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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/117303375044159038 "For every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rise by 11 per cent."

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  RE: https://kamloops.social/@fname/117297599385912356 "As the referendum approaches, I am urging those around me to take it seriously. Chatting with a younger co-worker in the office kitchen, I realized that they had no idea the referendum vote was actually happening. They knew about the citizen petitions but didn’t realize that the October referendum included a question on separation."

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  @futzle@old.mermaid.town He is quick, thinking in clear images; I am slow, thinking in broken images. He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images; I become sharp, mistrusting my broken images. Trusting his images, he assumes their relevance; ... He continues quick and dull in his clear images; I continue slow and sharp in my broken images. He in a new confusion of his understanding; I in a new understanding of my confusion. —Robert Graves (1885) In Broken Images

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  "Canada's police chiefs just revealed their endgame for Bill C-22: guaranteed access to your encrypted messages — every app, every platform, everything. At their annual summit this week, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police complained that Bill C-22 has been 'defanged'. But circumventing encryption apparently isn’t enough: Canadian police want our private messages broken." https://action.openmedia.org/page/email?mid=97f07f97731647ca818e879eaf3c0c2a #CdnPoli #sur...

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  I wonder if PM Carney always knew that the US was negotiating in bad faith, and that their terms could be changed after the fact, but waited until the final humiliating demands were made by the US team before walking away. Now Carney has widespread national support and perhaps more respect from our other allies and partners. #USPoli #CdnPoli

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  “The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/4/17989224/intellectual-humility-explained-psychology-replication

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@pearlrotter/117032060836927084 "University emergency managers operated two parallel covert emergency management networks—one national, and one in Alberta—comprising educational institutions, provincial government officials, and police. Through these networks, university emergency managers shared information to surveil and suppress Charter-protected political activity on their campuses." #CdnPoli

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  This is why corporations do not even bother to negotiate with unions in #Canada. "Steven Tufts, a labour expert and associate professor at York University in Toronto, told CBC News he expects the government will intervene if the strike goes longer than a day or two." #Guillotines https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/westjet-strike-day-one-travellers-9.7294691 #CdnPoli

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  "Despite over $40 billion invested globally, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) captures and stores less than 0.1% of annual global CO2 emissions, raising serious questions about its efficacy as a climate solution. ... case studies expose recurring patterns of cost overruns, suboptimal capture rates, geological uncertainties, and public liability transfer." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096249525000973 #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #CdnPoli

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  Brandolini's Law is going to sink us. There is just too much BS https://sketchplanations.com/the-bs-asymmetry-principle

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794 "every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale" 1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it. 2. Bias amplification 3. Environmental cost 4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit #AI #GenAI

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  Why in the fuck would Canada enter into any agreement with this US administration? What is the paper worth? Maybe we need more toilet tissue? https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/new-trump-tariffs-canada-us-trade-cusma-usmca-9.7277143

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  Are you an anti-fascist in Alberta? This is the most-needed accessory https://www.shopweirdneighbour.com/shop/p/a5izkrnunlt8h5o54k0cphq1ww24bw

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  "APR doesn’t run a traditional power plant. It deploys trailer-mounted gas turbines and reciprocating diesel and natural gas engines that can reach full power in under 10 minutes and be installed in days rather than the years it takes to permit and build a fixed plant. The fuel is natural gas and diesel. This is fossil-fuel combustion, packaged to move." https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/ #FossilFuels #AI

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  The #Covid crisis was wasted and the sociopaths at the top of the company hierarchy have taken back control. #RTO https://jarche.com/2026/07/a-wasted-crisis/

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  "AI could prove to be one of the biggest enablers of 'sociopaths’, codifying and regurgitating their business speak and biases. My fear is that it also could squeeze out genuine innovation and creativity, making it more difficult for those who want to make a difference to gain a foothold. What we are witnessing in the creative industries (literature, music, film) is not encouraging, with #AI recycling, hybridising and regurgitating rather than creating." —Richard Martin https://ja...

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  "Thousands of women across Pemba and Unguja Islands are restoring degraded agricultural land by planting food and spice forests—growing back lush canopies across their islands and improving their income and food security in ways that support a diversity of life and climate resilience." https://maearth.com/zanzibar-spice-forests/402f5c4a

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  Stop Bad Data Centers "Fighting a Data Center? Get Expert Help Fast Connect with experienced organizers, technical experts, and communities who’ve won these fights. No gatekeepers—just rapid connections to people who know what works. This project gives you access to the information & experts you need to defend your community." https://datacenters.halttheharm.net/ #FossilFuels

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  «Havel understood exactly the kind of threat that capitulation to technological determinism posed to a humanist form of political association. “Technology,” he wrote, “is out of humanity’s control, has ceased to serve us, has enslaved us and compelled us to participate in our own destruction.” This is far truer now in a world dictated by the speculative whims and libertarianism of Silicon Valley than it was in 1978.» #AI #TechnoDeterminism #CdnPoli https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/...

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  Over 50? Get the shingles vaccine! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dr-stan-kutcher-to-retire-early-from-senate-due-to-health-challenges-9.7186860

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  Mama duck with 11 ducklings in tow

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  CBC Radio 1 is asking on Cross-country Checkup if Alberta should be allowed to separate from Canada. I support Albertans that want to leave Canada. Just leave all the Treaty lands in Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/should-alberta-hold-a-vote-on-separating-from-canada-9.7184927 #CdnPoli #ABPoli

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  “We know that we need to transition away from fossil fuels. I’m a millennial, I’m a young person. I’m really concerned about my future. This is exactly the direction that we should not be going. And I’m actually super frustrated that we’re considering in 2025, we’re considering a fossil fuel plant,” https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new-brunswick/article/nb-power-takes-questions-from-council-on-proposed-power-plant/ #FossilFuels #NBPoli

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  "we’ve seen a rapid erosion in the government’s efforts to rein in U.S. tech companies. Shortly after Carney became prime minister, planned AI regulations were put on ice, along with the online harms bill that sought to address harmful behaviour in online spaces. That was in spite of concretely seeing how those platforms are used by bad actors to sow division within society as wildfires spread across the country again last summer." https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/04/16/Every-D...

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116464218552800877 "I prefer to avoid #AI usage for ethical, practical, & financial reasons. Ethically: Generative AI tools, powered by data centers which consume vast amounts of water & pollute our environment, are built on the collective theft of the works of millions of artists, developers, authors, & other creatives, supercharge the spread of disinformation & fascism, have repeatedly provoked psychosis & su...

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  “Hey, hey USA take your plant and go away. No gas plant, no gas plant! Clear air, clean water, NB Power’s got to do better.” #NBPoli #FossilFuel https://warktimes.com/2026/04/23/protesters-rally-in-sackville-as-environmental-award-goes-to-gas-plant-opponents/

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  Personal knowledge mastery is a framework of practical methods to connect work and learning in the digital age. Online, cohort-based, self-paced workshop starts Monday, 16 February Seek > Sense > Share #PKMastery #PKM https://jarche.com/pkm/pkm-workshop/

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  RE: https://sunny.garden/@vitskapsdama/116186830197999321 What kills birds? (US data per year) wind turbines 410,000 power lines 38 Million vehicles 214.5 Million glass buildings 800 Million outdoor cats 2.6 Billion

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  Israel and the IDF are very good at shooting and killing UN Observers. It's a long-standing tradition for them. This is from 2006 when they killed a friend of mine. https://legionmagazine.com/one-martyr-down-the-untold-story-of-a-canadian-peacekeeper-killed-at-war/

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  Yes, it is possible to create a website that does not track visitors in any way. https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=jarche.com