January 19, 1946 – August 25, 2026
So Noted
Trump Whispering
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Seeking new opportunities: “Usually, when senior executives leave before its liquidity event, they’re walking away from money. That’s the part that should make you pay attention here…”
From the video: “They are running roughshod over the work of others who came before them in a deliberate way,” says Stephen Miller, a mathematician at Yeshiva University, who argues that OpenAI has effectively plagiarized his own research. “It seems completely systematic to me, and it points to research misconduct.”
Related: A group of textbook authors sued OpenAI in Manhattan’s federal court Friday, alleging the tech giant has been scraping common pirating sites for academic books and using the volumes to train its generative artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT.
Scratch a Leftist
The DSA’s Poster Boy, Hasan Piker, has issued a warning to Jewish Americans.
You’ll Live In A Pod, Eat Bugs, And Pray 5 Times A Day
I’m old enough to remember when “Red Green” made you think “duct tape”.
Canadian universities have participated in Qatar-backed research projects in scientific fields Canada classifies as sensitive, and coordinated campaigns sought to make causes including Gaza a decisive issue in the 2025 federal election, while broader Muslim voter-mobilization efforts target up to 80 ridings, according to a new report alleging that Canadian institutions have become unusually susceptible to Islamist influence.
The 200-page study, published by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, or ISGAP, argues that these developments are not isolated. It portrays them as parts of a longer campaign of Islamist “entryism”—the cultivation of influence inside democratic institutions by activists, organizations and foreign-state partners.
Among its starkest assessments is one from Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former British ambassador and senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“Amongst comparable Western countries like the U.K., France, and Australia,” Fitton-Brown said, “Canada stands out as being furthest down the road to Islamist infiltration and consolidation.”
Betting the wind will always blow, when it doesn’t.
NDP release Pembina Institute paper on costs of coal refurbishment, but the paper leaves out a lot of context. The report puts a lot of faith in wind and solar, but real world examples over the last two weeks bring that faith into doubt. Using the scenarios the Pembina Institute outlines in the report quoted by the NDP, on Aug. 12, Saskatchewan would have run out of batteries six times in 24 hours.
And just after I finished writing this at 2 a.m., I got an email alert that Alberta wind generation fell to less than 1 per cent output, again. But they have no use for baseload power. Good grief.
New Rules
SCOTUS 🚨 Blue states have no standing to sue before the election.
Wait till after? Too late.
Same exact trap they cheered when it was used against conservatives in 2020.
How’s that medicine tasting?
— Brittany Rae (@legitbrittFLA) August 24, 2026
The Inmates are Running the Asylum
So Doug Ford is going to cut off the energy to the United States? This is an idiotic statement at anytime, but to says it while you’re losing a battle in U.S. courts to keep Enbridge Line 5 open is beyond comprehension. The truth is that without oil pipelines from America to Quebec and Ontario those 2 provinces would have frozen decades ago. But of course the Liberals have their climate change victory over the Canadian pipeline project that tried to supply them with oil for Western Canada, that should keep them warm at night.
It’s time for Doug Ford to shut up; his zingers for sound bites are not helping. Canada needs a trade deal with the U.S. Our economy is dependent upon it, always has been. There are 119 crossings along the 5,525 mile border between Canada and the United States, 48 of those crossing are in the 4 Western Provinces. There is only 1 highway connecting Western Canada to Eastern Canada. That speaks volumes as to how our industries and trade work in Canada. To suggest we can replace U.S. trade – over 70% of our exports – by doubling our trade with other countries over the next decade is embecilic. It’s time to make a deal with the U.S.
Let’s hope Ontarians start electing rational adults.
Comprehensive Summation of the Trade Dispute
Kim Dobranski is a prominent businessman in Kelowna, BC. He recently published two comprehensive X posts that should be mandatory reading for all Canadians, especially the Elbows Up crowd. Here’s #1 and here’s #2.
And A Boob Job Would Be Nice
Not to be outdone, “non-binary” inmate Mr Hunter S Christian, our violator of dogs and enthusiast of child pornography, complains that he was denied access to Minoxidil treatments to correct his receding hairline – apparently, an unthinkable transgression – and likewise, testosterone supplements, supposedly to address his “shrinking testicle size.”
