Evidence that music has universal features, such as healing songs, dance songs and lullabies, is dismissed by anthropologists as "pseudoscientific, racist, ethnocentric, and colonial". The same old boring roster of insult-words we hear a million times. x.com/HamesRaymond/s…

Are they refinishing it in gold

this isn't just a funny joke, I think it's actually a very insightful point about the future of work

Bring on the secondary sanctions, including on Russian oil exports.

This is a phenomenal read on the bizarre ways contemporary obsessions with "productivity" both isn't making us more productive, but also ruins our ability to enjoy leisure because we have an almost secularized protestant work ethic that has become a lack of work guilt

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Putin is installing spy software on every new device sold in Russia. This is a huge step toward the Kremlin’s technofascist ambitions of control and coercion. thetimes.com/world/russia-u…

🇩🇰 Denmark signs agreement for 4 long-range MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones to be delivered in 2028 & 2029. The drones will significantly increase monitoring & intelligence collection capability in the North Atlantic & the Arctic

This AI Action Plan reaction webinar is happening on Thursday and it should be pretty cool!

One of the Liberal Party's superpowers is its shamelessness. The Trudeau government increased program spending by 110% and the federal debt by 120% over the past decade. It doled out billions of deficit-financed dollars to multinational corporations and other undeserving

EXCLUSIVE: Charges Dropped Against Chinese Scientist in Vancouver Tied to Xi’s “Talents” Program and Canada’s Synthetic Drug Pipeline thebureau.news/p/exclusive-ch…

If you believe everything is about power, you’re going to want power.

And just like that, all the talk of the need to build a pipeline was just that: talk. The idea of needing indigenous UNANIMITY is ridiculous and Canada will never achieve its potential if it lets random communities have veto power. No other community has that kind of power.

Elbows Up* *As long as we have Indigenous consensus.** **Consensus is near impossible on any major project. You just need one group to oppose, perhaps because some group like Tides is pumping money to local leaders. Bravo everyone 👏winnipegsun.com/news/kinew-wal…

For all the talk of momentum on big nation building stuff in recent months, the reality was it was going to be hard to maintain momentum and consensus, and as time goes on this will get even harder. As I wrote recently, change is going to require a fight: thehub.ca/2025/06/07/ben…

There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country.

The purpose of the Government of Canada isn't to employ people in the National Capital Region. It's to carry out its constitutional responsibilities on behalf of taxpayers.

Recently, 🇺🇦 hero of this war Robert Broudi (aka “Magyar”) spoke at a military conference in 🇩🇪 Wiesbaden. His speech stunned many people. It’s a bit long for Twitter but totally worth a read. “In the Ukrainian army, they call me Magyar. I am a field commander of combat drone

It is now entirely possible, whether by luck or planning or both, that Google may escape the Innovators Dilemma and transition from web search to AI. (To be fair, this is not as rare as a lot of people believe: researchgate.net/publication/28…)

I am just not really into this whole debate of the disciplines. I have learned useful things from many fields: history, neuroscience, mathematics, poetry, ecology, strategic theory, cognitive science, anthropology, philosophy, political science, biology, economics, theology,