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DC think tank warns "a prediction market’s price can reflect the conviction — or the manipulation — of a small number of well-funded traders." Wild prediction: the MAGA elite financially devastate the MAGA faithful...and this is where it all ends. acdatacollective.org/work/a-handf...

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gee, I wonder where I've heard this before. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I think about the US treating Canada like an enemy, I’m reminded that David Foster Wallace saw this coming in Infinite Jest. Sure we don’t have Québécois assassins (afaik) but look at what he described

L a post-Soviet and -Jihad era when—somehow even worse—
there was no real Foreign Menace of any real unified potency to hate and fear, and the U.S. sort of turned on itself and its own philosophical fatigue and hideous redolent wastes with a spasm of panicked rage that in retrospect seems possible only in a time of geopolitical supremacy and consequent silence, the loss of any external Menace to hate and fear.
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump says Canada is "one of the worst countries in the world." The World:

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sarah Connor was absolutely radicalized by LOVE. Love of Kyle and their son, John Connor. I mean, what else could make you do this?

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"submarines from the Edmonton Mall"

A non-German spy posting as a Nazi holds up 3 fingers when ordering drinks, while a German Nazi notices it and surmises this man is not actually German.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From the desk of the Right Honourable Mark Carney

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontar’io, which, appropriately means the lake is beautiful. The lake is big. The name is more than 400 years old pre-dating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence. We know that America is changing.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Honourable Mention: Madame Aline Chretien (Jean's wife) beat up a man who broke into the PM's official residence. I'm serious. She beat him with a soap stone carving while wearing her nightgown. Points for style. 4/ 🧵

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau presided over a spate of kidnappings and assassinations during the 1970s. When a journalist asks him what he will do about the FLQ terrorists, Trudeau said "just watch me." Tanks rolled through Montreal. 2/🧵

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau says "just watch me" when a journalist asked him what he will do about terrorism.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A Guide to Bad Ass Canadian Prime Ministers -- A 🧵. Mark Carney comes from a long line of prime ministers who know how to throw down. Prime Minister Chretien created the Shawinigan Handshake. He is seen here demonstrating it on a protestor who got too close. 1/🧵

Prime Minister Chretien grabs a protestor by the face

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Biidaasige Park, Toronto. June 21, 2026

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I love reading about FF. FF is my whole world. Btw …

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Donald Trump threatens the sovereignty of America's nearest neighbor and closest ally.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Remember the disastrous Time Warner / AOL merger? It began when billionaires sat next to each other at a celebration in Beijing. No one seemed to notice they were sitting where Tank Man and thousands of students were murdered just 10 years before.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Attended the annual Good Friday Procession and got some backstage access. Yes that’s Jesus getting interviewed.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Writing my third book, on strategic foresight, and one thing is clear: the social reality of most organizations is the biggest challenge for foresight practitioners, not lack of data or training. www.samladner.com/campaigns/vi...

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I guess I'm not the only one who sees emotional dysregulation and past trauma in Pam Bondi. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

As she demonstrated in her hearing, Ms. Bondi has a volatile streak that can erupt when she feels threatened or disrespected.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’m great. How are you. Real quick one question What year is this

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Well that's an interesting way to solve the loneliness problem -- implement a terrible software system. Satirical article from UBC's student paper itdoesntworkday.ubyssey.ca

Text: According to internal IRP data released to The Ubyssey, 80 per cent of new friendships in the 2024/25 academic year were formed through shared complaints about Workday Student, 100 per cent of this year’s Jump Start orientation group downtime was spent complaining about Workday Student and only 0.2 per cent of students have been found without a strong yearning to ”accumulate into a vengeful mass and go berserk” at the mention of Workday Student.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn’t Indiana Jones).

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What can BlackRock's investment in trades training and Simile.ai tell us about the future of work? www.samladner.com/campaigns/vi...

What $100M twins tell us about the future of work

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Another poll shows that Trump's anti-Canada stance is incredibly unpopular globalnews.ca/news/1172418...

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Fast, good, cheap. Pick two! Same as it ever was. diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1916622

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

So despite me giving specific prompts on finding peer-reviewed, non-fabricated research, this is what Llama told me

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Another day, another skillfully hidden hallucination.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Non-Canadians: Canadians are so left-wing! Actual Canadians: We are a perfect histogram of centrism. digitalpublicsquare.org/insights/pol...

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is what Core Civic says happens inside Dilley Detention. Members of Congress should be able to go inside and verify this. Take the "virtual" tour yourself. It will probably make you sick. www.corecivic.com/dilley-immig...

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's pretty cold up here in Canada. Via The Globe and Mail (paywall). www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Americans: folks you gotta wake up. Canadians, your friends, are scared of you. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

First look at Pam Bondi in Season 2

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Scholl's dream was hopeful, transcendent. 5/

It was a sunny day and I was carrying a baby in a long white dress to be baptized. The road to the church ran up a steep mountain. But I held the child tight, safe in my arms. Then suddenly a crevasse opened up right in front of me.2 I had just enough time to put the child down on the other side, then I fell into the chasm.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Cold weather but beautiful light.

3 table lamps sit next to each other in the sunshine

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Toronto is feckin cold, eh. - 23 C

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Carney’s speech, basically

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Citing Vaclav Havel, Canadian PM Mark Carney gives us the resolve we need to navigate these times. Full text in link paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently. And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

“The Trump Administration will not tolerate illegal leaks of classified information that, when reported, pose a grave risk to our Nation’s national security,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a social-media post Wednesday. Oh really?

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm so happy to have moved back to Toronto. Feels so good to be home! Yeah, sure, it's minus 7 right now but hell, it's Canada. Beautiful, cold, safe Canada.

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

And she paid for it...hold them accountable but don't expect them to ever be ashamed. 3/

"That the entire obsequious performance backfired was a plus for quality — and a later ordeal for me. The Nixon White House did not forget my effrontery. Although I did not have the honor of making the infamous “enemies list,” I was punished for what I wrote. For the next few years, my tax returns were audited with a ferocity and tenaciousness rivaling that expended on the financial records of Al Capone" (Katharine Kuh, My Love Affair With Modern Art)

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