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US-Canada Trade War: Is This Trump’s Bid to Take Over Canada?▶ 10 min source
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US-Canada Trade War: Is This Trump’s Bid to Take Over Canada?

The video reports that trade talks between the US and Canada broke down last week after the Trump administration refused to renew the USMCA and shifted it to an annual review process, and that Trump's 50 percent tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian goods,…

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  • Confirmed: Trade talks between the US and Canada broke down last week, triggering new 50 percent US tariffs on various Canadian goods [00:07]
  • Confirmed: Carney vowed to match the new US tariffs dollar for dollar [00:07]
  • Confirmed: Trump posted on Truth Social that Canada wants the benefits of being a US state without being one, adding "No more!" [00:19]
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AI · Anton Petrov

Why These New Quasar Discoveries Challenge Everything We Knew

13 min source · Anton Petrov · 2026-08-24
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  • Goal: Explain what quasars are and survey recent research findings and open questions about them; this is an explainer/documentary, not a coding tutorial, so no pre…
  • History [00:52]: The term quasar is short for quasi-stellar radio source, first identified by astronomers in the 1950s as faint star-like points emitting massive am…
  • Mechanism [01:30]: Researchers realized quasars are not stars but active galactic nuclei, supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies actively devou…
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Gaming · The Verge

We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories | The Vergecast

23 min source · The Verge · 2026-08-24
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  • [00:02] David Pierce opens the Vergecast episode, calling it the flagship podcast of 'many, many Nokia phones.'
  • [00:09] David Pierce introduces a new game segment, saying he wants Nilay Patel to play more TikTok-style games like blind ranking and fast money games
  • [00:30] Producer Travis Laruk put together the game, which involves gadgets and history
cited · The Verge · every claim timestamped
Trends ·

Nobody is hiring vibe coders. Sorry

2026-08-24
  • Thesis [12:01]: coding interviews aren't dead, there are more of them than ever, and they still test what they always tested, whether you know what you're doing, wh…
  • Argument [02:56]: Meta built an AI-assisted interview round that, by most accounts, is harder than its classic round even though it encourages AI use
  • Argument [03:05]: the speaker claims the companies closest to the AI models test candidates the hardest
cited · · every claim timestamped
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