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Ontario is transitioning from a STEM-based economy to a spa- and snowmobile-based economy.
Interested to see how this plays out.
Interested to see how this plays out.
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Hollywood Films Increasingly Funded By Saudi Arabia https://theonion.com/hollywood-films-increasingly-funded-by-saudi-arabia/
December 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hollywood Films Increasingly Funded By Saudi Arabia https://theonion.com/hollywood-films-increasingly-funded-by-saudi-arabia/
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Flat earthers will come around, eventually…
December 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Flat earthers will come around, eventually…
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and there goes another one. @cat-abreu.bsky.social also resigning from the Net-zero advisory body, explicitly citing last week's AB-Canada MOU
www.linkedin.com/posts/cather...
www.linkedin.com/posts/cather...
December 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
and there goes another one. @cat-abreu.bsky.social also resigning from the Net-zero advisory body, explicitly citing last week's AB-Canada MOU
www.linkedin.com/posts/cather...
www.linkedin.com/posts/cather...
The dictionary publishers, with their "words of the year" lists for 2025, have really missed the boat so far by not including "mountebank". Copying @caulfieldtim.bsky.social and @jonathanstea.bsky.social so they can make the case.
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The dictionary publishers, with their "words of the year" lists for 2025, have really missed the boat so far by not including "mountebank". Copying @caulfieldtim.bsky.social and @jonathanstea.bsky.social so they can make the case.
This is very cool (😎) tech.
December 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is very cool (😎) tech.
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brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back
May 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back
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Has any prime minister ever gotten less political value out of a giant investment than Justin Trudeau got from TMX? Obviously environmental groups/voters were never going to like it, and most everyone else just pretends it never happened because it complicates the narrative.
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Has any prime minister ever gotten less political value out of a giant investment than Justin Trudeau got from TMX? Obviously environmental groups/voters were never going to like it, and most everyone else just pretends it never happened because it complicates the narrative.
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It's like have a regulator without the regulating part.
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
reut.rs
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's like have a regulator without the regulating part.
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Congratulations to Paul Johnston on the publication of The RCAF in History and Memory: A Survey of the Historiography, 1909-2025!
This is a really useful overview of all the important works that have been published on the various iterations of the RCAF.
publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.9...
This is a really useful overview of all the important works that have been published on the various iterations of the RCAF.
publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.9...
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Congratulations to Paul Johnston on the publication of The RCAF in History and Memory: A Survey of the Historiography, 1909-2025!
This is a really useful overview of all the important works that have been published on the various iterations of the RCAF.
publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.9...
This is a really useful overview of all the important works that have been published on the various iterations of the RCAF.
publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.9...
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Woman Realizes Adorable Rescue Is A Coyote Pup After It Orders Dynamite Detonator Off The Internet
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Woman Realizes Adorable Rescue Is A Coyote Pup After It Orders Dynamite Detonator Off The Internet
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30 Nov 1775 // Sloop HMS Chippewa, used by the Provincial Marine of British Canada to carry stores, was driven ashore and wrecked near Long Point on the north shore of Lake Erie during November 1775, precise date unknown. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
30 Nov 1775 // Sloop HMS Chippewa, used by the Provincial Marine of British Canada to carry stores, was driven ashore and wrecked near Long Point on the north shore of Lake Erie during November 1775, precise date unknown. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).