As a special accessibility measure for people over - idk - 45? all short videos should come with a skimmable single paragraph of information that can, ideally, be half-read in the preview window of an email while completing another task.

Suppose you have two groups in society. In group A everyone makes 50k a year. I'm group B half + epsilon makes 50k, the other half - epsilon makes 100k. The median says there is no inequality. The mean says there is. Obviously in this fictional example, the mean gets the answer right

This is the penultimate scene in Act 1 of a thriller movie. The last scene is a crwoded room with a slow zoom in on an electrical outlet.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 11h ago

The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports. “I am the code,” Trump said www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

Trump's approval rating just hit an all-time low. Polling for Republicans ahead of the midterms is tanking too. Good news. But do not let the unpopularity of Trump and the GOP result in you becoming complacent. We need to show up this November in numbers so huge that victory cannot be denied.

By her definition there are about 39 million people living in Canada who are not Canadian

The London Economic@thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 8h ago

The former home secretary - who was born in England, raised in England, studied in England, lives in England and represents an English constituency - has said she is "not English."

WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Always the fire code, never the fire.

Maybe Elon Musk has SECRET MAGICAL POWERS, unconstrained by physics, engineering, or how elections are organized. If so, that would indeed be disturbing news. But I am aware of no evidence that he (or anyone else) actually possesses supernatural capabilities, for better or worse.

Two thoughts.. 1/ Cities are *always* turning over. That's normal. If there's not a bunch of churn it's probably a lame city 2/ Take with a big grain of salt people who say they'll leave a place cause of traffic www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Torontonians agree the city is a good place to raise a family — but more than a third expect to leave in the next 5 years

An Ipsos poll of 1,006 Toronto residents found 37 per cent say they are very or somewhat likely to leave the city in the next five years.

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god all sympathy to sarah for this ordeal. and BA was clearly a nightmare. the only thing I really miss about old twitter was the ability to tag an airline or business and actually get a response because they were afraid of going viral in a bad way. musk fucked that up.

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · yesterday

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

Well, looks like someone got out of the wrong side of the bassinet this morning.

“One of the sources said that some of the conspiracies he spouted were antisemitic, blaming Jews for COVID-19…” also he was reportedly discharged for refusing discharged to get vaccinated. globalnews.ca/news/1206890...

Belleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.ca

The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦@tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 2d ago

In small gestures, would donate to a reputable kickstarter to help the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario restore the mid-century stained glass window through which bullets were shot on Yom Kippur. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Don't know who made this. But we love you for making it ❤️

Over the weekend, the Bradford campaign challenged the media to do this "scavenger hunt" to uncover supposed places where Olivia Chow frittered away the provincial New Deal money. Challenge accepted. From my newsletter this week, here’s what I found.

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

Kevin Thurston@del-boy.bsky.social · yesterday

It cannot be overstated how much Bret does not make an argument in this column. He does not list a single worthy book he thinks was excluded. He clearly has not read the vast majority of the books. His entire critique is just “these books are written by women and minorities, which is bad”.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · yesterday

That's it, that's the entire column www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant

Why I'm not on the Omarchy train. Unhinged. In my two decades in tech, communities with problematic people at their center eventually implode. Put your eggs in another basket. jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is...

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

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When your enemy is shooting himself in his foot, ankle, shin, knee, thigh, and groin, don't stop him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump literally did not get Zelenskyy get a word in during the part of their bilateral meeting that happened in front of the cameras. He talked about himself and made genocidal threats as Zelenskyy sat there stone faced.

JFK was right. He was right about many things. Which is why his name is on the Kennedy Center and Pedolf Shitler’s isn’t.

Today in `Absolutely just does not understan the least bit about how it works':

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. An alien emerged with a chair, which they sat down on, backwards. "Look," they said, "we're not here, okay? You know why nobody contacts you? Because the write-up would be such a pain." They sighed. "Get your shit together, okay? We know you can."

Reminds me of Vaughan mayor Stephen Del Duca pointing out a senior who got a bunch of speed camera tickets as reason to get rid of speed cameras because senior oppression or something.

Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · yesterday

"As an elder, this feels like Nazi Germany in 1933. What are you gonna do next? Kill me because I’m elderly?” This is a real thing a person said about a plan to reroute a bus and make it safer for people to bike. People are not okay.

When you are not a dad and you make a dad joke that's a faux pa

One has to question the state of infrastructure in this country when a contractor working on NJ Transit property can sever a cable that is needed for the backup system to multiple airports' air traffic control systems

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Technical Problems Ground Flights at Major East Coast Airports

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Apparently episode one was first broadcast on the BBC 50 years ago today. Still one of the most remarkable television dramas ever. I Claudius

Something I did not expect to experience in the Vatican: offering pews support Apple Pay