"Trump is free now. His heart can sing the song he has always wanted to sing, and the American people can no longer deny that the USA is run by a Russian useful idiot or agent of influence. Personally I prefer agent of influence, because vast sums of money are also involved."

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 19h ago

Free weekend out. The big story is that Donald Trump is now free to be what he always was--strong supporter of Vladimir Putin and an agent pushing for Russian victory. He no longer has to pretend he cares at all about Ukrainian dead or Russian War crimes. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

From Brexit to MAGA; if you pick up any given incidence of modern neofascist populism and shake it up-side down, odds are you'll make it rain Rubles.

Andy Diggle@andydiggle.bsky.social · 16h ago

Crazy that it’s taken a decade to officially confirm that Russia interfered with our Brexit referendum. archive.is/zyNbm

Heading out to do the Valley Harvest 10K. Unlike previous years I'm not trying to get to Wolfville at the crack of dawn, and instead I'm doing it "virtually" from downtown Halifax. Even trying to raise some money for arts programs cut by the Houston government! raceroster.com/events/2026/...

Donate to help Debut Atlantic raise money for Valley Harvest Marathon’s fundraising campaign, on October 10, 2026

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This is bloody massive! We knew it, even back at the time, but excellent to have the PM confirm it!

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h ago

Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.

I've never seen Megalopolis, I'm not sure I ever will get around to seeing it. But every so often I like to just randomly exclaim "Aubrey Plaza is Wow Platinum!"

Daniel Radosh@radosh.bsky.social · 2d ago

LFG!

So sundowning Nero has broken with multiple sanctions and bans to buy like a day worth of diesel from Russia in a vain attempt to soften the impact of his disastrous war of choice against Iran. Anyhow, Ukraine's fixing it.

(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ukrainian long-range drones struck the oil terminal in Rostov, Russia.

Meanwhile, back where we started. I said this morning: Notable that Anthropic is more interested in protecting Claude from humans than humans from Claude. Not just Anthropic. The misdirection of empathy says a lot.

damniel spookradski@self.agency · 2d ago

a million dead from usaid cuts? no matter. polluting black communities with byop gas plants? what's the big deal? give 1s and 0s the sadz? well, that's just intolerable.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

This article about haunted coastal towns that are like Widow's Bay feels so cute when I'm a mere hour's drive from Lunenburg. www.mentalfloss.com/geography/wa...

5 Cursed Coastal Towns Straight Out of 'Widow’s Bay'

Before you book a trip to Bar Harbor, check out these real-life New England towns steeped in ghostly shipwrecks, witch trials, local curses, and plenty of atmos

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SPECIAL REPORT: Ukrainian forces have defeated the 2026 Russian campaign to seize Donetsk Oblast. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkraineDisru...

Fuck yeah, Turnverein ruled “Hey you wanna lift heavy weights and discuss liberalism and human rights?” “Hell yeah brother” Turners formed some of the very first and oldest gyms in the US when they arrived after the Revolutions of 1848. That’s right, gym culture belongs to intellectual lefties

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d ago

actually we created gyms in order to bring freedom to the noble German people

The 19th century was wild

Angry Staff Officer@pptsapper.bsky.social · 5d ago

For a great book on one of my fave 48ers, read Dixon’s “Radical Warrior” about August Willich Hard not to love a dude who was: radicalized by a *book club* challenged Marx to a duel for being too conservative won the admiration of Sherman at Shiloh had a pet raccoon that sat on his shoulder

We did it before we can do it again! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Co...

Anti-Confederation Party - Wikipedia

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Matt Stickland@landofsticks.bsky.social · 6d ago

If Quebec now threatens an independence referendum and gets concessions from the feds then Atlantic Canada needs a regional party to threaten Atlantic Independence to get concessions from the feds.

Québécois culture has a number of distinctive elements, including language obviously, but also heritage, cuisine, music, theatre, and of course elections that go to the messiest possible outcome

Jill Murray@jillmurray.bsky.social · 6d ago

QC election: the governing party won 0 seats. First Conservatives elected since 1935. PQ wins minority government but Liberals might have the popular vote. Maximum chaos. Best of luck to anyone trying to draw orderly conclusions from this; that’s not what we do here.

Nice optimistic (unless you're an oligarch) take from @doctorow.pluralistic.net His long posts are often retakes of similar themes, like @edzitron.com but every so often (also like Ed) he comes up with something essential pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/f...

My 2003 Corolla is the most boring car imaginable but it is very very hard to kill. Still pondering whether I should go with a machine gun, an Oerlikon, or a grenade launcher

Rusty Foster@rusty.todayintabs.com · last wk.

And 25 years later, what are the Houthis driving? You guessed it.

I've heard separatists say that people from other parts of Canada are saying they're scared to go to Alberta - and for the record this Nova Scotian fucking LOVES going to Alberta. Calgary, Edmonton, Grand Prairie, Lethbridge, Writing-On-Stone, Banff, Jasper, etc etc

Once again it is October, king of all months

I remember when a 19-year-old kid in Halifax was arrested and charged for accessing public-facing information on a government website. No hacking required.

Documents show how provincial employees misled Halifax police in the FOIPOP security failure - Halifax Examiner

Highlights of this article: • Provincial government employees who were made aware of the security failure with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website told Halifax police...

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Jeff Samsonow@jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm old enough to remember people going to jail for hacking government websites. Now we build them data centres.

FWIW Jensen Huang has by far the best-looking signature of the bunch. So many look like children still learning to use a pen

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle

Johannes Franzen@johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Incredible stuff.

'People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me." Dumb fucks' —Mark Zuckerberg www.esquire.com/uk/latest-ne...

David Hulloween 胡大衛@hushuo.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-fa...

Lol they have no idea how they're going to pay for it. "We're going to attract private money to the project, which means it has to generate returns. One thing I'll tell you upfront, the main mechanism to generate returns is off the table" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hey @edzitron.com this isn't anything to worry about right? All good?

The problem with this government's response to AI is they're treating it like any other tech wave, as if it was "the cloud" or "the information superhighway": fund research, back local champions, push for training. But AI is messier, more destructive, disliked, and may yet prove to be a bubble

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2w ago

AI that builds Canada strong for all: that’s our mission. We’re supporting 10,000 AI-related internships for young Canadians — to empower them to use this technology safely and confidently.

Interesting analysis of drug use in various Canadian towns and cities based on wastewater. Vancouver is into Fentanyl, Prairies and NB are into meth, while Montreal and Toronto rave it up with MDMA. Halifax? We do lots of cocaine, it turns out. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

From fentanyl to meth: Canada's drug picture changes city by city | CBC News

New StatCan data shows sharply different drug-use patterns across eight Canadian cities, with methamphetamine elevated in parts of the Prairies and Moncton, cocaine comparatively high in Halifax and f...

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Bring cookies to the job interview. Hand em out. It'll be a hit. Then demand the job in exchange for the antidote.

AI will never deliver a burn one tenth as serious as this.

Helen Pinsent@heleninwords.bsky.social · 2w ago

It still astonishes me how a man can be so dramatically ill suited for a job that didn’t exist until he had it.