I’m seeing posts recently about conspiracy theories, and related events — mainly, how crazy they are and how they’re going to get people killed! Then today I found a couple of great charts that show all of the recent conspiracy theories and pa…

Of all the things Trump has destroyed that America used to be proud of – charity, fairness, openness, diplomacy, rule of law – it turns out to be the war crimes that are angering Americans the most. They used to take such pride in their military – …

I found some good commentaries to share tonight, plus a bit about the B-Ark.Commentary about Carney’s progress: Wayne Horton has started a fascinating series called The Carney Letters – an unauthorized series by Wayne Horton. Here is how he explai…

At the Parliamentary press gallery dinner this weekend, Pierre Poilievre actually made fun of himself:

Right wing journalists were ecstatic. “Poilievre steals the show at parliamentary press gallery dinner” posted Rebel News.

Pierre Poilievre’s…

Hey, I’m in a better mood tonight — it was a beautiful sunny day here today, so that was great!
Anyway, here’s some funny stuff and interesting stuff I found this week.Brittlestar to start things off:
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Maybe I just felt grumpy because it’s snowing, but today I saw so many news stories that really pissed me off. First, an incredibly disrespectful and dismissive remark from Natural Resources minister Tim Hodgson:Does Tim Hodgson understand how …

From Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper

Lots of opinions tonight, pro and con, about the Carney-Smith energy and pipeline MOU and the subsequent resignation from Cabinet of Carney’s Quebec lieutenant and official languages minister Steven Guilbeault.
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Today I’m seeing so many great political cartoons and comments about daily news I just want to share a few of them.

First up, Carney and SmithI don’t know enough about pipelines and oil production to say anything sensible about what Carney is trying …

Seems like a lot of the news today was really just an update of the news from the weekend. So here’s some good commentary and update posts: “Who cares?” is trending

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So its only Monday but it seems like its already been a busy week. Carney’s “Who Cares?” riposte
and cue the Poilievre hissy fit tempest in a teapot. Here’s the story that Canadian Press reported:

…While taking questions from reporters in Johan…

Here are some good cartoons that I enjoyed

Here’s some good stuff about Canada

Elizabeth May lays it DOWN!
Elizabeth May is our old school common sense voice of reason in a world that is quicky (and wrongly) coming to belie…

Didn’t we always think it would come to this?To his everlasting shame, Trump is turning tail and getting ready to pull America out of supporting Ukraine in the war with Russia. What a gutless coward. Ukraine is grappling with despair:
President Ze…

I try not to pay attention all the time to the crazy stuff happening in the US, but some days…..

Well, you missed that the US tried to invade Mexico

Those Department of Defense signs on a Mexican beach were intentional. They put them up afte…

First up tonight, the fighter jet decision – F-35 v. Gripen – has become a Canadian loyalty test and rightfully so. The idea of spending our millions on American jets right now just sticks in Canada’s craw.Sweden’s Gripen is a mostly-viable alternati…

I haven’t done a “Christ what an asshole!” roundup for a while. So I thought I would do one tonight, just to keep up with all the assholes we’ve been seeing lately.

First up, Alberta premier Danielle Smith is using the Notwithstanding clause to disc…

Had our Covid and flu shots today so I’m not feeling energetic right now. So here’s a few items I found about Monday’s budget news:

Artwork by Dave Davies

#CanadaBudgetVote Thanks to these five MPs, Canada won’t be having a Christmas elect…

I usually don’t do a post on Sunday nights, but today was so great I just had to put this one together.
Earlier today our son said that after the year we had — Canada didn’t win the Stanley Cup nor did we win the World Series — he was trying to prepa…

Here is my usual Sunday collection of random pieces plus some funny stuff. Enjoy!TrumpWorld is falling apart
Rogan and Musk decide Trump’s “assassination attempt” in Butler PA in July was staged:
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Prime Minister Carney announced another group of Major Projects today – here’s a gift link to the Globe and Mail Project Map page. And here’s what the CBC At Issue panel said about it:

I found it a little nit-picky for the journalists to …

Today I saw several stories about people – mostly politicians – shooting themselves in the foot by doing something stupid and then wondering why they were limping. Enjoy!

