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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 5h

does this mean we can finally use "mon pays" for the whole country without infighting every time

Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 20h

I think this might be the most cursed thing I've ever posted on the internet. Click through for context and you'll understand why.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 23h

I'm pretty cynical about this and this shocked even me. Not /one/!

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23h

NEW RESEARCH: Pakistan's solar boom is one of the world's most impressive renewable deployment stories. It is also a story about a broken grid, high electricity prices and inequality. This is the first peer-reviewed paper to take a deep dive into it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rapidly approaching the point where the terms people use for AI make just want to adopt the Star Trek approach of calling all of it "computer". It is still more accurate than any of the others.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Always find it astonishing how noticeable the Great Leap Forward is.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026

It's Nobel Prize week! Time for your annual reminder that 72 years after Alfred Nobel died, economists got Swedish bankers to endow an econ prize "in honor of Alfred Nobel," against Nobel's descendants' wishes. Media now pretend the econ prize is as newsworthy as the phys/chem/med/lit/peace prizes.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 05/10/2026

It seems pretty pathetic to try to intimidate a spam labeling service that has maybe 10K users max to drum up quotes for a substack.

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Michael Shellenberger
michaelshellenberger@gmail.com
Oct 3

I am the publisher of Public, which reaches 2 million people across all platforms, and I am writing about next week's #Disinfo2026 conference in Vilnius.
The programme lists you as a speaker in "Trust and safety through decentralised platforms" on October 8. The description reads: "This panel explores the operational realities of deploying automated defense tools across decentralised spaces."
The conference's sponsors page lists the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Global Affairs Canada as "main supporters," and the European External Action Service under "with the support of."
The same programme includes a session titled "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back," whose description asks "how did the United States become a FIMI threat for Europe?" It also includes a workshop run by Ghost Shift in which participants
"draw on an operational toolkit (covering

First, what do you intend the session to achieve, and what actions will you ask governments, regulators or platforms to take?
Second, is any government, or any organization that receives government money, paying a fee or expenses for your appearance? Which governments, if any, fund your work or your organization's?
Third, have you, or any organization you work with, asked a platform or a regulator to remove, label, demonetize or restrict online content or accounts? If so, which content, and when?
Fourth, do you regard the US government as a source of foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) in Europe? Have you had any contact with the State Department or another US agency about your work or this conference?
Fifth, do you, or any organization you work with, operate or advise on online accounts or personas that do not disclose who runs them?
I would be glad to talk by phone at 415-710-1042.
Please reply by 5 pm Eastern on Monday, October 5.
Michael
Michael Shellenberger, C.B.R. Chair of Politics,_ Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin :: Public. News :: Civilization
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email: michaelshellenberger@proton.me

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No country *needs* to dominate its neighbours. No country should get to demand respect it hasn’t earned. No country should be allowed to attack to satisfy its desires. For far too long, the West has been coddling Ru. That's why we're here.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Former MI6 chief Scarlett said that the West didnt grasp how much Ru needed to be respected and treated as a great power equal to the US. I’d say the West actually understood and nearly embraced that idea. This was a huge mistake, actually. The West shouldn’t have construed Ru's desires as needs!

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

US Republican organizers are in Alberta to help separatists mobilize their vote. They’re not even hiding it. They are openly working for the national interest of the United States. Cast your vote for Canada. Reject these treasonous imposters. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We are here because believers in an apocalyptic vision of computer progress have used their enormous wealth to push the technology on us. They never have justified their actions beyond their religious beliefs.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it

But supposing that the world has become "filled up," so to speak, with liberal democracies, such that there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle?
Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier gen-eration, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and pros-perity, and against democracy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alberta once had a world class public education system that successive have actively made worse, likely because it could have led to people understanding the economics and chemistry of their oil industry is the worst bet possible for the future.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Extra-credit question: If the consequences of a policy choice would be frighteningly bad, is it "scare tactics" to mention those consequences?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dear Quebec voters. Are there any cases you can think of recently in which one society withdrew from its political-economic union with its closest neighbors? If so.. how has that worked out for them? Any lessons one might think about drawing? There will be a quiz on Monday.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/10/2026

Rate-limiting ArXiv is just one symptom of a massive vibe shift i can feel happening, toward slower more careful (but sometimes more ambitious) projects. If “sheer productivity” were a stock I would short it; it’s going to start looking like a negative.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To put @diplomatofnight.com’s point slightly differently: “New guys are less bad than the guys who literally inspired violence to remove them” is the lowest bar on earth for governments.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Final Fantasy 7. I do not think this is in question.

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Pembina Institute @pembina.org · 01/10/2026

Canada should be investing in electrification and clean power, not another oil pipeline. The Pacific Link pipeline will increase emissions and is a risky bet for public funds, as long-term oil demand weakens. It should not be designated as a project of national interest. 🔗 buff.ly/BbuAlfq

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just…okay, it’s a dramatization but something like this definitely happened youtu.be/rw-FbwmzPKo?...

youtu.be

Heritage Minutes: Halifax Explosion

YouTube video by Historica Canada

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do actually think about the telegraph guy at the Halifax explosion from time to time

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My second night in Japan, two Japanese guys in suits came up to me and tried to start talking to me in English about Jesus. All I said was "You are definitely asking the wrong foreigner. Spend your time on someone else."

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The reliability of your energy suppliers is important", case in point:

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We can make things better, it just takes work.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tragic epic poem about a postdoc who finally gets tenure only to find that to get there they turned themselves into exactly the sort of clout chasing professionalised neurotic who couldn't possibly actually enjoy the freedom it offers.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: The EU and Canada will use a landmark summit next month to announce an expansive new partnership, ranging from breaking down digital trade barriers to joint support for Ukraine and investing in fighting wildfires.

politico.eu

EU and Canada to announce sweeping new partnership pact

From critical raw materials to fighting wildfires, a document obtained by POLITICO reveals a wide-ranging expansion in relations.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 30/09/2026

POLITICAL SCIENCE JOB AD: Tenure-track position in International Relations at the University of Waterloo. We're *very happy* to announce this. Applications due Nov. 1st; job start date July 2027. Details here (pdf): uwaterloo.ca/arts/sites/d...

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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That’s populist politics.

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why is someone in my neighborhood playing droning bass guitar at 1:55 am

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is better energy journalism than you'll see in most Canadian newspapers today -- and certainly anything coming out of Postmedia in Alberta. I've yet to see any of the talking heads and industry spokespeople actually confront it. energi.media/markham-on-e...

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LNG Canada Phase 2: The $33-Billion Bet on Asian Demand

LNG Canada Phase 2 is a $33-billion bet on Asian demand, Qatar recovery and a historic wave of new global LNG supply.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No matter what happens in the 2026 midterms -- or even the 2028 presidential election -- Canadians will never trust the United States the way it used to. The north remembers. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...

nationalobserver.com

America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes

Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you

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