What I saw on the web on 2025.4.29

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1. Election Night 2025 hot take: There was something to disappoint almost everyone!
   by David Climenhaga
   https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/04/election-night-2025-hot-take-there-was-something-to-disappoint-almost-everyone/
   yeah, i feel that on all points. although the current numbers suggest that Lib+NDP > 172?
   via rss
   
   
2. Smallest possible circles containing 0.1% to 100.0% of the world's population (0.14 second/frame)
   by alexmijo
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kja7upA9MvQ
   poor NZ
   via discord
   
   
3. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
   by Paul Krugman
   https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-the-godfather-in-reverse
   yup. and we've all of us got several years yet of dealing with the direct consequences. (and how long after that dealing with the aftermath?)
   via rss
   
   
4. Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
   by New London Consort, directed by Philip Pickett
   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k4l0LIV_5noHKxsj98cucNBzDApYaSHCk
   if you need some pilgrim songs and dances from the 14th century
   via remembering it
   
   
5. Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable
   by Ian Macintyre
   https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/poilievre-vows-to-stay-on-as-party-leader-for-reasons-of-being-otherwise-unemployable/
   i mean, yes, it's satire. but the value of satire, as HST pointed out, is that it makes it easier to say true things than it is in ordinary journamalism
   via disord
   
   
6. Performance Review: ‘Stag and Doe’
   by Leah Hennig
   https://thegatewayonline.ca/2025/04/performance-review-stag-and-doe/
   yup, a fun play
   via FB
   
   
7. Parti Rhinocéros Party
   by Parti Rhinocéros Party
   https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/
   Why agree with an imitation? In the next election, vote for the real jesters !
   via wondering what they're up to these days
   
   
8. 2,000 Years of AI Doom
   by Jon Evans
   https://aiascendant.com/p/2000-years-of-ai-doom
   what, you thought Eliezar Yudkowsky came up with something new?
   via both rss and discord