Rob Copland

Very proud moment for Australia as a whole type of stock market pattern is now named after the national animal

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Australia and Canada: Oceans apart but unified in having super weird time zones 🐨 🤝 🍁

Potential wndstorm tmrw-Thu for Srn BC now dvlpg alg the tail of the 52N 149W vortmax at at 47.5N 154.5W. There is plenty of available potential energy for dvlpmnt. Euro has the deepening low Xing N central VI early Thu eve when #@YVR would expect max wind, SE-SW gusts ~ 70 km/h but windy thru Thu

Thank you Marty! There were a couple of misconducts!

The Tampa Buffalo game is a penalty fest so far. But these MSG Network announcers haven't bothered to mention who has gotten the penalties and what they are for. #NHL

I really hate those name labels @espn.com put on the players during hockey power plays! So distracting.
Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.
#NHL

The data center boom and the escalating costs associated in the broader tech sector are explained in American terms quite nicely here.

Pre-WWI cartoon on tariffs.

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III mission The latest report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) raises questions about the mission objectives for Artemis III.…

NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing

A 12-year-old girl has become a champion of the latest 'surreal' conspiracy theory Conspiracy theorists have a new, unlikely target: The world of urban planning.

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Friendly reminder that data coming from The White House is either the result of incompetence or deliberately misleading. Either way, best data practice is to always include longitudinal data to provide your audience with context.

iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids If you're thinking of plopping your infant in front of a screen to get some peace and quiet, you might want to reconsider - higher screen exposure in infancy was linked to longer decision times later on and higher anxiety symptoms in the teenage years.…

iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers

"“The kinds of figures we’re talking about—that would actually save public money, remember—are rounding errors in most transportation budgets,” @brenttoderian.bsky.social says. “So cities are literally wasting public money by not investing in smart bike infrastructure.””

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away Most of today’s desktop web browsers come with a ton of built-in AI features, but the good news is that, in most cases, no one is forcing you to use them, and you can at least hide them from view. Removing the most egregious AI tools from Chrome is pretty simple, but it requires a few steps.…

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

I’m convinced that the antivax movement will look like an absolute act of stupidity to historians. The US willingly reintroducing measles is just baffling…

Hughes trade resets Canucks after latest failure to build contender Friday’s trade starkly reinforced the organization’s failure over six years and two managerial regimes to build a lasting contender around a generational defenceman like Hughes.

Here's /imacSportsnet with a great writeup on last night's Quinn Hughes trade shocker /Sportsnet https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/hughes-trade-resets-canucks-after-latest-failure-to-build-contender/

Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT. “We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.

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I feel sorry for the 60,000 who were due to come here tomorrow - Travis Head

Travis Head apologises to Day 3 ticket-holders after he sealed an Australia win inside two days 😅

Fruitport designs $48M high school with places to hide from mass shooters YouTube video by 13 ON YOUR SIDE

Curved corridors to limit a shooter’s sight lines. Bullet-proof glass. Concrete “bump outs” in hallways to provide hiding places. This is the sad new architecture of American high schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXeM...

A polar vortex of confusion Meteorologists have a historical penchant for giving names to atmospheric phenomena which, in today’s world, sound rather like phrases made up to fit a dramatic headline than real scientific …

A polar vortex of confusion simonleewx.com/2025/11/20/a...

Australian murderer sues for right to Vegemite behind bars Andre McKechnie argues the Vegemite ban in Victoria's jails denies him the right to "enjoy his culture".

Australian murderer sues for right to Vegemite behind bars

The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake Ander Louis has written a new version of Leo Tolstoy's classic Russian novel in Australian slang.

The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake

Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran The government is pleading with Iranians to save water as reservoirs dry up and rainfall is at a record low.

Water scarcity

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That chart is well worth studying. Share of daily transactions taking place in cash around the world. As an Australian, I’m very much used to cashless everything by now. I’m still totally against going fully cashless.

Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, and farm systems Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions driven by online activists rather than spies.…

Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, and farm systems

Turns out Canadians love Australia and think it should be treated as an ally. The opinion towards the US however shifted and half of the population now sees the US (its neighbour and biggest trading partner as a threat). While Trump had some geopolitical wins, he ruined the relationship with Canada!

The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft's desperation Citizen! You are falling short in your AI usage targets! Strive harder for the revolution! Opinion  The quantum theory of management includes an analogy for the physical law of the observer effect, where observing a system changes its state. When you make a metric a target, it is not useful as a metric. Instead of reflecting whatever underlying behavior it was intended to measure, the metric becomes a measure of how well the benchmark is being gamed.…

The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft's desperation

Thank god, chocolate didn’t make the list…

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell If you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere on an average day, how many would you pick? This isn't a trick question - SpaceX is deorbiting about one or two satellites daily, and that number is only going to grow. …

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

Connect the Coast shares multi-use path design SCRD to request meeting with province over active transportation funding

Connect the Coast shares multi-use path design