pmbudd is an English teacher and a writer. Titles include A New Dawn Rising, Hell Hounds of High School, Hadrian's Lover and its sequel, Hadrian's Rage.
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Joined March 2010
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Check out another chapter of Hadrian's Destiny (first draft): "Good-bye is Forever." #pmb
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I very much agree with Carl Jung, who said that transformation at the deeper levels happens in the presence of images much more than through concepts.~Richard Rohr, Things Hidden
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Trump and Republicans want to make it harder for young people to vote.
My Youth Voting Rights Act does the opposite:
Pre-registration before 18.
Polling places on college campuses.
Young people getting a voice in their future.
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Senate Republicans have voted 14 times to continue Trump's war with Iran.
They could lower your prices by ending his war—but they won't.
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Honouring Canada’s history means facing its whole truth. Its beauty and its losses. Its strength and the harms it has caused.
The nations who were here well before the birth of our country and the policies adopted to eliminate them.
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In a new experiment, nearly half the people on a video call thought they were speaking to a human. They weren't. It was a new AI model.
That is INSANE.
Does anyone in America think it is a good idea to race forward to build machines that replace us?
PAUSE AI NOW.
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
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Le Canada a l’occasion qui ne se présente qu’une fois en une génération de devenir une superpuissance énergétique dans le monde et de ne plus dépendre que d’un seul partenaire commercial. Pour la saisir, nous bâtirons un nouvel oléoduc vers la côte Ouest.
Nous bâtissons en grand et ensemble un Canada fort qui fonctionne.
ALT Le premier ministre Carney s’exprime depuis un lutrin, à Fort McMurray, en Alberta.
ALT Le premier ministre Carney s’exprime depuis un lutrin, à Fort McMurray, en Alberta.
ALT Le premier ministre Carney à Fort McMurray, en Alberta.
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The intensity of your grief matches the intensity of your love. People who never hurt deeply likely never loved deeply either.
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Have you received Danielle Smith and the UCP’s $4 million propaganda brochure?
It’s full of lies, and taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for it, never mind the $200 million referendum.
Danielle Smith and the UCP have the wrong priorities. We should be focused on education, health care and the cost of living.
On October 19, vote YES to Canada and NO to the rest.
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« N'ayez pas peur des opinions des autres ; ce sont leurs pensées, pas votre réalité.»
- Charlie Chaplin
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"True friends are like stars. You can only recognize them when it's dark around you."
- Bob Marley
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Let’s try again, Mr. President.
15 million people thrown off their healthcare: F
$1 trillion on a new endless war in Iran: F
Record-high diesel, gas and grocery prices: F
Declining respect for U.S. in the world: F
Narcissism and self-delusion: A+
🧡 Honouring Residential School Survivors, the parents left behind and those who never came home. Remembering our history, including the dark moments, is the patriotic thing to do and displays our resilience as a nation. It will make our children stronger. 🇨🇦
Brandon Orange Shirt Day 2026 with Sioux Valley Dakota Nation.
#EveryChildMatters
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“If you can only be tall because somebody’s on their knees, you have a serious problem.”
—Toni Morrison
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"Nunca des explicaciones. Tus amigos no las necesitan. Tus enemigos no las creen"
Oscar Wilde
