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For context (from the Globe and Mail): Ads will run for the weekend, and will likely be pulled Monday.

Happy #Thanksgiving! 🍁🇨🇦

I’m thankful that I get to experience the beauty of our world. Each element of nature is like a tiny gift to help brighten our day. ❤️

Snaps from my #morningwalk. #Gratitude #Wellness

Frodo saying "All right, then. Keep your secrets"

Me to the pistacchio I didn't manage to pry open

Who is this “we” you’re referring to? I’d like to be excluded from that narrative tyvm.

You cannot fight Christianized Nationalism with reason.

You have to overcome it from the heart. You have to draw on that internal power no matter your tactics, your capacities or your actions.

Jimmy Kimmel is Back! YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

Kimmel is up on YouTube

Our bodies, our emotional response (often unnoticed, or seemingly delayed) are offering important data for discernment and sorting lies from truth.

It’s just no one ever teaches us what our emotional responses are trying to *do* and the functions they are trying to perform.

I encourage my clients to befriend their emotions. They’re signals trying to communicate something to us about our experiences and perceptions in real time.

Truth Social post in which Trump addresses Pam Bondi and says she needs to immediately prosecute his political enemies

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes.

That’s what this is.

Canadian flag draped over the railing of a front porch with the shadow of the word “Welcome” cast on its bottom right corner.

Saw this while returning from my morning walk. #Canada

I’m reading this story and at this point does she even know how NOT to be corrupt?

Good morning, beloved.

Understand the difference in freedom from bondage and freedom to bind.

Some “freedom” is captivity with a mask on.

Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Sigh.
"Starting papers and projects; summarizing long texts; brainstorming creative projects; exploring new topics; and revising writing" aren't "busywork." They're the very essence of an education. They're how you learn.
Any teacher who doesn't understand this point doesn't understand their job.

And then this shit just came out.

When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.

When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

Hey America -

We know you don’t like refugees.

But do you know the best way to avoid dealing with refugees?

Don’t start new wars.

There is enough terror and sadness just in being mortal living beings. That we make it so so much worse than it has to be is the ultimate sin against creation.

[2506.08872] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to assess cognitive load during essay writing, and analyzed essays using NLP, as well as scoring essays with the help from human teachers and an AI judge. Across groups, NERs, n-gram patterns, and topic ontology showed within-group homogeneity. EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use. In session 4, LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.

New study on the effects of LLM use:
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. […] Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.

We know what Canada has, and we’re going to build on it.

Black and white photo of a fluffy cat sitting on a couch.

Chilling. #Caturday

Yes! 😂

Power & Politics: Exclusive interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney Power & Politics · Episode

ICYMI: my interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney from the day the King delivered the Speech from the Throne.

open.spotify.com/episode/79kS...

This was really good, David. Hope there are more opportunities for interviews like this. Always liked your approach.

Welcomed a great group of students from Georgetown, Ontario, to my office on Parliament Hill yesterday.

These kids have big ideas for Canada. I’m working hard every day to deliver for them.

Prime Minister Mark Carney sits across from Mayor Olivia Chow during a meeting in his office in Ottawa, Ontario.

Thanks for the meeting today, Mayor Chow.

We’re ready to get to work — to build up the housing supply, to bring costs down, and to keep our communities safe.

Fire danger map of Canada with a large swath of extreme danger along the provinces closest to the US. Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec all have a majority of their area marked as extreme, but the largest fires right now are in Saskatchewan.

Canada is already in it with big fires and evacs in the thousands. The country looks poised to have large fires on the landscape from now until the snows come. That means Canadian resources will be overextended and not available to help others. Also, probably leads to smoke drifting into the US.

“I told Canada, which very much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome System, that it will cost $61 Billion Dollars if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State. They are considering the offer!”

Narrator: they were not considering the offer

I stayed up until almost 5am on April 29th just to see them call the race for you in real time. So happy for you! You earned the people’s vote and deserve to represent them in Parliament. Congrats!

George Floyd should be alive today.

He should be raising his daughter, living his life.

5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.

His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”

Let’s stop failing her, and him.

Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

The two things can be true…