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Charlie
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Originally from Montreal, currently in Berlin. Taxonomist in real life.
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My all-time favorite newspaper correction:
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
All of this is so incredibly grim
September 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This quote to the FT back in January sums up what Trump ‘gives’ to a certain segment of Silicon Valley and Wall Street types, though admittedly these are vibes-adjacent. www.ft.com/content/9734...
September 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Carolla is dollar store Norm
September 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Bergkäse is too generic, I suppose?
September 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
(The course was mostly based at McGill but was connected to 4ish universities — TMU, USask, and something else? — and it was like they tried to make a MOOC happen. It was a cool idea but this was back in 2014 or so and the tech wasn’t there to really support it.)
September 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I took his CANS 300 course as an undergrad and while it wasn’t my favourite class, you could tell that Dryden was smart as hell and had some really cool connections.
September 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The no-nonsense “hello” at the beginning of each programme is perfect
September 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM