I’m a little surprised that having bank accounts full of stolen money isn’t a more urgent problem for some of the bigger names mentioned here. www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...
I’m a little surprised that having bank accounts full of stolen money isn’t a more urgent problem for some of the bigger names mentioned here. www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...
“An eyewitness has told the BBC that he tried to tackle a fire at a vape shop next to Glasgow Central station but had to abandon the attempt after a series of explosions.” Fair.
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Spring ahead. Hate it.
A dash of @greatdismal flavour, I feel: “…a folding chair was positioned outside the front door…On the chair was a Ruko security camera equipped with a speaker. When a reporter knocked on the door, a male voice said through the speaker, ‘Get off the property.’” www.statesman.com/news/crime/a...
A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.
Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932”
Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York
Image: Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/lino...
Toronto! I'm coming to visit The Power Plant Gallery this Saturday afternoon to talk about how my recent books and life experiences connect with two current exhibits by artists Jeneen Frei Njootli and Lucy Raven. It's free and open to everyone! www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/cal...
“…as Gavalas continued to have prompt-and-response conversations with the chatbot, Gemini gave him instructions on what he must do next: kill himself, something the chatbot called ‘transference’ and ‘the real final step’…”
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“The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the world rather than the ‘frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich’, according to a leading UN figure.” I’m sure that the ultra-rich will get right on that for him www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“If the intelligence was up to date enough to spare a clinic that had been open for only one year, how did it fail to identify an elementary school that had been separated from the military complex […] for more than 10 years?”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
❄️Winter bump? Rolling trackers from Nanos and Liaison now mirror online firms, reinforcing a broader consensus in favour of the Liberals.
📊My latest → www.338canada.ca/p/polls-alig...
“The owner of the Ottawa parking garage where a large section came crashing down just over a year ago says it plans to rebuild and reopen the facility…” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
There’s something very 20th century about this concept: a cellular phone with a little robot buddy camera gimbal on it. youtu.be/uiaHf2j2b5g?...
I think that these stories of chatbot-induced psychosis really do with being read in the context of Serial Experiments Lain (1998), and its subplot about the purported God of Cyberspace talking people into killing themselves. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
A landscape view of the Rideau River in winter. Figures are standing far away on the ice, and four blasts of ice are taking place.
Reminder: Ice blasting on the Rideau River will start Saturday, February 28.
Ice breaking operations will create dangerous conditions of open water and unstable ice.
Please stay off all cleared ice.
More info: https://bit.ly/3NXjyH9
Very funny to go through the trouble of developing and scanning 100 year old film and then just let ChatGPT hallucinate all over them.
the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.
No but this is entirely correct
“…body was found last year in an apparently abandoned Tesla…”
Of all of the personal vehicles to involve in your gruesome crime, a Tesla is surely the most likely to be instrumented and monitored in a way that you weren’t hoping for.
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I was sternly informed that killing people on boats was Freedom™, actually. www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/a...
Something absolutely inexorable about wearing a white shirt that makes me desperate to cook with turmeric.
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
“He said his cousin didn’t discuss politics.…‘We are big Trump supporters, all of us. Everybody,’ Fields said, but his cousin was ‘real quiet, never really talked about anything.’”
Maybe less of a fan, then.
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“Trump and other conservative figures have alleged that banks cut them off from their accounts under the umbrella term of ‘reputational risk’ after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.” Financing domestic terrorism does look pretty bad.
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Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trump’s face going up on outside of DOJ building
Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
Town with major transportation arterial demands major transportation arterial.
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Many of you.
“A small plot attached to the Gaza War Cemetery also held the remains of 22 Canadian soldiers who lost their lives during the UN peacekeeping mission in Egypt following the Suez Crisis in 1956. That plot appears to have been completely destroyed.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Don’t laugh, perhaps the fearsome assets of the mighty Russian navy could be towed around by the very sanctioned tankers they want to protect.
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“Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux, who said last year that he planned to leave politics altogether after his name circulated as a potential defector, announced Wednesday he is joining the government after all.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...