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A portrait of a man made of horseshit. Where's the lie?

From farm to canvas: Artist's horse dung Trump portrait causes stir in Sooke - Goldstream News GazetteMetchosin artist Wendy Chartrand created paint using manure and watergoldstreamgazette.com

When all the AI companies are lining up to go "oh noooo, look at what *my* super-capable AI did when I wasn't looking! It's just so powerful!" I think a dose a suspicion is warranted.

Being a fired cop is one of the best jobs you can get

Are we disagreeing about the problem, or are we disagreeing about the solution? My column this week.

We agree on the problem. Why can't we find common ground with some solutions?If we can’t have governments that push for education and agreement on the causes of climate change — and to be clear, we should have that, too — we can at least demand a healthy respect for the disast...www.nationalobserver.com

WHO IS ASKING FOR THIS

top-of-page correction alert

Any company with a big AI footprint should simply not report its numbers this quarter

An amazing job for a deeply weird person

Stories like this make it clear that the way ATIP operates in Canada (basically, a coordinator asking staff to provide their own documents or emails in good faith) is asking for obfuscation and lying. ATIP needs teeth or it's worse than useless.

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The BreachUniversities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidencebreachmedia.ca

2FA to order a hamburger is so many steps more than I'm willing to take to order a hamburger

I'm pragmatically avoiding looking at the truck barrelling towards me as I lay down on the highway, and you're being a little bit crazy right now

Wealthsimple is showing off US election prediction markets, among many others — markets it's expressly forbidden to let people bet on in Canada.

The jackals at Juno News are celebrating a talented journalist being laid off. Must be nice to never have to do layoffs because you can just invent reporters and pretend you hired them instead, eh Keean?

What a loss for BC.

SpaceX is out there blazing paths where no one has tread before, yet you mock

I'm also reupping this because Elon is now calling for violence against anyone who opposes the white supremacist idea of "remigration" and our political leaders won't even take the basic step of not giving him more money every day

Reupping this since Europe is now also on fire. These gas export deals are going to get real awkward.

I worked as an Antarctic guide for several years, and came away with the belief that we need to ban Antarctic tourism. Glad to see others felt the same way.

'I can't work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore': Why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobsIn the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you'd be like … 'can you not pu...phys.org

Scoop by @rorywh.bsky.social and Darius Snieckus.

[3:45 PM ET]: and we have the best batteries, the batteries, they're magnificent, remember when those batteries in your radio were THIS big? Now they're tiny. So tiny. Nuclear, it's making power like never befo [4:14 PM ET] they were finding votes under the cushions, you never saw anything like it