Noah Arney

If someone didn't bring pie, they don't get to participate in the pie bringing event.

I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.

This isn't a strong mandate for the conservatives, they seem to have gotten fewer votes than last election. Its a historically low voter turnout and a collapse in support for Eby.

And Eby has resigned as leader of the NDP.

Past me: oh I don't need to keep my reference list properly formatted, future Noah will deal with that. Present me: G.D.It Noah.

"Grimdark medievalism isn't selling, and people need to catch up on that." Yes! Give me medieval movies and shows with colour amd joy in them. What is this generation's Knights Tale?

Reviewing a paper and I realize I forgot to write down some page numbers. No problem, let me just grab my copy of... wait, where did I put that book... it was here last month... oh wait, did I bring it there... no there... um... maybe I can find a digitized version?

This whole thing seems like a grift by people who watched a few movies portraying bad teachers from the '50s and said "that's how we run a school, but with AI added in".

Had students discussing what reality is and what verification is today. Because every class can be a philosophy class if you try hard enough.

Et tu PHP?

I'm sure Kenney is happy, she chose to ride the tiger to replace him, now he gets to watch her try to get off of it.

Waiting for Godot in a philosophy classroom

Got home from camping to find that we no longer will have the worst mayor in BC!

As an economist, why do I like gas taxes? - Ramsey: demand for gas is relatively inelastic, so the tax is less distortionary than taxes on goods with relatively more elastic demand -Pigou: gasoline use has externalities, so tax it to change behaviour in a way that accounts for those negative effects

Imagine what would be out there if our government saw transit as a service that supports the economy?

This would be a very star trek take on 4x games. The three normal ways of expansion: invasion, diplomacy, and culture, but each race can only do two of them. Federation gets diplomacy and culture, Klingons get invasion and culture, romulans get invasion and diplomacy, or something like that.

I kind of love this minimum requirement. The ability to disagree about non factual matters with intent. Its a bar a cat passes, because I did feed the cat but the cat disagrees because it would like more or different food, and it will let everyone know it has never been fed in its life.

They’re all just recycling the Jewish Question against Brown people. Concentration camps. Deportations/Expulsions. Copypaste rhetoric. “They’re here, exactly as we are, but they could never truly be one of us.” They don’t even have the decency to come up with a new name, it’s that plagiarized.

One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment

As I've moved from terminally online, to chronically online, and now to just frequently online I find I'm missing a lot of the short run discourse. I think this might be good for my sanity, only seeing things that stay important for a week or so.

Now that we have proof that AI generated findings are more likely to be research misconduct taken from those who uploaded their findings, perhaps institutions should rethink AI contracts? If it doesn't prohibit use of what you upload to train the model, you're agreeing to the misconduct.

Given the US hostility to Canada, I want to start reading more new Canadian fiction: Any recommendations for newish Canadian sci fi, fantasy, or historical fiction?

If you missed Focus Friday last week, here's the first part where I got to interview the phenomenal Sterling Crowe and Jennifer Browne about this year's students. youtu.be/2SlIfKaVdpY?...

Seems messed up (and perhaps negligent) for them to put out a product designed like this.

Can he keep this up for 30 days? We're about to find out, and be exhausted by it.

Anthropic has designed a product that regularly produces automated hacks of other entities, including governments. That’s not “going rogue.” It is either a terrible design problem or what they intended.

Dear Milobar, I'm having a hard time remembering what party you're in any more. It seems to change daily. I have met you many times and you seem a good person, but then you keep doing this stuff, and it's really hard to believe you have any principles when they seem to not matter to you.

Thanks NDP, instead of hearing from you this Fall on why you're cutting 30% of autistic kids off funding or what your plan for PSE is in response to the report you commissioned, I get to hear you campaign against trump and then ether go down in flames or pretend a mandate means never explaining.

Hey BC politics, I was away from the internet for a bit, you didn't do anything monumentally stupid did you?

While I think this is a stupid time to have an election, and it seems dirty to do one while there's no official leader for the opposition, it does seem like Findlay quit to try to stop a snap election, which also screams of playing politics.

It's 2026 and the US President is bragging about an almost certainly inaginary deal to buy potash from a Russian vassal state because Canada refuses to become a US one.

When I first moved to Calgary in 2006, I would regularly tell people outside Alberta that things were weird but not as weird as they seemed from the outside. Now I tell people that they're weirder.

The chaos continues on the right in BC.

Some top tier trolling here.