Good Morning #Canada
December 15th, 1964, the Canadian House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve the red Maple Leaf flag. The vote put an end to years of conflict over the Liberals proposing a new flag, and gave Canada a new symbol for its upcoming 100th birthday celebration. In 1960, Lester B. Pearson, then Leader of the Opposition, declared that he was determined to solve what he called “the flag problem.” To Pearson, this issue was critical to defining Canada as a unified, independent country. As the newly elected Prime Minister in 1963, Pearson promised to resolve the question of a new national flag in time for Canada’s centennial celebrations in 1967. Traditionalists fought for their beloved Union Jack while a younger generation wanted a new modern design to represent Canada. Thousands of designs, some truly ugly, were considered and rejected, including Pearson's preferred flag. I think we did OK in the end.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
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The murder of #Renee #Good last week by an ICE agent in Minneapolis
— and the quick reaction by Trump administration officials to declare the agent a #hero and Ms. Good a
Polymarket is hosting a growing number of contracts related to military conflicts, including China invading Taiwan; possible US strikes in Iran has $18M volume (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Ukraine world’s deadliest conflict in 2025 despite US-brokered peace talks, analysis finds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/ukraine-worlds-deadliest-conflict-in.html
After being delayed for 16 years due to the conflict, a shipment of Nokia mobile phones ordered in 2010 has finally reached a Libyan trader in Tripoli.
[Insert joke about charge remaining here]
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTallPtANoh/
“In a recent meeting where BBC studio executives again voiced problems, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices. I chose the latter. It broke my heart.”
– @…
Told you folks he’s a good egg :)
follow up from a Canadian perspective.
Denmark sets a military tripwire. (Canada says… its considering…)
by CBC's Defense Correspondent Murray Brewster. (who, given his decades of experience following conflict and tensions around the world must be completely flabbergasted at the turn of events in the past year)
#Denmark #Greenland #NATO #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
In the first attack on a speedboat in September 2025, Trump and Hegseth used a military plane made up to look civilian. That’s a war crime called “perfidy”. (Free link)
#uspol #usnavy #uscg
A pox on whoever gave this order.
Onsite gunmen force MSF to stop work at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/14/gunmen-onsite-force-msf-to-stop-work-at-gazas-nasser-hospital
Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive #OpenData
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal #privacy and governmental #transparency come into conflict. How…
Narrating Conflict: Ethics, Identity, and the Stories We Tell
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Hi :gitannex: #git and #gitAnnex crowd. How do I configure git so a `git annex assist` (or the assistant) will *never* stop in a merge conflict? It should just choose one side, I don't care about conflicts.
@…
Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: I bet you are.
DAYNA: Cally!
TARRANT: She's in some sort of coma. Describe what attacked you.
DAYNA: Well, that's the point. It was Cally. But not Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/272 B7B4
Warning for folks in Minneapolis / St. Paul out there active in the community today:
Neighbors have flagged this person as a right-wing agitator, spouting racist and violent BS, out harassing people and cruising for conflict. Eyes out, be aware.
I don't have any further info on their identity, sorry.
#minneapolis #msp
Narrating Conflict: Ethics, Identity, and the Stories We Tell
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Donald Trump being a loser isn’t exactly new but he’s really set himself up for loss, regardless what happens with Greenland. Either he loses any conflict because he can’t stand to see the dead soldiers coming home or he loses because the USA will be absolutely shunned by their former partners.
He loses either way.
#uspolitics
Map shows what would happen to Gaza under the US ‘master plan’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News | @…
#Gaza
Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of "Glaring" Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation (Corey G. Johnson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-conflict-senator-letter
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p121#a260129p121
Hundreds of #Coltan #miners killed in deadly underground landslide in eastern #Congo controlled by rebel factions who sell conflict minerals extracted thru global black market for use in cellphones, EVs and weapons systems
Anthropic says Claude "will remain ad-free", users "won't see 'sponsored' links adjacent to" conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think
What @… said:
Providing employment after deployment = supporting troops
Providing housing = supporting troops
Destigmatizing mental health care = supporting troops
Preventing armed conflict = supporting troops
You know what’s NOT supporting troops? Starting wars as political cover for a failing president. Deploying National Guard just to terrorize people and provoke a backlash. Issuing illegal orders. •That• is not supporting troops.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115634994186527377
After the U.S. bombed #Venezuela in the middle of the night
and abducted its president, Nicolas Maduro,
Donald Trump warned that more attacks could be on the way in the region.
