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mpjgregoire

@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca

ingénieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montréal

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mpjgregoire, to random
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I lost my baby

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ByV2m8kdDA8&feature=shared

unpopulistmag, to random

The claim that illegal voting is swaying American elections is nothing if not sensational. Those who levy sensational charges should bear the burden of proving them. But they haven’t. It’s just assertion after assertion, with no refutation of the considerable evidence to the contrary.

@olson.walter

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-rights-bogus-claims-about-noncitizen

mpjgregoire,
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@unpopulistmag @olson.walter
It's a motte-and-bailey argument. There's the false claim that large numbers of non-citizens vote in US elections. But there is a plausible claim that Ds want more immigrants because they think the immigrants will give them more votes (e.g., https://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Democratic-Majority-John-Judis/dp/0743254783 ); even if illegal immigrants don't vote D, won't their US-born children do so?

Sometimes R politicians make the first claim, sometimes the second, sometimes they blur the line.

mick, to random
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How soon is too soon to speak ill of the dead?

mpjgregoire,
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@mick Give it a week maybe?

mpjgregoire, to random
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Rex Murphy, sharp-witted intellectual and columnist, dies of cancer
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/rex-murphy-dies-obituary

RIP,

dmacphee, to climate
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Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups

Yikes.

https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/07/andrew-coyne-helped-run-charity-that-gave-6-4m-to-climate-crisis-denial-groups/

mpjgregoire,
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@dmacphee The headline is misleading. It doesn't surprise me that the Fraser Institute, the Montreal Economic Institute or the Macdonald Laurier Institute say foolish things about , but environmental issues are a very small part of what they do. It's like describing U of T as a place to play soccer.

As for @acoyne personally, he believes climate change is real and that humans are responsible. He's told the public we should have a for 20 years or more.

mpjgregoire,
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@LALegault
What makes you think I don't follow Mr. Coyne's Twitter feed?

mpjgregoire,
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@LALegault I do follow his Twitter feed, and I mostly share Mr. Coyne's views on policy.

Yes, it's true, I'm the only non-Leftist on the Fediverse interested in Canadian politics.

mpjgregoire,
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@LALegault This I have not seen, and honestly find hard to believe. But I suppose it's possible.

If you take the time to provide some examples, then I will give them due consideration.

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@LALegault Understood. There's no obligation to do research for strangers on the Internet.

mpjgregoire, to lotr
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At last maybe we'll learn what happens to Gollum after The Return of the King.

renee.diresta, to random

This is an interesting interview with Dorsey in which he spills the 🫖 on his departure from Bluesky, which, for those who were on it early, was clearly a response to some moderation kerfuffles and ref-working early on.

Decentralized protocols are largely not subject to ref-working, for better or worse (forthcoming article on this!). That is true. But there are some coherence issues...

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

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@renee.diresta It surprises me that Mr. Dorsey doesn't mention the Fediverse at all, given that it responds to his concerns about centralised social media and has a hundred times as many users as Nostr.

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"As a parent of three children, I have spent nearly two decades reading children’s poetry. So I can say with some confidence that, by and large, the stuff is terrible. Marred by incompetent metre and bad rhymes (when it bothers to rhyme at all), most children’s poetry is disposable, written to fill the space next to an illustration. This is unfortunate. Children react to catchy rhythms, clapping their hands and stamping their feet even if they don’t yet understand the meaning of the words."

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mpjgregoire,
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From an article in on Alligator Pie by .

https://thewalrus.ca/alligator-pie/

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mpjgregoire, to Quebec
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"On Wednesday, Legault told reporters that the new Musee national de l’histoire du Quebec will focus specifically on the history of the French-speaking Quebecois nation. The 11 Indigenous nations in Quebec likely don’t consider themselves part of the Quebecois nation, he said, adding that their contributions will nonetheless be included in the museum."

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mpjgregoire,
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“The idea is to show the history of the nation that was French-Canadian and now Quebecois, that started with Champlain,” he said in Quebec City. “But clearly we’ll talk about the Indigenous people who were there before we arrived.”"

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/francois-legault-quebecois-museum

I don't mind a museum of that focuses on the dominant culture here. But the conflation of Québécois and the French Canadians who live in Québec is frustrating: members of other nations live here too.

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Let me add that a museum of the history of the francophones of Québec, or of Canada, or of North America would be a worthy endeavour too; but it wouldn't be the same as museum of the history of .

mpjgregoire, to starbucks
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"How can you lose when you’re selling an addictive substance? Even the most brain-cell-deprived stoner in your high school class eventually figured out how to deal. When did they get so clueless in Seattle? I’ve heard many explanations. Some complain that coffee got too expensive—and that’s true. [...] But the biggest problem is one Starbucks created. They turned coffee into something ridiculous."

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-coffee-became-a-joke

(Like Mr. Gioia, I take my coffee black.)

mpjgregoire, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Lots of good points to consider in this post:
Ninety-five theses on AI
https://www.secondbest.ca/p/ninety-five-theses-on-ai

Via .

mpjgregoire, to random
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FTX Customers Poised to Recover All Funds Lost in Collapse
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/05/ftx-customers-poised-to-recover-all-funds-lost-in-collapse.html

adds: "Here is the full NYT story, noting that account holders did not receive (significant) gains in the value of bitcoin that otherwise would have accrued."


drahardja, to random
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A moderator of a FB group I frequent has fallen headlong into the “politeness” trap, insisting that participants observe “civility” and “manners” when they post.

Many of you probably already recognize that is a trap. It is a tool used by aristocrats and the powerful to silence dissent, by protesting how the oppressed choose to cry, instead of dealing with why they cry. Southern slaveowners were probably the most polite bunch of folks you’ll ever know.

Focus on what’s important: kindess, empathy, respect, tolerance. And tell politeness to go fuck itself.

mpjgregoire,
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@drahardja Why are we talking? Do we want to change minds by discussing things with others, or do we want to shout at them? Granted, both are necessary at times...

But if we want people who disagree with us to listen to what we have to say rather than ignoring us or shouting right back, then we ought to show them the respect of being polite. That does not prevent us from speaking truths that they may find painful.

8124, to random Assamese
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mpjgregoire,
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@8124 That's nicely done, a useful rebuttal to some common misconceptions. Did you create the image yourself?

paige, to Montreal
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Happy to see investing in the fundamentals in , this series does everything right.
I listened to a few of the episodes on stuff I know about and they’re doing a pretty good job.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1419-good-question-montreal

mpjgregoire,
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@paige is great; it's the TV that needs to be rethought.

Toastie, to Montana
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"This July, I will turn 100 years old. I was born in 1924 in one of the last encampments and raised in Blacktail. When we were young girls, my sister, who was 10 at the time, and I, just 8 years old, attended a mission school for a year and a half."

---Molly Bullshoe, Blackfeet Nation matriarch, teacher, elder

Heart Butte,

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-5/i-attended-a-mission-school-for-a-year-and-a-half/

mpjgregoire,
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@Toastie Is there only a single paragraph? I'd bet she's led a very interesting life over the last 100 years.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How important is equality?

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@can
Is that generally true?

I mean I'm sure the inverse is true: societies where status is less important should tend to have less inequality.

But on the other hand, I can think of groups where, as the material conditions are essentially equal, the struggle for little markers of status becomes intense, e.g., small children squabbling in the daycare, or (arguably) the proverb about academic politics.

@evan

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@evan I'm surprised that 94% of people choose important or very important, and yet my claim that the important issue is deprivation rather than inequality didn't receive any real opposition.

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