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Bob Homme dressed as The Friendly Giant, seated and smiling toward the camera while holding a small string instrument and a recorder. He wears a simple costume with a brown shirt and a light tan tunic with a scalloped edge. Behind his shoulder is Jerome the giraffe puppet, painted in brown and blue with a wide mouth and visible teeth, wearing a harmonica. Rusty the rooster puppet perches behind him on the other side, with a red comb and patterned body. A small puppet theatre-style instrument setup rests in front of Homme, and the background is a plain light studio backdrop.

Bob Homme delighted generations of Canadians as The Friendly Giant.
While he was born in the United States, he adopted Canada as his home and Canada was a better place because of it.
Let's look up...waaaaay up...
This is the story of his life.

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Most of the Windows code is older than your kids

This is truly the worst timeline...

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

Oh, really? Were the strikes kinetic in nature? Was their synergy between the warfighting paradigms? Did you all ideate a 360-degree workaround for the blockchain?

"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

This asshole needs to be booed on the ice, off the ice, anywhere he goes until he quits...

Heard someone refer to a (large) datacenter as an "ohio-class datacenter" and now I only want to hear datacenter sizes referred to by reference to submarine classes

Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America's critical infrastructure used Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks against US organizations, the company says.…

Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs

Brad Arnold, the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated rock band 3 Doors Down, died Saturday, months after he announced that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer. He was 47. https://cnn.it/3O17u7I

As part of the Manhattan Project National Park…

…the National Park Service, through the org “America’s National Parks,” sells *adorable* Civil Defense icon Bert the Turtle plushies.

shop.americasnationalparks.org/products/ber...?

On this day in 1986, seven astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger — Ellison S. Onizuka, Mike Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judy Resnik — died when the spacecraft broke apart 73 seconds into its launch.

Learn more: https://to.pbs.org/4hr9ob7

#BREAKING #ESETresearch identified the wiper #DynoWiper used in an attempted disruptive cyberattack against the Polish energy sector on Dec 29, 2025. At this point, no successful disruption is known, but the malware’s design clearly indicates destructive intent. 1/5

Visit of the Prime Minister of Denmark 22nd Jawary 2026 We'll get by with a little help from our friends

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

Madman doesn't do this justice...

AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.

NEW:

You think disinformation is bad now?

Wait until you hear about "AI swarms" and how they have the potential to upend democracy across the globe

www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

Important perspective from Greenland.

Mark Carney just shook up the world His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.

After months of trying to play nice with Donald Trump and MAGA world, Mark Carney decided to drop the hammer of truth on his rogue administration, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes. What comes next will help determine Canada's place in the world — and whether it even has one.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

FAFO time indeed...

This is fucking insane

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

The SPEAKER implies.

The LISTENER infers.

The DUDE abides.

Without saying it outloud, tell us you're an insecure wreck of a human being bent on imperialism and global domination because your parents didn't give you enough hugs. 👇

Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey (Official Music Video) [HD] YouTube video by Grateful Dead

I see you've got your fist out

Say your piece and get out

Yes I get the gist of it but it's alright

Sorry that you feel that way

The only thing there is to say

Every silver lining's got a touch of grey

I will get by

I will get by

I will get by

I will survive

Jaysas 😮

“AI is just a tool” says tech mogul who is just a tool

"This 'family portrait,' a composite of the Jovian system, includes the edge of Jupiter with its Great Red Spot, and Jupiter's four largest moons, known as the Galilean satellites. From top to bottom, the moons shown are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto." Source: https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/family-portrait-of-jupiters-great-red-spot-and-the-galilean-satellites/

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On 7 January 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered three of Jupiter's four largest moons, known as Galilean moons (named Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto by the German astronomer Simon Marius in 1614).

Image by NASA/JPL/DLR

Public Domain

🔭 🧪 #histsci #science

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