It's getting noisier each day in my neighbourhood. cheknews.ca/thats-insane...

The web we weave. People tend to think that European War Three will be nuclear, with vast irradiated, uninhabitable landscapes. EW3 is much more likey to involve vast landscapes rendered uninhabitable by killer drones and the millions of kilometres of plastic fibre-optic cables they leave behind.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada #Propaganda #Canada According to the report, just 100 users are responsible for almost 70 per cent of all online conspiracy claims in Canada. /1 thread www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n...

This is who Carney is protecting. bsky.app/profile/lale...

Direct link to the article mentioned in the post above: Association of SARS-CoV-2 infection with long-lasting increase in circulating IL-32 levels (Feb 5, 2026) www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm... [ FREE PDF available ]

Charlie Kirk repeatedly pushed the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory and regularly made racist comments in his public statements. If we can't call someone so explicitly racist "a racist" without getting fired, who else is off limits? Donald Trump? Nick Fuentes? David Duke?

People saying OpenAI reporting a user it banned for posts about gun violence would be mass surveillance are fucking idiots. The tech industry *is* mass surveillance. There is no genAI or ChatGPT without mass data collection on everyone. Don’t like mass surveillance? Stop using fucking chatbots.

To Canadians: there are no guardrails down south any more. They WILL do exactly what they are told, including using military force to kill our children. This is vile and real. Look to community and TALK about this problem. We don't want to, but we are Austria to their Nazi Germany. They're coming.

The NDP is losing ground. But is this because it needs to be more centrist? Or is this because the government has been failing to stand behind its own progressive works? Judith Sayers writes. #bcpoli #canpoli

On Feb. 20, 1959, the Avro Arrow program was cancelled by the Diefenbaker government. Thousands of people lost their jobs, and the Canadian aeronautical and aviation sector was decimated. The day became known as Black Friday. This is the story of the Arrow. 🧵 1/12

Have just found Lisification, which tells you whenever you're added to a list. Which is good because some fucker out there clearly added me to one and now I'm having to block a bunch of accounts that follow thousands of people and I never trust those. bsky.app/profile/list...

A letter of reprimand does fuck all. The need to issue a warrant for his arrest.

America has 3 distinct classes:

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Incredible story that is worth your time to read. It exposes the ways in which the Trump admin is turning the legal immigration system into yet another arm of the mass deportation machine, transforming a benefits agency into a trap for those seeking legal status.

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I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration. even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

The entire goal of Palantir is to become so deeply rooted in every system that even attempting to remove it would cause a collapse. That's literally their stated goal; they either have the power, or nobody does.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Busy weekend with a couple of SAR tasks. At least I managed to get up and do a bit of hiking in the mountains and snow in between. cheknews.ca/two-weekend-...

This helped me better understand just how vast the distances in space are. joshworth.com/dev/pixelspa...

How many videos have surfaced? kaburbank.substack.com/p/how-to-vie...

The USA is a fascist country and the MAGAts are going to do anything to increase their grip on it.

"Institutional neutrality" is about communications - universities are a support structure for the free expression of their members, not their presidents. It is not about whether universities can make decisions directly relevant to their institutional mission, like partnerships and investments.

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Why are any academic researchers and faculty still on Xtwitter?

How much is Trump charging billionaires to have their names redacted from the Epstein files??

Oh wow I hadn't run into that work before. That's really interesting - thanks for the heads up! @sameo416.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @juliamwright.bsky.social www.institutionalcourage.org

There are deep structural issues at play here, that explain how these guys are able to pull this stuff off so easily. We treat anti-vax misinfo as if it just magically appears, and don't address things like e.g. Wakefield being platformed and protected for over a decade by mainstream institutions.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A shooting at a school in British Columbia left eight dead including a woman whom police believe to be the shooter, while two more people were found dead at a nearby home, Canadian authorities said Tuesday. 1/6

The 15 things are all true but they aren't shocking or surprising to a ski patroller. www.skimag.com/culture/shoc...

In the name of “public safety” Amazon’s Ring announces partnership with FLOCK the license surveillance company. ICE is breaking constitutional law everyday and we’re suppose to believe that law enforcement will only access our footage if given our permissions! www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/a...

This ad will be discussed in the same major fails category, such as New Coke.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Petition requiring political party leaders in Canada to have Security Clearance has over 26,000 signatures already and it’s only been open for 3 days 🎉. Let’s keep this going, my Canadian friends. Share widely. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Someone should combine the 1984 Apple commercial and have the ending with the woman tossing the sledgehammer into the Ring commercial from the Super Bowl.

So I guess people didn't know this, but if you have a ring doorbell, they recently signed an agreement with flock meaning any officer can access your camera without your knowledge. They claim they'll notify you, but come on. Given what's going on do you really believe that?

It's Superb Owl day, with a snack. #🪶#birdphotography #owls 🦉

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A preview of the Super Bowl before kickoff

Mike and Heather Trask’s Comox Valley-based fossil discovery in 1988 inspired a flood of amateur paleontologists. It also inspired the first paleontological society in B.C. and led to the creation of a policy to protect fossils. Read the story: thediscourse.ca/comox-valley...

“An out-of-control wildfire is burning northwest of Calgary. Alberta Wildfire lists the blaze, located near Clearwater County in the Rocky Mountain House Forest Area, as roughly 275 hectares in size.” www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... - @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social #ABFire #ClearwaterCounty #YYC

Not enough people are talking about the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal, and might in fact be involved in World Cup security operations *in Canada*. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/03/n...

Canadians, Please consider signing this petition asking for renewable energy to be funded equally well as fossil fuels via subsidies. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

canadahealthwatch.ca... Take a read. A national call to action. "Governments at every level can no longer ignore the consequences of inaction." ... "Failing to act is not neutrality. It is a decision."

A mother’s confession on SNL😂👇