Most people probably know how big a pop can is, and understand that even baby elephants are pretty heavy. It gets the point across better than "A meteor with a volume of approximately one third of a litre and a mass of approximately 350 kilograms".

Nepotism is common enough in Hollywood that refusing to cast his daughter would have needed an explanation more than casting her.

Netflix actually ended up with an increase in subscribers from their crackdown. Maybe Spotify did learn from Netflix.

Netflix tweeted in March of 2017 that “Love is sharing a password” before launching its own enforcement policies in May of 2023. Later that year, Netflix raised prices up to 17 percent, and by April of 2024, the company saw the policy pay off with 9.3 million added subscriptions and a 54 percent bump in operating income.

They were the first COO. It's possible the new position was found to be unnecessary.

Trump added a number of Canadian products to the 50% tariff list to offset the tariff relief provided ⁠in his order, including carpets, paints, waste, shampoos, cocoa powder, wooden coffins, ice cream sticks, air-conditioning machines, chest freezers, archery equipment and canoes.

The headline doesn't tell the whole story: Trump removed tariffs from same Canadian products, and added tariffs to others. This is strictly to help Collins, not provide any improvement in the US's relationship with Canada.

It's the Fifth Circuit. That's just normal for them.

Here, the DOJ argues that the presence of a presumed spoiler candidate on the ballot, Daniel J. Sullivan, will taint the race by confusing voters who intended to vote for the incumbent Republican senator, Daniel S. Sullivan. It demands that the judge block any certification until an investigation can “determine whether votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan were meant to be cast for Senator Sullivan.”

They do have a bit of point; Republican voters are certainly not the most informed. But don't the ballots list a candidate's party beside their name?

Use web assembly, got it.

I just signed up for an account last week. New personal "best" - Time to a breach.

The article is much more focused on "X bad" than suggesting what politicians should use instead, and as usual the only alternative that's acknowledged is Bluesky, because moving away from American corporate social media is apparently unimaginable. Just move to a different American site and hope for the best.

In Monday's Morning File Halifax Examiner publisher Tim Bousquet announced that the Examiner's data centre coverage is being moved into their non-paywalled "Dismantling Democracy" section, so this is free to read. It was the announcement of this data centre that the Examiner's reporters were thrown out of last week.

In recognition that the Point Tupper data centre is part of Houston’s autocratic project, we’re putting all of the Examiner’s data centre reporting into the Dismantling Democracy category, meaning that it is free for everyone to read, whether they subscribe or not to the Halifax Examiner.

This is kind of interesting: With BioWare being a Canadian company, the leader of the federal NDP, Avi Lewis, tooted his view on the shut down. Mostly to say private equity sucks, but also:

The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves.

I don't know what was involved when Microsoft let Double Fine go independent instead of closing it, but it would be nice if BioWare got the same option from EA (even if EA probably wouldn't let them have Mass Effect and Dragon Age).

These accounts are for playing online, not buying games.

Isn't Meta still blocking news on Facebook in Canada because they wouldn't go along with the last bullshit internet law?

I seriously doubt the guy who called an early election a couple of days after one of the other parties lost its leader is interested in fairness.

EverWind said it will use a closed-loop water-glycol system. The company’s preliminary estimate for water usage is an average of 100,000 litres per day for the first phase and 500,000 litres of water per day including both phases.

A "closed-loop" that uses 100,000 litres per day doesn't sound that closed.

As for the wind power, Everwind doesn't appear to have even started construction on any of its planned wind farms and it's likely the data centre will be completed well before they get any wind power online.

And this is all in service to an American company, completely throwing away the "sovereignty" justification for local data centres.

Just as an example: On Friday a data centre was announced in Nova Scotia, with the premier and a couple of MPs in attendance, and later in the day the client for the data centre was announced as Anthropic. Almost like the officials in attendance at the data centre announcement didn't want to have to answer questions about what good a local data centre with an American Big Tech client does us.

Here's an article about those EverWind issues for anyone who wants to read more.

I'll just throw in that the CEO is a Trump donor.

Perhaps it should have been wide adoption that led to a boom, instead of a boom in hope of adoption?

Don't connect your fridge to the internet. Just don't.