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Atila Vasconcelos🇧🇷🇨🇦

@abvasconcelos.bsky.social

#elbowsup #noAI Why are all those people following me?! 🙄 To whom it may concern, my interests are (more or less) in this order: Science (physics first, everything else too), Computers, Canada (and now, because, you know... politics 😒 )

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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More@bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 13h ago

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - “A Prince George city councillor is challenging billionaire Jim Pattison to personally hand out final paycheques to workers losing their jobs at Canfor's Northwood Pulp Mill.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC News BC #BCPoli #Canfor #CityofPG #Forestry #PulpAndPaper

City councillor calls on billionaire Jim Pattison to personally deliver final cheques to laid-off mill workers | CBC News

Hundreds of jobs have been lost as Canfor and other major companies close mills across B.C. with the Vancouver-based multinational calling the decisions 'gut-wrenching.'

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CHEK News@cheknews.ca · 18h ago

A quiet corner in Saanich has a hidden treasure: a mini museum displaying various Canadian-designed items for locals to enjoy if they happen to pass by.  https://cheknews.ca/canadian-design-on-display-at-saanich-neighbourhood-mini-museum-1340371/

Canadian design on display at Saanich neighbourhood mini museum

A quiet corner in Saanich has a hidden treasure: a mini museum displaying various Canadian-designed items for locals to enjoy if they happen to pass by. 

cheknews.ca

Court Ellingson@courtellingson.bsky.social · 24h ago

UCP's plan to put citizenship markers on driver's licenses is an absolute disaster: 1) many seniors don't have a passport/birth certificate easily accessible 2) people are unable to renew their driver's license, risking their employment 3) ID changes put healthcare at risk too #ableg #abpoli

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

"Gymnastics is one of the most important things in my life," Sasha Paskal said. That passion earned her the "Future of Ukraine" state honor by President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska last year. And today, it has taken her to almost every corner of the globe. https://cnn.it/4yWxm7Q

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a Page in your life 🍁📎@sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 5d ago

Canada is not removing EV subsidies; instead, the government replaced the former sales mandate with the Electric Vehicle Affordability Program (EVAP), providing structured purchase incentives through 2030. This bot account is full of shit.

@blinpa.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here in Canada we are removing subsidies for EVs and giving them to Oil and Gas. “Investing” over $45B for a Pipeline that makes no financial sense for the People, ignoring environmental impact and disregarding First Nations treaties

Benjamin McKean@blmckean.bsky.social · 5d ago

The wealthiest university on the planet, Harvard claims it needs to close a huge range of student services, including support for writing tutors and community service, to close a budget deficit while simultaneously planning to spend $10 million on hiring conservative professors. Give me a break.

Faculty Express Cautious Concern About Harvard’s Plan To Endow Viewpoint Diversity Professorships | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard’s plan to bankroll a new cohort of professors in the name of “viewpoint diversity” is drawing a wary response from faculty, who said the proposal could expand donor influence and reshape facul...

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Mr. Spock 🖖@spockresists.bsky.social · 5d ago

We have the primal brains of hunter-gatherers, the social institutions of the Middle Ages, and the god-like technology of the future. As a species, we simply weren’t ready for the psychological toll of 24/7 connectivity.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d ago

Amazon staff have identified cases of what they called “catastrophically expensive” cost overruns caused by mistakes in how the company has deployed AI and a lack of spending controls. Attempts to switch tasks from conventional programming to using AI models led to “unplanned” spending.

Amazon finds cases of AI causing runaway spending on tech projects

E-commerce giant’s staff said the new technology had caused budget overruns that sometimes took months to detect

ft.com