Trump hinted at a future conflict with #Mexico in particular in an interview with Fox News Saturday morning.
“Your vice…
'Israeli forces fired live ammunition and stun grenades at attendees. Several men, including the groom, were detained.'
Israeli forces raid Palestinian wedding in occupied East Jerusalem | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/11/israeli-forces-raid-palestinian-wedding-in-occupied-east-jerusalem
Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
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Good Morning #Canada
We move onto #24 in our countdown of #CanadaRivers with the Koksoak River. At 874 km it is the largest river in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec. The name Koksoak is believed to originate from Moravian missionaries who evangelized among the Inuit of the area at the beginning of British rule and incorrectly spelled the Inuktitut word Kuujjuaq, meaning "great river." It drains a watershed of 133,400 km/2 and because of its volume, 2,800 square metres per second, its waters have been diverted as part of the massive James Bay hydroelectric project. That project drowned 7,000 square miles of Cree hunting land causing decades of conflict between Indigenous peoples and the Quebec government, with major issues resolved by a treaty signed in 2002.
Two rivers into our countdown and I'm sensing a trend: big river -> hydroelectric development -> trampling of Indigenous rights -> treaty to resolve injustices.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koksoak_River
PAColorHolo: A Perceptually-Aware Color Management Framework for Holographic Displays
Chun Chen, Minseok Chae, Seung-Woo Nam, Myeong-Ho Choi, Minseong Kim, Eunbi Lee, Yoonchan Jeong, Jae-Hyeung Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14766 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14766 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.14766
arXiv:2601.14766v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Holographic displays offer significant potential for augmented and virtual reality applications by reconstructing wavefronts that enable continuous depth cues and natural parallax without vergence-accommodation conflict. However, despite advances in pixel-level image quality, current systems struggle to achieve perceptually accurate color reproduction--an essential component of visual realism. These challenges arise from complex system-level distortions caused by coherent laser illumination, spatial light modulator imperfections, chromatic aberrations, and camera-induced color biases. In this work, we propose a perceptually-aware color management framework for holographic displays that jointly addresses input-output color inconsistencies through color space transformation, adaptive illumination control, and neural network-based perceptual modeling of the camera's color response. We validate the effectiveness of our approach through numerical simulations, optical experiments, and a controlled user study. The results demonstrate substantial improvements in perceptual color fidelity, laying the groundwork for perceptually driven holographic rendering in future systems.
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I'm not saying the CAA broadening the licensing requirements for drones in the UK is a way of building a list of potential participants in a future military conflict, but.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrjpzdzeddo
Advent Conflict :-D
#DavidCharvet #DannyWoodburn
Season 5 Episode 12 "Silent Night Baywatch Night: part 2"
#HoHoHo
Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General #Todd #Blanche this week of having a "glaring" conflict of interest
when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges
and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes.
Good Morning #Canada
Today we reach the end of the #CanadianCapitals series and I've left the Keystone Province for last. Manitoba, with IMO the best Premier and worst flag, has Winnipeg as its capital. The city lies at the junction of the Assiniboine River and the Red River, an historic focal point for canoe routes travelled by Aboriginal peoples for thousands of years. The fur trade brought forts, both British and French, and conflict amongst trappers and indigenous people. In 1869, the Hudson's Bay Company formally surrendered its charter rights over the western half of Canada, prompting Louis Riel to attempt a rebellion and become an independent territory before the Canadian government got organized. That ended badly for Louis and in 1870 Manitoba became a province with Winnipeg as its capital. A fun fact: The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is Canada’s oldest dance company and also the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/winnipeg
More evil from the Israeli regime.
Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/1/israel-es…
Reading Wikipedia on Norse settlement in Greenland and its subsequent extinction, I came across this observation:
"Norse society's structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole."
I think that has much to say to the modern world.
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I also think it's worth just doing the math here. There aren't enough ICE agents to remove an occupation of more than a couple of facilities. They would have to rely on local police. A lot of police departments have been ordered not to support ICE activities. This means Trump would have to activate the military. If an occupation was peaceful, especially playful like Portland, deployment may not even be possible. Meanwhile, if ICE agents continue to be as violent as they are Governors may be forced to activate the national guard to protect citizens against ICE.
