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Excerpt from linked article: While Carney also said his government is focused on lowering emissions "over time," he did not provide a target for that goal. In the same breath, he noted how Canada is producing far more oil than the country ever has, claiming only the United States and Russia have increased production more than Canada. A progress report from the Canadian Climate Institute in 2025 had already concluded that Canada was "not on track to achieve any of its climate goals." Carney's admission about emissions targets is his latest walk back from Trudeau-era climate policies. Since becoming prime minister, Carney has cancelled the consumer carbon tax and paused the federal electric vehicle sales mandates to focus instead on offering subsidies.
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headline: Trump's Board of Peace is exploring a stablecoin for Gaza redevelopment
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article snippet: This kind of activity is so frequent that there are now people looking for signs of insider activity to try and piggyback off of as an investment strategy-earlier this month, four brand new crypto wallets all placed four-figure bets on the US striking Iran before January 31, 2026. The transactions were flagged by crypto-wallet monitors online and caused speculation of insider trading, or, of course, feigned insider trading meant to manipulate public opinion or influence other trades elsewhere on the market. A new kind of paranoia has emerged -when every possible event has competing lines of outcomes with money on the line, how could the perception of corruption not run rampant? On January 7, a White House press briefing by Karoline Leavitt was live trading at a 98 percent chance of running over 65 minutes in length when Leavitt very suddenly ended her remarks and rushed off the podium at 64 minutes and 35 seconds. A video of a stopwatch overlaid with her hasty exit-seeming to show her make a quick glance to what could appear to be a clock on the opposite wall just before leaving-went viral, with thousands of people claiming insider trading. It likely wasn't; there was a total volume of just $3,400 on the market, and the biggest winner made only $186. Leavitt could have just been in a hurry and needed to be somewhere at a certain time. But who knows? Just days after the Maduro insider trading made headlines, can you blame anyone for feeling like every single moment of their unfolding reality is now a new kind of scam?
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Snippet from the linked Bloomberg article: Even without such disputes, participants said emotions have been running high throughout the competition, with engineers on the different teams working around the clock to inspect the quality of datasets and tweak the models to boost their performance, which can be both repetitive and time-consuming. Lee Jinsik, who leads LG AI Research's Exaone Lab, said he's been working so late that it's been months since he saw his toddler awake. Yet he and other project leaders say they're excited to be part of a competition that could have major consequences for Korea's technology industry, as well as the broader economy. "This is nerve-racking. But this is exactly how K-pop took off," said Upstage Chief Executive Officer Sung Kim, comparing it to the audition shows that gave rise to some of the early stars of the country's now-famous music scene. "I'm pretty sure the same thing will happen in the field of AI and science in Korea."
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News article snippet: While internal conflict erupts within the CAQ, other provinces are actively trying to poach Quebec doctors. Ontario premier Doug Ford even encouraged the exodus of Quebec physicians, jokingly inviting those interested to call "1-800-Doug-Ford" and reach out to him on his cellphone during a press conference. "We'll have you working real quick." he said. "Come by. We'll roll out the red carpet for you." The move angered Legault, who called Ford's statement "totally unacceptable."
Article excerpt: What its users may not know is that Discord responds to about two emergency disclosure requests daily from law enforcement "when it has a good faith belief that an emergency involving an imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury requires disclosure of information without delay." As Discord told Congress, it responds to emergency requests in under an hour on average. (One Discord employee says the process is getting even faster.) In such cases, Discord does not notify users that its communications have been handed over. The man in Atlanta only knew about the authorities having access to his Discord communications because the cop who called him let it slip.
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Andrew Irvine Professor Philosophy Research Summary Bertrand Russell, censorship, and the rule of law.
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snippet from a Financial Times article: In 2019, Cornell Capital bought Instant Brands for just over $600mn. By 2023, the kitchen appliances maker had filed for bankruptcy. Shortly after the company sought court protection, creditors accused Cornell of siphoning large amounts of cash from the company's coffers. Creditors sued Cornell Capital and certain executives in November for having "plundered the portfolio company" by taking out a $345mn dividend for its investors, which the complaint alleges left Instant Brands insolvent. A trial over the allegations is scheduled to start later this year. A spokesperson for Cornell Capital in a statement called the lawsuit's allegations "baseless attacks" and disputed that the dividend recapitalisation led to Instant Brands' bankruptcy, instead citing "uncontrollable macroeconomic events."
