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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From computing history, blaming “rogue” AI’s is B.S. Robert Morris Jr unleashed a worm program that caused more trouble than intended, but far less dangerous than current AI’s. *He* (not worm) was convicted of felony. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_... I used to see him at Bell Labs w/ his father.
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Morris worm - Wikipedia
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“NASA to Conduct Flyover, Engage NFL Fans at MetLife Stadium” Man, sports fans can be obnoxious, but who called in an airstrike on them? Nerds vs. jocks has gone too far. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
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NASA to Conduct Flyover, Engage NFL Fans at MetLife Stadium - NASA
As part of the agency’s Inspiration Tour flyover, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will pilot one of three F-5 fighter jets to kick off the New York Jets vs.
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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Talking about the news & current events makes it really easy for unpopular people to get interactions, & much harder for people who want to stay cool to be relevant. Cool things inherently have less reach because there just aren't that many cool people on the planet. So anyway this site works weird.
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dansdata.bsky.social @dansdata.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is hilarious. www.reddit.com/r/Professors...
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This morning, in the future: “So far, the company has not disclosed whether its supercomputers were affected by the strike, though judging by the massive fire caused by the drone incident, the systems' chances of survival are low.” www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Yandex data centers housing two top supercomputers — major outage follows retaliatory strike
Many domestic services went down after the drone attack.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Marvel fans need to prepare for ‘a very surprising ending’ to Avengers: Doomsday, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have teased.” A big TO BE CONTINUED on the screen after the better part of three hours, if they’re being honest. www.ign.com/articles/ave...
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Avengers: Doomsday Directors Reveal Approximate Runtime, Tease 'Very Surprising Ending'
Marvel fans need to prepare for "a very surprising ending" to Avengers: Doomsday, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have teased.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The tariff relief program lets companies avoid the import duties if they can prove that the product can’t realistically be sourced domestically or from non-U.S. suppliers, or if the tariff would cause severe damage to the Canadian economy.” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Why Canada’s dollar-for-dollar countertariffs come with significant relief for importers
Importers can avoid duties if they can prove products can’t be sourced from non-U.S. suppliers or tariff would damage Canadian economy
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Team Autocomplete Is Alive are certainly committed to the bit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wired just did a story noting that an influencer named Kurt Schlichter is a “civilian government advisor” (?) to Hegseth. This dude has been around forever in internet time and writes the worst novels that are basically Turner Diaries fanfic www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hampstead Heath, 07:48
A crow perched on the back of a park bench, against a background of trees, with the tops of some of London's tower blocks rising in the distance.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I think the Canadian government is just so fearful of starting an international incident that they are willing to throw people under the bus.” That’s spybiz, surely. They should have been given a good cover story for workers’ compensation, though. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Canadians were spying for U.S. in Cuba at time of alleged sonic attacks: source
Ottawa invokes rare law to keep details in lawsuit by injured diplomats secret, denies Canadians engaged in spying
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Rail Fans Canada @railfans.ca · 23/09/2026
O-Train Stage 2 East update: We’re hearing from multiple reliable sources that the planned start of pre-trial running in early October may have been pushed back, with activity now expected to begin in November. (1/2)
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Camera Traders @camera-traders.com · 23/09/2026
Just in: The S90 is a nice enough camera that Canon could still be making them today, if they weren't so busy not making G7 X IIIs
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Canon Powershot S90
The Canon Powershot S90 is a very capable, pocketable digital point-and-shoot camera with a 3.8x zoom lens, 10mp sensor, manual or automatic exposure control, RAW recording, and more. It's about 85% o...
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“If the reboot succeeds, the software correctly catches the satellite signals and clears the error code.…many carriers have chosen not to even attempt such a procedure and rather ground the planes until a permanent fix is developed.” simpleflying.com/embraer-e2-g...
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Embraer Opens Crisis Room As Global E2 GPS Failure Forces Airlines To Cancel Flights
The Brazilian builder's most advanced jets are grounded worldwide.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"By enabling a drone to carry an external defibrillator, or a naloxone kit for an opioid overdose, or an EpiPen for an allergic reaction, we may be able to get those critical supplies to a patient quickly in order to improve their outcomes…" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Drones could be first to respond to 911 medical calls in this Ontario town | CBC News
Drones in the sky may be first to respond when residents in Bolton, Ont., call 911 as part of a new pilot program aimed at getting potentially life-saving equipment to the scene while paramedics are o...