Forcing conflict when Trump is at his weakest, in a way that is non-violent, puts resistance in the best possible position.
At the same time, we are at a strange time of unity. Trump supporters are leaving over Epstein, some are even mad about the deportations, and he's otherwise systematically alienated basically his whole base (except literal Nazis working for ICE).
The AI bubble is, in a lot of ways, a fun house mirror reflection of the 2008 financial crash. The whole economy is held up by loans secured with "compute." Everyone hates this, and Trump's policies have made everything far worse.
#OccupyICE could actually have a lot of momentum and be difficult to stop, especially if folks went to ICE facilities in frog suits and Luigi bloc with banners demanding the release of the Epstein files.
At least, that's my impression from out here.
Good Morning #Canada
In 1882, Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney acquired land adjacent to the route of the future CPR line at a site known as Pile-of-Bones. He then announced that this featureless site, distinguished only by collections of bison bones, would be the new capital of the North West Territories in western Canada. Thus, Regina was born out of a national scandal and conflict of interest. It became the provincial capital when Saskatchewan officially joined Canada in 1905. The North West Mounted Police were headquartered in Regina, starting in 1885, and the city remains as a training centre for the RCMP. Regina survived a cyclone in 1916 and a great depression riot in 1935. Recently, they recovered from a marketing faux pas when they canceled their tourism slogan, "Regina: The City That Rhymes With Fun."
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
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An ethics watchdog group filed a complaint Thursday seeking an investigation into whether
#Todd #Blanche,
Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorney
— now the No. 2 at the Justice Department
— broke federal conflict-of-interest law
when he issued a new prosecution policy that
benefits the cr…
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Something that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
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"the woman and her son were chased by a quadcopter drone about one kilometre [half a mile] from the yellow line and “left there to bleed to death” as the aircraft continued hovering overhead, preventing anyone from reaching them."
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/6/israeli-drone-chases-and-kills-elderly-woman-in-gaza-as-attacks-continue?traffic_source=rss
Sen. Kim accused Trump of rejected a “constitutionally required approval process for armed conflict because the Administration knows the American people reject risks pulling our nation into another war.” Kim said the overnight strikes in Venezuela “doesn’t represent strength. It’s not sound foreign policy. It puts Americans at risk in Venezuela and the region, and it sends a horrible and disturbing signal that targeting a head of state is an acceptable policy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Trump’s praise for Mamdani upends Republican talking points
as they bond over New York, working class and FDR
President and mayor-elect refused to be drawn into talking about their differences despite repeated attempts to nudge them into conflict
"Former PM had told late sex offender that Israel could ‘easily absorb another million’ Russian immigrants to offset Palestinian population and lessen religious Jews’ influence."
What Barak-Epstein audio says about Israeli controlling demographics | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/6/what-barak-epstein-audio-says-about-israeli-controlling-demographics?traffic_source=rss
#CFP: Navigating Conflict: Humanistic Buddhism and Comparative Theology in a Divided World
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So what was the point of putting a bug in Trump's ear? To be outed as a liar, to make an excuse end to the conflict?
Ukraine didn't target Putin's home: CIA
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/cia-assesses-ukraine-was-not-targeting-a-putin-residence-in-drone-attack-contrary-to-kremlin-claim-sources-say/
The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
-- @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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There is no ceasefire.
There is no end to the genocide.
Baby girl in Gaza dies from cold amid Israeli aid restrictions | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2
"U.S. has carried out well over 500 bombings across the globe this year, conflict monitors say"
Trump claims he's the 'president of peace' — so why is he bombing so many overseas hotspots? | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-bombing-strikes-peace-president-9.7028340
Rubio on Ukraine:
“It’s not our war. It’s a war on another continent,”
Meanwhile USA bombs Syria.
Schrödinger's foreign policy.
Five key takeaways from US State Secretary Rubio’s year-end briefing | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.
There is another war Israel is waging – one that is not making headlines | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/20/there-is-another-war-israel-is-waging-one-that-is-not-making
#CFP: Navigating Conflict: Humanistic Buddhism and Comparative Theology in a Divided World #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL
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