Not entirely sure how I missed this piece by Stewart Lee for @thenerve.news on #Binfacegate. As Lee notes, Farage may well have caused his own downfall by being too sleazy even for the RW media - who must now be thinking about err binning him. I'll get my coat. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Eärendil is Elrond’s father in Lord of the Rings, who carried an illuminated jewel called the Silmaril which for plot reasons became the brightest star in the night sky

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

Expanding oil pipelines, says Mark Carney, “has the potential to create thousands of solid middle-class jobs…We will invest this money, as well as any profits from the sale of the pipeline, in the clean energy projects...” Oh wait, no, that was Justin Trudeau in June 2019. How’d that work out?

Lire ceci tranquillement et après, relisez le encore!

Une affaire de plus gâchée par Elon Musk et les data centers.

Exactly how much are taxpayers going to pony up for this oil pipeline? TBD — but we are going to be paying something. Still, Carney wants us to know, speaking in French, that it’s not “spending.” It’s “investment.” 🤪

so i guess reconciliation now means both Canadians and Indigenous Peoples get fucked by the government 🇨🇦 together 🇨🇦

Perhaps we could have kept the capital gains rate increase for multi millionaires and billionaires instead of Carney scrapping it? Maybe then we could have ~afforded~ to save the fucking climate!!

Canada too. Being shackled to oil-and-gas companies is costing us dearly.

Pour que vous n’ayez plus à répondre à vos courriels par vous-même, les grandes compagnies d’IA (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc) détruisent littéralement des millions de livres pour le processus d’entraînement des modèles.

Cannot fucking believe an external 4TB SSD drive that cost me $200 last year is now $1100. Had to check receipts to make sure. They’re really out there trying to keep you from having a PC, phone, or a gaming console so they can have hallucinating, polluting chatbots that drop bombs on kids’ schools.

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Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it. Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

The Canadian government is eyeing changes to the Canada Labour Code that could widen the definition of “essential services” to include work that’s important to the “well-being of the population.” “These workers are essential to corporate profits, not human life” said Teamsters’ Christopher Monette

Y’know, when Stephen Harper did this shit in 2013, people got mad 🤷‍♂️

Faire encore plus de dommages plutôt que de réduire.

La décision de la France, mardi, d'écarter Palantir de ses services de renseignement constitue le plus récent signe de la défiance européenne envers ce spécialiste 🇺🇸 de l'analyse de données. Pendant ce temps-là, Ottawa (Défense) fait affaire avec Palantir et lui donne accès à des infos classifiées.

Le plus meilleur pays du monde La tueuse de chiots travaille pour une minière canadienne #MapleMAGA #cdnpoli

NOUVEAU : le projet de C-30 qui étend les pouvoirs du gouvernement fédéral (dont celui de réautoriser des pesticides interdits), a été approuvé en comité, ce matin, avec le vote des libéraux et des conservateurs (Bloc québécois contre). Il doit être voté demain en 3e lecture à la Chambre.

Combien d'hôpitaux rénove-t-on avec 655M€ ? Combien d'enseignants on recrute ? Si l'IA doit rendre les agents publics plus "efficaces", où vont les gains de productivité ? Vers des suppressions de postes et la tokenisation de la fonction publique. www.franceinfo.fr/internet/int...

Cartoon by Drew Sheneman Perfect. No notes. 📖❤️ www.gocomics.com/drewsheneman

Pikachu learns it is complicit in war crimes

today in dystopia watch: all your pokemon go scans helped train a system for killer drones

Osti que ça a duré trop longtemps, cette histoire. Merci en particulier à @harounbouazzi.bsky.social pour avoir défendu la démocratie québécoise de cette patente pendant les huit derniers mois. www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...

Non, je ne consens pas à adopter une constitution en 48h. #polqc #assnat

On aimerait remercier Martin Geoffroy et le Journal de Québec pour leur hommage silencieux à notre travail. Malgré leurs meilleurs efforts, ils n'ont pas réussi à nous effacer complètement de leur topo; la photo du tweet sur le FAC est tirée de notre site, comme 80% de cet article.

Les chatbots sont 1000 fois plus dangereuses qu'une simple plateforme de partage comme Bluesky. Alors pourquoi permettre les chatbots pis interdire Bluesky aux jeunes Canadien·nes? Me semble que ceci est davantage un projet idéologique qu'autre chose. www.ledevoir.com/politique/ca...

IKEA didn't build renewable generation to power 1.47 million homes because politicians told them to. They did it because the economics stacked up. With much of the investment already paid off, savings of over half a billion USD per year on electricity costs, the fundamentals become hard to ignore.

« Arrêtons de dire que les grandes plateformes sont trop puissantes. Arrêtons de prétendre que l’IA est incontrôlable. Arrêtons le fatalisme. »

Members of the American Diabetes Association were forcibly removed from the annual meeting for distributing an editorial critical of Trumpian policy. 😳

Canada recognizes that AI companies are environmental nightmares built on creative theft and economic-bubble finances but...you see...they have money and we want some

Meta was quietly shipping face-recognition code as part of the mobile app needed for its smart glasses even as it publicly said it's still “thinking through” whether to add the feature. WILD scoop from @dell.bsky.social and (newly back at WIRED!!) @dmehro.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

"Provide access to trusted AI agents for every post-secondary student – from the arts and commerce to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and medicine." I'm pretty sure that nobody who teaches in a post-secondary institution asked for this, and this makes their jobs even harder.

Un plan intéressant et qui offre de belles avenues mais lorsqu’on voit tout le monde qui a déchiré sa chemise avec les propositions de QS et Carney i.e. pas Trump mais Harper qui élimine les barrières écologiques les unes après les autres, c’est mal parti.

Yeah, a reminder that I am aggressively anti Generative AI because I'm a consent educator. I know how consent works. And a world that says "You wrote a book? Cool, let me guzzle a lake's worth of water to steal that and repackage it" is a world I don't want to participate in.

They’re burning wood to power data centres in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/05/29/k...

On en parle, de ça ? Vous pensez qu'on va avoir droit à une couverture médiatique ou qu'ils vont tourner le dos et faire semblant que rien ne se passe ? Qu'est-ce qui a bien pu pousser ces gens à se sentir si à l'aise de sortir ce genre de banderole ?

3/ It even opens the door to handing your data to Trump's America without a Canadian judge. The biggest civil liberties groups like @cancivlib.bsky.social, @openmedia.org, and @citizenlab.ca call this the most expansive invasion of our rights in modern history. thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-...

The government of Canada hired Palantir, the openly techno-fascist USian company. Are you happy Carneybots? What was it you were saying about Poilièvre? #cdnpoli #Canada #techno-fascism

NEW: “Anti-tech extremism” is now actively being monitored by US law enforcement as frustration over AI and data centers percolate across the country, according to records obtained by @wired.com. @drboguslaw.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA www.wired.com/story/us-law...

NEW: 'BusPatrol' put AI cameras in tens of thousands of school buses to catch people who overtake parked buses. Now, according to leaked documents, BusPatrol plans to scan all license plates buses pass and give that data to law enforcement. Think, Flock on wheels www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...

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...