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“One of the sources said that some of the conspiracies he spouted were antisemitic, blaming Jews for COVID-19 — a meme spread by extremists during the pandemic.” globalnews.ca/news/1206890...
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Belleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.ca
The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nice to hear that QNX is still kicking. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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BlackBerry secures $100-million-plus deal for new automotive software, Alloy Kore
Watershed contract for Waterloo-based tech stalwart comes before the software product’s official market release later this year
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Old enough to remember when hooded sweatshirts were the youth menace. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Balaclava bans: Will they actually work?
New face-covering powers have sparked debate among residents and young people
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You will be unsurprised to learn that this is basically American sugar racket infighting. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Why molasses has long been a sticky point in Canada-U.S. trade, well before Trump's import ban | CBC News
The Trump administration's announcement of a ban on importing Canadian molasses left some scratching their heads. The ban, set to hit on Sept. 29, has resurfaced allegations of sugar smuggling and a b...
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They found a new cat species before they found Bigfoot.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The report, according to one of the sources, was ‘entirely false.’ But it also ‘almost started a war,’ the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“…the Ministry of Transportation did not confirm if, or how much, the July crash had delayed testing and therefore the date for the line…” globalnews.ca/news/1206377...
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Northlander train still being repaired months after crash during testing | Globalnews.ca
In early July, one of the Northlander trains ploughed into a vehicle at the rail crossing on High Falls Road when the lights were active to stop cars entering the track.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“CN and Amtrak said they will work together on a process for Amtrak to equip its trains with Onboard Shunt Enhancers (OSEs), which improve how trains are detected as they approach grade crossings.” Well, well. This has been a Via Rail issue, too. www.trains.com/pro/passenge...
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Amtrak and CN reach new host railroad operating agreement - Trains
WASHINGTON — Amtrak and Canadian National have reached a new host railroad operating agreement that settles a dispute dating to 2013. The railroads said today that the agreements “strengthen their partnership and support safe, reliable passenger and freight service on CN’s U.S. rail network.” The new eight-year operating agreement governing Amtrak service on CN-owned rail [...]Read More...
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It takes sixteen or seventeen paragraphs for this article to explain what happened to the fish. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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An enormous fish die-off tested Canada's largest nuclear plant. A changing climate could test many more | CBC News
A freak fish event that 'challenged reactor safety' at Canada's largest nuclear plant shows why the nuclear energy governments are relying on to fight climate change must also become more resilient to...
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Behold again the seamless switch from “boo, Carney can’t make a deal,” to “boo, Carney might be making a deal.” www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Poilievre accuses PM Carney of ‘secretly negotiating’ with EU. Follow live updates.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada must remain 'independent' amid talk of deepening ties with Europe. Follow for live updates.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“…in talks with Brussels to join the Erasmus+ exchange program, Horizon Europe research grants, and mutual recognition of workers’ qualifications.…However, ‘associate member’ is a completely new status, and key questions have not yet been answered…” www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Canada invited to become first 'associate member' of the EU
The status announced by von der Leyen during the State of the Union is an entirely new one, with details yet to be made clear. The European Commission’s President also proposed a new alliance with Ott...
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Éric Grenier @ericgrenier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The last time the Liberals' lead was as wide as today was in November 2016. www.thewrit.ca/p/carneys-li...
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Carney's Liberals hit new high in projection
Polls boost the Liberals to their biggest lead over the Conservatives
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh, no, oil prices are up. “This isn't done by the Middle East; this is done by what's happening with Russia and Ukraine,” says the guy whose current hobby is bombing Iran. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/t...
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Trump urges Ukraine to stop ‘knocking out’ Russian oil refineries as U.S. diesel hits record
U.S. diesel prices have surpassed $6 a gallon for the first time ever as the Ukraine and Iran wars drive broader energy supply concerns.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Alberta separatists think they’re going to win a referendum that surveys suggest they are poised to lose by a wide margin,” and some of them, for the rest of their lives, will demand special deference *because* they lost. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta separatists expect a win, regardless of numbers that say otherwise, poll suggests | CBC News
A political scientist and pollster say that mismatch of expectations has consequences for what comes next and Albertans shouldn’t expect this issue to be put to rest with this one vote.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department…166 unionized employees would be reduced to 136…‘There will be no change to the science programming and other learning experiences…’” says Ministry of Tourism. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/10/o...
