As Silicon Valley CEOs anxiously figure out how much computing it will take to propel artificial intelligence forward, the real question we should be asking is how much more artificial intelligence the planet can take.

To remember is to end all war.

Lansdowne 2.0 Vote Ward Map. www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/com... Best comment on Reddit was from MapleAurelian: "The one time the suburban councillors vote to spend money in the city centre is when their constituents don’t want it. This whole thing is so bizarre, it feels conspiratorial."

HOT OFF THE PRESS! The Hoodwinked Collaborative is proud to unveil a preview chapter from the forthcoming Fourth Edition of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Artificial Intelligence (AI) climatefalsesolutions.org/artificial-i...

Lansdowne 2.0 doesn’t give Ottawa what it needs. The plan is built around the limits of a public-private deal that leaves the city with hundreds of millions in new debt for a project that won’t serve residents well.

Indeed, but in reality such a tax needs to be much more substantial. Also: inheritance tax - and an end to tax havens.

I still don’t understand why Tierney and the other suburban/rural councillors even have a vote on this, never mind a platform to spew their pro-PPPillage tripe. But ad hominem at its finest.

"Bury him face down." This barn burner of an obit might feel hyperbolic to people who entered the world in the wake of 9/11; it's not. Cheney was one of the architects of today's American Christian conservatism. He was directly responsible for millions of deaths. Salt the earth where he's buried.

The billionaire loophole: While ordinary Canadians struggle, the top one per cent hide billions in offshore tax havens — a colonial system engineered to protect wealth and starve public services. New from @readtheorchard.org: ricochet.media/labour/class... #cdnpoli #taxtherich #budget2025

When Canada delivers its budget Tuesday, will it "get out of the way" on the proposed Ring of Fire environmental assessment, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford requested last week? Canada's not telling. I've been requesting since Oct. 29, daily contact with the Privy Council office, but still no answer.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is ramping up its drive for AI glory while deepening an alignment with Canada’s own “tech bros” movement. Christopher Holcroft writes. #canpoli

“In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian” According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:

Ah-yup! "Data stored in Canada can be subject to foreign courts, government paper warns" "federal government can only maintain full legal control if it delivers the service itself, or uses service providers that operate completely under Canadian jurisdiction." ca.news.yahoo.com/data-stored-...

‘History repeating itself’: Ontario First Nations vow resistance as Doug Ford accelerates Ring of Fire mining. Some First Nations say the province’s rush to develop is undermining rights and deepening divisions. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/h... #onpoli #landback

Let’s tell PM @mark-carney.bsky.social that the time is long overdue for the government to address this Canadian’s human rights. Write us for postcards for you and your friends: [email protected]

Join us to hear Alex Neve on the promises and challenges of human rights, and the need to address the injustice inflicted on Hassan Diab; and Don Bayne on the sham French trial that further violated Dr. Diab’s rights.

The UAE, taking in billions in US weapons and then turning around and arming the genocidal RSF: We’d never get away with this if America still existed in the world!

Meanwhile, the media here largely report on the situation as just one of those mysterious things that happen in Africa. Geoff York is one of the few reporting on the UAE weapons shipments, gold mining interests etc.

Apparently the geniuses we just elected have learned nothing from the last round of failed mega-bribes for industry. Last I checked they were still actual governments with actual powers, even if they’ve abdicated all but the power to shovel money to corporations.

And it sounds like Taki is an upstanding kid - responsibly folding up the empty Doritos bag and tucking it into his pocket.

What I can see this side of the paywall is enough to be really grim.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

At this point, it looks like his entire book is about values he no longer holds.

OPINION: As the Ford government ushers in rules for special economic zones in Ontario — where laws are lifted in the name of economic development — it is ignoring global examples where this tradeoff went wrong. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...

This should be front page news: a government betrayal of its own people of the first water.

Very important that billions in taxpayer-funded baksheesh for false climate solutions go to corrupt Canadian engineering and construction companies, not American ones. In other words, painfully ironic, but not the worst aspect of this stupid, wasteful plan.

A multi-millionaire central banker tells us that we should make sacrifices so he can boost military spending and grease the wheels of profit making by fossil fuel companies. #Carney #Austerity

Ya gotta wonder about a guy that gets so worked up over this. But hey: it's the kind of "thinking" that has kept This is True going strong for more than 32 years now. Got your free subscription yet?

The word is violation. It’s not a test. Israel is breaking their word, and international law at the same time.

Looking forward to reading this.

BC is opening its doors to AI data centres, even creating a cabinet position to help grow the industry. But it previously welcomed crypto and reversed course in the face of an overwhelming number of power requests. Where will AI fit into our limited electricity supply? thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Excellent article, with excellent comments from Nikki Skuce. “Our critical minerals strategy is full of so many holes,” Skuce said. “It’s just being used as a tool to push for more mining, whether it’s for gold to sit in the basement of a bank or a rare earth element to be used in an F-35.”

The bodies, moreover, were handed over without being identified. As one #Palestinian doctor pointed out, “(t)hey know the identity of these bodies but they want the families to suffer even more about these victims.”

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

the new york times has helpfully clarified that buildings in oregon are made out of modern construction materials.

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

Looks interesting. I suspect that the antidote is the usual one: organize!

The disclaimer “falsely labelled as an antifa member” is telling. So if he were actual antifa (however that is determined), the harassment, threats, and blackballing would be justified?

'By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself." migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

Ecuador revokes DPM Metals' environmental license for the Loma Larga project! “It has been a decades-long struggle,” says Cuenca's Mayor Cristian Zamora, one of the leading voices opposing the mine. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Excellent, timely, important commentary. www.theenergymix.com/national-day...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Canada had postal banking for over a hundred years until 1968 when the U.S. stopped theirs... Over 100 nations globally have successful postal banking. But, over decades our federal governments have been trying to decimate Canada Post to privatize it. #cdnpoli #canada rabble.ca/politics/can...

We are told that public transit is not generating enough revenue but when was the last time you heard a right-wing politician or columnist complain that the police force just isn't profitable enough?

Justice for #GrassyNarrows!