Amazing to see Trump go with “I actually could have given myself even more money”

France floods Europe's grid with solar, pushing prices negative www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Right now Greenland could be helping us convert their nation into sea level rise."

David Wallace-Wells is spot on here, and — although I doubt he would put it this way — for me this means that the leadership class is revealing how comfortable they are with mass death, whether in Gaza or on our future planet, so long as it upholds the system from which they benefit most.

The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Hundreds of thousands of workplaces use software to monitor employees. Now, a new study has found that many of these tools share data not just with employers, but with digital advertising platforms and data brokers as well. Read more from @laurenfeiner.bsky.social:

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

In case you didn’t do the math, that’s $77m per game (13 in all) or about $850k per minute played. Way to go! #fifa #topoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

When TPS lie, they do it honestly.

Hearing mixed reactions on Na Hong-Jin’s HOPE but the critics who enjoy it are the ones who have great opinions on action & appreciate big swings, so I’m looking forward to it!

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

As Season 3 of TALES FROM THE CRYPT drops over on @shudder.com - here's my writeup of the best 3 episodes for @unclegrambo.bsky.social & @deciderdotcom.bsky.social: decider.com/2026/05/18/t...

“3 Canadian police officers were arrested in Spain, 2 of them are accused of sexual assault & assault causing injuries, according to Spanish police.” “Toronto police are not identifying the officers and are unable to comment further on the charges…” Making great strides to rebuild public trust.

Canada has, in the span of a year, nearly doubled its defence spending to hit 2%/GDP; stood up a project to build America's much-needed icebreakers; and is (finally) creating its own defence industrial base. So, naturally, the U.S. is suspending a shared defence panel that's been around since 1940.

Here’s the payoff. How is this okay? We’re now paying off people who stormed the Capitol. The DOJ is creating a nearly $1.8B fund for Trump supporters after Trump sued the IRS, a case headed for dismissal, then settled with his own administration. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

I did a deep-dive into US ambassador Pete Hoekstra's links to the Alberta separatists' voter ID app Hoekstra repeatedly promoted the app at 2024 Trump rallies Hoekstra helped them organize presentations, is connected with the app's founder and the founder's wealthy step-father was a past donor 👇

Entrusting health information to AI models that have slot machine functionality where only a percentage of its outputs are correct doesn’t seem smart at this point.

“No politician wants to pick a fight with the police because they fight back, sometimes viciously. There’s a long history of this, but if you want to be an elected civic leader, that’s the job…” The police aren’t concerned with rebuilding public trust but candidates should be.

people really do not realize how quickly everything has gone backward

New from me in @torontostar: breaking the delay culture at City Hall should be on the agenda in this fall’s mayoral race. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

JUST RELEASED: A Nanos poll shows 79% of Canadians agree with the merit-based Senate appointment process, now in its 10th year, with only 5% who want to return to partisan appointments. Read my OpEd with @donnadasko.bsky.social on the broader implications: www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/13/p...

You don't say. 😆

Tested in Palestine, now in the hands of your local pigs. www.thestar.com/news/gta/yor...

Some of the identified individuals the US killed in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific showed "no indication of involvement with drug trafficking." And even if they were traffickers, they'd be low level. Killing them would make virtually no impact on the cartels or drug trafficking into the US.

I appreciate some people might not understand the implications of Mark Carney’s Bill C-22 But Carney supporters arguing we should aspire to emulate how electronic communications are regulated in *squints* the United Arab Emirates, Cuba, Oman, Qatar, Venezuela, Iran, China and Russia..?

Drake’s gambling debts must be real bad to flood the zone like this. But it’s more likely this is to get out his label deal.

Data centers are the leading cause of a 76% increase in the cost of electricity for America's largest power grid over just the first 3 months of this year, according to Bloomberg. The 13-state grid managed by PJM serves 67 million people, and costs have spiked this year. /1

I wrote an explainer on Carney's pitch to radically alter environmental assessments of projects. It's a big deal and about more than economic zones. It would change rules for extinction of wildlife, fossil fuel and nuclear oversight, First Nations consultations and more thenarwhal.ca/canada-major...

The UK Sovereign AI Fund’s recent investments in two billion-dollar AI companies are a waste of taxpayer funds. The companies don’t need the money, and there is no clear benefit to British citizens. My full post: dontstealthisblog.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

The Doug Ford gov't is moving ahead with the consolidation of conservation authorities, but a leaked recording reveals ministry officials don't know the details of how drinking water protections will continue, due in part to cabinet confidentiality New 🍨 by me thenarwhal.ca/conservation... #onpoli

NEW: A new report says Ubers and other ride-sharing companies are increasing Toronto traffic. They found that rideshare drivers clocked 1.13 billion kms on city streets last year — a 40% jump from 2023. #topoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...

couldn't really tell you why seeing that made me want to draw this. Don't rightly know, myself

KING KONG (1976) Steelbook 4K release. @studiocanal.com

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

The Ministry is going to regret publishing these numbers. I can't say more than that yet. But I urge everyone at Queen's Park to dig into the very large increases in grants to students at a very small number of private vocational colleges. It's more than $13M.

On the weekend I went on a walking tour, hosted by The Bentway, of their new installations, A Persistent Crossing at the Second Phase featuring artwork by my friend Stanzie Tooth and Sitting Room at West Block featuring artwork by Anahita Akhavan.

He has his majority. He doesn’t care what you think.

“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.”

🇪🇺 Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data The "Tech Sovereignty Package" is set to be approved soon and will start a meaningful shift away from these companies.

CBC Metro Morning talked to @iandarragh.bsky.social about what he found in his Spacing series investigating the push to add jets to the Toronto Island airport. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

feels like a good time to plug my book, A NATION OF TINKERERS, out on August 11th via @invisibooks.bsky.social. in it, i chart the early history of electronic music in so-called Canada, using the informal practice of "tinkering" as a lens to think through our relationship to music technology.

590,000 people paid $59 million for the Trump gold phone. A year later, not a single one has shipped. No one has received a phone. The original release date was August, 2025. Now all info about the release date has been removed from the website.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

These are the 9 new conditions that pharmacists in Ontario will be allowed to treat https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/ontario-allowing-pharmacists-to-treat-more-conditions-administer-more-vaccines/ ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