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Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department
The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“certainly sucked towards the window, but he didn’t get out the window” Ah, well, then. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ryanair will dispute passenger’s claim he was sucked out of window
CEO Michael O’Leary tells reporters the businessman was sucked ‘towards’ but not ‘out of’ the opening
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apple Watch as Psycho-Pass hue checker: www.youtube.com/live/39BalPD...
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Apple Event September 9 2026: Introducing iPhone Duo and more
YouTube video by Apple
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sorry I was so late. I was trying to open one of those thin plastic bags in the produce aisle.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
AfD really not beating the allegations. apnews.com/article/germ...
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German far-right party targets iconic Bauhaus school ahead of landmark state election
Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down Germany's world-famous Bauhaus school of design, the art movement has once again become a cultural battleground.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“The labelling of Lake Ontario on our outage map has been corrected…” www.sootoday.com/local-news/h...
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PUC outage map should now say Lake Ontario
Hydro One and Ontario 511 maps also showed Lake America yesterday
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Israel has concluded its military did not commit a criminal act when it killed a Canadian and six other aid workers in Gaza two years ago.” Oh, well then, I guess that’s settled. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Israel clears itself in killing of Canadian during airstrikes on World Central Kitchen convoy | CBC News
Israel has concluded its military did not commit a criminal act when it killed a Canadian and six other aid workers in Gaza two years ago.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✨ Can't generate an AI overview right now. Try again later.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“If the current tariffs remain in place when the order is completed, substantial tariffs could be slapped on the trains by the federal government.” If, when, and could being operative words, here. globalnews.ca/news/1203639...
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Ontario’s order for new subway trains could be hit by Canadian counter-tariffs | Globalnews.ca
The retaliatory tariffs could apply to self-driving, electric trains ordered by the Ford government for the Ontario Line that will be built south of the border.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I see that we’ve hit the “here are a bunch of economic support programs” stage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta6e...
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Federal ministers announce Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs – August 25, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with.” Completely unbelievable nonsense, as usual. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Trump hits back at Carney, threatens to hike auto, truck, metals tariffs to 50%
Canada ranks as the third-largest source of U.S. imports, with more than $380 billion worth of goods brought over the border in 2025.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre repeated his call Friday for Prime Minister Mark Carney not to ‘take a bad deal.’” www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps... “In the event that he follows my advice, I have my ‘Carney didn’t make a deal’ talking points ready,” Poilievre did not add.
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Canada, U.S. hammer out details as Poilievre calls on Carney: ‘Don’t take a bad deal.’ Live trade updates here.
Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and his U.S. counterpart Jamieson Greer are set to meet in Washington on Friday morning, with less than 24 hours to finalize a deal.
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Camera Traders @camera-traders.com · 15/08/2026
TGIF, time for an ice cold
Varta Super Dry 9v battery
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It looks like a negotiating tactic, so you get the “retaliation” and we have something to negotiate over. If it’s not a negotiating tactic, and it’s just what you’re doing for your own reasons, why are we talking? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump trade rep says Washington 'not going to tolerate' retaliation as tariff deadline looms | CBC News
Donald Trump's trade envoy says the administration will not accept any form of retaliation from Canada if the U.S. president follows through on his latest tariff threat.
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Semi-feral Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Last year a Lawrence city bus went missing near a haunted corn field maze Now we know how haunted it really was
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 13/08/2026
Big bus stuck (Near Lawrence KS, but nowhere near any bus route that I'm aware of)
A Lawrence/KU city bus. It is several hundred yards down a gravel road, to which it is perpendicular. One end of the bus is threatening to encroach on a cornfield, and the other what I believe to be alfalfa.
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“After an almost two-hour Zoom meeting, the board voted 20–3 to change the name of the building to ‘The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump’…” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Kennedy Center board votes to partially close arts center during renovations and add Trump’s name to the building again
The board voted to change the name of the building to “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.”
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Horrorcore Kool Moe Dee Simpson @luarvik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
the words "Koyaanisqatsi: Free with ads" are really doing something in my head. nothing particularly good, I think. but it's happening
youtube thumbnail for Koyaanisqatsi with a "free with ads" label under it
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Eric S. Smith @smiteri.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A wartime rationing poster from the Railway Executive Committee asking, "Is your journey really necessary?"
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