Coolest person 🖤

Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.

The problem with climate change is we have to convince a bunch of people that future people are actual people, when they don't even believe some currently alive people are people.

People "opposed to the data center shared concerns about transparency, asked board members if they had signed non-disclosure agreements, and decried 'tech billionaires' coming into their rural community. Many are worried about potential impacts to the environment, groundwater and electricity rates."

AI should never have become available at the consumer level 🔥

“It’s a given Canadian value”

This is effed up—Tehran is thousands of years old. Water insecurity is a problem that’s only going to get worse, buckle up folks.

Neat things you see at the cyber security conference #enigma

11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side. The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in. Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.

Yessss, having just returned from a 1200 person conference where I saw maybe three people besides myself wearing a mask, I would love to see more of this.

Falk is a prominent human rights expert who turned 95 on the day he was detained. This is who Canada sees as a potential threat to national security? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oh and this www.cnbc.com/2025/11/16/b...

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

Boooo, who wants a bunch of data centres scattered all over the neighbourhood? Also, if anyone is hosting one, I don’t understand why they would have to pay ANY heating costs—let the rich billionaires they’re supporting pay. www.bbc.com/news/article...

We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.

One of the best books I’ve read in a while. Highly recommend.

How about helping your fellow humans here on planet Earth? Now Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space www.wsj.com/tech/now-tec...

Went to Toronto for a conference and was literally the only person at the conference wearing a mask. Saw one or two people walking around downtown with masks, but didn’t see anybody on my train wearing one. I don’t get it. It’s winter, we can keep ourselves from getting sick—why don’t we do it?

My regular reminder that, especially if you feel like nationally things are all going to hell in a handbasket, get up to no good in your own neighborhood! Go to local govt meetings. Hold meetings with your neighbors about the stuff you care about. It just might work: www.kgw.com/article/news...

People being willing to normalize pedophilia for Trump shows there's no line they aren't willing to cross.

We're going to "15 year olds are fair game if you're a fifty year old man," are we? Disgusting.

This is what we get for defunding the humanities

This truly sucks.

Still masking over here and continuing to feel like an outcast. I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for almost everyone else.

Winning the internet for me today.

Here for it

the state of ME/CFS and Long Covid healthcare is so bad that national broadcasters can get away with literally broadcasting proven pseudoscience with basically zero pushback

What role does fashion play in far-right movements? Bellingcat researchers joined our Stage Talk series this week to explore how far-right movements utilise style and symbols to convey their message. Listen back by searching "Stage Talks with Bellingcat" rss.com/podcasts/bel...

If you’re a democrat and your response to snap getting cut is laughter or saying things like “they voted for Trump so they deserve it” etc congratulations you’re a fascist and a threat at the same level as maga.

Today's tune www.youtube.com/watch?v=OET8...

Really not going to get into it, but in 2025 it should be obvious that giving creepy-ass companies more data on you, even data you consider *innocuous*, is a very bad idea. The aggregation of said data, the assumptions made about you, and how that will be used to your detriment are well documented

It makes the blood in my veins want to keep moving… best planet ever.

This is a really nice phrasing of what I've been trying to put into words about the idea of 'using LLMs to learn to program'.

If you're a renter in Ontario, you should know Doug Ford is trying to make it easier for your landlord to raise your rent or end your tenancy. #HamOnt #OnPoli acorncanada.org/news/doug-fo...

US vs THE WORLD: Data Centres. Seems like maybe they kinda do own the internet. www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/

Good

We've gotten used to this environment of no oversight or regulation or ethic. I honestly think people don't really care all that much any more cuz "PROGRESS" and "NEW TECHNOLOGY". We're being bamboozled so billionaires can get even richer on dangerous nonsense.

YAY BIKES

As Heidi Klum used to always say on Project Runway, “matchy matchy!”

"We too could set fair prices so farmers could stay debt free, sustainable Canadian producers are prioritized, and workers are protected." breachmedia.ca/why-canada-n...

Owning a Ring camera is deeply anti-social behavior. You’re spying on your neighbors and you should be shunned for it.

And Remember: spreading fascist bullshit around to dunk on it is still spreading fascist bullshit around.

Trying on the wedding dresses is the most boring part of Love is Blind 🥱 Just the worst.

Two months ago Anthropic was *claiming* models armed with sensitive info would extort you. 🤷🏿‍♂️

This is disturbing and creepy for so many reasons, but it’s also bizarre how much of a push there is for people to ignore listening to their own bodies and instead outsource those decisions to flawed technology.

New rock unlocked. Geez, I love bikes.

24h into the ‘ceasefire’, Israel bombed a residential building in Gaza. bsky.app/profile/just...

Questions I would ask if I was in a Love is Blind pod: 1. There’s a spider or moth in the house, what do you? 2. Do you know how to change a flat on a bike (because I would greatly prefer not to change my own 😆)? 3. What would you cook me for breakfast? Season 9 is pretty brutal so far.

Wholesale electricity costs have increased as much as 267 percent since 2020 in areas near data centers, and consumers are emptying their pockets for the power companies.

Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...