Free newsletter: The dawn of token-based-billing has shown that generative AI doesn’t have a return on investment. It's too unpredictable, too unreliable, you can't easily measure the cost of tasks, and organizations are already pulling back. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

Starving gray whales are washing up on the Pacific coast in alarming numbers. “With the continued warming of the oceans, and the ensuing changes in food availability, animals such as gray whales… are dying.” @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

The effect size is very small, but if you need an explanation, "lockdowns did it" makes no sense. Today's kindergartners were not even born yet during the school closures of 2020/2021. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Disabled people make able bodied people uncomfortable because we blatantly ask for help from others. We rely on community for support and care. Taking care of the most vulnerable is the revolution to a more connected society.

Trying to get PlusLife tests now reminds me of trying to score weed in the Eighties. “Psst, go here, get the password from Rick, call Debbie, proceed to this place,” etc. #COVID

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Eliminating luxury taxes on yachts & private jets reduced Carney government revenues by roughly the same amount as they "saved" by being cruel to vulnerable refugees. It says so very much about our banker in chief's "values."

From M. Gessen-”This is How to Beat an Autocrat” Hungary’s Anti-corruption campaign is how Viktor Orban was toppled. It is how MAGA can be quelled here as well. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o... 🎁 Please pass on share links in your emails & Social posts

From Ontario to BC, it's alarming to see public health under attack. Overdose prevention sites save lives, prevent harm, and save the health system in downstream costs BC pauses downtown Vancouver overdose prevention site after community pushback #bcpoli www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Shut Down CANSEC! Rally in Vancouver in solidarity with folks confronting the warmongers' arms trade show in Ottawa. Shut that imperialist shit down. #ClassWar #StopArmingIsrael

Politicians celebrating the defeat of life-saving healthcare during an overdose crisis is nothing to be proud of. An overdose prevention site IS helping vulnerable people “properly.” The evidence is clear: OPS save lives, reduce public drug use, and connect users to care.

Overlays are widgets or technologies that promise to improve a site's accessibility with third-party source code. More than 1,000 accessibility advocates and web developers have signed an open letter to explain the limitations and dangers of these products. overlayfactsheet.com

ICE camps: Law enforccement is being driven by investors & shareholders in the private labor camps run by Geo Group and CoreCivic. They run on the labor of detainees. "The privatization has escalated the barbarity & indecent & inhumane treatment."

Have you had a negative interaction with police in BC? Check out our new Pathways to Police Accountability toolkit for what you can do after the police have violated your rights. Download the toolkit today: bccla.org/resource/pat...

There is one handwashing station and one infrared thermometer to fight the Ebola epidemic in this camp for 10,000 displaced people in Bunia, a city at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo.

OH HELL NO. "There will be an "acute" energy shortage in the U.S. as AI takes off, Carney said, and Canada "can be part of the solution.”” We are not using up our electricity to feed the failing fascist fantasy generators south of the border […]

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has recognized coercive control as a form of intimate partner violence. The decision will especially help BIPOC women who face particular barriers in reporting and seeking compensation for abuse. pressprogress.ca/supreme-cour...

‘I’m not the only one who’s uncomfortable’: Guilbeault in his own words on why he quit

Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns - NDP Critic on the Environment and Climate Change file had a passionate and grateful send off for Steven Guilbeault today. They worked together alot and their mutual respect showed here. https://youtu.be/tpZnZFuqn9E?si=i0sk9bY5S69lh0Kd #cdnpoli #canpoli […]

defund the police.

Do we need to ruin the environment and make power bills skyrocket so they can hoard every detail of our life? Hard no. Bill C-22 helps explain the tsunami of data centre proliferation. Link in comments for current Parliamentary petition. #dutytoconsult #privacy #whatfuturedoyouwant #waterislife

Never forget the Panama Papers: The wealthiest people on Earth were hiding fortunes offshore, dodging taxes, shielding assets, and protecting generational wealth through a global network of secrecy.🔥🧵

Weirdly blocked by @grids.reillywood.com the other day. No idea.

