Jordan Carlson
@jordantcarlson.bsky.social
Canadian postdoc in Japan.
Energy, sustainability, unrelated ramblings.
Energy, sustainability, unrelated ramblings.
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"Finland, you've been living next to this monstrosity your entire existence. That's why we're trying to learn from you," Stephen Marche told Yle.
We have #Canada indeed
#Defence
yle.fi/a/74-20194770
We have #Canada indeed
#Defence
yle.fi/a/74-20194770
Canada wants to learn from Finland
National security has been on Canadians' minds lately.
yle.fi
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
"Finland, you've been living next to this monstrosity your entire existence. That's why we're trying to learn from you," Stephen Marche told Yle.
We have #Canada indeed
#Defence
yle.fi/a/74-20194770
We have #Canada indeed
#Defence
yle.fi/a/74-20194770
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Seeing the scourge of 🌽 ethanol expand to another country like this, and Brazil of all places, is infuriating.
It's in part the fault of the US land grant university system & our national labs, which have produced the smallest small science possible to serve the interests of big ag. Beyond shameful.
It's in part the fault of the US land grant university system & our national labs, which have produced the smallest small science possible to serve the interests of big ag. Beyond shameful.
Pumped for this @intercept.com.br + @drilledmedia.bsky.social collab looking at Brazil's corn ethanol boom (and the role the U.S. has played in it). First story now, in English on our site &Portuguese on the Intercept Brasil site:
www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a...
drilled.media/news/ethanol...
www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a...
drilled.media/news/ethanol...
Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?
Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations.
drilled.media
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Seeing the scourge of 🌽 ethanol expand to another country like this, and Brazil of all places, is infuriating.
It's in part the fault of the US land grant university system & our national labs, which have produced the smallest small science possible to serve the interests of big ag. Beyond shameful.
It's in part the fault of the US land grant university system & our national labs, which have produced the smallest small science possible to serve the interests of big ag. Beyond shameful.
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Gabe Newell knows how to hold a grudge
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Gabe Newell knows how to hold a grudge
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Like many things in tech, what tech “disruption” has actually disrupted are the reality-correction mechanisms that cause other kinds of productive activities to fail and need to be corrected, and that applies to everything from information security, to infra reliability, to harmful business models.
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Like many things in tech, what tech “disruption” has actually disrupted are the reality-correction mechanisms that cause other kinds of productive activities to fail and need to be corrected, and that applies to everything from information security, to infra reliability, to harmful business models.
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My hot take about insecure and unreliable software coding practices or language foot-guns is, as a society, we have decided that there simply aren’t going to be any real consequences for releasing unsafe software, and so it doesn’t really matter how or if people try to fix it at the technical level
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My hot take about insecure and unreliable software coding practices or language foot-guns is, as a society, we have decided that there simply aren’t going to be any real consequences for releasing unsafe software, and so it doesn’t really matter how or if people try to fix it at the technical level
This will make some of you feel very old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzHs...
Homestar Anniversary Merch
YouTube video by homestarrunnerdotcom
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This will make some of you feel very old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzHs...
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Immigrants are leaving Canada and highly skilled, highly educated ones are leaving at higher rates: forcitizenship.ca/wp-content/u...
forcitizenship.ca
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Immigrants are leaving Canada and highly skilled, highly educated ones are leaving at higher rates: forcitizenship.ca/wp-content/u...
<stares at the Canadian job market for anyone who undergoes a large degree of skills training>
<glances at Canadian academic hiring>
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
<glances at Canadian academic hiring>
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This is intuitive - mobility is a function of privilege - but prompts one to ask what Canada is losing, and what it's doing to retain people.
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
<stares at the Canadian job market for anyone who undergoes a large degree of skills training>
<glances at Canadian academic hiring>
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
<glances at Canadian academic hiring>
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The worst feature of social media may be the fact that people take the time to reply to pundits who are consistently wrong about their home countries when those pundits start talking about other countries they have even less familiarity with.
November 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The worst feature of social media may be the fact that people take the time to reply to pundits who are consistently wrong about their home countries when those pundits start talking about other countries they have even less familiarity with.
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s 33 (the notwithstanding clause) is one of the most maliciously stupid pieces of legislation I've seen in any English speaking country (and I only specify those because I'm monolingual and can't check anywhere else)
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
The Alberta government has introduced legislation to use the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to prevent legal challenges to three laws impacting transgender and gender-diverse youth and adults.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s 33 (the notwithstanding clause) is one of the most maliciously stupid pieces of legislation I've seen in any English speaking country (and I only specify those because I'm monolingual and can't check anywhere else)
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Thistle please stop absorbing the numpad
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thistle please stop absorbing the numpad
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AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
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Come on, how am I not supposed to find this headline funny?
