Tom Baird

Politically conscious math prof who argues about #nlpoli too much. I write for

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@RobynUrback Montreal today: https://t.co/AlcyOUSTAV

[Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette]

Suspect in custody after arson attempt on Westmount synagogue https://t.co/MkoDnQDUcm

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@robgillezeau I remember it well: https://t.co/tw9LP2Jxkl

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

.@kerriclaireneil MUN B of R code of conduct at issue again. #nlpoli

https://t.co/IKeonTltGk

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@kellyboltonyes @achillghost @kisstheblade_ Was written in old English, and says that Grendel is descended from Cain.

[kasra @kasratweets]

this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious

[The Telegram @StJohnsTelegram]

St. John's, NL city councillor Tom Davis suspended from council for one month with pay for breaching code of conduct https://t.co/rWoGy4SF0h

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@speechboy71 No, he is saying that rich people oppose Platner, not that *only* rich people oppose him.

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

Absolutely massive changes to Canada’s population growth trajectory in just the last year. For the first time in the country’s history, the population *declined*!

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran says it has now decided to execute the full blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as the next operational step following the announcement of ending all negotiations and communication with the US, per Tasnim.

Oil is surging over 8%, now at $94.

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@Noahpinion Our department added a data science major, which is largely a stats major. Lead to huge increase in enrolment.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

kudos to the globe editorial board for having the courage to say the thing

“The media, including The Globe and Mail, did not initially scrutinize, much less challenge” the assertion that remains of 215 children of the Kamloops Indian Residential School had been found

Canada would benefit from significantly more unbiased media scrutiny, across all issues

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins playing “Who By Fire” on NBC’s one of a kind Nightmusic (1989). We have the late Hal Wilner and David Sanborn to thank for dreaming up and producing the greatest music show that’s ever been on tv.

[Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux]

Canada has now posted three quarterly GDP declines in the past year. Now technically in recession

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@ohegarty @grace_hawthorn Did you try here? https://t.co/u04Wd9lQ1V

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@JeremiahDJohns @Halalcoholism Hello, sizzig.

[Reuters @Reuters]

The US Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused President Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s, over suspected perjury tied to a 2022 deposition in which she said she had no outside legal funding https://t.co/s5l8bB7tZ6

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@JeremiahDJohns https://t.co/gTY9CuHzsC

[Tom Baird @BairdTom]

@malmesburyman Revolution Road by Yates

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

My latest, on the continuing fiasco at the CPP investment fund, which has now spent more than $50 billion over twenty years to lose about $100 billion relative to what it might have earned, for an equal amount of risk, if it had just bought the relevant indexes — or flung darts at the stock listings.
https://t.co/293Q8BwwCq