Jordan Carlson

Wab Kinew: "Let's get rid of the Indian Act. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

Every time I look for public domain images to use in a post online I think back on this conversation with @professormusgrave.bsky.social, about how the US (especially DoD's) vast public domain image production shapes how stories are told online athertonkd.substack.com/p/public-dom...

y'all realise that quote-posting the rage baiting video the Bulwark is criticising is just exposing everyone else to the same rage bait, yes?

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

[Middle East peace held back by US insistence that Iran is a threat, Oman’s foreign minister says] “Badr Albusaidi calls for security pact involving Gulf states, Iraq and Iran with US no longer primary provider of security“ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I just uploaded the first episode of @takecontrol.content.town. It’ll be up for everyone at 8am PDT tomorrow.

sorry i need to publicly be a hater for a second but what do you mean the giant 230k+ signature save mass effect petition is only about the IP and not the devs that were laid off

So here you go ... Thank you again to my friends at both BioWare and EA. To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO8...

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

Well, that’s a big statement

Wealth tax results in Norway: - Less than 100 rich people left Norway - No evidence of significant outbound migration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors - Tax revenue up 71.5% The "controversy" is artificial marketing... the results are real www.nber.org/system/files...

Our First Nations traditional territory maps are progressing. We're likely a week away from completing our alpha build. This will replace the Native-Land.ca territory maps, which went offline earlier this year (though they have other maps still online). It'll go online at knowledgekeepr.com

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

1. No more indoor smoking in most public spaces 2. Vaccines 3. Cancer and AIDS treatments 4. Production technology availability and creative output, as well as free tutorials on how to use it, across mediums

<ahem> www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwXU...

New Polyphia album is out. Have something accessible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i36d...

*ahem* cc: @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social @funranium.bsky.social I was sent a thing that is relevant to your interests

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The 2% naming Musk should be counted as "Yes (incorrect)"

Many called Jared Kushner corrupt Many noted he took bribes from Middle Eastern autocrats, especially Saudi Arabia, skewing US foreign policy And they were right But as this reveals, he's even more corrupt and took even more money from Middle Eastern autocrats that many, even strong critics, knew

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

if you reply to an obvious joke post with a tiresome rant about politics that is entirely disconnected from the joke and does not understand the joke i am just muting you on sight, people, christ.

Tolerance - rather than generosity, hospitality, or friendliness- is the virtue that makes the intensive sharing characteristic of urban life possible. The specific virtue of urbanites seems to non-urbanites like standoffishness or even unfriendliness, but it is in fact the moral genius of a…

It's time, BC:

Some fantastic Anti-Bedtime Left replies to all this. 10/10

This may be the thing I find the most frustrating about our current data/smart/digital/AI moment: so much of it doesn’t make a lick of economic sense. And that it might, maybe, perhaps be economically viable in 10 years isn’t a sensible justification for adopting it now.

1. Redmonton never stops being a funny poll projection 2. I will forever maintain that splitting Prince George 35/65 between two massive rural ridings is essentially gerrymandering for the Tories in northern BC. One small urban riding + one huge rural one would produce an actual competition.

Commentary: The Japanese government is making a blunder by enforcing language requirements before having the necessary infrastructure to ensure fair and proper evaluation.

okay which person tried to explain digital twins and grid management planning to Jensen Huang and how badly did they do it

Canadian Unity is a very funny thing

This is just the antithesis of what Canada is supposed to be. A toxic, destructive form of politics, just so that Danielle Smith can hold onto power for another year or so. This should not be taken seriously.

Feels like the phenomenon haunting every culture war narrative in the press is growing individual incomes and financial independence. A century ago most everyone would just have to grit their teeth and suffer their relatives/ partners as a matter of survival. This is no longer the case.

Once again, @markhamhislop.bsky.social is correct.

Good Lord, the soldiers killed at Wainright were on their way to Latvia as part of the Baltic trip wire brigade against Russian incursion, and they were caught in a wildfire that travelled a kilometre in under a minute due to high winds. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

The "golden age of gaming" isn't one where the vast majority of people who love games can't afford the equipment to play them and where those who make the games get their ideas (and ability to pay rent) stolen from them.

The idea of building high speed rail to Alert (permanent population: 0) while not building anything to Yellowknife is very funny but also a sign this was not made by a Canadian lol

A very timely article from Wesley Wark, calling for a full accounting of foreign interference in the referendum campaign to be released as soon as possible after the vote. It is vital to fill this gap with hard evidence, rather than an incomplete picture with plenty of room for conspiracy theories.

Not done yet, but picked up Castlevania: Belmont's Curse. Game is extremely good.

“My first stop on my visit to a country that my president started a trade war with, rather than to the federal capital to apologize for my country’s hostility, was to the province about to face a separation referendum in part because said president and his aides are fomenting secession”. Go home.

Europeans and Canadians need to be realistiic though about how all the sweet talk in the world will not avoid (3) as Trump descends into paranoid psychosis amongst courtiers happy to destroy relations with the EU, UK and Canada