Burger King deal is final piece in Goldman Sachs' Japan strategy
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/burger-king-deal-is-final-piece-in-goldman-sachs-japan-strategy
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/burger-king-deal-is-final-piece-in-goldman-sachs-japan-strategy
Burger King deal is final piece in Goldman Sachs' Japan strategy
Investment bank to open restaurants in rural areas for growth
asia.nikkei.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Come on, how am I not supposed to find this headline funny?
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The wholesale corruption of the information ecosystem and deliberate destruction of sources of reliable factual knowledge is the world’s most urgent problem, in my opinion—and it’s continuously getting worse, with no end in sight, at a civilizational scale I could barely imagine just a few years ago
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable.
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Source Wars and Bespoke Realities
Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth
substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The wholesale corruption of the information ecosystem and deliberate destruction of sources of reliable factual knowledge is the world’s most urgent problem, in my opinion—and it’s continuously getting worse, with no end in sight, at a civilizational scale I could barely imagine just a few years ago
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Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
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Come work in the Political Science Dep't at Memorial.
(click link to see full job ad)
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
(click link to see full job ad)
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Come work in the Political Science Dep't at Memorial.
(click link to see full job ad)
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
(click link to see full job ad)
www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...
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Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.
One of the funnier, and very understated, things I saw in a museum while in Berlin: a display that said, of the 1970s, "West Germany's economy boomed, in part thanks to over a million 'Temporary Workers' that no one in government had expected to stay." (From memory, so very slight paraphrase)
THE GERMAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE DEPENDED ON IMMIGRANTS
but miracles aren’t forever
but miracles aren’t forever
Yes. By the same token, I don't think Germany as a society truly understands what Germany's complicity in all this means for the country. I predict Gaza will be a significant factor in alienating or repelling the "high-skilled" workers the economy needs: www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/g...
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
One of the funnier, and very understated, things I saw in a museum while in Berlin: a display that said, of the 1970s, "West Germany's economy boomed, in part thanks to over a million 'Temporary Workers' that no one in government had expected to stay." (From memory, so very slight paraphrase)
I am going to regret this question, but:
If any of my followers can explain why Call of Duty has giants now, I will appreciate (hate) the brain poison
If any of my followers can explain why Call of Duty has giants now, I will appreciate (hate) the brain poison
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I am going to regret this question, but:
If any of my followers can explain why Call of Duty has giants now, I will appreciate (hate) the brain poison
If any of my followers can explain why Call of Duty has giants now, I will appreciate (hate) the brain poison
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There’s this pervasive idea that most scientific research is useless and it’d be great if the people who say that could propose an alternate system that could identify dead ends without doing the work first
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
There’s this pervasive idea that most scientific research is useless and it’d be great if the people who say that could propose an alternate system that could identify dead ends without doing the work first
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Colleagues and I have been promoting the need for a Royal Commission on the future of Canada’s economy for the better part of a year. That many are only now starting to realize that the US *really* isn’t interested in economic cooperation highlights the need for this vital national conversation.
Open letter to the next prime minister: We need a royal commission on Canada’s future
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November 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Colleagues and I have been promoting the need for a Royal Commission on the future of Canada’s economy for the better part of a year. That many are only now starting to realize that the US *really* isn’t interested in economic cooperation highlights the need for this vital national conversation.
The only time I ever interacted with an Alexa I walked into my sister's house and demonstrated for her children that "Alexa, order 5 pizzas from Dominos, all pepponi, for delivery right now" worked.
The next time I visited her house all the Alexas had been disabled and removed.
The next time I visited her house all the Alexas had been disabled and removed.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The only time I ever interacted with an Alexa I walked into my sister's house and demonstrated for her children that "Alexa, order 5 pizzas from Dominos, all pepponi, for delivery right now" worked.
The next time I visited her house all the Alexas had been disabled and removed.
The next time I visited her house all the Alexas had been disabled and removed.
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We are hiring! Please share!
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care...
@memorialu.bsky.social
Note we are working with a very tight deadline
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care...
@memorialu.bsky.social
Note we are working with a very tight deadline
careers.mun.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We are hiring! Please share!
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care...
@memorialu.bsky.social
Note we are working with a very tight deadline
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care...
@memorialu.bsky.social
Note we are working with a very tight deadline
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Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
7. Residential customers - aka you and me, aka voters - pay 28% more (16.5 c/kWh, 2024 average) than commercial customers (12.9 c/kWh) and 201% more than industrial (8.2 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: Residential prices rose 27% from 2019-2023, vs. 21% for commercial and 19% for industrial.
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
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Youre so vain you think these subtweets are about you
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Youre so vain you think these subtweets are about you