Smith
@wryansmith.bsky.social
I care deeply about principles, critical thinking, our interdependency with each other, and any possible way to make life a bit better today.
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September 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Will post daily:
It is absolutely unavoidable for someone who wants to be the PM of Canada to avoid a security clearance check given the new revelations about Modi. @PierrePoilievre MUST undergo the process to assure Canadians of his allegiances. @CPC_HQ must force him if need be.
#cdnpoli
It is absolutely unavoidable for someone who wants to be the PM of Canada to avoid a security clearance check given the new revelations about Modi. @PierrePoilievre MUST undergo the process to assure Canadians of his allegiances. @CPC_HQ must force him if need be.
#cdnpoli
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Will post daily:
It is absolutely unavoidable for someone who wants to be the PM of Canada to avoid a security clearance check given the new revelations about Modi. @PierrePoilievre MUST undergo the process to assure Canadians of his allegiances. @CPC_HQ must force him if need be.
#cdnpoli
It is absolutely unavoidable for someone who wants to be the PM of Canada to avoid a security clearance check given the new revelations about Modi. @PierrePoilievre MUST undergo the process to assure Canadians of his allegiances. @CPC_HQ must force him if need be.
#cdnpoli
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August 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Statement by Heather McPherson, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic, on reports that 150 Canadians have been held by ICE this year. #cdnpoli
heathermcpherson.ndp.ca/news/stateme...
heathermcpherson.ndp.ca/news/stateme...
NDP Statement on reports that 150 Canadians have been held by ICE this year
Statement by Heather McPherson, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic, on reports that 150 Canadians have been held by ICE this year
heathermcpherson.ndp.ca
August 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Statement by Heather McPherson, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic, on reports that 150 Canadians have been held by ICE this year. #cdnpoli
heathermcpherson.ndp.ca/news/stateme...
heathermcpherson.ndp.ca/news/stateme...
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Drove to Edmonton to sign the #ForeverCanadian petition this morning
I thought I would be the only one there as it was a Monday morning
Boy, was I wrong
It was busy
It's seems that I'm not the only Canadian in Alberta
#ableg #cdnpoli
I thought I would be the only one there as it was a Monday morning
Boy, was I wrong
It was busy
It's seems that I'm not the only Canadian in Alberta
#ableg #cdnpoli
August 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Drove to Edmonton to sign the #ForeverCanadian petition this morning
I thought I would be the only one there as it was a Monday morning
Boy, was I wrong
It was busy
It's seems that I'm not the only Canadian in Alberta
#ableg #cdnpoli
I thought I would be the only one there as it was a Monday morning
Boy, was I wrong
It was busy
It's seems that I'm not the only Canadian in Alberta
#ableg #cdnpoli
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I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
maggieappleton.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
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1. Canada, I’ve said before that 🇨🇦’s increased commitment to #NATO & military spending, are not only justified, but would be foolish to ignore. Last night, @maddow.msnbc.com did an excellent summary of the reality of what is happening NOW in 🇺🇸. An authoritarian (even crypto neo-Nazi) state. #cdnpoli
August 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
1. Canada, I’ve said before that 🇨🇦’s increased commitment to #NATO & military spending, are not only justified, but would be foolish to ignore. Last night, @maddow.msnbc.com did an excellent summary of the reality of what is happening NOW in 🇺🇸. An authoritarian (even crypto neo-Nazi) state. #cdnpoli
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And saddled us with a mountain of debt:
“Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin reduced the national debt by $90 billion and left a budgetary surplus of $14 billion. Harper's six deficits added $150 billion to the national debt.”
#NeverPoilievre
#NeverConservative
#NeverFascism
#ElbowsUp
#InsideTheHouse
“Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin reduced the national debt by $90 billion and left a budgetary surplus of $14 billion. Harper's six deficits added $150 billion to the national debt.”
#NeverPoilievre
#NeverConservative
#NeverFascism
#ElbowsUp
#InsideTheHouse
August 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
And saddled us with a mountain of debt:
“Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin reduced the national debt by $90 billion and left a budgetary surplus of $14 billion. Harper's six deficits added $150 billion to the national debt.”
#NeverPoilievre
#NeverConservative
#NeverFascism
#ElbowsUp
#InsideTheHouse
“Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin reduced the national debt by $90 billion and left a budgetary surplus of $14 billion. Harper's six deficits added $150 billion to the national debt.”
