Tom Huras

@NoContextHumans Bro used a carpet instead of a wingsuit to BASE jump

Jordan Peterson’s argument in this piece is that Canada has mismanaged its relationship with the U.S., drifting into irrelevance through ideological arrogance and a lack of strategic foresight. His criticism isn’t just about Trudeau’s leadership—it’s about a broader cultural and political failure to maintain a strong, independent, and mutually respectful alliance with our southern neighbour. Now, let’s talk about Andrew Coyne’s response. He doesn’t actually refute Peterson’s points. Instead, he launches into an ad hominem attack, claiming Peterson is “not well,” a “danger,” and a “mouthpiece for every insane conspiracy theory.” This isn’t an argument; it’s an attempt to discredit through personal smears rather than engaging with the substance of what Peterson is saying. If Peterson is guilty of anything here, it’s diagnosing Canada’s geopolitical complacency with his usual dramatic flair. But Coyne’s reaction? That’s hubris personified. He assumes his moral and intellectual superiority so completely that he doesn’t even feel the need to argue—he just dismisses, pathologizes, and condemns. That’s not journalism. That’s ideological gatekeeping. It’s the same arrogance Peterson critiques: a refusal to engage with difficult realities because doing so might mean admitting fault. The idea that Canada, under its current leadership, has weakened its standing in the world isn’t some wild conspiracy—it’s a perfectly reasonable argument. But rather than debating it, Coyne just waves it away with righteous indignation. That’s the kind of hubris that keeps bad policies in place and prevents necessary course corrections.

@ThebestFigen This has never happened to me. Maybe a flock of dear flies.

@HydroOne @TorontoHydro Wondering if you can share an update. A few years ago one of the stations flooded. Is it the same station?

We are investigating an outage affecting @TorontoHydro customers. We will provide updates as they become available along with a time of restoration.

@culturaltutor Actually

No one, presently, sees the Moon rotate like this. That's because it's tidally locked to the Earth, showing us only one side. But thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, this virtual rotation movie has been composed.

Marvelous map by @researchremora shows the lighthouses of the UK. I love the eery feel of this map.

This photo by David Burdeny is still one of the coolest iceberg photos in existence thanks to the perfect composition and symmetry that separates the photo into four different sections of colour and texture [site: davidburdeny.com]

@athuras Show the same table but your indoor temperatures.

cool

Population growth from 10,000 BCE to today [video by Robert Rohde, HD: buff.ly/3egX55U]

Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they’re “less than 70% government-funded”, so we corrected the label

Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and ... youtu.be/qpoRO378qRY via @YouTube

@athuras @jamneuf Puts things into perspective!

confirmed the road bike works @jamneuf

Debunking 52 popular myths by David McCandless [interactive version: buff.ly/3Mmtp6h]

Designed by The Archimedes, LIAM F1 UWT is a new generation of wind turbine for domestic use capable of generating an average of 1,500 kilowatt-hours of energy with a wind speed of 5 m/s—enough for a family home [read more: buff.ly/3OFPhJ8]

What idea changed how you view the world? Here's mine: High Agency. The 12 best examples:

The observable Universe is ~4.40×10²³ km, or 28,500 Megaparsecs (Mpc) across. It expands at ~71.17 ± 0.86 km/s/Mpc. This is a logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe [Pablo Carlos Budassi: buff.ly/3vbBf9M]

I am very excited to announce I have been successful in installing and operating a full ChatGPT knowledge set and interface fully trained on my local computer and it needs no Internet once installed. There are no editors and there is no censorship. I am using Alpaca (crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alp…) from Stanford and Dalai Lama. The training model cost about $530 to build locally yet has the abilities of GPT 3.5. The software is free and open source and I am working on preconfigured packages for anyone to have local training and access to a LLM GPT AI. This model is now in a live connect with all of my other AI systems and the results have been absolutely stunning. I will be writing more about this soon. But today know, you will own your own AI and it will only answer to you.

Make sure you know what you're retiring to. This was a hard post to write. I almost didn't write it in fact. I've started and trashed this story many times. But I believe there are important lessons in this story we can learn from. Warning: this does not have a happy ending.