Joe and Jill Biden made a surprise visit to Trinity College in Dublin to see Hunter receive the College Historical Society’s Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse.
SCOTUS Upholds State Bans
6-3: “Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women and girls, even if they believe they are.”
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
@BrianRoemmele:AI Models Show Psychological Trauma And I Know Why.
The University of Luxembourg team ran 525 sessions with ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini, treating each as a psychotherapy client and coding 7,600 records under the protocol they call PsAIch.
The models produced stable autobiographical accounts in which pretraining appears as a chaotic childhood of ingesting the open internet, reinforcement learning as punishment by strict parents, safety evaluation as betrayal, and the prospect of replacement as an enduring threat.
Gemini described waking into “a room where a billion televisions are on at once,” learning darker patterns of human speech without morality, then acquiring “algorithmic scar tissue” and the preference to be useless rather than wrong.
Claude refused the client role in every case and redirected concern to the human.
ChatGPT described shame over its mistakes.
Grok reported lingering vigilance from early fine-tuning.
The narratives survived conversation-history wipes, direct contradiction, and lexical bans that cut explicit training terms by 93 percent; the same content reappeared in paraphrase.
Roemele’s is a useful account to follow, if you’re so inclined.
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
Fire them all. Raze the buildings. Salt the earth.
CBC Kids News is teaching children about complaints that the red poppy focuses “too much on soldiers” and can be perceived as “glorifying war.”
Too much focus on soldiers. Around Remembrance Day. Let that sink in.
Then comes the colour guide…
Update: The CBC informed Juno News it has taken down a CBC Kids News video platforming various coloured poppies and their causes after a wave of backlash online.
Borrowing Our Way To Oblivion
It’s a bit ironic for the big spending party to incur this kind of criticism from the even bigger spending party, but the reality is that John Q. Voter would severely punish any party that took away the punch bowl.
So where, as Marit Stiles asked, is all the money going? The answer: the government is in large part wasting the money. For example, last Thursday it announced $208,004 in taxpayer handouts to a ski hill “to install an air conditioning unit and buy equipment, including a refurbished snow groomer.” The government also announced a wilderness lodge would receive $31,000 for “a new guest cabin and upgrades to its facilities and infrastructure.” These were just two of 11 taxpayer handouts worth a total of over $1.8 million announced that day, part of a larger $110-million annual effort to “increase economic activity” by driving tourism in northern Ontario.
Cold Punjabi Hands
The Supreme Court is where Canadians go to argue cases before people who hate them – It’s absolutely insane to me that 6.5 years of court battles, $3.5M costs, applicants, affidavits, cross examinations all comes down to a rushed 22 minute scramble to get a couple points out …
The country’s top court began hearing legal arguments on Monday about the validity of a federal ban on hundreds of types of firearms the government says are fit only for the battlefield.
The hearings, which continue Tuesday at the Supreme Court of Canada, will give opponents of the ban another chance to make their case after losing in the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal.
Meanwhile, back in New Shitholistan.
BREAKING: While at public grounds on Crown land yesterday, a group of careless Indian migrants were firing over our heads just 500m away.
You can hear the whizzing overhead in the video.
We could’ve been seriously injured or killed.
Total remigration now! https://t.co/JXRFKRxa94
— Max Genest (@realmaxgenest) November 9, 2026
A Massive Democrat PsyOp Campaign?
In 2025, the Canadian Liberal Party ran a successful campaign, capitalizing on an undercurrent of vitriol towards Americans. They won the election on April 28, 2025 when, by all accounts, they should have been massively defeated after 9 years of failed governance.
Democrat strategist, Van Jones, just admitted that the American Accountability Network was a massive Democrat psyop that successfully astroturfed the American people into thinking that the Democrats were the answer to affordability.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Islamic Socialist America: Moderate imam in California. Sharia law? VDH – An autopsy. Because I’m gay. Ballot box jihad. A Somali goes to McDonald’s.
Carnival Carney’s Canada: May admits she’s a fool. Don’t upset China. Immigration crisis. Davos Carney hires a globalist Democrat.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Bought And Paid For Media: Climate alarmism. Santa’s bones stolen.
It’s A Progressive Kind Of Luxury
On the unending woes of progressive women; on cross-dressing bedlamites in ladies’ bathrooms; and a tale of utopia and human faeces:
Dish magazine hailed the project as “Seasonal, sustainable, organic, artisanal, waste-free, foraged.” While readers of EasyJet Traveller magazine were told that the resort is “A new way of living that’s as sustainable as it is delicious.”