#NeverPoilievre
#NeverConservative
#NeverFascism
#ElbowsUp
#InsideTheHouse
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Canada: Walk away from negotiations. Don't retaliate. Diversify. Find new markets. Buy European military equipment. Reinstate the digital services tax. Let Americans pay more for the things they want from us. Keep up the public boycott. Welcome American refugee talent. Be Canadian. #cdnpoli #USpoli
August 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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In exchange for less than nothing, Canada has to date:
-spent $1.3 billion to address a non-existent fentanyl border issue;
-introduced Trump-friendly border legislation;
-sacrificed the Digital Services Tax, at a cost of $1.4 billion/year.
It's almost as if the lesson is: appeasement doesn't work.
-spent $1.3 billion to address a non-existent fentanyl border issue;
-introduced Trump-friendly border legislation;
-sacrificed the Digital Services Tax, at a cost of $1.4 billion/year.
It's almost as if the lesson is: appeasement doesn't work.
Donald Trump signs executive order hiking tariffs to 35% on some Canadian goods
The White House confirmed that Canadian goods which don’t comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement will jump from 25 per cent to 35 per cent at midnight Thursday night.
www.thestar.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
In exchange for less than nothing, Canada has to date:
-spent $1.3 billion to address a non-existent fentanyl border issue;
-introduced Trump-friendly border legislation;
-sacrificed the Digital Services Tax, at a cost of $1.4 billion/year.
It's almost as if the lesson is: appeasement doesn't work.
-spent $1.3 billion to address a non-existent fentanyl border issue;
-introduced Trump-friendly border legislation;
-sacrificed the Digital Services Tax, at a cost of $1.4 billion/year.
It's almost as if the lesson is: appeasement doesn't work.
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Solar power is about 41% cheaper than the lowest-cost fossil fuel alternative, and onshore wind generation is less than half the price of fossil fuels www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/30/n...
World on cusp of new era as renewables rise, UN chief says
António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels
www.nationalobserver.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Solar power is about 41% cheaper than the lowest-cost fossil fuel alternative, and onshore wind generation is less than half the price of fossil fuels www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/30/n...
The Canada-UK-France alliance is exciting, healing, and hopeful. Add the balance of Europe and there's a strong alternate universe to American dominance and China influence. Someone needs to stand for the rule of law, diplomacy, and human rights
🚨 Massive news 🚨
Canada follows France and UK in announcing it will recognize Palestine as a state in September.
It should - must - do so unconditionally.
There’s more work to do.
Keep the pressure up. Let’s push Canada on the right side of history. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada follows France and UK in announcing it will recognize Palestine as a state in September.
It should - must - do so unconditionally.
There’s more work to do.
Keep the pressure up. Let’s push Canada on the right side of history. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada plans to recognize Palestinian state in September, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September if the West Bank's governing body agrees to certain conditions.
www.cbc.ca
July 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Canada-UK-France alliance is exciting, healing, and hopeful. Add the balance of Europe and there's a strong alternate universe to American dominance and China influence. Someone needs to stand for the rule of law, diplomacy, and human rights
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🚨 Massive news 🚨
Canada follows France and UK in announcing it will recognize Palestine as a state in September.
It should - must - do so unconditionally.
There’s more work to do.
Keep the pressure up. Let’s push Canada on the right side of history. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada follows France and UK in announcing it will recognize Palestine as a state in September.
It should - must - do so unconditionally.
There’s more work to do.
Keep the pressure up. Let’s push Canada on the right side of history. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada plans to recognize Palestinian state in September, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September if the West Bank's governing body agrees to certain conditions.
www.cbc.ca
July 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
🚨 Massive news 🚨
Canada follows France and UK in announcing it will recognize Palestine as a state in September.
It should - must - do so unconditionally.
There’s more work to do.
Keep the pressure up. Let’s push Canada on the right side of history. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada follows France and UK in announcing it will recognize Palestine as a state in September.
It should - must - do so unconditionally.
There’s more work to do.
Keep the pressure up. Let’s push Canada on the right side of history. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro:
All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian.
If you're trying to shop local, this matters.
Here's how to fight back.
#BuyCanadian #Never51 #cdnpoli
✅ My newsletter and links → beacons.ai/todmaffin
All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian.
If you're trying to shop local, this matters.
Here's how to fight back.
#BuyCanadian #Never51 #cdnpoli
✅ My newsletter and links → beacons.ai/todmaffin
July 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro:
All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian.
If you're trying to shop local, this matters.
Here's how to fight back.