Poilievre
He is incapable of self-reflection. He prides himself on being the …

Starting December 26th, Canadians travelling to the United States by air, land, or sea will no longer be able to opt out of having their photo taken at the border. The new rule, announced by the Department of Homeland Security, will make facial biometrics mandatory for all non-US citizens when entering or exiting the country. […]

Have you been watching Poilievre and his caucus loyalists as they huff and puff and fling insults far and wide? I thought this was the gang who were trying to convince Canadians to give them the keys to the Prime Minister office someday soon. …

I found these great drawings by Alex Colville here, on a website called Courage Remembered which is very much worth exploring.And here is Leonard Cohen reading In Flanders Fields:
I remember reading something once about how you only really di…

#Riders lost that game at least three times. But they got four chances. Amazing. #CFLWestFinal

— Steve Burgess (@steveburgess53.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM

I thought this was pretty good too:

Here’s a good analysis of the game:

Joel Gasson / 3 Down Nation

The good, the bad, and the dumb of the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ 24-21 West Final win over B.C.
Just when it looked like the Saskatchewan Roughriders were poised to lose yet another division final and remain one of the CFL’s most cursed teams, they found a way to pull Saturday’s game out of the fire and earn a berth in the 112th Grey Cup in Winnipeg.

Down four points with just over a minute to play, Trevor Harris led his team on what felt like an improbable 76-yard drive that ended with a touchdown pass to Tommy Nield, a name that will now live in Riders infamy forever.
…The best part of this matchup for the Riders was their mental toughness. It wasn’t their night in just about any aspect of the game but they battled to the end and found a way….

And the Riders had the luck they needed, too

It was three times at least.

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— JM =^) (@jm539581.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM

Moving on, here’s the funny ha-ha and funny odd stuff I found recently:

Now, I know the New York Times is having the usual opinion page problems – trying to pander to the MAGA right while not losing all their normal readers – but really, folks, this weekend they hit a new low. For crying out loud, guys, who thought a column title like Did Women Ruin The Workplace? (gift link) was a clever idea?

And they kept changing the headline again and again:

Next up, here’s  several “staring into the abyss” clips, that I thought were funny:

Speaking of sports, here’s a good one:

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Crossing our fingers that Poilievre is leaving too

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Americans were excited about the Democrat wave in elections this week, plus the new mayor of New York:

I’ve been calling it the Blue Sharknado.

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— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM

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Can anyone believe this guy now?

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

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— Micah (@rincewind.run) November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM

No one could accuse Donald of being woke.

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM

The final word on the Lincoln Bathroom:

When they said “government transparency” I somehow wasn’t expecting it to mean a presidential toilet next to a large uncovered window

— Maclunkey (@RadetzkyMarch) October 31, 2025

Isn’t this great news!

The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau was awarded the 2025 Global Leadership Award in Chicago, 🇺🇸

Ex Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman presented the award

It’s a shame I had to learn about this from an algorithm instead of @cbc.ca or @cpac.ca

Congratulations Justin!

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— ButtigiegDem 🇨🇦 📎 (@buttigiegdem.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM

Canada maples

🍁 Maples of Canada 🇨🇦

Canada is home to a variety of stunning maple trees, each with its own unique leaf shape and charm!

My favorite?

🌿 Red Maple (Acer rubrum) – Vibrant and iconic, it often turns fiery red in autumn 🍁🍂❤️

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— Emma Miller 😁 (@emmadmiller.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM

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are you sure this is a scam?

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bricklaying expert

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Trump Watch

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One day Trump will be slumped over in his chair dead for like half an hour before anyone knows he’s not just asleep.

— Cosmically Funny (@cosmicallyf.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM

Animal Crackers
I think all the videos I found this week are real, but I guess you can’t tell sometimes:

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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar…
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

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— Cristian Vlad (@cristianvlad.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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Imagine a world without dogs… I wouldn’t want it.

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— Polar Nerd (@polarnerd.bsky.social) November 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM

Some dogs from the Medici Palace museum, because dogs.

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— Rick Riordan (@rickriordan.bsky.social) October 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM

The realization….👇😆 #Dogs #BlueSkyDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #DogLovers

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— Cat And Dog Tips (@catanddogtips.bsky.social) October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM

The press probably should have made a bigger deal of the president promising to take the U.S. economy back to the 1800s.

— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Short answer? Malfeasance!

“Harvard economist Jason Furman recently said that AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025. Basically, the entire American economy put its eggs in one algorithmic basket.”

