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  The worst supply shortage yet. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-maple-syrup-reserves-nearly-depleted-9.7386889 #canada #maplesyrup

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  Prime Minister Mark Carney says he studied the possibility of U.S.-led military action in Canada, saying it would be irresponsible not to prepare for what he called "extreme tail risk." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carney-nyt-interview-9.7356284 #Carney #Canada #tradewar

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  Fun headline https://kotaku.com/the-odysseys-critical-and-box-office-success-has-completely-broken-online-chuds-who-forgot-twitter-isnt-real-life-2000718025

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  @Sheril@mastodon.social Pluribus is much more ambitious than the usual science fiction tv show, for sure. It's interesting how the collective expresses itself, how it tries to appeal to Carol, and what it hides from her, while also being transparent about its ultimate objective. If you want to read a perspective from way out in left (or maybe middle-left) field, Howard Chaykin mentions Pluribus in a recent essay/vitriolic attack on millennials: https://howardchaykin.substack.com/p/tomorrow-b...

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  @Lightfighter@infosec.exchange These people aren’t employees though, they’re “founders”.

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  @Lightfighter@infosec.exchange Well… my impression is that even if a bit of money is coming from wealthy tech bros, these people are doing this to themselves. It’s not a company town in the old sense. These people seem like idealistic communalists who would have been Shakers or Hutterites or something along those lines in the past, but today’s gods are tech and money.

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  In the WSJ it’s described in a way that sounds almost like a religious farm community, but the belief system is startup culture: “[Proto-Town] serves as a business commune for young tech founders and other entrepreneurs who all live and work there. Founders and employees live together in the house or nearby trailer parks they call man camps. Workers at the dozen firms on site often eat meals as a group. Many work on their startups from morning to night.”

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  RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbcsk_mirror/116466045955880573 Dumped wet and momentary on a dull ground that’s been clear but clearly sleeping, for days. Last snow melts as it falls, piles up slush, runs in first light making a music in the streets we wish we could keep. Last snow. That’s what we’ll think for weeks to come.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@EricAlper/116467728486926078 Today in history… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyuw6t07_ok

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  Antonia Hitchens (The New Yorker) wrote a very good account of what she saw at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night during the assassination attempt. #Trump #AssassinationAttempt

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  The music video for Dry Spell is fun: https://youtu.be/NlohfwTunwU #MusicVideo

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  “we might also want to consider a system … whereby you would send to a legislature, not the top 10% of the socio-economic distribution, but a representative sample that captures multiple dimensions of the people, in terms of gender, in terms of age, in terms of race, in terms of income, in terms of ideology, etc.” - Hélène Landemore, author of Politics Without Politicians - The Case for Citizen Rule https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730879/politics-without-politicians-by-helene-landemore/

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  TikTok users are listening to Anita Ward’s 1979 Disco hit ‘Ring My Bell’ in the belief that it will bring them good fortune. In an article today, Elias Leight commented that since most of GenX have heard the song, the belief must be misplaced… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eRBRL27rCQ #magic #disco

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@EricAlper/116364469895189032 Generations of Canadians are familiar with Nazareth despite rarely hearing them while sober. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uvpr_gm64

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  I came across a comic book artist on Instagram (pacorodriguez_art), who I’d never heard of, who draws Disney comics. Really good stuff, all drawn the traditional way on paper. Turns out he’s been drawing Donald Duck for over 30 years for comics published in Scandinavia, Netherlands, and Germany. There’s a recent interview where he discusses, among other things, what isn’t allowed by Disney (no socialism, no toilets): https://arsnotoria.com/2025/09/01/a-conversation-with-paco-rodriguez/ #comicboo...