#BuyCanadian #Never51 #cdnpoli
✅ My newsletter and links → beacons.ai/todmaffin
All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian.
If you're trying to shop local, this matters.
Here's how to fight back.
#BuyCanadian #Never51 #cdnpoli
✅ My newsletter and links → beacons.ai/todmaffin
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This is passion.
This is great leadership.
This is about equity.
This is great leadership.
This is about equity.
July 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Academically speaking, when can we reinstitute draw and quartering for traitors? Does Canada have no teeth, none, to lay down the consequences for idiots who want to sell us out to US interests?
How did Alberta decide what books were 'inappropriate' in its new school policy? By referencing lists of books banned in the U.S. and searching for the same titles in the province's public school libraries. Full story here:
More on Alberta’s book ban: government staff used an index of America’s most banned books and a controversial American website to create lists of specific books deemed “inappropriate” for school libraries.
theijf.org/alberta-used...
#abpoli #bookban
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#abpoli #bookban
July 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Academically speaking, when can we reinstitute draw and quartering for traitors? Does Canada have no teeth, none, to lay down the consequences for idiots who want to sell us out to US interests?
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How did Alberta decide what books were 'inappropriate' in its new school policy? By referencing lists of books banned in the U.S. and searching for the same titles in the province's public school libraries. Full story here:
More on Alberta’s book ban: government staff used an index of America’s most banned books and a controversial American website to create lists of specific books deemed “inappropriate” for school libraries.
theijf.org/alberta-used...
#abpoli #bookban
theijf.org/alberta-used...
#abpoli #bookban
Alberta used lists of America’s most banned books and a controversial database to identify ‘inappropriate’ material in schools
Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled pages of book titles that could be restricted through new content guidelines.
theijf.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
How did Alberta decide what books were 'inappropriate' in its new school policy? By referencing lists of books banned in the U.S. and searching for the same titles in the province's public school libraries. Full story here:
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Maybe the blue cities, which generate all the cultural & economic value in this country, should just spend all that value they create on themselves, and make cities real nice, and let the rural areas that hate & shit on cities every day fend for themselves. What a thought.
Dan Savage on blue America in the age of Trump
Dan Savage joins me on Volts to discuss how NIMBY-captured city leadership is failing Democrats — and why making cities better is the key to building the party’s future.
www.volts.wtf
June 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Maybe the blue cities, which generate all the cultural & economic value in this country, should just spend all that value they create on themselves, and make cities real nice, and let the rural areas that hate & shit on cities every day fend for themselves. What a thought.
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Danielle Smith gets caught taking hockey tickets & meddling in medical contracts, so diverts attention with threats of breaking with Canada. Doesn't go well so diverts again with coal mining threat. Goes very badly, so diverts once more with Covid vaccine denials. See how this works? #ABpoli
Serious question: Does anyone in the UCP believe in science, stats, evidence — or even that the Earth is round? Or is it all just borrowed from the American playbook and handed to whoever buys them hockey tickets?
June 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Danielle Smith gets caught taking hockey tickets & meddling in medical contracts, so diverts attention with threats of breaking with Canada. Doesn't go well so diverts again with coal mining threat. Goes very badly, so diverts once more with Covid vaccine denials. See how this works? #ABpoli
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Men impersonating police shooting Democratic lawmakers. Men impersonating ICE kidnapping women & children. Immigration “officers” storming a church.“The whole country is our property.” When is enough enough?
“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾
MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”
ICE: “The whole country is our property.”
No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?
MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”
ICE: “The whole country is our property.”
No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?
June 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Men impersonating police shooting Democratic lawmakers. Men impersonating ICE kidnapping women & children. Immigration “officers” storming a church.“The whole country is our property.” When is enough enough?
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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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This is what autocracy looks like.
The unprovoked assault of @padilla.senate.gov is exactly why millions are taking to the streets on Saturday, June 14. It’s cruel, unacceptable, and un-American. We deserve better.
#nokings
The unprovoked assault of @padilla.senate.gov is exactly why millions are taking to the streets on Saturday, June 14. It’s cruel, unacceptable, and un-American. We deserve better.
#nokings
June 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is what autocracy looks like.
The unprovoked assault of @padilla.senate.gov is exactly why millions are taking to the streets on Saturday, June 14. It’s cruel, unacceptable, and un-American. We deserve better.
#nokings
The unprovoked assault of @padilla.senate.gov is exactly why millions are taking to the streets on Saturday, June 14. It’s cruel, unacceptable, and un-American. We deserve better.
#nokings