James Gemmill

The Justice Department is drawing up contingency plans to potentially intervene in next week’s midterm elections, three national security officials tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-prep-...

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Accused of working for the United States. Because that's the world we live in now.

Land does not vote, but this time around there are a lot of blue bubbles too.

You can also do stuff like force messaging votes to make your opposition look bad, but Canadian governments hate their legislatures so much they won't even do that.

Well, when you put it that way...

Okay, so I'm not going to wait until tomorrow. How could the former head of the BC Civil Liberties Association been so milquetoast on, you know, civil liberties.

My not so novel personal theory of Canadian politics (with Quebec and Alberta being exceptions) is the electorate at federal or provincial level will give a party 2, sometimes 3, terms to govern then they'll hand the football to the other party for 2-3 terms. Rinse, repeat.

I think I'm going to wait until tomorrow morning to digest all this.

Well now the BC Cons have to govern and we all know they'll be [cough] very good at that.

Gilead ascendant 🤮

Le sigh

The art of the deal! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

They're throwing spaghetti at the wall. It doesn't mean it's not really dangerous - and whatever they try, we'll be prepared to counter - but folks should be clear that this is not some well-orchestrated highly competent plan unfurling.

Uh the kind of thing you do if you anticipate things popping off (even more so) in the foreseeable future

Sometimes it’s nice

Aristocrat is displeased with the peasantry. Displeased!

If I had to pick one ABC councillor as likely to get re-elected tonight, Mike Klassen would have been my last pick. Life is a mystery.

Vancouver preliminary council results: Beating up on Sean Orr seems to have backfired spectacularly.

👇 spread this news far and wide

Interestingly, Bell also provides the answer to the famous question “where are the flying cars?”. Answer: they’re helicopters and the problem isn’t the machine but the inability to do traffic control. Look back at the Jetsons and you’ll see that George is one of maybe 20 people flying to work.

New study shows link between cars and traffic

This election can't end soon enough #vanpoli

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

Will Zacharia become its own unit of measurement or will it be a subunit of a Scaramucci?

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

Over on Earth 2, counterintelligence folks asked many questions along those lines.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

Its the same picture

Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.