Trans Mountain is making big profits now, right? Actually, no. Thanks to accounting wizardry and a shell company, the pipeline has transformed Canadians' losses into gains on its balance sheets. My deep dive on this for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

My Gods, they need to be sued until they switch these fucking things off.

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

who fucking cares

wow, GIS specialists, genAI is coming for your jobs

this car market calls to mind the bloated, chrome-dripping excess of the 1950s, just waiting for the modern equivalent of the Volkswagen Beatle to remind buyers that a hard reset is possible

two can play the subsidized industry retaliation game

New: They survived a Cybertruck crash. Then a fire killed them. Tesla has marketed its trucks as seemingly impenetrable — bulletproof, with shatter-resistant glass and able to contain blasts. What happens if those same features trap people inside? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Me five years ago: I wonder if I'm going to be a luddite about any new technology someday. Me now: SMASH THE DATACENTERS.

Exxon has a new plan to sell more fossil fuels: stick carbon capture on massive gas-fired power plants for AI and brand them as climate friendly. Critics say that's a dangerous fiction. Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one! www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...

big declining empire vibes

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨 After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner! The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is… 🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

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The world is watching Australia’s attempt to put a stricter age limit on social media. It was great to chat with @cameronwilson.bsky.social to learn more on how it’s going and what lessons we might take from the Australian experience.

anyone with a working brain is skeptical of the idea

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The world is watching Australia’s attempt to put a stricter age limit on social media. It was great to chat with @cameronwilson.bsky.social to learn more on how it’s going and what lessons we might take from the Australian experience.

so you’re telling me none of these knuckleheads considered the scenario where russia would retaliate if the west refused to return its seized assets? hilarious

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I don’t usually comment much to not sway the results, but since voting is closed I’ll say I’m shocked Zuckerberg beat Ellison. Hard not to feel it’s because more people are familiar with Zuckerberg than Ellison’s actions and history.

It's especially wild because Amazon and other private courier companies were written about at length in the report that the government is basing its Canada Post overhaul on! pressprogress.ca/canada-post-...

we only want to beat China in scams, we seem to be fine letting them beat us at the clean energy transition, robotics, and biotech

it’s truly wild the canadian government or even the provinces aren’t going harder on amazon. the company literally shut down all its warehouses in quebec because workers unionized! this is an evil company that gets away with it because it’s seen as convenient, the costs be damned.

saw someone on linkedin whose bio was “chief overthinking officer” and it resonated so hard

we’re shooting ourselves in the foot because we’re letting racists shape the immigration and housing crisis discourses instead of taking on landlords and developers through mass public housing construction

people who think they’re oh so smart are probably even more likely to succumb to the eliza effect

do leaders of the top investigative newsroom in the country not understand what makes their journalism valuable??????

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I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

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Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience. If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

too funny. the Victims of Communism memorial now won’t show any names because too many of them could be linked to nazis. this thing never should have been built — and should still be removed!

So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.

taking data centres in space at all seriously shows how deep into this bubble we truly are. like they are never happening. what is wrong with people?

The instinct to add rather than subtract when it comes to policy – or any kind of problem-solving – runs deep. www.policyready.ca/policymaking...

We’re so focused on the negative impacts of capitalist tech platforms on young people, but not nearly concerned enough about the screen dependence of older people.

And I’m sure Canada and Europe will continue not to call out this US lawlessness and belligerence because they want good trade terms, regardless of the cost to international law and human rights.

“broligarch” has to be one of my least favourite words of the past year

isn’t it everyone’s dream to live “on-chain forever”? 🫠

it is wild how so many people see the world primarily through the lens of trump and how easily it becomes for them to put critical thinking to the side in favor of a simplistic pro- or anti-trump calculus

i’m sure unleashing generative ai into accounting software will have absolutely no drawbacks, brilliant work

Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience. If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

the dems are leaving the door wide open for republicans to own this issue

Smart as always by @victorpickard.bsky.social on the systemwide failure when local production is lost. We keep using the word “ecosystem” exactly because information produced in one place affects a whole food chain.

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disappointed to see cbc front burner do such a trash episode on puberty blockers, especially at a time when alberta is weaponizing right-wing disinformation to cut off trans youth’s access to care

pure insanity