François Dominic Laramée, PhD 🇨🇦
@fdlaramee.bsky.social
Writer and adjunct professor of history. Lapsed game developer, TV personality and computer scientist. FR/EN
Auteur et chargé de cours en histoire. Défroqué de l'informatique, du développement de jeux et de la télévision.
Auteur et chargé de cours en histoire. Défroqué de l'informatique, du développement de jeux et de la télévision.
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Y’all, Trump wasn’t lying when he said ICE would go after the worst of the worst
He just meant in recruiting
He just meant in recruiting
January 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Y’all, Trump wasn’t lying when he said ICE would go after the worst of the worst
He just meant in recruiting
He just meant in recruiting
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AI executives: This machine will make you all unemployed and it can be used to make illegal porn, shitty movies, and fake bodycam footage.
People: That doesn't sound good.
AI executives: Why does no one like our product?
People: That doesn't sound good.
AI executives: Why does no one like our product?
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 21, 2026 at 5:33 PM
AI executives: This machine will make you all unemployed and it can be used to make illegal porn, shitty movies, and fake bodycam footage.
People: That doesn't sound good.
AI executives: Why does no one like our product?
People: That doesn't sound good.
AI executives: Why does no one like our product?
Only if you need to test a guillotine.
January 21, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Only if you need to test a guillotine.
Electric shock therapy machine overloaded.
Trump’s Air Force One turns back to Washington after ‘minor electrical issue’
Trump’s Air Force One turns back to Washington after ‘minor electrical issue’
AF1, which was taking Donald Trump to Davos, returned to Washington DC after the flight experienced minor electrical issue, White House says
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Electric shock therapy machine overloaded.
Protection against scissor grass.
January 21, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Protection against scissor grass.
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Accurate
January 20, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Accurate
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Very important speech here from Carney. Watch it in full at this link. "Canada ‘strongly opposes’ tariffs over Greenland, won’t waver on Article 5" globalnews.ca/news/1162085... #cdnpoli
Canada ‘strongly opposes’ tariffs over Greenland, won’t waver on Article 5 - National | Globalnews.ca
In a major speech on the 'rupture' of the global order, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will not waver on its support for NATO's Article 5.
globalnews.ca
January 20, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Very important speech here from Carney. Watch it in full at this link. "Canada ‘strongly opposes’ tariffs over Greenland, won’t waver on Article 5" globalnews.ca/news/1162085... #cdnpoli
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This short story is one of my very favorite pieces of political imagination!
I would like to point people to this short story by @naomikritzer.bsky.social it really encapsulates a lot of the attitude we hold dear. I love it. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
January 18, 2026 at 8:34 PM
This short story is one of my very favorite pieces of political imagination!
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This is where we are at. For what? For nothing. For stupidity. For ego. For an old, demented malignant narcissist who expects the world to jump at his every whim. Well, when you follow international news you can see that the world has pretty much had enough of his bullshit.
January 18, 2026 at 11:51 PM
This is where we are at. For what? For nothing. For stupidity. For ego. For an old, demented malignant narcissist who expects the world to jump at his every whim. Well, when you follow international news you can see that the world has pretty much had enough of his bullshit.
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Je n’ai pas écrit de long récit politique depuis 18 mois. Je sors de mon hibernation temporairement pour celui-ci. Pour raconter les six mois qui ont tout changé pour François Legault, en 2023. Bonne lecture!
Les six mois qui ont coulé la CAQ
Pour comprendre la chute de François Legault, il faut examiner comment six petits mois, en 2023, ont fait dérailler son gouvernement.
ici.radio-canada.ca
January 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Je n’ai pas écrit de long récit politique depuis 18 mois. Je sors de mon hibernation temporairement pour celui-ci. Pour raconter les six mois qui ont tout changé pour François Legault, en 2023. Bonne lecture!
Des dizaines de millions de dégénérés ont voté pour cette charogne.
Il suffirait d'une poignée de Républicains sensés pour mettre fin à son règne de terreur, mais malheureusement les Républicains sensés n'existent pas.
Il suffirait d'une poignée de Républicains sensés pour mettre fin à son règne de terreur, mais malheureusement les Républicains sensés n'existent pas.
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Des dizaines de millions de dégénérés ont voté pour cette charogne.
Il suffirait d'une poignée de Républicains sensés pour mettre fin à son règne de terreur, mais malheureusement les Républicains sensés n'existent pas.
Il suffirait d'une poignée de Républicains sensés pour mettre fin à son règne de terreur, mais malheureusement les Républicains sensés n'existent pas.
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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
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If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
I just came across a fiction magazine that requires submissions to be sent by snail mail, along with a self-addressed stamped envelope for the reply.
