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PhD Linguistics (U of Alberta)—The way forward is always reasoned (peer-reviewed) debate

[Doug @DougM_Inglis]

Gerolamo Cardano—probabilistic—stochastic—decentralistic

[Jason Appleton (Crypto Crow) @jasonappleton]

You MUST Watch This Video or Be Fooled, Again - Cardano - Ethereum - Solana - Bitcoin https://t.co/x0PKRW7fL7

[Doug @DougM_Inglis]

@SandraCobena_ The up and coming CPC leader

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Keith Wilson's full interview with Rosemary Barton "In his speech he talked about, well, the pipeline will only go ahead if there's significant financial benefits to British Columbia That's a new condition, and he's given vetoes."

"So most of us here in Alberta that are paying attention to this do not believe there will be a pipeline."@ikwilson

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

By the 1930s many Western intellectuals reluctantly realised that classical Marxism had failed and the proletariat wasn’t revolting. But then a group of exiled German Marxists led by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse decided to change the battlefield.
Instead of economics, they targeted the “cultural superstructure”: family, religion, tradition, sexual norms and the very idea of objective truth. Their weapon was Critical Theory - a relentless campaign of negative criticism designed to portray every Western institution as inherently oppressive and capitalism as not just economically flawed, but psychologically and morally corrupt.
Marcuse gave the strategy its most powerful tactical manual in his 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance”: true liberation, he argued, required “liberating tolerance” - tolerance only for progressive ideas and outright intolerance for conservative or “regressive” ones. Free speech, in other words, was only legitimate when it served the revolution.
The intellectual poison of the Frankfurt School was extraordinarily influential and as its graduates and intellectual heirs colonised universities, media, NGOs and corporate HR departments, Critical Theory evolved into today’s identity politics, DEI mandates and cancel culture - a cultural Marxism that attacks the individual in the name of group grievance. What began with a small circle of German émigrés in the 1930s now shapes the moral vocabulary of much of the Western elite. The result has been a softer, more pervasive authoritarianism: the dictatorship of the politically correct.

[Pradeep Pandey @Div_pradeep]

Your iPhone is lying about storage.

Apple shows you "photos" and "apps" eating space.

But the real hog?

A hidden category that can hit 50GB and they buried the fix in settings most people never open.

I cleared 38GB in 9 minutes.

Here's where Apple hid it:

[Dusty Rose @DustyRoseYYC]

Back In Jan 2001, six Alberta conservatives (including Stephen Harper) sent an open letter to Premier Ralph Klein urging the province to build a “firewall” against federal overreach. The goal: More Alberta, less Ottawa.

The key proposals were:

• Create an Alberta Pension Plan and withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan
• Collect its own provincial income tax instead of relying on Ottawa
• Establish an Alberta Provincial Police force to replace the RCMP
• Take back full control of health care policy (even if it means challenging federal rules)
• Aggressively push for Triple-E Senate reform

The letter argued Alberta should use its constitutional powers to protect its economy and autonomy rather than endlessly fighting Ottawa.

Would you support any of these ideas today? What have we achieved in 25 years?

#cdnpoli #abpoli #AlbertaIndependence

[Alberta Independence @albertaseparate]

Albertans should benefit from every rail car that is loaded in BC and shipped east through Alberta

All Things Equal

#AlbertaIndependence

[Danielle Smith @ABDanielleSmith]

▶️ Tune into the latest 'Alberta Update' where we discuss issues that are making news and impacting Albertans, including:

✅ Premier Danielle Smith’s recent televised provincewide address
✅ Adding a referendum question to the upcoming October ballot

[Rimsha Bhardwaj @heyrimsha]

If your Apple ID got hijacked tomorrow, you could lose access to your:

- ⁠ ⁠iCloud photos (every memory you've ever taken)
- ⁠ ⁠App Store purchases
- ⁠ ⁠Find My iPhone
- ⁠ ⁠Apple Pay and saved cards
- ⁠ ⁠Every device synced to it

One compromised Apple ID can erase 10 years of your digital life.

Here's how to lock it in 15 minutes ↓

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

😂 This is comedy gold — but it’s also brutally accurate.

“OHHH CANADA” just dropped a 22-minute parody of Mark Carney’s pre-budget address… and it’s savage.

Carney stands at the podium, completely unable to get to a single point. His own aides are frantically:
•Smacking him on the back like an old Nintendo cartridge
•Blowing on him to “reset”
•Shining flashlights in his eyes
•And yes… a bird literally starts nesting in his hair while he stalls

Meanwhile the CBC anchors are desperately killing time with small talk about their kids and the weather.