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Screenshot: GUADAGNINO I think continuity in filmmaking is for the poor of spirit. You know how much I fight with the costume supervisors when they say, “You cannot do this because you have to have continuity.” I say, “You do your job, make sure that you can get continuity. And if we have to fix something, we do it in the visual FX eventually.”
screenshot from the article that reads: “I found this amazing guy in Montreal who was a strange obsessive over historical underwear,” Mr. Anderson said. “It was quite fascinating.”
Screenshot from Eric Adams indictment that reads: p. At 2:17 pm on September 10, 2021, the FDNY Commissioner wrote p. ADAMS, "Letter being drafted now. Everything should be good to go Monday moming." Four minutes later, ADAMS messaged the Turkish Official, "From the commissioner: Letter being drafted now. Everything should be good to go Monday morning." The Turkish Official responded, "You are Great Eric, we are so happy to hear that ada. You are a true friend of Turkey." ADAMS replied, "Yes even more a true friend of yours. You are my brother. I am hear [sic) to help." At 2:30 pm, the Turkish Official confirmed, "You are such a friend La." At 2:31 p.m., the Fire Prevention Chief sent the "conditional letter of no objection" to the private alarm engineer,
THE GLOBE AND MAIL* Ontario to cap daycare fees at $22 a day for children under 6
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NYT headline: Secluded in Rehoboth, Biden Stews at Allies' Pressure to Drop Out of the Race. As he recovers from Covid, the president has grown resentful toward Democratic congressional leaders and former President Barack Obama.
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Wikipedia screenshot: The 1300th Anniversary of the Bulgarian State was a yearlong celebration in 1981 when Bulgaria celebrated the 1300th anniversary of the establishment of the first Bulgarian state in modern history. There were 23,000 events connected with the 1300th anniversary.
Washington Post headline: Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s massive compensation package The result removes the uncertainty that had loomed over Musk’s future at one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle makers.
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A New York Magazine article titled, "Paul Krugman Is Right About the Economy, and the Polls Are Wrong. Sometimes experts are wrong, but not this time." by Jonathan Chait
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Benjamin Netanyahu holding a diagram of a cartoon bomb in a speech to the United Nations
article text: According to the sources, the army knew that the minimal human supervision in place would not discover these faults. “There was no ‘zero-error’ policy. Mistakes were treated statistically,” said a source who used Lavender. “Because of the scope and magnitude, the protocol was that even if you don’t know for sure that the machine is right, you know that statistically it’s fine. So you go for it.” “It has proven itself,” said B., the senior source. “There’s something about the statistical approach that sets you to a certain norm and standard. There has been an illogical amount of [bombings] in this operation. This is unparalleled, in my memory. And I have much more trust in a statistical mechanism than a soldier who lost a friend two days ago. Everyone there, including me, lost people on October 7. The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.”
article text: ‘The more information and variety, the better’ The Lavender software analyzes information collected on most of the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip through a system of mass surveillance, then assesses and ranks the likelihood that each particular person is active in the military wing of Hamas or PIJ. According to sources, the machine gives almost every single person in Gaza a rating from 1 to 100, expressing how likely it is that they are a militant. Lavender learns to identify characteristics of known Hamas and PIJ operatives, whose information was fed to the machine as training data, and then to locate these same characteristics — also called “features” — among the general population, the sources explained. An individual found to have several different incriminating features will reach a high rating, and thus automatically becomes a potential target for assassination.
text screenshot: “At 5 a.m., [the air force] would come and bomb all the houses that we had marked,” B. said. “We took out thousands of people. We didn’t go through them one by one — we put everything into automated systems, and as soon as one of [the marked individuals] was at home, he immediately became a target. We bombed him and his house.” “It was very surprising for me that we were asked to bomb a house to kill a ground soldier, whose importance in the fighting was so low,” said one source about the use of AI to mark alleged low-ranking militants. “I nicknamed those targets ‘garbage targets.’ Still, I found them more ethical than the targets that we bombed just for ‘deterrence’ — highrises that are evacuated and toppled just to cause destruction.”