And point out the reason provinces don't order enough vaccines is that they're using an economic model from PHAC that 👉forgot to include the fact that you can get #longCOVID without needing medical attention for the initial COVID infection👈. Health policy is sloppier than a hat made out of Jell-O.

Sanofi will be making Novavax available in Canada this fall — but it’s up to the provinces or territories to order this vaccine. Send an email to your health minister and your local representative to tell them why Novavax access is essential for many people: covidsociety.ca/news/nuvaxov...

Join us on June 17th for the Canadian Covid Society's Annual General Meeting, featuring guest speaker Barry Hunt, a health care advocate who will be sharing his talk "Onward Together: Grassroots Action & Real Change in PPE & Engineered Infection Prevention.”
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

2/ If your infectious disease training still treats airborne transmission like a rare exception instead of a central mechanism, your curriculum is obsolete.

As drought conditions worsen across the province, the BC NDP are telling British Columbians to conserve water, while selling water off to corporations. We're calling on the Province to be more transparent with how it’s safeguarding its most precious resource. #bcpoli

International Rescue’s David Miliband says the current Ebola outbreak could become the deadliest on record without urgent international action. He cites three factors accelerating the spread, one of which is “severe global aid cuts”. Trump and Musk did that.

Remember the crazy June heat dome that killed about 600 people in BC five years ago? A similar heat dome is killing right now in Europe. Why is this happening so often? Fossil fuels, like the fracked gas BC exports as #LNG, are the main cause. www.cnn.com/2026/05/26/c... #bcpoli #climatecrisis

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Raw sewage spilling into the Salish Sea www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fascism is so trashy.

“Parents forced to choose which of them will be deported and who will remain with their children. A breastfeeding mother detained for weeks without her newborn. A young father — the breadwinner of his family — facing separation from his baby who has heart problems.”

CBSA in Quebec enacting 'unpre... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli #quebecpoli #humanrights Since when does a federal authority and its employees bow down to provincial political rhetoric? Get it together and stop doing this! You are violating people's human rights!

A vaccine for the current #Ebola outbreak would be valuable, but we have controlled Ebola before without vaccines. What’s urgently needed now is: contact tracing, surveillance, IPC, diagnostics, clinical care,& community engagement. Outbreaks are stopped by strong public health responses.

Everyone who is or might one day be affected by any public health decision (so...everyone) really needs to read this paper. Public health and infection control leaders have built a pseudotechnocracy of neglect on a foundation of pseudoscience. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

At a moment when climate change is slipping down the list of national policy priorities, the message at David Suzuki’s 90th-birthday celebration was that giving up is simply not an option. And that fighting for the planet is not for the faint of heart. 🌎

It's publication day! Mine and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social's book is now available anywhere books are sold: www.mqup.ca/Books/F/For-...

What some of us have been warning of for decades is happening, faster and fiercer than most imagined, even in the mildest and most temperate corners of the world. #ClimateBreakdown

Tedros ⁠Adhanom Ghebreyesus says ​a delay in detecting cases means responders were now 'playing catch-up'.

This was supposed to be an “easy” story but @isaacphannay.bsky.social had to do a ton of work to get these answers - hope it’s useful!

"Studies have suggested that somewhere between 6%-20% of people with COVID-19 will go on to develop long COVID... Currently, there are no effective cures for long COVID, and treatment entails trying to manage the symptoms as best as possible... "

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

I really wish that people like TCW would grapple with the fact that Elon Musk murdered hundreds of thousands of non white people because he is a white supremacist. like, maybe he's objecting to Black people on screen bec. he is a mass murdering Nazi.1

read this.

Statement from IFRC that 3 staff died from Ebola after exposure March 27 pushes back the start clock of this outbreak that clearly has been spreading for months.

Are these the same doctors who don't mask in an airborne pandemic? www.cp24.com/news/canada/...

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.