I'll try my luck with them as soon as we're back in 1994.
I'll try my luck with them as soon as we're back in 1994.
January 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I just came across a fiction magazine that requires submissions to be sent by snail mail, along with a self-addressed stamped envelope for the reply.
I'll try my luck with them as soon as we're back in 1994.
I'll try my luck with them as soon as we're back in 1994.
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But the bigger reason that you should write and make art, is that your work is someone else's respite.
You don't know who they are. They may be someone in the future. But if you have escaped into a book, or a painting, or a TV show... Someone created that.
You can do that for someone else.
You don't know who they are. They may be someone in the future. But if you have escaped into a book, or a painting, or a TV show... Someone created that.
You can do that for someone else.
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
But the bigger reason that you should write and make art, is that your work is someone else's respite.
You don't know who they are. They may be someone in the future. But if you have escaped into a book, or a painting, or a TV show... Someone created that.
You can do that for someone else.
You don't know who they are. They may be someone in the future. But if you have escaped into a book, or a painting, or a TV show... Someone created that.
You can do that for someone else.
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Last night I had a dream where my teeth were falling out and also I was naked in school and also I couldn’t find my classroom and that meant I wasn’t gonna be able to graduate and also the police were after me and man that was a nice break from everything
January 17, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Last night I had a dream where my teeth were falling out and also I was naked in school and also I couldn’t find my classroom and that meant I wasn’t gonna be able to graduate and also the police were after me and man that was a nice break from everything
Me marketing a novel: I wonder if they hire at the salt mines.
Me finishing a novel: Hah aha! I am a GOD! FEEL MY POWER!
Me starting a novel: Fuck this fucking sucks why did I forget how to do this send help
Me starting a novel: Fuck this fucking sucks why did I forget how to do this send help
January 17, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Me marketing a novel: I wonder if they hire at the salt mines.
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I was thinking about that 1980s James Bond movie where everybody's trying to get their hands on a Fabergé egg for some reason
And then I realized:
It's an Egg McGuffin.
And then I realized:
It's an Egg McGuffin.
January 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I was thinking about that 1980s James Bond movie where everybody's trying to get their hands on a Fabergé egg for some reason
And then I realized:
It's an Egg McGuffin.
And then I realized:
It's an Egg McGuffin.
So much of this nonsense would go away if he just died, already.
January 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM
So much of this nonsense would go away if he just died, already.
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I don't use LLMs. They're just stochastic parrots that deliver a string of text that looks like the most likely response to a question that a consensus-human would emit. It's not an answer, it's an answer-shaped object that's wrong 25-75% of the time. Utterly useless to me.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 14, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I don't use LLMs. They're just stochastic parrots that deliver a string of text that looks like the most likely response to a question that a consensus-human would emit. It's not an answer, it's an answer-shaped object that's wrong 25-75% of the time. Utterly useless to me.
Unacceptable for Trump not to be in The Hague's hands, says entire world.
January 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Unacceptable for Trump not to be in The Hague's hands, says entire world.
Yikes...
Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough – and cut all ties with the US | Alexander Hurst
Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough – and cut all ties with the US | Alexander Hurst
How do you retain a space of democracy in a world that is reverting to violent conquest? By building a protective moat of federalism around it, says Paris-based Guardian writer Alexander Hurst
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Yikes...
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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"Alain McKenna présente le deuxième tome de sa série #PayerMoins, consacré à la mobilité au Québec.
Nos choix sont souvent émotifs plutôt que rationnels, nous poussant à ignorer les coûts réels.
Le livre offre des conseils pour épargner des milliers de dollars."
www.985fm.ca/audio/749158...
Nos choix sont souvent émotifs plutôt que rationnels, nous poussant à ignorer les coûts réels.
Le livre offre des conseils pour épargner des milliers de dollars."
www.985fm.ca/audio/749158...
Transports: les conseils d'un expert | «Quand on pense à notre mobilité, on est rarement très rationnel» -Alain McKenna
Écoutez Alain McKenna, journaliste et animateur du balado Une tasse de tech, expliquer le tout, mardi, à Lagacé le matin.
www.985fm.ca
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
"Alain McKenna présente le deuxième tome de sa série #PayerMoins, consacré à la mobilité au Québec.
Nos choix sont souvent émotifs plutôt que rationnels, nous poussant à ignorer les coûts réels.
Le livre offre des conseils pour épargner des milliers de dollars."
www.985fm.ca/audio/749158...
Nos choix sont souvent émotifs plutôt que rationnels, nous poussant à ignorer les coûts réels.
Le livre offre des conseils pour épargner des milliers de dollars."
www.985fm.ca/audio/749158...