— Waylon Jennings-Yutani (@ontopic.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM

For one thing, the AI investments that everyone is excited about seem to be too circular – memories of ponzi schemes that pretend new money is profit when it actually is not:

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

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— Soraya Nadia McDonald (@sorayanadiamcdonald.com) November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM

For another thing, AI is turning out to be incredibly costly.
I am reading that one of the key elements of AI is “Inference” – the stage where AI models become useful tools, and start using real-world applications like recognition of images, processing of language and detecting issues. For example, a self-driving car would use “inference” to recognize a stop sign on a new road.
But developing AI inference apparently is much more expensive than had been anticipated – like billions more:

Based on my analysis, OpenAI burned $19 billion of their $28.6 billion in cash from 2023 through 1H2025, meaning there’s at least $4.1 billion in cash unaccounted for, as my analysis includes *ALL* reported costs that OpenAI has incurred. Where is the money?
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope…

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— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM

My theory is that OpenAI’s inference costs are much higher than expected. Every new GPU is marketed for inference, Stargate Abilene is full of inference-focused Blackwell GPUs, and OpenAI’s latest releases have all been very, very inference intensive.
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— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM

There is also this problem, I believe:

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Now the AI companies are starting to try to get Trump to approve government backstopping their investments. I guess “socialism” is only bad when its giving poor people food and healthcare, but its great when its keeping millionaires from losing their shirts:

the collapse is coming. the infinite tech money loop might be ending soon

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— onion person (@junlper.beer) November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM

This is why OpenAI is asking the trump admin to federally guarantee all their investment promises

— Fro the Texas Comrade (@frobeus.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM

It won’t be just Nvidia. It will be them and OpenAI and Alphabet and Microsoft and Meta and Oracle and AMD and Amazon all asking for tax dollars to keep their stocks at current levels

— Fro the Texas Comrade (@frobeus.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM

Legendary graft

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— T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM

Sam Altman saw Trump give taxpayer $$$ to Intel and Nvidia, and realized he can get a turn at the teat too

— T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM

What the hell is this statement from NVIDIA? What am I meant to do with this info?

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— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM

Honestly if this is coordinated with OpenAI it is the most goofy, awkward one I’ve ever seen. I’ll believe it is if we get an op-ed. Honestly this feels like NVIDIA desperately trying to seize a moment and not realizing everybody’s reaction to this is revulsion
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— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) November 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst – played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” – just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage…

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— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM

Paul Krugman said in mid-October that the US economy was in trouble, though at least there hadn’t yet been mass layoffs:

…There are some objective, measurable reasons to say that the US economy, which appears OK by the most commonly used measures, is definitely not OK once you look under the hood. One essential aspect of this weirdness is the economy is strongly bifurcated: AI is booming, but the rest of the economy isn’t. Another aspect is that in many ways the economy feels “frozen”: while there have been no mass layoffs so far, people who have lost their jobs or are just entering the work force are finding it very hard to get new jobs. Third, while the economy is growing thanks to AI spending, it’s a K-shaped expansion: People who were already affluent are becoming more so, but the less well-off are under severe pressure. For example, there are clear signs that middle-to-low income consumers are struggling: car loan and credit card delinquencies are rising, and grocers report that shoppers are buying cheaper varieties of food. At the same time, the affluent are spending freely: the top 10% of the income distribution now accounts for nearly half of all consumer spending.

What’s going on? I would argue that Trump’s wildly erratic policies are creating huge uncertainty which is deterring many companies – essentially those that are not in the AI sector or a sector catering to the affluent – from making investments. And those forgone investments include hiring new workers. The result is that much of the economy is frozen — companies aren’t hiring or investing. This freeze, in turn, explains both worker anxiety and rising inequality. Without the AI boom/bubble spending, we might very well have fallen into a recession, as some economists like Mark Zandi have claimed. And despite the AI boom, times for many workers are tough…

Well, its November now, and thar she blows!

Recent Layoffs:
48,000 at UPS
30,000 at Amazon
24,000 at Intel
16,000 at Nestle
11,000 at Accenture
11,000 at Ford
9,000 at Norvo Nordisk
7,000 at Microsoft
5,600 at PwC
4,000 at Salesforce
2,000 at Paramount
1,800 at Target
1,444 at Applied Materials
1,000 at Kroger
600 at Meta

That’s negative

— godsammitdam (@godsammitdam.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM

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TODAY’s job losses match the job losses that happened as a result of the massive global economic crash in 2008.

That’s how terrible Trump/GOP economic policies are today. A massive, self-imposed wound.

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— AnneC (@annecw.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM

Per independent experts, layoffs last month were over 153K — the worst October in 22 years.

Over 1 million workers have been laid off this year, partially because of AI and chaotic mismanagement of the economy.

Welcome to Trump’s “New Golden Age.”

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM

The big difference between Trump’s first term and second is that he didn’t burn down a strong economy with tariffs last time around. It’s a lot easier for voters to overlook his bigoted nonsense and authoritarian bluster when they feel good about material conditions.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM

So which is worse – that Trump lies all the time, or that he actually believes his own lies?

This is pretty much his plan for everything, not just the economy.

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— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM

And on a side note, there is a “lighter side” to AI too:

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