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Not now, outer core!

Did you know some male fish put extraordinary effort into looking after fish eggs? They're he-roes. #DadPun

Joint statement from Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom condemning settlement expansion in the West Bank, warning companies that bid on construction contracts could face legal consequences.

When and how are we going to be able to measure the knowledge loss from covid? Succession failings, institutional knowledge disappearing, breaks in passing on skills. Smaller organizations and businesses are most vulnerable. So much less redundancy. Society will falter because of this.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

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...

Is this what happened to Saskatchewan www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column on why there won't be any tangible benefits for Carney selling out the climate, especially when Alberta inevitably fails to live up to this latest "grand bargain" #cdnpoli

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:

"Solar will become the world’s single largest source of electricity in the next six years, due to a major supply glut, technology advances, and falling prices."

possibly better than the original

It summer now in Winnipeg

It's not sustainable that people are going to just have to keep leaving various tech platforms and tech tools behind every few months. Most people aren't going to do this.

They bought all of our choices, political, lifestyle and economic. But they did not wager the cost of our *refusal*. It is fascinating. Grim but fascinating.

A sweeping national climate assessment argues that exclusion from decision-making has amplified Indigenous vulnerability to floods, storms, and erosion. grist.org/global-indig...

not many people know this but in order to get a verification checkmark on bluesky you have to kill another verified user and take theirs

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Someone tell me good stories about Gander Social @gandersocial.ca , please. Also these smols: 🪶

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

5,000 words into a report on Nopiming Park. I've said Nopiming to talk-to-text through my phone just for this document a hundred times. It cannot ever understand Nopiming. nopaming. No plumbing. Dopamine. No bumming. No pumping. Nopaming isn't even a word why would you spell that? -end rant-

dating advice for men: be nice to women

Seen in Logan Square

If humanity ends because of a reduction in rape and an increase in women's autonomy then let it fucking choke in the dirt for all I care.

10. Camp Zero - Michelle Min Sterling A near-future climate story set in BC that feels plausible, particularly in its depiction of male and female power. 9. When the Moon Hits Your Eye - John Scalzi A deliberately ridiculous premise sustained by an array of interesting voices and perspectives.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Those are definitely snowflakes falling from the sky, Winnipeg. ❄️

Major news! A state court in Kansas has just blocked the states gender affirming care ban! Nobody is at our desk right now so we can’t draft up a story but you all deserve to know this incredible news. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

"Growing evidence has linked LNG and natural gas development to issues like a higher risk of early birth, asthma, heart disease, cancers and premature death." Despite regs, B.C.’s 1st major LNG facility, due 2 flaring, "has far exceeded its permitted pollution limits." 🌎 thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

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This is HUGE news! "A tort is a legal term for a civil claim that allows a person to ask for damages because someone else caused them harm. The new tort [...] seeks to compensate the qualitatively different wrong of coercive control, and the qualitatively different harm of loss of autonomy"

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

The best stock photo sources these days are very specific people who take photos of very specific things. This guy takes pictures of trains. All trains all the time. Only trains. Do I have to worry that one of these photos is AI? Nope. He would never disrespect a real train in that way.

This also reflects my experience which, I've written about separately. People have gotten so used to others controlling our digital social experience. Taking control of it yourself is revolutionary www.techdirt.com/2026/04/22/s...

Our border wall is sound systems facing south playing Drake.

Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure

For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column: Alberta separatism is not inevitable #canqueer #cdnpoli

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

It rained mud earlier today in Winnipeg. Then a dust storm, high winds brought hazardous air quality index of 9, forcing cancellation of school sports. 1 year ago today extreme wildfires caused tragic loss of life in Manitoba. So...should we act on climate? Or build more fossil fuel pipelines?

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want." — Andy Warhol

Men had their 2000 years of being in charge. Unless they’re willing to dismantle the patriarchy this time, I want off their ride.

Solidarity and gratitude to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and all the hard work their legal team did. Here's the release: acfn.com/submission-o... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #ymm

I honestly do not understand how you make the country strong by selling critical infrastructure

HUGE: Alberta judge quashes the separatists' referendum petition, in major victory for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Blackfoot confederation. Justice Shaina Leonard: "the Crown failed to meet its duty to consult"

Taps mic...ready? 🎤 Government needs to be the size of the problems society has, and the size of the required solutions. If you think society has a problem, TAXES ARE REQUIRED! ps: No, too much taxes is not society's problem right now, and rarely is.

It's incredibly funny to watch a separatist leader who has nothing but contempt for Canada and its legal structures hide behind the Charter. These are not serious people.

Encouraging NPR segment this morning about school districts moving away from "Whole Language" snake oil and back to phonics to teach reading, which, to the shock of no one, has improved reading scores

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

Taps mic...ready? 🎤 Government needs to be the size of the problems society has, and the size of the required solutions. If you think society has a problem, TAXES ARE REQUIRED! ps: No, too much taxes is not society's problem right now, and rarely is.