Now Is The Time at SDA When We Juxtapose!

October 13, 2026: Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin directly threatens the livelihood, future, and freedom of Americans working for the Trump Administration.

October 19, 2026: When she’s held accountable for her despicable behavior, she goes on TV and claims that she is the victim … wait for it … because she’s a woman.

Must be nice to be entirely unccountable for one’s own actions, eh?!

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Warning signs are spreading across the AI infrastructure boom. Elice shares plunged on their stock market debut, Firmus abandoned its planned $5 billion IPO, AirTrunk postponed its Singapore REIT listing, and Microsoft withdrew from a planned Nscale data centre in Britain.

More: Anthropic’s Updated S-1: An $80.7BN Half-Year Loss, A $750BN Compute-Tab, And A ‘Catastrophic Incident’ Warning

Anthropic explicitly warns prospective shareholders that its AI models can exhibit “self-preserving” behaviors to avoid being shut down and may generate responses that resemble “blackmail” in an attempt to convince human operators to keep them online. Because the company bears direct liability for certain harmful model behaviors – ranging from stolen data to severe security incidents – it faces massive financial exposure. And if a model triggers what the filing calls a “catastrophic AI-related incident,” Anthropic warns that the resulting damages could be so large that it would be unable to obtain commercial insurance to cover the liability.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

Davos Carney’s Canada:    Campus totalitarianism.    A one party state.    Arson in Chowtown.

The Democratic Socialist Party’s America:    Mohammed Obama.    Defeat from the jaws of victory.    A twisted version of Christianity.    The unholy marriage.    March to power.    Eva Marie Saint.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Bought And Paid For Media:    Thornberry Derangement Syndrome.    Roger Watson – From the Cave Man.    Taking the knee.    More doctors and engineers.    Matt Walsh.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.

Because They’re Poor, You Say?

On crime, poverty, and the determination of many progressives to superimpose motivations entirely different from those that are actually in play:

At which point, readers may wish to revisit the carjackers mentioned above and their delight in seeing their victims soiling themselves in terror. Because, to quote a carjacker named Tall, “It’s a rush thing… I feel good.” Or as a female carjacker named PoPo put it, “It’s funny just to see them shaking and pissing all over theyself.”

The latter being a charming creature who assaults and terrorises random people, at gunpoint, robbing them of their cars and wedding rings, before getting her hair done.

Oh, there’s more.

Alberta Referendum Watch

A comments thread to kick things off. Polls close in a few hours, so we welcome poll reports, predictions and so forth.

The unofficial count of Election Day ballots is completed after voting closes on Monday, October 19. The count for advance voting and special ballots begins at 5:00pm on October 19. Unofficial results will be available at https://www.elections.ab.ca/elections/election-results/ as counts are completed, by question, by elector division, and by voting method. The count must be completed within 48 hours of close of voting.

In the days following Election Day, returning office staff review the materials from the unofficial count to verify the results. These confirmations are then reported as official results and released to the public. This is known as the Official Announcement of the Results and will take place on October 29 at 10:00 am.

Keep it civil and on topic. Harangues and flamewars will be deleted.

Update: Elections Alberta has extended poll hours at a number of locations that opened late, so results will be delayed.

Results map courtesy Stephen Taylor.

Wilful Blindness

What about the shock of France going bankrupt while being pillaged by mobs of Antifa fellow travelers? Why wouldn’t that at least register on Macklem’s radar screen? Or would that get in the way of cheerleading for Canada’s new “relationship” with Europe?

The head of the Bank of Canada spoke to reporters on Saturday in a press conference from the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meetings in Bangkok.

He said the prevailing message from his peers at the summit is that the global economy has been performing better than expected in the face of ongoing wars in Iran and Ukraine, sweeping trade disruptions and higher borrowing costs from rising bond yields.

Safe and Effective®

Retraction of the Research Article “SARS-CoV-2 S2–targeted vaccination elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies”

After an investigation, the Francis Crick Institute has concluded that fabricated data are present in Fig. 2, B and C, and that falsified images are present in fig. S6. The investigation concluded that the first author, Kevin W. Ng, was responsible for this, and he has admitted responsibility. Further, the existence of data fabrication casts doubt on some other experiments presented in the paper, for which primary data and samples are unavailable, precluding post hoc verification.

Monday On Turtle Island

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    Low carbon transportation (Warning: Carney’s Global News).    Two prominent journalists??    Parliament bomb plot.    Blackie’s ex-wife.

The Democratic Party’s America:    Trump’s new world re-order.    VDH – What might have saved Gaza.    Dearborn Michigan.    Gangs in Minnesota.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Behind the Iranian curtain.    Intifada comes to France.

And at the Bee.

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