Great op-ed by @foodwatch-int.bsky.social's Suzy Sumner. For too long, meat products like sausages, burgers, etc. have benefited from a misleading "naturalness" halo they simply don't deserve. foodwatch's new report sets the record straight. www.brusselstimes.com/opinion/2182...

News organisations who breathlessly cover the ‘biggest IPO ever’ without adding perspectives on who Musk is, what he did to the world’s most vulnerable people by destroying USAID, or to democracy, have no compass, no ethics. This is not just another big IPO. This funds more damage to humanity.

"A Canadian East-West-North-South renewable electricity grid is possible. We must start by rejecting the limits of our current mind-sets." Elizabeth May’s latest Hill Times op-ed is a call to stop clinging to the past and start building the renewable future we need.

Loved this Marc Gunther review of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH. He said it’s a “terrific book” so I guess I was inclined to love it. Also “science-based, thoroughly researched, lively,” “a book every environmentalist should read” and other nice words. marcgunther.substack.com/p/a-book-eve...

⚠️ Another problem with AI: makes us worse at spotting bunk! The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news news.mit.edu/2026/consequ... "...participants who relied on AI systems to verify facts actually got worse at detecting misinformation on their own when their chatbots were taken away."

AI scores a 'C-' ...

Planetary Science xkcd.com/3255/

Mary's opening:

Do our politicians act like they are properly aware that their actions today are changing climate on Earth for thousands of years to come? Do they have sleepless nights and intensive exchange with experts over this huge responsibility?

“The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.” www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our new handbook is out: Planetary Communications! “This handbook is more than a guide – it is a call to action. If we are to secure a liveable future, we must transform how we engage the world with sustainability science,” says Johan Rockström.

"A good place to start would be agriculture, which takes up half of the river’s flow. Most of that goes to alfalfa & other water-intensive grass hay. This cow food consumes more water than all cities, factories & data centers in the basin combined...about 20% of alfalfa grown is shipped overseas."

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay!🌎 The new series #SolutionsInFocus, spotlights stories of positive change around the world. These stories show not just what could work, but what already does➡️ go.wri.org/solutions-in...

A sober take from @shachikurl.bsky.social of Angus Reid Institute of how Canadians are not on side with Mark Carney’s enthusiastic approach to AI or data centres. They aren’t uninformed or illiterate; they simply experience the sides of AI the government prefers not to focus on.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Is a Microsoft Word document conscious? Why don't we treat Deepmind AlphaFold or IBM Watson as conscious beings? As Ted Chiang writes, "it’s simply the fact that LLMs emit grammatical sentences and we are accustomed to reading intention into sentences." Do not get taken by deepfake anthropomorphism.

To be clear, we’ve reached the manufacturing federal criminal charges against career government scientists for purely political reasons stage of fascism

43 years ago today Talking Heads released their fifth studio album, Speaking in Tongues, June 1, 1983 It features the single "Burning Down the House," their only top ten single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #talkingheads #newwave #speakingintongues #burningdownthehouse #punkrockhistory

"LLMs generate fluent, authoritative-seeming outputs based on statistical patterns rather than true understanding, and they have limitations in reasoning, calibration, and transparency." Medicine as an Information Industry in the Age of AI ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

So why, exactly, is the Carney government enthusiastic about importing more Tesla EV's into the country?

(sound on for full effect) Chapman State Park near Clarendon, PA is home to Chapman Lake, which is home to a group of energetic North American river otters (Lontra canadensis) that like to host a midnight rave / leaf frolic. Not sure where they plug the speakers in.

Before “enshittification” became a rallying cry, By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) was a kid who watched the internet grow from a bedroom modem into something that kept sprawling. He once believed tech could liberate everyone. Now, he’s its sharpest critic. https://ow.ly/Up5E50Z5osJ

"Is it currently raining?" "Wow great question! Yes, it is currently raining." "It's sunny though." "Ha ha my mistake. Sorry about that. No it's not raining."

Released 49 years ago today "God Save the Queen" the second single by the Sex Pistols #punk #punks #punkrock #GodSaveTheQueen #sexpistols #history #punkrockhistory #otd

David Eby and Daniele Smith have more in common than they let on. They’re both doing all they can to advance fossil fuel development at the expense of the climate and people’s health. They just differ on which type of fossil fuel is best.

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

"Anthropic is the clean coal of AI. And clean coal doesn't exist" - Karen Hao speaking at Hay yesterday.

Applies to all creative fields, of course!

David Bowie: African Night Flight - from his 1979 album, Lodger; co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno; prepared piano and cricket menace by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq0M...

There aren't many columnists in this country better than @sproudfoot.bsky.social, and she was especially good in this piece. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Somewhat overstated, but yet again we see humans quicker to grant rights to rivers, mountains, ecosystems, or forests than to other animals. The river gets rights against being polluted by industrial chicken farming, the chickens themselves get ignored. Dispiriting.

And TechCrunch are here to get you started: techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/s...

14 Liberal MPs sent a letter to Mark Carney telling him "the government's credibility will be seriously compromised" by his pipeline agreement with Alberta. More generally, they emphasized that #ClimateChange “remains the greatest threat of our time.” #Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #NoPipelines

A first for me today. Glad to have this piece in The Guardian. Figured it was time more of our international friends heard some hard truths about how things are going here in 🇨🇦: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Loved this Progressive Farmer review of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH: “Like them or hate them, they’re ideas well worth grappling with.” www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Here’s why your take on RCP8.5 is terrible… 🙃

No punches pulled. Congrats Al Jazeera!

It was quite clear many years ago and now overtly obvious that politicians and corporations have no intent to address climate change. Anyone expecting them to change is foolish. For us to curb the current trajectory of climate change we must attack it from the individual + collective level.

Entanglement in fishing gear is the "leading cause of large-whale mortality worldwide, claiming the lives of many hundreds of animals every year", stranding experts say. The high-profile rescue changed nothing about the root cause. My latest for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/veroni...

Color me shocked

More than a decade after the Paris Agreement, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, accelerating climate change. Humanity still has time to act #NowForClimate and curb these emissions. Ahead of #WorldEnvironmentDay, here's how you can take action https://ow.ly/MjvP50Z02x8

Wrote a thing, and my newsletter always has visuals and this time it has the glorious art of Tino Rodriguez (and it's topical).

I don't have a car.

As Wittgenstein wrote in PI: “Look at a stone and imagine it having sensations.-One says to oneself: How could one so much as get the idea of ascribing a sensation to a thing?…And now look at a wriggling fly and at once these difficulties vanish and pain seems to get a foothold here…”

We also know that the pandemic did not start as a lab leak; ...and that people who claim to know otherwise are either liars, grifters, idiots, victims or otherwise useful idiots of multiple manipulation campaigns from people who piggybag on this narrative for profit www.amazon.com/Lab-Leak-Fev...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

With so much attention given to CO₂ and fossil fuel production and consumption, some of the biggest opportunities are often left out of the climate solutions conversation. New charts by @globalecoguy.bsky.social & @jamesgerber.bsky.social show the full picture. 🔗 https://bit.ly/42ghOg3

France is phasing out Zoom and Microsoft tools by 2027 over data-access risks tied to the US Cloud Act, which allows American firms to seize data stored anywhere. Legal scholars warn Canada’s digital future is at serious risk, but political will to act remains tepid. https://ow.ly/nM6M50YXuLC