Ian Brown

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Great news for money launderers!

I fear that as lawless and nihilistic as Trump is, Musk is worse. He is replacing the American civil service—who manage the country—with AI bots. And has already started, via his army of techy teenaged minions. That’s the real catastrophe and the real coup.

Taking my dogs out for a commemorative poop.

Re: Trump moving his inauguration indoors because it’s cold: I keep thinking about places I have been in Nunavut where school isn’t cancelled until the temp drops below -40C. That’d be in Canada, the country Donald Trump wants to…oh, wait.

Eliot Weinberger · Incoming! They Came from Fox News They vow to cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget – five times the combined annual salaries of all federal...

Clip this for handy wallet reference when one of these clowns does something to offend, such as…I dunno, threaten to annex Canada: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This list of books is spectacular.

What was your Christmas screw-up? Mine was knocking over a drink on the almost-completed 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. The wet pieces expanded like popcorn. #joinin

In Toronto, where I live, there are now almost as many dentistry offices downtown as there are cannabis stores. I presume the former gradually replace the latter, and that this is considered economic progress.

This AI replica of my dead mother has plenty to say about the rise of the digital grief industry To the tech evangelists, AI reconstructions of lost loved ones promise solace and a kind of immortality. But can they deliver?

AI algorithms claim they can bring back the dead in chatbot avatar form. I tried it with my late mother. It was weird. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Eau de fromage.

The Sound of Fear on Air It is an ominous sign that "Morning Joe" felt it had to apologize for something I said.

This is the article I was trying to link to in my last post—David Frum on the Trumpian threat to journalism www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"Fear is infectious.” David Frum on intimidation of the media at MSNBC. Follows other news of the owner of the LA Times stepping on his reporters’ stories. Time to fight back, before it’s too late. Maybe it’s always too late. But it’s definitely time to fight back.

That’s one of the Orange King’s genuine weaknesses: he can’t stand low ratings, esp on TV. Dems must use that.