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@centristhumanist.bsky.social
I believe in humanity. Skeptical about humans.
liberal democracy is the best humanist system of government so far devised.
I am centrist because I eschew ideology in favour evidence-based decision making. #factsmatter
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liberal democracy is the best humanist system of government so far devised.
I am centrist because I eschew ideology in favour evidence-based decision making. #factsmatter
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The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
substack.com
"a direct product of the pointlessness, fragmentation and triviality of the culture of the screen which is wholly unequipped to speak to the deep human needs for curiosity, narrative, deep attention and artistic fulfilment."
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Why is the head of the world’s preeminent medical science research institute relying on an anonymous, anti-vax, software engineer known only as “Ben” for his COVID epidemiology?
The answer does not bode well for the future of science based medicine.
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
🧪 #episky #NIH
The answer does not bode well for the future of science based medicine.
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
🧪 #episky #NIH
HHS Science Is Rotting From the Head
How RFK Jr and Jay Bhattacharya Are Undermining Science at HHS
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Why is the head of the world’s preeminent medical science research institute relying on an anonymous, anti-vax, software engineer known only as “Ben” for his COVID epidemiology?
The answer does not bode well for the future of science based medicine.
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
🧪 #episky #NIH
The answer does not bode well for the future of science based medicine.
open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
🧪 #episky #NIH
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Trump's (ahem Putin's)"peace" plan
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Trump's (ahem Putin's)"peace" plan
In some corners of the government, sanity prevails....
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
CRTC updates definition of Canadian content, says AI doesn’t count
The modernized definition will apply to television and online streaming services.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
In some corners of the government, sanity prevails....
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
Subtitle: "What Carney doesn't understand about Canada".
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
Policy Explainer #2: Cultural Sovereignty and What It Means to Be Canadian - Friends of Canadian Media
Why protecting our stories is protecting ourselves. If you’ve ever lived in Canada — really lived here — you’ve felt it: the quiet power of our stories. They show up in the places we don’t always noti...
friends.ca
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Subtitle: "What Carney doesn't understand about Canada".
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
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New #MOU
Send a message; cancel your donations & tell the #LPC no more $ until we start governing for the benefit of equality, workers, First Nations, nature & sustainability. #ScrapC5 #StopC2 #DefendTheCharter work toward #TRC. #ValueAdded #CircularEconomy #Privatization #VictoryFund #LaurierClub
Send a message; cancel your donations & tell the #LPC no more $ until we start governing for the benefit of equality, workers, First Nations, nature & sustainability. #ScrapC5 #StopC2 #DefendTheCharter work toward #TRC. #ValueAdded #CircularEconomy #Privatization #VictoryFund #LaurierClub
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
New #MOU
Send a message; cancel your donations & tell the #LPC no more $ until we start governing for the benefit of equality, workers, First Nations, nature & sustainability. #ScrapC5 #StopC2 #DefendTheCharter work toward #TRC. #ValueAdded #CircularEconomy #Privatization #VictoryFund #LaurierClub
Send a message; cancel your donations & tell the #LPC no more $ until we start governing for the benefit of equality, workers, First Nations, nature & sustainability. #ScrapC5 #StopC2 #DefendTheCharter work toward #TRC. #ValueAdded #CircularEconomy #Privatization #VictoryFund #LaurierClub
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2000 Meters to Andriivka, to which I contributed as a translator, is available to watch on YouTube and the PBS website! It was directed by Oscar-winning Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov. It is an emotional, beautiful, and very important documentary. Don’t miss it!
youtu.be/Nf4Cgy56slU?...
youtu.be/Nf4Cgy56slU?...
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
2000 Meters to Andriivka, to which I contributed as a translator, is available to watch on YouTube and the PBS website! It was directed by Oscar-winning Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov. It is an emotional, beautiful, and very important documentary. Don’t miss it!
youtu.be/Nf4Cgy56slU?...
youtu.be/Nf4Cgy56slU?...
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
Of course, the USA could transition to green energy and avoid the many American and Venezuelan deaths that a war and occupation would bring.
#ettd #tolalitarian #warmomger #USADarkAge
#ettd #tolalitarian #warmomger #USADarkAge
She probably wasn't supposed to admit that we are attacking Venezuela for oil.
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Of course, the USA could transition to green energy and avoid the many American and Venezuelan deaths that a war and occupation would bring.
