Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 3

To be clear, the proposition is distressing, whether it is true or false.

Well, #AndrewScheer didn't set any hearts on fire during the general election, or during the last #Tory leadership race really [0]. His replacement might be better.

But it will be distressing if the media draw the conclusion that a believing #Catholic cannot win an election in Canada, not even if he promises not to enact his personal beliefs into law.

[0] Thank heavens #MaximeBernier lost.

#canpol

@ink_slinger @keithzg Compared to *The Globe and Mail*, *Newsweek* is young and hip. The *National Post* has always been more entertaining than the G&M.

OTOH, even before the Mueller report came out, it seemed unlikely that Russian involvement in the election had been very significant.

The presence of Paul Manafort, a seedy operator with connections to unfriendly regimes, at a top level of the campaign should have been enough for the FISA court to authorise investigations.

Every time I hear President Trump complain that the Obama Administration was spying on his campaign, every time I hear Democrats or the intelligence community denying it, I think to myself, "I hope the Obama Administration *was* spying on the Trump campaign. They *should* have been keeping an eye on them."

#uspol

@ink_slinger Is it falsifiable?

#RIP D. C. Fontana, the groundbreaking #StarTrek screenwriter who wrote a lot of early Trek episodes and developed Spock's personality and backstory: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/arts/dc-fontana-star-trek.html / http://web.archive.org/web/20191204004004/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/arts/dc-fontana-star-trek.html

One of very few women TV writers at the time, she used her initials to disguise her identity (similar to contemporary sf writers Andre Norton and James Tiptree, Jr., among others).

#news 🐘

@ink_slinger St Patrick's Basilica isn't fancier than Notre Dame Basilica; but it's more tasteful I think.

In any case, I hope you had an enjoyable visit to Montréal.

@ink_slinger St Patrick's Basilica isn't fancier than Notre Dame Basilica; but it's more tasteful I think.

In any case, I hope you had an enjoyable visit to Montréal.

@arjaybe No, I hadn't heard of it before.

@ink_slinger But maybe if I had seen the light show I would move it higher on my list...

#Montréal
#architecture
#churches #églises

@ink_slinger Notre Dame Basilica would be no. 5 on my list.

@ink_slinger Speaking of churches, if you only visit one in #Montréal, it should be St. Patrick's Basilica. If two, then St. Patrick's and St. Joseph's Oratory.

"Oracles were apparently first studied by #Turing, in his 1938 PhD thesis. Obviously anyone who could write a whole thesis about these fictitious entities would have to be an extremely pure theorist, someone who wouldn’t be caught dead doing anything relevant. This was certainly true in Turing’s case – indeed, he spent the years after his PhD, from 1939 to 1943, studying certain abstruse symmetry transformations in a 26 letter alphabet." -- Scott Aaronson, via #SlateStarCodex

@ink_slinger 13 years ago, many of the sites of glass high-rises in #Montréal were parking lots, the result of demolition decades ago. The destruction of local heritage buildings was much worse in the 70s and 80s. See for instance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Horne_Mansion

From the perspective of heritage buildings, the major current problem is the emptying of the churches. At least some of them have been repurposed, but the art and ornament are largely thrown out.