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Lord Carney’s Canada: Tax and borrow. Carney sabotages trade relations. Liberals hate Israel.
The Democratic Party’s America: Rigged election. Weaponizing Islamophobia. American Hamas.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Truth abandoned. PJW – What is going on and real bad. Convert to Islam. Don’t joke about Islam.
August 25, 2026: Reader Tips
Here are Classic Beer Commercials from the 1950’s & 60’s.
Bonus: On this particular day of the year, I would like to celebrate all Mexican women. I have my reasons why! They are unique ladies, with both pros and cons. I couldn’t quite find the perfect video for this day, so instead, please enjoy this comedy bit from Anjelah Johnson-Reyes called Eating Mexican Food in Alabama.
Your best tips of late are great to share here!
Hard Truths
Related: Jasmin Laine reports that it was all political with the Canadian negotiators.
Mary Shelley Wrote A Novel About This
…from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.*
A server rack in Singapore is processing information with living human neurons.
NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne, and Melbourne-based Cortical Labs have deployed a 20-unit biological computing rack at the National University of Singapore’s Life Sciences Institute. The system went live July 16 and was formally unveiled Aug. 17 after an Aug. 6 demonstration for more than 80 guests.
The installation brings biological computing into a live research environment as Singapore expands data-centre capacity while tightening energy-efficiency requirements. NUS Medicine said the demonstration showed CL1 computing units, microelectrode-array integration, and real-time neural network activity, while The Straits Times reported details of the system’s operation and maintenance.
Featured Comment
This morning, on this post, there was this comment from ‘Monica’:
Their hatred of the US is beginning to get scary. I had it out with a neighbor hissing and spitting that Trump is the danger and Canada is strong, moron. When I gave him just the facts he left screaming that American Chicken is disgusting. Okay dude, the liberal voters think we are at war with the US, yea and we’ll win wink-wink.
It was then followed up with this comment from ‘The Phantom’:
“When I gave him just the facts he left screaming”
This is the main event that Covid was the test-run for. I’m shutting up now and watching people. When they’re foaming at the mouth like that I just smile, nod and let them think I’m on their side. Honestly, they don’t deserve more. That guy is the one who squealed to the cops when somebody in his neighborhood had a birthday party.
I learned my lesson in 2020/21. People aren’t who they pretend to be. There’s a lot out there who’d drop a dime on you to the Stazi for nothing. Just so they could feel proud and virtuous. On the whole, I welcome it. I didn’t love finding out that Canada is actually East Germany in drag. But now that I know, it sure is great when the apparatchiks and the informers self-identify. East Germany isn’t as bad when you know who the rats are.
Oh, and no bumper stickers on the car, eh? License plate cameras are forever, and now they have AI to sift through 20 years of pictures.
Prior to Covid, I would have said that what The Phantom wrote was exaggeration. But now, I consider it highly factual.
Directly Related: Is Matt Ross inaccurate in any way about what Chairman Carney is up to? Also, would it be fair to estimate that 90%+ of Elbows Up Canadians would completely deny this is happening?
Tell Me Why
Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, (UCLA undergrad is 60%…
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) August 21, 2026
Fever Pitching
Given what I know about the Canadian political classes, I didn’t expect any of them to call out Blubber Dougie on his renewed advocacy of economic suicide for Canada. But who put duct tape over the mouths of our captains of industry? Any miner that shut off legally contracted mineral exports to the US would be successfully sued in a matter of hours and go bankrupt within days.
“He underestimates Canada. We’re all in,” Ford said. “Up here, we’re at a fever pitch, everyone’s in for an economic war. They know they’re going to have to sacrifice.”
Ford said “everything is on the table” if the dispute worsens, including cutting off electricity and critical minerals from Ontario. He also called for Canada to consider using oil and potash as leverage.
“I’ll cut them off,” Ford said of critical minerals. “You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario.”
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Predicting oil prices?
Jim Warren: Uncertainty abounds in our tumultuous times: It’s starting to negatively affect the quality of oil market analysis