I thought this was obvious by now. Perhaps we need to keep reminding ourselves to believe it.
The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 20h agoDonald Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ means reneging on them. That’s why Canada cannot capitulate
Patrick Leblond (he/il)
@prleblond.bsky.social
CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa Senior Fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation & Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Research Fellow @ CIRANO
The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 20h ago
Don’t ask me about my profits, but let’s talk about your wages
Branko Milanovic@brankomilan.bsky.social · 3w agoMy today's (somewhat incendiary) Substack: Don’t ask me about my profits, but let’s talk about your wages How Western capitalists use China-bashing to deflect attention from their soaring profits branko2f7.substack.com/p/dont-ask-m...
Someday soon, everyone will claim to have known this all along.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 24h ago"A.i." is bullshit. "A.i." detection tools are bullshit. "A.i." in education is bullshit. "A.i." in the arts is bullshit. "A.i." in business and government is bullshit.
A company that would experiment on its own users like this, and obfuscated what it was doing, is not one that will abide by any "duty to act responsibly." @ntusikov.bsky.social and I lay out exactly why not in this Policy Options piece. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/07/bill...
Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech
Bill C-34 puts too much faith in Big Tech. Canada should regulate the algorithms, data practices and business models that drive online harm.
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Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 19h agoBOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Late Night Canada: Trump’s Golf Win, WestJet, and Reliable Carney youtu.be/79TYJCRmeLc
Late Night Canada: Trump’s Golf Win, WestJet, and Reliable Carney
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Attention scholars of IR: check out the BMJ as a source for analysis of contemporary geopolitics … ( (Now, how to encourage global health scholars to read IR journals…)
The BMJ@bmj.com · 4d agoThe #GlobalHealth reform agenda has made strides – but has its limits. Read why a future multipolar world is an illusion. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/3Toq2kY Part of the series on the Geopolitics of Global Health: https://bit.ly/44OGptD
🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Taylor Farms salad is sold in Canada too. There was a...healthy amount left untouched on the shelf at my local Farm Boy yesterday I would appreciate a slightly more robust approach from CFIA, but perhaps they're still working out which of its 1,371 jobs to cut www.agrunion.com/jobs-cuts-at...
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d agoTwo people have died from cyclosporiasis in Michigan, marking the first fatalities in the largest U.S. outbreak of the intestinal illness
Some counterintuitive papers about the impact of tariffs here. I haven’t read them deeply enough yet to comment.
Policy Highlights from NBER Summer Institute 2026
Tariffs, health care, safety net access, labor
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On the night of 2–3 August 1944, nearly 3,000 Roma men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Today, on European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, we honour the victims of the Roma genocide and reaffirm our duty to preserve their memory.
Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
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"The Trump administration knew the miners needed their permit. In exchange, it asked for the US government to get equity in the company developing the region.... The deal was cut in October" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A short-sighted plan in which Agriculture Canada belatedly realizes the value of research, but not so much as to hire back fired scientists.
Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 5d agoOfficials at Canada's agriculture department are asking scientists who were abruptly fired earlier this year to help the agency decide its future research goals, Canada's National Observer has found.
NEW: I made some charts and wrote some words... How did Trump’s 2025 trade war affect the decoupling of US-China supply chains? 🤓 www.piie.com/publications...
The most important change of the past 50 years has been the ascendancy of knowledge as a commodity, ripped from context. It started with IP’s centralization in the global economy and continued with the datafication of everything.
Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 5d agoOur relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us.
NYT: Elon Musk has authorized his super PAC to spend $100–120 million on a new ground operation across 8 states to help elect Republicans in November. The group will initially focus on Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan and Ohio, with discussions underway about expanding to NC, GA & TX
Late Night Canada: Shopify Democracy, Fauci, VIA Rail and Doug Ford youtu.be/SBp1Dtgyg04
Late Night Canada: Shopify Democracy, Fauci, VIA Rail and Doug Ford
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"A study done in Phoenix done by Arizona State University found data centres can increase air temperatures by up to 4 degrees Fahrenheit in downwind neighbourhoods. The waste heat given off by one data centre as it cooled itself exceeded the amount produced by 40,000 households."
CNN@cnn.com · 6d agoNew research suggests data centers have an alarming and overlooked environmental impact: heat pollution. CNN's Laura Paddison reports.
"Would-be future American leaders who recognize the value of allies and think all will be forgiven when the White House has a new occupant need to appreciate the depth of the damage being done by its current resident." #GiftArticle www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
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Missed this an hour ago, The Information reporting that a Chinese company has started production of deep ultraviolet lithography machines, a market that up until now ASML has a total monopoly on. Shares -6%. www.theinformation.com/articles/chi...
"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...
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Yet another right-wing attack on sociology. Very telling that it was written by a former NYT opinion writer. Although much better informed than most in its genre, it makes a charicature of the discipline, ignores the politics of the critics, and contrasts sociology with a mythical “hard science”.
Essay | Is It Time to ‘Liquidate’ the Study of Sociology?
Sociology has long been tasked with investigating society’s most pressing challenges. But these days, sociologists’ greatest obstacle may be themselves.
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"Until the pandemic, resilience was largely consigned to psychology texts about helping children and vulnerable adults cope with adversity. But the use of the word by central bankers, CEOs and economists has surged since — and shows no sign of receding." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Just in: Two locations of Jewish-owned bakery Kiva’s had their windows smashed, with one near Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West struck by gunfire, Toronto police say.
Window broken, gunshot fired at Kiva’s Jewish-owned bakery in Toronto, police say
Officers said a report of a broken window came in around 8:15 a.m. near Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West, according to a post on X.
thestar.com
Trump admin has quietly drafted new rules governing the census expected to recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States This would allow the GOP to steal congressional seats & redirect hundreds of billions of federal dollars
Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and Congress
The administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.
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As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.