Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him
@chestnutfez.bsky.social
Winnipegger. Copy editor in sustainable development. Jets fan, much of the time. YIMBY. Musician for joy, not mastery. Just trying to find good Winnipeg/hockey/literature/language stuff on here. All vibes positive until further notice.
I have been saying this for ages! Misinformation robs people of autonomy. When applied to women’s health it means it is inherently misogynistic!
Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · yesterdayHear, hear‼️ Health misinformation erodes autonomy‼️ Vaccine mis- and disinformation isn’t just a threat to public health, but also to our autonomy theconversation.com/vaccine-mis-... "If we value autonomy for what it really means ... we must take action to address mis- and disinformation."
Imagine being such a malignant liar that even a huge professional liar like Jeanine Pirro isn’t nearly enough of a liar for you.
God@thegodshow.com · 2d agoThus ends the saga of Drunken Judge Jeanine, fired for unsuccessfully prosecuting innocent Americans over the Deflecting Pool.
The lies and disinformation about #ClimateChange are constant. Don’t be fooled, and help call them out.
Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE****@bigclimate.bsky.social · 2d agoThey can say summers have always been hot and we’ve always had wildfires and they can tell themselves all day that everything is the same as it always was but you know better They can gaslight themselves but not you. #ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli
I used to think it was crazy that each Flock camera costs taxpayers $2,500/month! But now it all makes sense. These are valuable objects that may contain up to 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d agochat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Ugh. Avoid Taylor Farms.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 4d agoWelp guess we know what we're talking about in tomorrow's Sunday Morning Outbreak News Livestream! (Plus Salmonelleggs, & ANOTHER botulism outbreak in baby formula that's somehow going under the radar. So obvs we gotta talk about… all that.) youtube.com/live/_mjPVY1...
When all the AI companies are lining up to go "oh noooo, look at what *my* super-capable AI did when I wasn't looking! It's just so powerful!" I think a dose a suspicion is warranted.
@doubleemmartin.bsky.social Thank you for your piece today on the Farmer's Market--such wonderfully human stories. Should be Exhibit A in why AI could never replace a human mind in conversation with other human minds.
Using LLMs is slower and produces worse content at a higher cost. Didn't we say this from the start? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
science.org
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Airplane Airplane Movie
ALT: Airplane Airplane Movie
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hiebzky@hiebzky.bsky.social · 5d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
i saw a video the other day where they talked about farming being the only job you inherit and it comes bundled with land, money and local political sway. we recreated feudalism but somehow decided the best way to try and undo it is to try and be nice to and appease the new feudal lords.
Choosing to fund the NYT for any reason while they’re still gleefully laundering far right agendas and pushing to advance the genocides of trans people and Palestinians is scab behaviour, and there is simply no way around that fact.
p.s. "Red meat production, including beef, lamb, and pork, accounts for 30% of global food-related emissions but generates only 5% of dietary calories or 2% of the global protein supply."
How much beef is too much for climate?
For our Improve Diets solution, we did the math to figure out emissions savings from eating other protein-rich foods in place of beef – the results are striking.
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The personal climate footprint framework is a strategic distraction from going after the fossil fuel industry and other major sources of greenhouse gases. Too, chickens are trivial business compared to cows, let alone to Andy Burnham's apparent decision to go after North Sea oil.
Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook | Rebecca Solnit
Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action
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Yes, pretty much this. Lots going on, beautifully shot, but ultimately kinda empty calories.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Great news.
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · last wk.Africa is smashing all the solar records. The continent installed more grid-connected solar in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025, and with projects under construction the year could finish at triple the previous record. buff.ly/NirgzLn #ShareGoodNewsToo
When urbanists take pictures of a Paris street (like Rue de Rivoli) showing all the people on bikes now taking advantage of protected infrastructure, it’s not just because we “like bikes.” It’s because we’re picturing the gridlock if they were driving cars. And the public cost, pollution, noise…
“We had a national advisory committee, a committee that advised FDA and USDA on how to prevent microbial contamination in food," said Mayne. "That advisory committee was disbanded.” Yuk yuk yuk. They sure owned us libs. Yuk yuk yuk.
This is a fantastic — and critically important — blunt takedown of The Atlantic's coverage of RFK Jr and his crackpot ilk.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · last wk.I could be wrong, but @theatlantic.com seems to have hidden my reply with this article. So here it is again.
This is going to lead to some trial staff and privacy officers having a bad day
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
This is a fantastic idea. I hope someone can put it together.
Dr. Samantha Montano@samlmontano.bsky.social · last wk.Has anyone been able to come up with some kind of "individual climate loss/adaptation" calculator. I imagine something like the (cursed!) carbon footprint calculator but instead of calculating carbon usage, it calculates your personal climate change-related costs?
