How incredibly uncouth of the US administration and its representatives in Canada. This type of snide arrogance will bite them in the ass in the future.

The Canadian Rangers are respected by their community and the CAF. You must be nominated by the community and be highly skilled in bushcraft to be a Ranger. Their uniforms are earned by a gruelling training period in the Arctic and are symbols of pride.

Cobra Chickens!

A thoughtfully written piece, @mcarterSKW. Canada urgently needs a civilian defence strategy — before the next crisis forces one. #Cdnpoli theconversation.com/canada-u…

My latest for @ConversationCA! Canada is investing billions into military capability, but what about civilian readiness? theconversation.com/canada-u…

For Canadian Film & TV students, this is an interesting case study. Something to consider when negotiating contracts as and for creative talent.

Kidscreen and Brunico were essential sources of inspiration and information throughout my Producing career. A sad loss for Canada!

🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.” You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening. The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement. Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year. Source: @heynavtoor

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This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/2034931960146… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

"This thing was out there," says Dennis Muren in reference to early computer graphics in the 1980s, "and I wanted to get it on a show and figure out how to do it.” That show would be Young Sherlock Holmes and its iconic stained-glass knight, cinema's first ever digital character. ILM.com's Amy Richau speaks with Muren about realizing this groundbreaking visual effect, as well as many of the classic, practical methods utilized for the film as well.  Read Now: ilm.com/young-sherlock-holme…

I spent time in Bristol in the early 2000’s. Banksy’s mark would show up here and there on the landscape much to the delight of our then two year old son. We love Banksy because they could be anyone and anywhere. That’s the power of art! reuters.com/investigates/spe…

Total lack of class.

I believe Canada would benefit from a similar Gurkha recruitment program to the one the British Government has deployed for over 200 years. They are both wonderful people and highly skilled warriors. A Canadian Gurkha Brigade makes total sense.

I regularly use this when talking about Production and Production Management in Animation and VFX to my students!

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More than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces members served during Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. 158 never came home, and many others returned carrying physical and psychological wounds that continue long after service ends. Today, and everyday, we Remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice, we honour the courage of all who served, and we stand with the Veterans and families who live every day with the lasting impacts of that mission. As an organization committed to supporting Veterans of all eras, our focus remains on Remembrance, respect, and support — for the fallen, for those who served and returned, and for their loved ones. To learn more about Canada’s longest war and the people who served, we invite you to explore this interactive story from Legion Magazine: legionmagazine.com/afghanist…

On 9/11, when I was U.S. Ambassador to #NATO, the very first country that came to our defense was #Canada. Canadian forces then fought with us in Afghanistan. Lesson for Americans: Treasure our allies. Respect them. They’re on our side.