I just thought: Timothy Snyder‘s first „rule“ of how to fight authoritarianism and fascism was „Do not obey in advance“. We should be aware of this and act accordingly when the TechBros try to hammer us with their narrative of „inevitability“. Their total regime is not inevitable.

Max/MSP

Sooner or later we have to get off this roller coaster: 1. Sensible regulations on domestic energy prices (as we already do for electricity & gas distribution). 2. Redistribute big oil's coming record profits to protect consumers. 3. Accelerate shift to sustainable energy. /7

“You’ve gone from being like ‘here’s some stuff you could learn’ to them being able to go out into the world with their own voice.” 🎹

6/ Prime Minister Carney is rushing Canada in the wrong direction.  His government has flooded the zone with sweeping changes all at once, bulldozing public debate, Indigenous consultation, and environmental protection along the way.

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I’m kinda dreading the World Cup. It just feels like the most cynical and gross encapsulation of this moment in history. Like living through Hitler’s Olympics, except with history’s most soulless avaricious creeps running the show.

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I have a lot of questions about these new Telus data centres downtown and Mount Pleasant. Are they really job creators? Are they really “data sovereign”? Are they safe? Are we subsidizing private profit? What is the impact on the electrical grid? What is the shelf life of these centres?

1/ It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert

Incredible feature by @emmaarkell.bsky.social. Are you horrified by America's brutal (and often illegal) so-called immigration crackdown? Then you should know what police in your own backyard are doing. It's not cool.

Costs like lost wages, child care and travel “add up quickly,” wrote Mayor Lisa Pineault in a March 6 letter to PM Carney, Premier Eby and the auditors general. Pineault hopes an audit could be the first step toward more equitable health care in the province. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports.

Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵

Are you enjoying your 10c/litre holiday from the federal excise tax on gasoline (starting April 20)? The avg Cdn price fell 10c that day. But since then it's risen 20c. So the avg price now is 10 cents higher than BEFORE the 10 cent tax cut! (Data from gasbuddy.com) /2

Instead, we should figure out how to get off that roller coaster: sensible energy price rules, redistribution of excess petroleum profits, and accelerating the energy transition.

a really well-done piece on the grifters behind residential school denialism

One morning, Shay Paul opened Facebook and was shocked to see every group she was part of was awash in what she called residential school denialism. An investigation into the connections between academics and think tanks sowing doubt in historical truths. Emily Enns reports. #canpoli

The Mark Carney government has made “deploying AI at scale” a cornerstone of its attempt to make government more productive and slash costs by cutting 28,000 jobs by 2029. There are so many reasons to be skeptical, write Natasha Tusikov and Blayne Haggart. #canpoli

it's a violation of the NYT's own AI policy, and it's also not disclosed that AI was used to report the article. how many other articles at the @nytimes.com contain AI-generated misinformation that's gone unchecked? www.nytco.com/press/princi...

Even though student enrolment has dropped slightly between 2014 & today, the Vancouver School Board has doubled the number of senior management jobs. @kehyslop.bsky.social breaks down the numbers as a teachers' union says the money would be better spent in the classroom. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

I'm grateful to be in community with rad environmentalists because every time Carney does something that seems... off, I turn to them and they remind me that oil and gas represents only 5% of the Canadian GDP and that he's making Canadians invest in infrastructure soon to be obsolete.

Hey, people, don't bring a video call on your phone into the bathroom or locker room. Thanks.

International students have been the political scapegoat for federal govt, who introduced a cap on visas citing pressures on healthcare put by students. Yet, FOI'd data shows international students have contributed nearly half a billion dollars directly to BC healthcare in the last 7 years. #bcnews

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

I can’t even

This motion from Ken Sim puts lives at risk and must be opposed. We call on all City Councillors to oppose this motion and support evidence-based policy to save lives.

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

This is bad and if you think this is what college is about you should feel bad about yourself

I've had the same example (gym/weights) stuck in my head for a week like an earworm...

I always tell my students that the main part of learning is the process, not the result, and the result only has meaning if you work for it. I see these prompts and ask them: if you were at the gym and a robot offered to help you lift a weight, you'd think it ridiculous. Same thing here.

Instead, the Canadian version takes $25 billion of public money and uses it to bolster private profits. New Democrats are calling for an excess profits tax on the oil and gas sector to finance a true sovereign wealth fund for the benefit of all Canadians.

The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.

The nation that wipes bums and changes diapers and feeds toddlers and cares for dying parents is not in the project list. The labour that nation depends on is not eligible for the $400/week Apprenticeship Grant or the $5,000 Completion Bonus or the $10,000 wage incentive.

In a complete coincidence, this group matches the same 6 justices who just weakened the Voting Rights Act

Norway uses public oil profits to build a $2T wealth fund for its citizens. PM @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social wants to use your tax dollars to subsidize private projects for big oil and gas. This is just plain wrong. The Liberals are standing with corporations, not everyday Canadians. 🇨🇦

1/ Today’s spring economic statement fails to meet the moment at a time when Canadians are getting crushed by the rising cost of everything.

4/ Rather than asking the biggest corporations to pay their fair share, it throws public money at them in the hope that the market will solve our problems in housing, in infrastructure and the cost of living.

A B.C. government group that works with police to monitor protests against the natural resource industry has also been keeping tabs on First Nations treaty negotiations and climate action initiatives, according to an internal document. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

Interview with #noise #artist Anju Singh on her #electromagnetic #soundart #sculpture Material Transmissions. Watch on NAISATube YouTube Channel or via this Substack article which includes a full text transcript - open.substack.com/pub/naisasou...

A sovereign wealth fund is a great idea, Canada should have had one years ago. But the devil is in the details. What kind of projects will it invest in, and in what form? And how will the public interest truly be advanced over time? Many questions to be answered... #cdnecon /2

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

Carney's appeals to nostalgia are apt, because none of his ideas are about a Canada of the future. It's all about a return to the past. Fossil fuels, big army, powerful corporations. It's all more of the same but worse. That's the Canada he's selling.

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

Somebody PLEASE tell Mr PM CEO Carney this before he builds us another gd pipeline. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just passing all of the world’s banked money around in an endless circle, making sure that none of it can be invested in anything else people actually need

At 1:40 in this video MLA Tara Amstrong uses the Nazi phrase "blood and soil" when speaking against the K'omoks Treaty. From social media influencers on the fringe, to mainstream media and now to politicians, white supremacist ideology is surfacing at the highest levels of Canadian society.

The Narwhal is launching a cross-newsroom series today on the costs of climate change, and who is and isn’t covering their fair share. It’s called Who Pays?, and the first story is about the toll on human health: thenarwhal.ca/climate-chan...