The government just gave a $2.4 billion subsidy to the fossil fuel industry by cutting the gas tax, an industry currently seeing record profits. Anyone who's angry about that same government spending $27 million a year on health care for anyone is a piece of shit who's also really bad at math.

The cackle I let out whenever I read about how the dicks who stole the entirety of the internet and every book ever written are complaining that someone is stealing their work.

When Canadians talk about affordability, the discussion often revolves around the cost of fuel. While we pay for gasoline and diesel with our credit cards, in study after study, scientists have shown we also pay with our health. We should talk about it more. thenarwhal.ca/climate-chan...

Yes i have. Have you? Do it.

Mark Carney came into power with a promise that he was going to build homes at levels not seen in decades, and so far what we've gotten is his government refusing to hold some of our largest cities accountable for deliberately breaking agreements they signed on regulatory reform.

Today's most-read story: documents we obtained show the Wonder Valley data centre project has a major catch for the rural Alberta municipality where Kevin O'Leary wants to build it.

Realtors should love bike lanes. They increase property values and free up household budget allowing more expensive purchases. That means more commissions for agents.

Every Canadian needs to read and understand this. And then help the beautiful people of Fort Chipewyan. open.substack.com/pub/indigeno...

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Please take a second to ask for pedestrian access across 66st. #yegbike So far the yellowhead renewal has been a disaster for pedestrians and cyclists without any dedicated safe crossings added.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers. Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

I have a solution to drivers complaining that they don't get to park their private property on public land for free anymore: simply remove all of the parking (except accessibility spots) and use that freed-up space to make the beach bigger.

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Watching Sam Altman's World ID announcement on its new ID verification partnerships w/ Tinder, Zoom, AWS, etc & want to point out that @technologyreview.com predicted all of this 4 years ago—while pointing out the privacy violations they built on. www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1...

I'm new to the @alexfalcone.bsky.social train, but I am delighted by his informational and also hilarious videos, such as this glittering precious gem on AI -- "Is AI a scam yep?"

"Public servants in the department will use [Cohere's] North for 'search, summarization, drafting, decision support, and task automation,' Wall said." Welcome to the deskilling of the public service. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Local man tells post-secondary students money doesn't grow on trees and then picks private jet from private jet tree.

Tomorrow's engineers aren't learning about induced demand. "3 [of 7] textbooks omitted the idea entirely, whereas the others offered only partial coverage." "The engineering textbooks reviewed here leave students unprepared to understand induced travel." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

The electoral boundaries commission website has been taken down but the commission’s interim report, final report, and public submissions are available on the Elections Alberta website: www.elections.ab.ca/resources/re...

Three months after Ottawa removed its automatic safety cameras, the share of drivers following the speed limit plunged from 87% to 41%(!). "High-end speeding" is up 10x. Automatic enforcement saves lives. If you remove it, people will die.

Making progress on the tiny ebook reader.

Are the Alberta NDP going to get a new leader or are they just going to concede the next election? Asking for a friend.

Police told us that body cams would be used to hold them accountable and to prevent abuse. Instead, they're going to be used to surveil the entire public—and then to send all the surveillance data to a robot false-positive generator that is accountable to no one.

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social Québec food company to close Lethbridge plant This is just months after signing a new 3-year collective agreement with over 5 dozen workers. albertaworker.ca/news/quebec-...

Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already being squeezed by the untenable cost of living. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks.

Mark Carney is giving $925 million in tax breaks to the AI industry

Also, fuck you, Stephen Harper.

"the market doesn't have specific data available" I'm going to stop you right there, they're just lying 🤥🤥🤥 Also, the Oh My Goodies vendor claims they lost 20 to 30% in traffic but "I would say, though, that my numbers, my sales have not been affected." So they're REALLY lying! 🤥 #yeg #carbrain

They probably shouldn't anymore since Carney's cut the food inspection agency budget.

11/ Help starve the ADINT dragnet. Do this now: iPhone: ⚙️Settings➡️Privacy & Security➡️ Tracking Turn off "Allow Apps to Request to Track" Android: ⚙️Settings➡️Privacy ➡️ Ads ➡️Delete Advertising ID It's only a beginning, but you don't owe any of these companies a drop of your data.

How copaganda shows up in Calgary media as the provincial government and police lobby the public for acceptance of their drug jails. CBC Calgary showing its stripes today:

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

Well, as Alberta wakes up to more snow, I thought it was a good idea to check on current drought conditions. Yellow is minor, blue is insignificant, green is none. That's a good looking map.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Measles exposure alert issued for Edmonton Stollery

I spoke with a director at the City of Edmonton about the removal of the Whyte Ave scrambles. It sort of felt like a congressional hearing, where you know the answer, but the person responding refuses to say the words. The city will not admit scrambles are safer.

SCOOP: Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery curtailed Elections Alberta's power to penalize when Sam Mraiche was under investigation. www.theglobeandmail.com/appview/cana... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

Cycles of Life, by Grant Snider #bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #自転車 #illustration #art #design #streetstyle #fun #cycling #cyclinglife #bikelife #biking #bicicleta #velo #cycle #vélo 🚲🚴

This week, the Alberta government announced that charter schools will have access to reserve and municipal land in new communities, the same as public and separate (i.e. Catholic) school boards do. #ableg #yyccc

Alberta man launches legal action against province over closings of supervised consumption sites. Travis Peddie alleges the closures violate his Charter-protected rights and increase the risk of harm, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Alberta removes education from curriculum

I was a bit mean to my city because of the bike lanes they built last summer. So, here's what I would build instead. youtu.be/1GfXj1YJvdQ (Try to spot the @thewaroncars.bsky.social tuque at the end)

It’s Autism Acceptance Month! Want to participate? Excellent. The best choice is to listen, learn—and lean back to make space for autistic people & autistic-informed resources. We have advice about good (and bad) autism orgs: tinyurl.com/UsefulAutismOrgs #AutismAcceptanceMonth #neurodiversity

The jackals are coming for Alberta's public libraries next. #abpoli #cdnpoli