Financial Times checks in on Canadian bank CEOs attempting to defend their climate record before a Parliamentary committee last week www.ft.com/content/6370... via @ft #cdnpoli #abpoli

Fuck it. I am putting Being Awkward Around My Work Crush(es) under skills on LinkedIn.

A large, mysterious monolith was found near a trail in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge north of Las Vegas over the weekend. It was not immediately clear where the object had come from.

A US soldier quoted in this story, not the headliner airman, says they're "experiencing tangible mental health consequences as a result of watching a genocide in real time while simultaneously wearing a uniform that represents it." That's extremely real.

“The Jesuit priests, when you thought that all of a sudden the whole world was pounding on you, they would say ‘Illegitimi non carborundum,’ which means ‘don’t let the bastards wear you down,’ which … lately, that is a very relevant and appropriate saying,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

“Several generations living under one roof would help ease the housing crunch and the loneliness epidemic affecting half of U.S. adults. It would also cut global warming emissions. Denser living is almost always greener.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

It would seem to me to have a hope at profitability you either need to: 1) own your own servers (Amazon) or 2) own your content to minimize licensing costs (Disney). Everything else makes you a very unwieldy cable channel.

As we approach the third anniversary of the deadly 2021 BC Heat Dome, join the 350 Canada team and special guests for an important online action call on Wednesday, June 26. RSVP now: act.350.org/s/2630024.xV...

Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own.

“As temperatures rose past 122 degrees… jails reported thousands of cases of boils, rashes and skin disease among inmates. Authorities raced to reduce the crowding, which was caused by a draconian six-year campaign against drugs started by Rodrigo Duterte…” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

👇🇬🇷 "Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say" #MigrantDeaths #GreekCoastguard

It already is. The heat dome over Africa this week is going to kill 1000s in the Sudan this week and nobody other than UNICEF seems to be even talking about it.🥺

The suburbs do not nourish me in the way the city does. I need to be around people. Strangers. I long for the camaraderie of our shared indifference to one another. The community in that. www.welcometohellworld.com/we-had-it-co...

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I like this interview I did with Twilight Greenaway at The Window windowofopportunity.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

🚨INVESTIGATION: Amid the climate crisis, U.S. cities now face a potential epidemic of deadly landslides, but governments aren't planning for them & don't want to admit the problem. The Lever reports from a major oil state's capital city - which is now basically falling into the ocean.

“Excavators, bulldozers, cranes and tractors, create about 3% of U.S. carbon emissions — roughly the same as the airline industry. Making these machines carbon-free would be almost as big a step… as taking all commercial planes out of the sky.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

The Paris agreement is about putting real blood, sweat and tears into changes that begin the full-scale elimination of fossil fuels from human society, as fast as possible, writes @ketanjoshi.co ketanjoshi.co/2024/06/16/t...

If a person keeps breaking driving rules they should no longer be able to drive. “But how will they—?” Not my fucking problem. I’m a pedestrian; they can figure it out.

Driving is a privilege that’s treated like a right because we’ve made it impossible to live without a car in many places and where we haven’t we still give leeway to drivers over everyone else

Turns out that encasing yourself in hundreds of pounds of metal and glass makes you pretty significantly antisocial!

Batteries have replaced 50% of California's gas power compared to a year ago. "Last year, battery deployment in the energy sector increased by more than 130 per cent year over year" Storage replaced fossil fuels. And it is coming on fast and getting cheaper.

I spent some time at the protest against the governor pulling the plug on congestion pricing, and then when walking to the train passed an ambulance that was stopped in crosstown traffic, siren blaring, due to congestion. I'm aware that there's irony there but it's not really very funny.

“Starting Sept. 3, anyone who accepts work through these and other gig-based apps, such as ride-hailing and delivery services, must receive $20.88 an hour from the time they accept an assignment to the time it is completed, the province says.”

“The Grab has the feeling of a revelation… every single human needs food and water, and there is not enough arable land on Earth for the projected increase of 2 billion people by 2050. The instinct, on a primal and national level, is to hoard.” www.theguardian.com/film/article...

From @caseycrownhart.bsky.social: A review of a new edition of the classic game, Catan: New Energies, which comes out in a few days. It has players building power plants, fueled by either fossil fuels or renewables.

"In the age of methods, science was human and then, suddenly, it was not." Oh how well this captures today's science reform zeitgeist. Once again we yearn for a science that's un/inhuman. We grasp at any promise of an algorithm or procedures that are proposed as an automated substitute.

"Hypothesis and test, experiment and solution—the language of science today is often one of stability and control. The uncertain, unstable terrain of Darwin's day somehow became, over the century that followed, something solid, if not stultified."

At the end of the age of methods, the image of science as embodied cognition became something both constrained and constraining, a set of steps rather than a description of lived reality. The rise of "the scientific method" was, in this sense, less a success than a tragedy.

“As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.” grist.org/labor/heat-w...

“While any new president could quickly transform policies around scientific integrity through new executive orders, the union contract provision is one advocates had urged as a way to make the protections harder to undo without a legal fight.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Welcome to round 86 technical interview. We need you to fight a bear

After testing popular generative AI programs including video creator Pika, text-focused ChatGPT, image generator Dall-E and an AI system that generates computer code, Haize Labs discovered that many of the well-known tools produced violent or sexualized content.

It's been said a bunch of times but I want to say it, too: what's been so bracing about these Lauren Windsor/Rolling Stone stories is not that they reveal Alitos as grand villains but as absolute off-the-rack nightmare suburban shitheads. 0 wins above replacement between the two of them.

I wrote a piece for Business Insider talking about "domestic offshoring," regional inequality, and the housing crisis: www.businessinsider.com/america-powe...

“British people in the 1930s and ’40s… thought the Empire outdated; few expressed pride. By contrast, recent polling trends suggest most British people are neither proud nor ashamed of their imperial past: They are simply becoming indifferent to it.” www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/0...

For a climate-safe, democratized economy, the housing crisis must be addressed with sustainability as a key consideration #housing #emissions #sustainability #Canada www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/12/o...

Can everyone find the Permian on the updated map of methane emissions form 2019?

“The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Top 5 Canadian Energy Centre Mishaps, by #Alberta #abpoli #fossilfuels open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

"While R29 Unbothered remains as one of the few platforms that commission and amplify Black writers both in the US and UK, journalism is still a very, white, middle-class industry with Black journalists only making up 0.2% of the overall workforce." www.refinery29.com/en-us/black-...

When people see a story like this, they understandably tend to think there must be more to it. Someone must be exaggerating. But Missouri's attorney general and its courts really are trying to execute a man they all know is innocent. That's the whole story. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...