Before Mike Nichols passed I was granted a meeting with him. It was around the time I hit 1m followers on Twitter. I desperately wanted him to cast me in anything he might direct. I was telling him about Twitter and why I thought it was important. He simply posed a question. Instead of reading tweets and writing tweets what would happen if you collected that time allocate it to writing a purpose driven long form piece or reading a book? I ponder that question for over a decade and trailed his advice. It’s rewarding. Instead of consuming everyone else’s micro thoughts I find myself constructing macro visions. Instead of sharing momentary reactions I find myself building perspectives. I’ve found current X to be an emotion reflection on a fleeting moment with brief insightful snippets that compound over time. The danger is when you replace deep learning and understanding with the emotional whims of people who’s character you do not know. Only more exemplified by the reductionist reactions of those who don’t know you. Our character is not a fleeting opinion and most certainly not an opinion build on pseudo-facts which are largely build on a corpus of others opinions. How many
nested dependency did your last certainty rely on? This isn’t a knock on the platform or its contributors it’s only meant to share the essential question that Mr. Nichols shared that I’ve found to provide immense value. Thank you Mike.
Democrats and Republicans may be about equally likely to have mistaken policies, but Democrats are less dangerous in the worst case. Worst case Democrats are smug ideologues, but worst case Republicans are movie bad guys.
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
@david_parker You doxxed me.
You doxxed 2.9 million other innocent Albertans. And now you’re trying to use charter rights from the country you claim to hate and are trying to destroy, to avoid responsibility.
Let’s be crystal clear: you’re a fucking traitor and a coward.
VIROLOGIST: “It’s bizarre, Hantavirus almost never jumps from human to human like this. Usually it’s from coming into contact with rat feces or something.”
CRUISE SHIP CHEF: “Yeah, that’s crazy, it must’ve mutated or something.”
JOE "LITTLE GUY" ROGAN IS TOO CHICKEN TO HAVE ME ON HIS FAILING PODCAST BECAUSE HE KNOW I'D CRUSH HIM, SO HE TAKES CHEAP SHOTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY AS HE GETS RELEGATED TO IRRELEVANCY. ALL TALK, NO ACTION. I'M READY WHEN YOU ARE, "LITTLE GUY." OR KEEP HIDING!!!! — Governor GCN
David Cochrane of Power & Politics celebrated three years as host of the show in 2026.
For those three years, #CPC Leader Pierre Poilievre has refused to sit down for an interview with him.
Why? @katy_merrifield
@Dred_Tory Trump and the US’s day will come. Until then, it seems we have to have some level of decorum towards them if we’re to navigate the world. I don’t like it either, but I’m too old for naive idealism and would rather we adhere to realism, as cynical as that is ☹️