"Hudson’s Bay, a retailer with roots in Canada dating back more than 350 years, is facing liquidation after failing to secure the financing it needs to keep its stores open.

"The department store chain, which labels itself as Canada’s oldest company, fought to avoid a full shutdown in a Toronto courtroom on Monday. A lawyer for the company said the retailer’s efforts to resolve its cash crisis have “failed” and that without a workable solution for creditors and landlords, the company would be forced to fully liquidate."

https://nationalpost.com/news/who-owns-hudsons-bay-and-why-canadas-oldest-company-is-going-out-of-business

"An assassin with a ricin tipped microphone could kill the president in this manner"... Trump supporters have expressed concern over a serious lapse in security as the President was knocked in the face by a ‘reporter’ holding a mic on a long pole Friday.

https://modernity.news/2025/03/16/concerns-over-lapse-in-security-following-trump-being-hit-in-face-with-mic/

How did a sophisticated PR campaign and Jewish infighting combine to make Einstein so popular?

And was Einstein “antisemitic” by modern-day standards?

aetherczar.substack.com/p/528-einstein-comes-to-america-e82

Our first niche genre sale is live with a couple dozen based alternative history adventures all for free or $0.99. Check it out! https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/based-books-genre-sale-alternative

The DemystifySci pair interviewed André Assis yesterday. Focussing on different redshifts, with a historical perspective. Very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upV3ZfCEISA

"A curiosity in AI research is how definitions of intelligence often go unmentioned. They become a "I know it when I see it" sort of thing, or simply defined as doing certain tasks man can do. Cars can travel, and much faster than man, but few suggest cars have become a kind of animal because of its superiority. Computers seem to have memories much larger than man's. And they seem to be able to calculate faster. But computers don't memorize or calculate anything. It is we who read into the computer's states meanings such as memory and calculation. Computers cannot do this task, i.e. give meaning, for themselves, as we can for ourselves. Therefore, computers will never be intelligent."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159173418#:~:text=A%20curiosity%20in,never%20be%20intelligent.

Children evacuated from London during the Blitz, WWII