Rick Schwartz

Victoria lawyer, Savary Islander, hack drummer!

[Rick Schwartz @Victoriarick]

@DriveBC Not much sympathy for Canadians who choose to holiday in Trumpland, if they have options.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Humans were literally gifted a planet with everything: water, trees, fruits, and sunshine. Endless possibilities. And yet, they invented borders, debts, and wars.

[Lise Butler @LiseRButler]

Was on @CTV @YourMorning today talking about Starmer’s resignation, Burnham, and what (if anything) Mark Carney has to do with it: https://t.co/9hX6Jt4pwA

[JustDario @DarioCpx]

To go out publicly and say what he is saying, @edzitron has balls the size of the Las Vegas sphere

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Denmark's new government just announced major pig welfare reforms.

They're banning the practices of restraining sows in farrowing crates, breeding them beyond their natural limits, and cutting off piglets' tails.

They're also requiring pigs get more space and rooting material. And they're stepping up farm inspections and penalties for cruelty.

All while the US Congress is trying to wipe out the few state laws that protect pigs via the Save Our Bacon Act buried in the farm bill.

Denmark just showed what's possible for pigs when voters demand it — and politicians listen.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Trump is utterly disgusting. Surely we cannot be far from the time when King Charles refuses to be involved in Trump’s attempts to use a significant 🇺🇸 anniversary for his own ends. Just take today - for a US President to say “I’m glad he’s dead” of a man who has devoted his life to public service is beyond vile. And his endorsement of Orban (farewell any notion of not interfering in other countries’ politics) puts him in the Putin camp once more, furthering the risk to Ukraine. Add in the endless insults of @Keir_Starmer and I really think the time has come for the 👑 to follow the Pope in being otherwise engaged .

[Rick Schwartz @Victoriarick]

Obvs, because they have nuclear weapons!

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Never mind Iran, why isn't anybody invading Israel for being a rogue state that possesses nuclear weapons and violates international law?

@Rachael_Swindon

https://t.co/7Qm03kpxkL

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Why must LLMs hallucinate? The answer in this paper - a low threshold for guessing because of rewards during post-training - is part of the explanation, but another is that they are designed not to store and retrieve facts but to mash up probabilistic associates. Out of curiosity I asked ChatGPT for the title of my PhD dissertation and it confidently provided the nonsensical and not-even-close “Taxonomy and the Mental Lexicon.” (It was "The Representation of Three-Dimensional Space in Mental Images.")

[Darren Johnson @DarrenJohnson66]

"With the seemingly endless trickle of announcements from people defecting from Labour to the Green Party, I’ll explain why I have been one, although certainly not the only one, to recently make the journey the other way."

Me today for @LabourList
https://t.co/0dBbWcYAGj

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

Putin's War: 2 Million Casualties and Growing. A shocking number. Totally unnecessary. Solely because of one evil monster: Vladimir Putin https://t.co/S0xOCMOlE0

[Rick Schwartz @Victoriarick]

@CanadianPolling @VoiceOfFranky I attended an NDP all candidates “debate” in Victoria last night. On the policy question concerning NATO not one candidate mentioned Putin or the Ukraine war. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Ever more foreigners, particularly Canadians and Europeans, will inevitably avoid going to the hostile US.

[Powell River Peak @Peak_Aboo]

Appeals court upholds ban on fish farms in B.C.'s Discovery Islands https://t.co/RovXnb5mFz

[David Wingrave @davewingrave]

They do actually, they're just slow-release

[paula butler @paulabvictoria]

"Volumes on the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline, Western Canadian producers’ sole conduit for shipping crude to Asia and the US West Coast, are poised to dip in December due to the buildup of stored volumes of oil on tankers around the world" https://t.co/5pzM5LbPQ6

[Rick Schwartz @Victoriarick]

@novaramedia @kieran_andrieu Posting from Canada, we are doing fine with a five year cap for non jury trials. Except we still have serious issues with trial delays.

[David Wingrave @davewingrave]

Revealing how these guys see God's design in pointless, human-engineered cruelty

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

“White houses, green- and blue-shuttered windows, geraniums sprouting from rusted tins: I was lost. The lira my father had given me were sweaty in my hand.”

A new story from @davewingrave.

https://t.co/1LMENOW97K

[Ben Appel @benappel]

Everything about this is horrific, but one of the most troubling aspects is that it’s clear she and so many others are still under the impression that all trans-ID’d males are just effeminate gay guys when in fact the majority are straight men who get off on this stuff.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Listen to every word.

The last ten seconds are 💔

Any man who thinks he’s a woman who listens this and still says IDGAF I’m going in, should not be anywhere near women. Ever. Zero empathy. He’s a significant danger.