A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

"A War Without End" is collected in The Wave in the Mind (Shambhala, 2004). You can also read it here: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/3...

WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/rrR_e1COLa0?...

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

Donc c’est vraiment pas un problème que nos données de santé soient hébergées aux usa?…

NEW: DHS subpoenaed Google for a Canadian man's location and account activity after he criticized ICE. The man hasn't been in the US in 10+ years, and DHS used an import law from the 1930s to try to get his data. ACLU is fighting it. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...

This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Mark Carney cares about money; he doesn’t care about people.

Everything about AI "art" is just layers of deception. It's not art. The people posting it are not artists. They're people typing words into a machine that steals real art from actual artists and rearrange it, and whatever they try to call it, they can fuck off.

En ce #JourdelaTerre, rappel que le AI slop c'est de la pollution atmosphérique, du gaspillage énergétique, de l'extractivisme matériel, du vol de la propriété intellectuelle ainsi que de la pollution mentale et culturelle. Quand même particulier qu'on n'ait même pas pensé à créer une IA sans slop.

*Palantir execs trying to explain their glorious vision so we’ll invite them inside*

What’s interesting here is they say “culture” when they mean “people” but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the “culture” of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot bsky.app/profile/elio...

Another reminder to get off as many Google services as possible. Check out my guide to get off US tech more widely: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

This April— The year is 2250. And Earth is no longer enough. Be part of the mission, live on stage, April 15th to May 3rd, at Centaur Theatre in Old Montreal. 🏛 April 15 – May 3 @ Centaur Theatre 🎟 Tickets on sale now at centaurtheatre.com!

Everyone knows it sucks

Democrats: its the phones! Reality:

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Q: Why are these fascists in Canada? Ahead of World Cup, ICE says its agents don't carry guns in Canada www.cbc.ca/sports/socce... ICE currently has offices in Toronto & Vancouver 🤨 U.S. "law enforcement" - not diplomats. ...

steal the night, why don’t you?

Sci-fi fans alert! It’s very rare to see sci-fi drama in an actual theatre. Be bold! Come and see at Centaur in Montreal! So glad to see this show so close to my heart having an English production.

The magic of moss and what it teaches us about the art of attentiveness to life at all scales www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/04/g...

“A growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work on Palantir’s health data platform over ethical concerns about the controversial US tech company” Good www.ft.com/content/dbb6...

What a stunning demonstration of how data centre development is directly and materially boosting fossil fuels. After ferocious lobbying the Carney government caved and killed off environmental rules to allow fossil gas power plants to be built for data centres: thewalrus.ca/after-intens...

A classified mission. Hidden memories. A buried truth that could change the world as we know it. SEEKER. Coming soon. 🏛 April 15 – May 3, 2026 @ Centaur Theatre 🎟 Tickets on sale now at centaurtheatre.com and link in bio #MemoryFragments #SciFi #MontrealTheatre #TheatreMtl

Intéressant. Peu de gens réalisent ce que gagne un-e auteur-ice par exemplaire vendu.

11,000 Japanese citizens stormed their parliament demanding their PM stop following Trump into war. 82% of Japan opposes this. Protesters surrounded Japan's National Diet building today chanting: "Japan's FUTURE is not in Washington. Stop bootlicking Trump."

In February, a user named EricKeller2 posted on Reddit. “I mapped every connection in the Epstein files,” he wrote. He had built a website and database of more than 1.5 million files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. www.wired.com/story/he-bui...

The chatbots writing your emails and telling you what to make for dinner are now deciding who lives and who dies

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

Palantir dit ouvertement qu’ils veulent sortir les femmes de postes de pouvoirs. Nos gouvernements leur donnent notre argent et nos données. Est-ce que c’est ce que vous planifiez pour nous @mark-carney.bsky.social ?

Dracula, un nouveau règne du mal au Théâtre Denise-Peletier à Montréal, ça commence la semaine prochaine!

So if using AI actually does erode human cognition the way studies suggest, then it's a feature instead of a bug? The world is gross enough without "take away people's ability to think so we can sell it back to them" being on the list.

I don’t think we talk enough about how the foundational, most aspirational premise of the AI industry is “what if there was a human-level intelligence that didn’t have human rights.” Like. Exploitation is literally the whole point! Of COURSE they hold human life, intelligence and labour in contempt!

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

no I guess we won't acknowledge that this is all stolen from human writers

J'ai donné un long entretien au @grandcontinent.bsky.social sur la géopolitique de Palantir, pour qui chaque crise est un marché et chaque ennemi à désigner une opportunité. On aurait tort d'y voir un simple prestataire de services : c'est une théorie de l'Etat. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/0...

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

move slow and repair things

We've launched negotiations with Canada for a Digital Trade Agreement. This will make it easier and safer to do [EU-CA] business online and across borders and provide stronger protections for consumers↓ link.europa.eu/pTTf6h

Evan Solomon's latest missive. Still relying on corporations to police themselves. Still promising the lightest touch possible.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Images posted to Alpha Athletika’s Telegram channel show its members posing for propaganda pictures in the gym, with huge flags unfurled and Nazi imagery on at least one member’s workout clothes. @rachelgilmore.bsky.social reports.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Thiel ally Jeff Giesea & Mike Cernovich built MAGA3X & hosted the Deploraball attended by Thiel, Michael Flynn Jr. & Jack Posobiec who helped Trump by spreading BS about Dems & pedophilia, while an actual pedophile (Epstein) had invested $40M in Thiel’s VC firm. Charles Flynn now works w/ Thiel.