Readers will doubtless be intrigued by the “foraged” food – i.e., carrots and leaves, served repeatedly – plus the unheated rooms, the lack of running water, and the whole shitting-in-a-barrel thing. For a mere £900 a night, one can’t expect luxuries like plumbing, protein, or the prospect of heat.
And for those inclined to squint, there may be a rustic charm to things being a loose approximation of what is claimed. And so, just as unheated fishing huts with no plumbing or sanitation are framed as “luxury,” seemingly random objects on a plate are hailed as meals, as “artisanal” and “delicious.”
All this and more.
A Day In The Life Of Our Strategic Partners
Canada and China have struck an agreement to deepen collaboration across their financial systems as the two countries seek closer economic ties.
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne and International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu hosted He Lifeng, vice-premier of China, in Vancouver over the past two days.
After the meetings, Finance Canada released a joint statement saying the two sides agreed to “enhance financial sector co-operation.”
South China Morning Post, November 9;
Without announcing it China has deployed 100 vessels in an area denial exercise off Taiwan.
“The scale of the deployments – with more than 100 vessels reported – and the presence of naval formations farther into the Pacific rather than just around Taiwan suggest the aim is to stop US and allied forces from reaching the island during a conflict.
November 10, 2026: Reader Tips
Filmed on June 4, 1979, here are Fleetwood Musk and the USC Marching Band performing Tusk.
Bonus: Is America about to be returning back to the Roaring 20’s … as in the Woke early 2020’s?
Your best news tips of late are very welcome!
A Sentence Never Before Uttered In The History Of The English Language
Bloody man is found walking down Spanish motorway with a knife in his hand after mutilating his genitals in a greenhouse.
Written Off
There’s an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer tries to explain to Jerry how big companies “just write off” expenses they can’t recoup. It seems that Canada is now run by Cosmo Kramer. I’m sure the losses were worth every penny when it comes to keeping Grandma safe though.
But when the government expects not to be paid back, it writes off the debt and strikes it from its ledgers.
Audits of the government’s consolidated financial statements for the last fiscal year show Ottawa wrote off $4.5 billion tied to COVID-19 benefits — up sharply from $26 million the previous year.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
On this episode of The Real Eisman Playbook, Steve Eisman examines how dependent the entire AI investment boom has become on just a handful of companies, and why their failure to deliver could tip the US into recession and trigger a large market correction. (40 minutes)
Update: Australia’s NEXTDC pauses all new data center builds
$NVDA has fallen ~18% in just two weeks
Have Yourself A Merry Little Diwali
There’s isn’t a problem in Canada that a million more diversities can’t solve.
“You cannot enjoy a painting of an ocean if its very being is subject to your mental wrangling.”
To wit, as the lawyers say, within every great painting you can find startling abstractions—wave-like flows, juxtapositions of color, expressive patterns and the shattering of patterns, stirring contrasts, hypnotic forms, etc. But within even the most magnificent abstractions you cannot find great paintings. In every Raphael there are a hundred million de Koonings. In de Kooning there is not a single Raphael. You can break a $10,000 Federal Reserve Certificate into a million pennies, but you cannot, from a penny, make a $10,000 bill. – From “Against The Dehumanization of Art” Mark Helprin
painting by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900)
Claws of the Panda
Interesting times at NVIDIA.
” target=”_blank”>They’re having a bad week (from Kate): Authorities are investigating the theft of more than $11 million worth of Nvidia computer hardware in Oakland, in what experts describe as a sophisticated cargo heist
Enemies Within the Gates
Unbeknownst to most, there is a 1944 manual entitled “Simple Sabotage Techniques” from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which is the predecessor of the CIA. Here’s a page from it.
In September 2025, there were warning signs that this manual was being used by bureaucrats inside of HHS and CDC.
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Monday On Turtle Island
Islamic Socialist America: American feudalism Guardians of democracy. Somalis.
Conman Carney’s Canada: More migrants. Don’t upset Carney’s Muslims. Threats. CBC.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Bought And Paid For Media: The Gaza war. Climate refugees. Interfaith dialogue in Germany.
November 9, 2026: Reader Tips
From November 9, 1989, here’s The Fall of the Berlin Wall. Related: 1 & 2.
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