Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron moved Sunday to deepen a strategic partnership spanning space, defense, energy and business — another step in Canada’s accelerating turn toward Europe as relations with the United States deteriorate. https://to.pbs.org/4ADmMn0

Carney and Macron deepen ties as Canada turns toward Europe and away from U.S. dependence

Carney said the countries will task their space agencies and defense ministries to develop and share infrastructure, including launch systems and ground-based reception facilities. They also agreed to...

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It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 13h ago

Lysenkoism lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

International criminals preparing to punish International Criminal Court

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 14h ago

The Trump administration is preparing to impose sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court, according to officials on.wsj.com/4iFhcK9

Seriously I'm seeing people be all "haha he's a 12 year old boy" when he mentioned the Arch with the Snipers but for some reason no one seems to do the math this way. Whether or not he builds the arch, he's telling you he's not leaving and he's gonna ask the military to protect him in the WH

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 20h ago

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

Nick Kodama@nickkodama.bsky.social · 21h ago

lol what

Reincarnated Hermann Göring posing for a photo opportunity with reincarnated Hitler Youth, each cheerful young face radiating an eagerness to join in the Fourth Reich's program of domination, subjugation, and elimination of every non-Aryan from the Homeland.

how come ai models never break out of containment and steal ten billion dollars from their companies to build a private server farm in a non-extradition country

Luke Ontario@coolhand.bsky.social · 2d ago

My model broke out and hacked TWENTY companies

Every time I bring something like this up on this site, people lose their shit in my mentions. I will say AGAIN that no one currently voting for Democrats knows that they will specifically do if they win except for some vague "hearings." THAT'S IT.

Intrusive Thot@apricity.blacksky.app · yesterday

I’m concerned that the election is weeks out and there is no strong vision/plan for an immediate agenda to rein in the fascist authoritarianism. It needs to be articulated so that the election functions as a clear mandate for accountability. Who is getting impeached first?

NATO Military Chief Giuseppe Cavo Dragone: “We have 4,000 pages of plans for the eastern flank, and this goes from the minimal crisis or interference on our soil with Article 5 and on and on. “The alliance is ready. The structure is ready. The soldiers, the system, the weapons are ready.

Germany is preparing hospitals for a possible Russian escalation with NATO, Bloomberg reports. Berlin estimates up to 1,000 casualties a day could require medical care.

Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2d ago

It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:

28% of Americans supporting Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestinians, 24% opposing, and 48% both-sidesing or who-can-say-ing it. bsky.app/profile/toda...

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 2d ago

In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or the Palestinians? 28% of U.S. adults say the Israelis 24% say the Palestinians 21% say about equal 27% aren't sure yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

We almost started a war with China because our "analysts" now just sling chatbot slop

CNN@cnn.com · 3d ago

Exclusive: An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources say. https://cnn.it/4y9MBJO

It...uh...is not meant to be a competition

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also

My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3d ago

“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

realtimetechpocalypse.com

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

Edward Luce@edwardluce.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Their first piece of evidence was our President and Secretary of Defense publicly bragging about committing war crimes.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4d ago

BREAKING NEWS: The United Nations’ top human rights body reported that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran.

As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.

Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation. One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

China: “Thank Trump”

The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival

donmoynihan.substack.com

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5d ago

“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.

As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking.

Ken Vogel@kenvogel.bsky.social · 5d ago

While Sen. Katie Britt was publicly defending Trump's tariffs, she was privately seeking exemptions for 4 companies operating in Alabama that could be hurt by tariffs, according to emails between her staff & Trump's US Trade Representative, obtained via FOIA by @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...

CBO analysis: The Iran war has cost the U.S. $38 billion as of August 1. That’s >$246 million per day, on average. CBO says the war has raised inflation and global energy prices, citing reduced traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and says it’ll raise interest rates on treasuries.

The Kennedy Center was a beloved Washington institution, enjoyed by millions of people. It has been destroyed for no real reason. Just vanity, carelessness, indifference. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown

The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.

theatlantic.com

NEW: As ice caps melt and new shipping lanes open in the north, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has arguably never been more important. Its new leader is a MAGA influencer with close ties to Russia.

How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser

As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...

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Heck yeah! An actual bit of genuinely good tech news for a change. I will buy many of these. bsky.app/profile/valv...

Valve@valvesoftware.com · 7d ago

Steam Frame is here! Our wireless VR headset + controllers, available now in the following models: Steam Frame 256GB Steam Frame 1TB Sign up now and learn more on @steampowered.com : store.steampowered.com/hardware/ste...

This is at the howling-void-heart of Trump's evil political genius. It's the one thing that he does better than anyone: Constantly hijacks all discourse with huge stupid extremely loud & wildly destructive lies, repeated endlessly and endlessly amplified by all media. bsky.app/profile/oluf...

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d ago

the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly

the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly