August C. Bourré
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August C. Bourré
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Gomi no sensei. Archival maximalist.

http://www.vestige.org
http://www.liminalresearch.ca
5 concerts:

Massive Attack
Buddy Guy
Air
Bjork
Zero 7 + Sia + José González (Z7 was touring w/ Sia before she had a big solo career, & blew a fuse, so Sia & JG did an impromptu acoustic set at the edge of the stage while they got back up & running)
5 concerts:

Pharoah Sanders
Kraftwerk
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Jeff Buckley
The Orb
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —

NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Appalling, but sadly, not surprising. Corporate landlords have been racist as fuck in the US—they have been especially anti-Black—and I did not expect any different from them here.
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Notable that Carney gets nothing in return: this will hurt the liberals in BC, they won't make any gains in Alberta, Smith won't stop and of her bullshit, and it will likely tear apart the Liberal caucus.

The only reasonable conclusion is that Carney is a climate change denialist and a fool.
The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels

-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The Wire is the Pitt of cop dramas. Also, does “peeler” mean something different in Ireland? It’s slang for “stripper” in Canada.
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Liberals are like excuse me tankies but we are the adults in the room, thats why we're making the fascists take us seriously by posting babytalk slop like tRump Drumpf Elonia Pootin Taco Cheeto McOrangeHands
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Maybe I'm missing an important point, but the Ford gov's claim that "Landlords will lower rents if they can rent out more of their properties now that we've given them more power over tenants" feels like something you'd say if you'd never literally never heard of capitalism before in your life.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Don’t freak out. We almost never investigate money laundering even though we all know it is rampant. We’re focused on going after the poors.
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Howie, the owner of my hometown comic shop when I was a kid, has passed away. He taught me more about being open to new kinds of reading experiences than pretty much anyone else. I owe a lot of my ability to read both openly and critically to his encouragement.

yoursunsetcountry.ca/obituaries/h...
Howard Hales - Your Sunset Country
Howard Wilson Watson Hales
yoursunsetcountry.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Any fans of ultramarine blue out there?
Gulf Storm. 6”x6” oil painting
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The best song about a dog is by Butthole Surfers.
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Term of the week, probably month (maybe even year):

Adversarial Poetry

LLMs like Grok and GPT can be "jailbroken" -- made to give prohibited answers -- through the use of poetry.

arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come?
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Tylenol Complete that expired pre-pandemic should be good for a cold, right?
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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don’t forget to file, there’s more than a few grand at stake
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:

"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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How come when the internet goes down it’s never The Internet I Need for Work and always The Internet I Need for Coping With Work
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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This "haptic visuality" is what I've always meant by "texture" but didn't know how to talk about it. This is a fantastic video
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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“People aren’t building networks offline because I can’t see evidence of them here on social media”
America can't be fascist because I'm not doing anything about it
November 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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this website absolutely needed the balkan coffee shops at 8am video and i am pleased to bring it to you here
September 13, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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Philip K. Dick took 40 amphetamine pills a day and they named a writing award after him
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM