Mark Carney keeps talking about “decarbonized oil.” Today he admitted that’s bullshit. At the Council on Foreign Relations, he started saying BC’s new LNG project was “zero carbon,” before adding a key caveat: “before the Scope 3 obviously.” That’s where the bulk of the emissions come from.

Western media would never allow Russian officials on their airwaves to respond to and try to discredit Ukrainian claims (for better or worse). But they’ll eagerly give the floor to a genocidal Israeli regime and its supports to lie about the slaughter in Gaza and further dehumanize Palestinians.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Mark Carney keeps talking about “decarbonized oil.” Today he admitted that’s bullshit. At the Council on Foreign Relations, he started saying BC’s new LNG project was “zero carbon,” before adding a key caveat: “before the Scope 3 obviously.” That’s where the bulk of the emissions come from.

I was really hoping things might get better with GDPR enforcement at its Irish lead regulator, but this is Ireland giving the middle finger to EU data protection and to a democratically governed digital society. noyb.eu/en/former-me...

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

my friend @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social has a new book out on techno-fascism. if you’re a french speaker, you should definitely check it out!

404 media once again proving why they deserve your subscription dollars. they punch far above their weight for such a small team.

"According to email correspondence reviewed by CBC News, the volunteer campaign work was framed as a component of their digital media course, with one campus director suggesting it would even help them get permanent residency"

Gideon Levy says countries recognising the Palestinian state is lip service, & what they need to do is what they did to apartheid South Africa. Back BDS.

As noted below, there's unfortunately decades of precedent, notably the Obama-directed targeted killing campaign, the kind that saw weddings bombed with the dead given as "roughly 30" almost every time. From the war on terror we're now on terror without war internationalpolicy.org/publications...

my maybe controversial proposal is that we kill the feed on a lot of platforms. want to see if an account has posted something new? you have to go visit the account to check.

traditional media might suck, but that doesn’t mean social media is the better alternative. we desperately need to rebuild a robust media system or we’re fucked.

they were never going to stay enemies

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Fascinating to see Canadian tech capitalists argue the US forcing divestment of TikTok is a defence of its sovereignty, and now Canada must fight for digital sovereignty. They don’t say we force divestment of social media companies, but that’s what they make it sound like by using that example.

But don’t worry, Democrats assure conservatives. They won’t actually do anything meaningful about it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm just gonna keep this one handy in the drawer for the day he dies.

technologically advance a band. My Chatbot Romance

ah yes, so the thing i said right after it was announced was right on the money

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Every dumb guy who cracked jokes 20 years ago about how global warming would only be an improvement to the weather in Canada is just getting slushy winters and swarms of wasps in the summer instead

how much did google pay to slip an entire magazine of corporate propaganda into this weekend's @irishtimes.com newspaper disguised as public communication about AI

incredible news Tesla fam, everyone's favorite automaker has an innovative new accessibility service highlighting just how committed to the public good Elon Musk companies are: an in-app message that says "fuck off and take a bus, loser"! 🥰😇🙏😌 www.teslarati.com/tesla-workin...

"The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established … It is now the avowed policy of the current Israeli government that 'there will be no Palestinian state," says Canadian prime minister Mark Carney.

before musk got his hands on it, the hyperloop was the grand vacuum tube

There are a lot of communities that could benefit from the programs Bernie talks about having implemented as Mayor of Burlington in this video.

no one will ever convince me the model y is a nice looking car. its proportions are so weird and the new lights look worse than the original ones.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

i was just thinking the other day how ray-ban wayfarers have been timelessly cool for like 50 years and it's hilarious how they just let zuck totally shit all over that

“It is unfair [building illegal settlements in WB] because the [occupied] West Bank has nothing to do with Hamas…This becomes a political project and his [Netanyahu's] aim is not to dismantle Hamas but to deny Palestinians the right to live in peace.” - Macron in an interview with Israeli Ch. 12.

china needs to give its space agency a beautiful new logo so we’re ready to celebrate when it beats the US back to the moon and musk is forced to wear the blame

you ever drive past a Tesla burning on the side of the road and think "what if I could have that inside of my home?" that's what some lucky Tesla Powerwall customers got! techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/t...

i don’t think a lot of americans recognize how many people outside their country find their obsession with the first amendment, framing of so many issues through a speech lens, and general discourses around speech to be wild and very foreign to how we see free expression

OpenAI’s video generation tool, Sora, can create high-definition clips of just about anything you could ask for, but whose data OpenAI used to create its groundbreaking system is a mystery.

the US is an interesting place where right-wingers can think of themselves as centrists and liberals because the political spectrum skews so far to the right. the democratic party is a right-wing by the standards of most other western countries.

the argument that reining in the dominance of US tech companies and addressing the social harms their products cause in other countries would violate people’s civil rights is a perfect encapsulation of how US digital rights discourse protects the power of US tech companies

this exists it is called thinking

never again, but only once we’ve assessed all the evidence and tens or hundreds of thousands of people have already been slaughtered

jesus christ. transport regulators need to get their acts together.

Embedding Palantir in all the UK's systems isn't a trade success, it's a security catastrophe

Palantir is thriving under Donald Trump, but what does the company really do? This week @carolinehaskins.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the tech Palantir sells to governments and companies and the ideology that guides its leaders. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/294_...

it’s hilarious to me that some very online people are running around trying to smear me as a tankie. it’s not only obvious they know nothing about my politics, but it comes a week after i published a podcast episode discussing a political and economic system that is very much not that.

Smart glasses could become the next tool for live-streamed extremist violence, writes Jordyn Abrams. But do they present novel policy challenges, and have tech firms considered how to curb their misuse before extremists turn them into tools for radicalization machines?

Social media was once positioned as the great connecting force that would improve our world. If it ever did that, it certainly isn’t now. We must rein in these platforms, and deceptive narratives aimed at stopped regulation isn’t helping. Age restrictions are an experiment worth trying.