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Aaron Vegh
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Freelance vocateur codewriter for Mac, iOS and web. I help make Croissant! Astra mortemque superare gradatim.
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Despite a few cringe moments, I thought Starfleet Academy E1 went down really well. Looking forward to more! Big spoilers in this recap + analysis. trekmovie.com/2026/01/15/reca...
Recap/Review: ‘Starfleet Academy’ Series Premiere Is A Welcoming Return To Star Trek
A street kid is offered the chance to join the new Starfleet Academy... and to help find his lost mother.
trekmovie.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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madskorsager.bsky.social
BREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland.
The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Stor operation i gang: Fly strømmer til Grønland med europæiske soldater
I flere døgn har militære transportfly fløjet i pendulfart mellem Danmark og Grønland. Fredag aften landede et stort antal soldater i Nuuk.
www.dr.dk
January 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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mattkavanagh.bsky.social
I’ve been calling out @mark-carney.bsky.social on a few different files (uncritical AI adoption, importance of contributing to the Greenland tripwire, etc.) but credit where credit is due: nice work on the trade deal with China!
January 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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parismarx.com
Canada’s AI Minister “has been accused of naively embracing AI rather than working to mitigate its harms, and of listening mostly to voices from the tech sector—those who stand to benefit most from rapid AI adoption.”

Good article on the issues with Evan Solomon’s approach to tech and AI.
Evan Solomon Wants Canada to Trust AI. Can We Trust Evan Solomon? | The Walrus
The journalist-turned-minister says the tech will make us richer and regulation should be “light”
thewalrus.ca
January 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
A huge middle finger to the Premier for abandoning us, a middle fingie to Pierre Poilievre for buying them donuts, a middle fingie to the racist Ottawa Police who did not intervene in large part to undermine the authority of their Black police chief and a huge middle finger to Jim Watson, too.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
As someone who lives downtown Ottawa and who was living dead centre of the "Red Zone" where I had to literally show ID at a police checkpoint in order to get to my apartment, a huge middle finger to this and what it's about to enable.
Federal government loses Emergencies Act appeal | CBC News
The Liberal government unreasonably invoked the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests that gridlocked the capital city and border points nearly four years ago, the Federal Court of Appeal said.
www.cbc.ca
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
vegh.ca
Seeing this moment where the Nobel Peace Prize winner surrenders it to this venal orange ghoul, and he has this shit-eating grin like "yeah, I totally earned this," is so outrageous and embarrassing.
Machado and Trump posing with Nobel Peace Prize
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
You asked for it so here they are: The Verge has gift links now! Subscribers can now share five posts a month any way you want. Just hit the little gift icon in the meta box at the top of each article. Share away please
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
vegh.ca
Fucking love this scene from ST:Disco S2E1.
Tilly: "This is the power of math, people! Come on!"
Stamets: "That is correct, Ensign!"
*high fives*

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt6lc...
Star Trek Discovery - "This is the power of math, people" - Episode: Brother
From the Season premiere, Brother. Ensign Tilly with help from Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets, captures an asteroid in the shuttle bay.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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dylanroth.bsky.social
I never thought I would walk away from Star Trek. I’ve written about it for a decade and I’ve eagerly shared it my entire life. But given who owns it now and who stands to profit from Trekkies’ loyalty, I can’t keep promoting it. The Trekkie in me won’t allow it.

Here’s why I’m beaming out.
I Can Say Goodbye To Star Trek Because Star Trek Raised Me
Star Trek instilled in me many of the same values that are taught in houses of worship across the world, but in my faith, there is no God to judge or punish me—I learned how to rely on my own moral co...
aftermath.site
January 15, 2026 at 6:50 PM
vegh.ca
Dammit. www.thestar.com/politics/fede...
Canadian troops won’t be joining European military force in Greenland
Small numbers of troops from European countries — including Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Britain — are being deployed to the Arctic island.
www.thestar.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
vegh.ca
I'd long given up hope for Martin to finish his book series. Reading this profile, I feel pretty justified there, alas. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/...
Heavy Is the Crown: George R.R. Martin on His Triumphs and Torments
At the height of his reign, the 'Game of Thrones' author gets candid about his efforts to rule his expanding media empire, his buzzy new show 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,' and the long-delayed saga he’s still determined to finish — if he can.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:45 PM
vegh.ca
This is an obscenity. The Nobel committee should rescind the award altogether, or stop awarding them altogether. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nobel Peace Prize winner gives prize to Donald Trump in Oval Office meeting
Maria Corina Machado said she had given her medal to Trump, saying it was in recognition of "his unique commitment with our freedom"
www.mirror.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
vegh.ca
Hanging with @st3fan.bsky.social at Starbucks.
January 15, 2026 at 2:01 AM
vegh.ca
I'm going to be outraged when this turns out to be sufficient to placate the masses, and all the pressure to move governments and journalists off X will just evaporate. www.engadget.com/ai/x-says-gr...
X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
X says it is changing its policies around Grok’s image-editing abilities following a multi-week outcry over the chatbot repeatedly being accused of generating sexualized images of children and nonconsensual nudity.
www.engadget.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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benjamindewey.bsky.social
I have a friend from a generation before me who works in comics and did so well at one point that he had custom kitchen cabinets with the justice league character icons inlaid in them.

I now feel like I make the entertainment equivalent of wooden toys and get paid accordingly
January 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.

Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.

1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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mattkavanagh.bsky.social
This is the right thing to do. 🇨🇦🇸🇪🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇪💪
January 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
vegh.ca
This is fantastic news. I'll keep my fingers crossed that Durham Region qualifies for its own bureau.
January 14, 2026 at 8:25 PM
vegh.ca
Look, if we get governments off Twitter and Meta's platforms that's a great win. And Bluesky isn't a perfect answer, but it's a better one. I'd take it.
January 14, 2026 at 7:44 PM
vegh.ca
"Deploy CAF in Greenland to stand with our EU allies against a hegemonic USA" is a correct statement but 2026 is looking pretty bleak rn
davekeating.substack.com Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 3d
It's finally happening.

The Swedish prime minister just announced that a pan-European force is arriving in #Greenland as we speak.

No word yet on whether UK forces are among them.
January 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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blackwellmerlin.bsky.social
A critically important read.

I left X a year ago.

If the “town square” where you usually go is a shithole it might be a good idea to leave until the proprietors clean it up.

That last post where I said “we are losing” because people “let it slide”… this is what I’m talking about.
Musk’s Grok Is Abusing Women and Children. Our Government Needs to Act | The Tyee
Where are Canadian lawmakers? Oh, they’re on X.
thetyee.ca
January 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM
vegh.ca
Such a deeply moving piece. Humanity deserves more and better than what the Trump administration is giving us.
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 3d
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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thetyee.ca
Anon users flooded the replies of a woman who posted a selfie to X, demanding #Grok, Elon Musk’s proprietary #AI chatbot, take off Claire’s clothes.

Musk has barely lifted a finger to stop it and the majority of Canadian politicians remain active on X. @rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes.
Musk’s Grok Is Abusing Women and Children. Our Government Needs to Act | The Tyee
Where are Canadian lawmakers? Oh, they’re on X.
thetyee.ca
January 14, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
“What is to you the ‘rage economy’?”

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks....They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection.

And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”
January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM