Neither Left nor Right, rtd high school teacher, likes Jean Marc Jancovici, Gapminder, Bjorn Lomborg
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When even the CBC is fact-checking Liberal broken housing promises...
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C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures remains undefeated.
He noticed that lots of people who held themselves to be intellectuals were actually basically illiterate when it came to scientific and mathematical matters.
FYI #Canada
Imagine if you could reduce your debt by dividing it onto three credit cards!
Well Mark Carney says today you can.
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Bill Maher exposes the absurd cost of government bureaucracy after San Francisco’s public toilet project reportedly reached $1.7 million.
Even after a private company offered to build it for free, the remaining fees were expected to approach $1 million.
“You’re not a city, you’re an airline.”
Maher also questions why taxpayers keep paying more while major problems like homelessness remain unresolved.
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🚨 WARNING CANADA: Any EU partnership means Canada forfeits its sovereignty to an unelected body that meddles in elections, appoints its own judges, and dictates law to member states.
— Prof. David Collins, international economic law
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Google heard the outcry from parents, teachers, and the US Senate, who don’t want Gemini pushed into classrooms. AI causes cognitive offloading, encourages cheating on homework, and enables the possibility of forming human-like relationships with a chatbot. So Google responded: They are going to make Gemini an “opt-in” choice for each school district. Great!
But then they attached a condition: if a school district does NOT turn on Gemini, then the students lose Google search, which is deeply woven into the fabric of education. This is coercion, not choice. Google can and should just restore what we all had before: Google search with no AI chatbot interaction or AI overviews.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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If you are interested in the effects of media/tech on human development, democracy, and society, you must follow my NYU colleague @jayvanbavel. High quality research summaries and interpretation:
If you’ve had a sneaking suspicion that your algorithm is feeding you content specifically designed to enrage you, you might be onto something. Social media algorithms reward moral outrage, giving extreme voices more visibility than they might otherwise have and distorting our perceptions of what other people actually believe.
Meanwhile, AI chatbots are increasingly telling us what we want to hear, reinforcing our existing beliefs, while remote work and digital communication can come at the expense of the everyday interactions that build trust and strengthen relationships.
I shares ideas for bringing people together and pushing back against loneliness and isolation in an increasingly digital world. By creating healthier social norms within organizations and encouraging leaders to prioritize meaningful connections with their teams, we can start breaking down the walls that divide us and rediscover the power of us.
I discuss this topic and more on the Behavioral Grooves Podcast (and get out and vote today!)
bgpodcast.substack.com/p/the…
It will be interesting to see how the historically anti-free trade #Democrats deal with the #Tariffs issue and inflation...
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Diversity is not our strength.
A clip 👇 from the Strictly Education episode where I explain the concept of the title of my book - Diversity is not our strength.
It is out next Thursday - November 12th!
You can pre-order it on Amazon:
amzn.eu/d/00go9Uff
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Yesterday I appeared before the House of Commons Natural Resources committee to make the case for a Canadian nuclear industrial strategy centred on CANDU.
As Washington mobilizes behind Westinghouse and the AP1000, Canada faces a defining choice: will we champion our own reactor technology or help build an American industrial enterprise with Canadian shareholders?
My five-minute testimony is below.
For the full transcript and deeper analysis, visit my Subst@ck, Decouple Media. Link in the comments.
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Lethal Partners 2
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And Canada wants "in " ...in Europe... go figure...
“Europe seems enthusiastic to be left behind. They seem to really badly want that.”
It’s hard for Americans to understand the European mindset without repeatedly confronting it. There is truly a deep-seated resentment towards economic progress.
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