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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 11m

“The most ubiquitous form of #Americanculture nowadays is not jazz programming going out on shortwave radio across Eurasia, but the #social-media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography, and spam into every corner of the globe” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 12h

“Another hallmark of a #stock #bubble is that, at some point, its participants largely give up on conventional #valuation measures and buy in simply because prices are rising and everybody else is doing it: #fomo rules the day.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929

As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.

www.newyorker.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 12h

“The #stock-market #crash of 1929 occupies a dark but indelible place in the national imagination, and for good reason.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929

As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.

www.newyorker.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 14h

“There is no greater hindrance to the progress of #thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.” #AlfredNorthWhitehead

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 16h

What does that guy know?

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 16h

October, La Cloche Country
Franklin Carmichael
1939

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 16h

Airports across the country are refusing to air Kristi Noem's highly partisan TSA video.

One airport executive called it “inconsistent with the values we expect from our nation’s top public officials” and “unnecessarily alarmist."

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Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints

Travelers in Cleveland, Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.

wapo.st

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Robert McLachlan @robertmclachlan.bsky.social · 1d

Nice

Graph showing NZ % fossil electricity generation falling from 17% to 2% since August

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 20h

Exactly.

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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 20h

This kind of thing surely has nothing to do with it..

“During an Oval Office meeting last week with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump joked about a “merger” of the two countries..”

Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 21h

File Under: Cry me a river …”It’s also that many are deciding not to visit the #UnitedStates, dealing a blow to countless #resorts and #travel #businesses that once relied on a steady stream of #Canadian visitors.”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 20h

Update: I survived.

Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 21h

Wish me luck!

Photo of the bottom of an aerosol spray can with the warning “Extreme Danger” and various alarming danger symbols, including a skull and crossbones.

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 21h

#Americans waking up to the painful fact that, once you include services - as anyone living in the 21st Century should - #Canadians buy more from the #US than anyone else in the world, which gives us considerable power …

Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 21h

File Under: Cry me a river …”It’s also that many are deciding not to visit the #UnitedStates, dealing a blow to countless #resorts and #travel #businesses that once relied on a steady stream of #Canadian visitors.”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 21h

File Under: Cry me a river …”It’s also that many are deciding not to visit the #UnitedStates, dealing a blow to countless #resorts and #travel #businesses that once relied on a steady stream of #Canadian visitors.”
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 22h

The US trade war & annexationist push against Canada. H/t @sueinnovates.bsky.social. Apparently, Americans are the victims. Missing, except for a vague comment: 10 months in, there is zero acknowledgement of political agency or the possibility of change on the US side.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 21h

Wish me luck!

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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look. Exercising sovereign power to protect one's economic capacity and potential.
Paging Canada.,

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Good morning New York, while you were sleeping this was our most read story. on.ft.com/47djskG

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Richard Reeleder @nbdatapoints.bsky.social · 23h

A Canadian company is opening a massive new potash mine .... in Brazil. The mine will supply fertilizer to the country's soybean crop.

www.farmprogress.com/business/new...

Brazil plans domestic potash production by 2030

Brazil Potash Corp's $2.5 billion Amazon basin mining project aims to reduce Brazil's dependence on imported fertilizer. Construction begins in 2026.

www.farmprogress.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 23h

“Mr. Aghion and Mr. Howitt shared the other half of the award for what the committee described as “the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.” They built a mathematical model for growth, with creative destruction as a core element.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/b...

Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth

www.nytimes.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 23h

“I don’t really have a dream. I just want to ... get better at the game and ... continue to improve,” said Zhang. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #chess

12-year-old Halifax girl competes against world No. 2 chess player at P.E.I. tourney | CBC News

Michelle Zhang isn’t even a teenager yet, but that didn’t stop her from putting up a strong fight against Hikaru Nakamura after he made a surprise appearance at a Prince Edward Island tournament over ...

www.cbc.ca

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 23h

“For many people, #GenAI is becoming their primary way to learn about the world. A large-scale study published in September 2025 … revealed that around half the queries were for #practical #guidance, or to seek #information.” aeon.co/essays/gener... (this is a really good piece)

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

aeon.co

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing like this should happen anywhere

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

At least 6 vehicles racing through a quiet suburban neighborhood; multiple agents, all of them armed and masked.

the excessive response plus the violence against this 15 year old girl is outrageous.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 2d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 23h

“The early #internet was dominated by the #English #language and #Western #institutions, and this imbalance has hardened over time, leaving whole worlds of human #knowledge and #experience undigitised.” aeon.co/essays/gener...

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

aeon.co

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 23h

“Letting the #rich get so much control over the means of #communication was a #political failing of #catastrophic proportions, but there may still be an opportunity to set things right.” substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The AI Bubble and Counterfeit Money

We all should be rooting for the collapse of the bubble

substack.com

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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 1d

#TorstenSlok, chief #economist, Apollo Global Management: There is still strong growth in #datacenter #construction, but the current growth rate at 30% is lower than the 80% observed two years ago

A chart indicating that data center construction growth has slowed recently, although it remains at elevated levels. It also shows that other nonresidential construction investment remains low.

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