This is what happens when the hype meets reality.

After all the throne photos and cult-like praise, the man who was sold as Canada’s brilliant saviour can’t even string together a coherent budget point without a pit crew.

Pure gold. Pure embarrassment.
(video attached — watch till the end, you won’t regret it)

#MarkCarney #OHHHCANADA #LiberalParody #CDNPoli #CarneyFail #BudgetFail #CanadaFirst

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn: "The problem with the current climate change narrative is that it's false."

"It claims that carbon dioxide controls world temperatures, whereas actual data shows that it's world temperatures which control the carbon dioxide concentration."

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

Apple has published a paper with a devastating title: “The Illusion of Thinking”

It argues that AI models, no matter how brilliant they may seem, do not understand what they are doing.

They do not solve problems. They do not reason. They merely generate text word by word, trying to sound coherent.

Apple tested the most advanced reasoning models in the world on controlled puzzle environments. They tore open the internal "thinking" traces.

What they found shatters the narrative that we are getting closer to AGI.

Current models don't scale with complexity. They have a hard mathematical cliff. And they do not degrade gracefully. They collapse.

But here is the most unsettling part.

When a problem gets too complex, the AI doesn't use its remaining compute to try harder.

It just gives up.

Its reasoning effort actually declines. It stops thinking and starts guessing.

Then Apple ran the experiment that closes the casket on the reasoning debate.

They gave the AI the exact, step-by-step algorithm to solve the puzzle. The cheat codes.

All the AI had to do was follow the instructions.

It couldn't do it.

Performance didn't improve at all.

When the complexity gets high enough, these models fail because they cannot actually execute a logical sequence.

They are not reasoning. They are just pattern matching.

When you give them a simple problem, they overthink. When you give them a hard problem, they collapse.

Paper: The Illusion of Thinking, Apple, 2025

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A new study analyzed daily temperatures from 992 long-running weather stations across 29 countries covering the years 1899 to 2024.

Then it compared those temperatures to cumulative human CO2 emissions.

They don't match.

From 1899 to 1940, the planet warmed at a rate of 0.022 C per year, even though emissions were low.

Then from 1941 to 1982, temperatures cooled, despite CO2 emissions more than tripling.

From 1983 to 2024, warming returned, but slower than before, at a rate of 0.017 C per year, even as emissions rose 8.6 times higher than during the earlier warming phase.

As the author concludes, "These findings challenge the conventional assumption that human-induced CO2 is the primary driver of global warming."

[U.S TROOPS🇺🇲 @Ustroopss]

Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests

I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system..

We will never forgot her ever

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[🇬🇧 Suze 🇬🇧 @WeLeftTheEUSSR]

@SamaHoole If your doctor prescribes you medication without first asking about your:

1) diet

2) sleep

3) exercise routine

4) water consumption

5) stress

- then you don't have a doctor, you have a drug dealer.

[Dusty Rose @DustyRoseYYC]

Quebec gets ~$14 BILLION in equalization payments every year, half the national program, while charging the lowest electricity rates in Canada.

This Fraser Institute study shows why: by keeping Hydro-Québec prices artificially low, Quebec deliberately reduces its measured “fiscal capacity” and qualifies for way more federal transfers.
Alberta? We get $0.

We pay massive federal taxes from our incomes and oil/gas sector (which gets fully clawed back in the formula), yet subsidize this system. A modest hydro price increase in Quebec could save Canadian taxpayers billions -- if Ottawa fixed the broken “fixed growth rule.”

This is exactly why equalization feels rigged against Alberta. Time to get out of it.

#cdnpoli #abpoli #AlbertaIndependence

https://t.co/X5zgB4wgCK

[Bill Tufts @BillTufts]

Liberal MP gets to keep $250 Million from the Green Slush Fund given to his company

One of the many slimy politicians plundering Canada

https://t.co/aue4mExA3s

[401_da_sarpanch @401_da_sarpanch]

#REPORT: 📵Apple Warns Privacy Is A Fundamental Human Right — Liberal Bill C-22 ‘Lawful Access Act’ As Drafted, Would Undermine Our Ability To Protect Users Personal Data And Offer Powerful Privacy & Security Features Users Expect By Forcing Companies To Break Encryption By Inserting Backdoors — “Something We Will Never Do.”

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

We need more of this.