The Stochastic Game

Hello!

My definition for good weather in Vancouver is (1) is there water falling down? (2) can you see the mountains?

I guess it’s not good weather today!

Last year, “for science”, I binged all James Bond movies in order and IMHO yeah, it was never that good except for a few scenes or characters that are sort of cool or iconic, although often in a somewhat racist or misogynistic way.

I had mild fun but this was never “classic art” in any meaningful sense.

The level of united Canadian pride is through the roof right now across the country, obviously “thanks” to the threat of Donald Trump. And yeah, that’s even in Quebec, from the people who led the 1995 independence referendum.

“Canada’s critical minerals and why Trump wants them”: it’s interesting to learn a bit about what sort of minerals we produce, and the importance of processing vs mining.

I shouldn’t have been surprised but today I learned that the Monopoly game was pretty much invented by a woman, and then the idea was stolen by a guy who made shitloads of money.

Here is an interesting opinion piece arguing for Freeland instead of Carney as the new Liberal leader. Some good points in there, although frankly I’d be OK with either of them if they keep the other one in a key position.

It makes me sad to miss the ChaosiumCon that coincides to Chaosium’s 50th anniversary, but I can’t travel to the US given this, err, whole situation <waves hands and makes faces>

But maybe I’ll get crazy and go the UK one?

I don’t understand why Mozilla didn’t setup a Patreon-like system years ago. They have a donation system but it’s not setup along with, say, premium features, or even advertised in-software. By my count they could have made at least $5m monthly.

More about Mozilla’s recent changes to the Terms of Services for Firefox. Everyone is right to freak out, and Mozilla’s response seems incredibly dishonest.

Trudeau has shot down the idea, but it’s still nice to sign a petition asking to bar Trump from the upcoming G7 spring summit in Canada. It’s currently at over 52k signatures. The one about stripping Musk of his Canadian citizenship is at over 350k signatures!