Chris McLaren
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I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
Every word of this article hurts me with caustic stupidity.
This is not a complaint about the writing of, or writer of, the article.
This is not a complaint about the writing of, or writer of, the article.
Budget promises to introduce framework for Canadian dollar-backed cryptocurrency | CBC News
The Liberal government is committing to roll out new legislation to ensure some digital currencies are secure and stable enough for consumers and businesses to use.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Every word of this article hurts me with caustic stupidity.
This is not a complaint about the writing of, or writer of, the article.
This is not a complaint about the writing of, or writer of, the article.
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Vintage Paperback - Hag's Nook by John Dickson Carr
A Gideon Fell Mystery
Art by Robert Stanley
Dell (1951)
A Gideon Fell Mystery
Art by Robert Stanley
Dell (1951)
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Vintage Paperback - Hag's Nook by John Dickson Carr
A Gideon Fell Mystery
Art by Robert Stanley
Dell (1951)
A Gideon Fell Mystery
Art by Robert Stanley
Dell (1951)
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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A systematic attack on the rule of law. Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day.
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A systematic attack on the rule of law. Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day.
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If a "strong economy" can coincide with—or indeed create—record homelessness and insecurity, then maybe it's time for a change in terminology.
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If a "strong economy" can coincide with—or indeed create—record homelessness and insecurity, then maybe it's time for a change in terminology.
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Men embracing reading is the absolute worst thing to happen to manosphere influencers and hate groups. They don't know how to pivot to take advantage of that. It's not like Andrew Tate is going to be able to lead a YouTube discussion on Watchmen.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Men embracing reading is the absolute worst thing to happen to manosphere influencers and hate groups. They don't know how to pivot to take advantage of that. It's not like Andrew Tate is going to be able to lead a YouTube discussion on Watchmen.
I don't know... Seems too simple. I sense a trap.
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I stopped faffing about and Did The Thing and it turns out that this is What Gets Things Done.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I don't know... Seems too simple. I sense a trap.
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Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
If you were alive and sentient in 2008 I challenge you to read through this article without grinding your teeth at humanity's utter dedication to the concept of the grift.
Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon
The latest three-letter acronym to excite and alarm people
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you were alive and sentient in 2008 I challenge you to read through this article without grinding your teeth at humanity's utter dedication to the concept of the grift.
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Canada losing measles elimination status after nearly three decades is peak cringe.
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Canada losing measles elimination status after nearly three decades is peak cringe.
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If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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"public health also means something anathema to the authoritarian: true collective responsibility. There aren’t supposed to be in-groups or out-groups that can be excluded and disregarded, and that is completely against the grain of collective responsibility as imagined by a dictator."
Propaganda, Rather than Pandemic Policies, Caused the War on Public Health
The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"public health also means something anathema to the authoritarian: true collective responsibility. There aren’t supposed to be in-groups or out-groups that can be excluded and disregarded, and that is completely against the grain of collective responsibility as imagined by a dictator."
"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink."
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink."
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I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
Today I learned that I am an archives druid.
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Today I learned that I am an archives druid.
My timeline is full of theories that the "squishy" Democrats were chosen by the party to fall on the blade, so that the Democrats could cave with minimal electoral impact and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
If we're going to make conspiracy theories isn't it more likely that the…
If we're going to make conspiracy theories isn't it more likely that the…
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My timeline is full of theories that the "squishy" Democrats were chosen by the party to fall on the blade, so that the Democrats could cave with minimal electoral impact and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
If we're going to make conspiracy theories isn't it more likely that the…
If we're going to make conspiracy theories isn't it more likely that the…
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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Don't care if history has its eyes on you, I want its claws in you, too
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Don't care if history has its eyes on you, I want its claws in you, too
One of the things about re-watching shows from when I was a kid is seeing people in bit parts who later were more famous in other roles.
The episode of Simon & Simon I'm watching now has Ricky Jay, Cleavon Little, & Robert Eglund in it.
And that's before Uncle Phil appears as the criminal bouncer.
The episode of Simon & Simon I'm watching now has Ricky Jay, Cleavon Little, & Robert Eglund in it.
And that's before Uncle Phil appears as the criminal bouncer.
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
One of the things about re-watching shows from when I was a kid is seeing people in bit parts who later were more famous in other roles.
The episode of Simon & Simon I'm watching now has Ricky Jay, Cleavon Little, & Robert Eglund in it.
And that's before Uncle Phil appears as the criminal bouncer.
The episode of Simon & Simon I'm watching now has Ricky Jay, Cleavon Little, & Robert Eglund in it.
And that's before Uncle Phil appears as the criminal bouncer.
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Seasonal dry ice fields ending to release the sand dunes inside a crater on Mars.
Man this just _sings_ to the 14 year old boy deep inside of me.
Man this just _sings_ to the 14 year old boy deep inside of me.
HiPOD: Frosty Alcoves on Kaiser Crater Dunes
In this image, the dunes are partially free of seasonal ice, with the contrast making it easy to see the ripples. Deep alcoves have been carved at the crest of the dune.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045614_1330
#Mars #science #NASA
In this image, the dunes are partially free of seasonal ice, with the contrast making it easy to see the ripples. Deep alcoves have been carved at the crest of the dune.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045614_1330
#Mars #science #NASA
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Seasonal dry ice fields ending to release the sand dunes inside a crater on Mars.
Man this just _sings_ to the 14 year old boy deep inside of me.
Man this just _sings_ to the 14 year old boy deep inside of me.
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Siegfried Sassoon