#ettd #tolalitarian #warmomger #USADarkAge
#ettd #tolalitarian #warmomger #USADarkAge
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Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
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Commander Bonespurs
wants to court martial Senator Mark Kelly who has received several medals of valor
Remember trump also disrespected another great Arizonan Senator John McCain ...Purple Heart
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Stop insulting Arizona distinguished Military Heroes
wants to court martial Senator Mark Kelly who has received several medals of valor
Remember trump also disrespected another great Arizonan Senator John McCain ...Purple Heart
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Stop insulting Arizona distinguished Military Heroes
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Commander Bonespurs
wants to court martial Senator Mark Kelly who has received several medals of valor
Remember trump also disrespected another great Arizonan Senator John McCain ...Purple Heart
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Stop insulting Arizona distinguished Military Heroes
wants to court martial Senator Mark Kelly who has received several medals of valor
Remember trump also disrespected another great Arizonan Senator John McCain ...Purple Heart
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Stop insulting Arizona distinguished Military Heroes
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Why industrial carbon pricing costs consumers next to nothing.
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
FACT SHEET: Industrial carbon pricing in Canada
Industrial carbon pricing is Canada’s most important policy for cutting carbon pollution and creating a competitive clean economy.
climateinstitute.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Why industrial carbon pricing costs consumers next to nothing.
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
Cuba accuses US of seeking violent overthrow of Venezuelan government reut.rs/3Kq4wbg
Cuba accuses US of seeking violent overthrow of Venezuelan government
Cuba on Tuesday accused the U.S. of seeking a violent overthrow of the Venezuelan government, calling the increased presence of U.S. military forces in the region an "exaggerated and aggressive" threat.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Buy Canadian
#ElbowsUP 🇨🇦
#ElbowsUP 🇨🇦
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry.
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food.
The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.
The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.
The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Buy Canadian
#ElbowsUP 🇨🇦
#ElbowsUP 🇨🇦
Because it's easier to solve a problem that does exist, even if the solution is implausible.
#ettd #uspolit
#ettd #uspolit
Pentagon advances Golden Dome missile defense with new Space Force contracts reut.rs/4okPrWC
Pentagon advances Golden Dome missile defense with new Space Force contracts
The U.S. Space Force has awarded about a half dozen small Golden Dome contracts to build competing missile defense prototypes, kicking off a race for future deals worth tens of billions of dollars, according to two sources briefed on the matter.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Warning! This colorful chart is censored by IPCC - mailchi.mp/caa/warning-...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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If there is one lesson to point out, it is that far right conservative ideas do not work for the nation's people.
Indeed, these are ideas largely promoted by people who have little knowledge of the subject.
(Yes, I am referring to Poilievre and the CPC).
#cdnpoli #politics
Indeed, these are ideas largely promoted by people who have little knowledge of the subject.
(Yes, I am referring to Poilievre and the CPC).
#cdnpoli #politics
Approval ratings serve as a key barometer for the mood of the nation leading up to the 2026 midterm elections.
Trump’s Approval Rating Slips to Second Term Low, New Poll Shows
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Possible federal solution to the provincial difficulty in managing healthcare funding: require the provinces to set up crown corporations for all provincial healthcare; direct all federal funding for healthcare solely to those crown corporations.
(Other considerations: mandates would require 1/2
(Other considerations: mandates would require 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Possible federal solution to the provincial difficulty in managing healthcare funding: require the provinces to set up crown corporations for all provincial healthcare; direct all federal funding for healthcare solely to those crown corporations.
(Other considerations: mandates would require 1/2
(Other considerations: mandates would require 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Two tiered health care.
Healthcare professionals migrate to private practice, lured by higher pay, creating a greater shortage of personnel in the public sector, allowing the UCP to declare that public healthcare does not work.
You can expect that Ford will be watch closely.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
Healthcare professionals migrate to private practice, lured by higher pay, creating a greater shortage of personnel in the public sector, allowing the UCP to declare that public healthcare does not work.
You can expect that Ford will be watch closely.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
Of course family doctors are excluded from this plan, because on some level the government also knows it's wrong and will lead to more inequity
But, like many other decisions the UCP makes, they decided they may as well see what they can get away with.
But, like many other decisions the UCP makes, they decided they may as well see what they can get away with.
Alberta seeks to change existing drug coverage, allow physicians to work in public and private sectors
Alberta's government seeks to change existing drug coverage, while allowing physicians to work both in public and private sectors.
edmontonjournal.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science
Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science
Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science
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"initiative was rolled back following complaints about inaccuracies, data privacy risks, and increased workload"
"Governments around the world are betting that AI will revolutionize education."
Governments should stop drinking Big Tech kool-aid & stop making uneducated, foolish, disastrous bets.
"Governments around the world are betting that AI will revolutionize education."
Governments should stop drinking Big Tech kool-aid & stop making uneducated, foolish, disastrous bets.
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents alike
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"initiative was rolled back following complaints about inaccuracies, data privacy risks, and increased workload"
"Governments around the world are betting that AI will revolutionize education."
Governments should stop drinking Big Tech kool-aid & stop making uneducated, foolish, disastrous bets.
"Governments around the world are betting that AI will revolutionize education."
Governments should stop drinking Big Tech kool-aid & stop making uneducated, foolish, disastrous bets.
