Food for tought www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Ce projet va très clairement avoir pour conséquence de faciliter l'ingérence politique tel le craint le Collège des Médecins. Et ayant fait mes études au LSPQ, et sachant son importance, l'idée de transfert des activités de laboratoire m'inquiète particulièrement. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/s...

Enshittification mode: on.

At least 500 killed in south-east Asia floods and landslides

The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read. The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper

Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts. Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges. buff.ly/8PdXnTT

Before farms and suburbs, the Great Black Swamp thrived. Restoring it could help curb Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms today. www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/the-...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Un rappel que les IA gen accélèrent la crise climatique, exemple 634754. «Worldwide, nearly 60% of the electricity used by data centers comes from fossil fuels including natural gas.»

Oh, Canada...

“Between 1989 and 2022, households in the top 1 percent added about 100 times as much wealth as households at the national median. The share of all U.S. wealth held by the top 0.00001 percent has nearly doubled over the last decade.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com

Thousands of people in Jamaica are reported homeless without food, shelter or water following last week’s catastrophic Hurricane Melissa.

Bluesky is at 40 million and the urbanism community on here seems to keep growing. Here’s my updated Starter Pack of Canadian planners, architects, advocates and urbanists. Some well known faces … and some you should get to know! Give them a follow! go.bsky.app/AEYL7FZ

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Since Bluesky now has over 40 million users, and since a lot of those 40 million are really interested in better cities & how we get around them, I’m resharing one of my first STARTER PACKS full of people and orgs working hard to make cities work better for everyone. Please share. #UrbanistShoutOut

ChatGPT Bill de Blasio Is a Sign of Things to Come: ✱ Un homonyme de Bill de Blasio se fait passer pour lui à l’aide de ChatGPT.

I'm goign to be radical here and suggest people listen to scientists instead of billionaires when it comes to what we should do about the ever-worsening climate crisis.

Interesting blog as usual by @alexusherhesa.bsky.social . IMO, in regards to the hype being made about LLM's, too many decision-makers are falling for it. And most of the coverage I have seen in the media is not helping either. higheredstrategy.com/some-thought...

#Melissa has made landfall in #Jamaica, and has preliminarily tied the record for the lowest pressure of any landfalling hurricane in Atlantic history: 892 mb. That was last observed 90 years ago with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. The storm does not look like it even notices Jamaica being there.

“0% Travel to USA” is a Smart Response to Trump's 10% Tariff A further 10%? Really? Fine. Fellow Canucks, let's make Vegas fail. Florida dry up and fall into the sea. No travel to Trumpland. Zero. Nada. Zippo Let's see who hurts whom the most #elbowsup youtu.be/vjrV4Rm-YEA

Approx 65% of students using AI to generate text. Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? www.nature.com/articles/d41... "...university sector has an unbelievably heavy responsibility to society to be a counter voice that shapes the way that AI is deployed..."

100% www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

No comment www.zdnet.com/article/open...

💧 Water security is under threat as extremes become the new normal. The map below shows that around 60% of rivers globally had either too much or too little water, a clear sign of an increasingly unpredictable and erratic hydrological cycle. 🔗 https://bit.ly/469OBWU

"Les experts rappellent que les mesures de prévention de base demeurent efficaces, quel que soit le variant: ..., le port du masque N95 dans les foules..." Vous direz ça à la CAQ qui veut interdire aux personnes de cacher leur visage en public

"It was very important for us to show that we are doing this primarily to strengthen our digital sovereignty, to maintain our independence in terms of ICT infrastructure and to ensure that data is only processed in-house." www.zdnet.com/article/aust...

We are ruled by absolute fucking morons.

According to data provided by Statscan to the OECD, Canada's tertiary education system is experiencing BY FAR the fastest public disinvestment of any country in the developed world. (I am not sure the specific figures are 100% accurate, but the conclusion is still irrefutable)

More than 20,000 people died of heat-related causes this summer in Europe. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heat waves. This can be difficult to adapt to, especially in European cities that generally lack air conditioning. insideclimatenews.org/news/1709202...

N’écoutez pas les avis médicaux de Trump.

"When I told them I was a climatologist, they asked me what our summers will be like in 25 years. In a France at +2.7°C compared to the pre-industrial era, the scenario we are heading towards in 2050, heat records of up to 50°C will be possible; the summer we have just experienced will be the norm"

"Le démantèlement de la science aux États-Unis a des répercussions sur la recherche et la santé publique même au Canada. De ce côté-ci de la frontière, des scientifiques se lèvent pour défendre la vérité." cc @freshwater.bsky.social

What threats do the Great Lakes face in light of budget cuts at U.S. federal agencies? @spaikin.bsky.social asks Gail Krantzberg (@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social), Mike McKay ( @uwindsor.bsky.social), and @freshwater.bsky.social (@iaglr.bsky.social) about the health of our shared waters.

You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.

Yes. It's also why they go after university programs on gender/sexuality studies before anything else.

Are you a recent PhD interested in a postdoc in Canada? Up to 20% of NSERC Postdoc Fellowships (70k/y for 2y) will be awarded to International applicants, who did their PhD outside of Canada. Deadline is 17 October. See: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

Si l'itinérance au centre-ville de Montréal n'est pas en tête des priorités de @lrabouin.bsky.social et @sorayamartinezf.bsky.social aux prochaines élections municipales, ils auront complètement manqué le bateau

Carbon capture schemes are being pushed by fossil fuel interests. Why? First, so they can benefit from tax credits and government funding. But mostly to slow down the energy transition and prolong our dependence on fossil fuels. Here are the receipts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 425 ppm in August 2025 10 years ago August averaged about 399 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

We wouldn't want to burden the automotive industry with something that was years in planning to address a global crisis, now would we...

Along with Judge Mehta's underwhelming remedies ruling in the Google search monopoly case in the US, It's been a humbling week in antitrust. It looks like conservative technocrats are reasserting their authority, likely at the expense of emboldening big tech conglomerates even more.

Carney: Canadians deserve the best 1960s economy money can buy

"People don't understand how someone who has championed climate issues for 15 years can suddenly become prime minister of a G7 country and stop talking about climate change. Not a word about it. What's going on?" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

🌊 In 2023, oceans should’ve absorbed more CO2 due to El Niño, but they didn’t Despite cooler tropical Pacific waters, record-high SSTs led to ~10% less ocean CO2 uptake than expected, especially in the Northern Hemisphere Warming waters = weaker carbon sink www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Northvolt, le projet avorté qui a évité l’évaluation environnementale. En rappel: 60 000 m2 de milieux humides de «haute valeur écologique» ont été détruits et le site a laissé fuir des contaminants dans la rivière Richelieu. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

Channel 4 reports that the Zambia copper mine disaster, which began in February, could be one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history. Almost 2/3 of Zambia's population rely on the Kafue River, which has been inundated by acids, cyanide, arsenic, uranium and lead.

Have governments instead considered the revolutionary idea of employing a large number of subject matter experts who never hallucinate fake facts and are trained to brief Ministers whenever needed? They could be politically neutral and permanent. We could call it a civil service or something

La consternation. Alors que le plastique nous tue et ensevelit notre planète, les pays pétroliers et producteurs de plastique ont encore préféré ne rien faire, sous l’œil bienveillant des lobbies pétrochimiques. Nos enfants paieront très cher l’égoïsme de cette fuite en avant.