83 to go. The Canadiens open their season with a mature effort. It wasn’t spectacular but it was an intelligent road game. The win in Toronto in the season opener of the Call Of The Wilde for Global Montreal globalnews.ca/news/1207663...

Call of the Wilde: Montreal Canadiens start the season with a tight victory over the Maple Leafs in Toronto - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

The Montreal Canadiens drew the Maple Leafs in Toronto and it was a match-up that Montreal has struggled with, but not this time. The Canadiens posted a tight 3-2 win.

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Je pense qu'on a besoin d'un peu plus de philosophes et de neuroscientifiques et d'un peu moins d'ingénieurs dans le débat sur l'intelligence. Question de proportion, c'est toute. «It is ‘not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.» -David Hume

Why real intelligence is something more than optimisation | Aeon Essays

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more

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I think the terrifyingly huge SpaceX Starship launch that's happening right now is the one that's planning to deploy a bunch of the new Starlinks that are not actually approved by the FCC yet because SpaceX knows that the FCC will eventually approve them because they approve literally everything […]

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AI can steal your brain, if not your soul. Don’t let it, is my advice. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Bruce Arthur: Could AI be a trap for humanity? The evidence seems to be piling up

Whatever a soul is, the brain is where it starts. I’d prefer not to outsource mine, writes Bruce Arthur.

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Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.

This column by @althiaraj.bsky.social is a good summation of the red flags around this bill. And I say that as someone who has been raising alarms about our particular moment in history for a while. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Althia Raj: Whatever good is in Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act is poisoned by the toxic rest

The Mark Carney government frames this law as part of its “Canada Strong” plan — and frankly, some parts are good — but toxic with good is still bad.

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Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w ago

One project. One review. One year. Our government just tabled the Building Canada Strong Act.

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Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Allowing the most powerful segment of society to opt out of public services inevitably makes public services worse. This is why the existence of private schools inevitably makes public schools worse. A simple fact that seems hard for many to admit. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...

Why would Trump be so opposed to regulating AI — even in the face of growing public concern, even with midterm elections just around the corner? Like everything with him, follow the money. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-trump-loves-ai

Why Trump Loves AI

Follow the money

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It’s a bit odd to talk about potential costs when in reality nobody has *any* idea what Carney actually has in mind, I can’t remember a single time in the past 50 years where one man was given such latitude to determine Canada’s future in the absence of *any* public debate or discussion.

There are costs for Mark Carney’s closer ties with Europe

There could be a political cost in addition to the financial price tag for Canada’s proposed “unique alliance” with the European Union.

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MUSK builds an overwhelming mountain of doom in the wake of the zaniest supervillain that the world has ever seen. #tiff26 povmagazine.com/musk-review-...

Musk Review: Or, the Totality of Dread - POV Magazine

Musk review: Alex Gibney synthesizes the clear and present danger of Elon Musk's ascent to power and our own powerlessness in the face of it.

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Cowboy space's application for stupidly ridiculous numbers of ludicrously large and probably impossible orbital "AI data centers" was SO BAD that the FCC asked them for loads of info. Which apparently they didn't provide by the deadline. Shucks […]

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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"The Justice Department told a Manhattan federal court that it was in the national interest for the judge to find that OpenAI did not violate copyright law when it used articles by The New York Times and other publishers to develop artificial intelligence systems." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...

Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit (Gift Article)

The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.

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“Shifting Baselines”, la película que cuestiona los costos de la carrera al espacio de SpaceX, llega a México El documental del cineasta Julien Elie muestra el impacto ambiental y social en Boca Chica, Texas, debido a SpaceX, empresa aeroespacial de Elon Musk oem.com.mx/elsoldemexic...

Shifting Baselines, película que cuestiona los costos de la carrera al espacio de SpaceX, llega a México - El Sol de México

El documental del cineasta Julien Elie muestra el impacto ambiental y social en Boca Chica, Texas, debido a SpaceX, empresa aeroespacial de Elon Musk

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✍️ Shifting Baselines es un documental que nos advierte sobre las consecuencias que la industria espacial privada ya tiene en nuestro planeta. “Cuando la promesa de llegar a Marte tiene forma de ojiva nuclear” Acá un texto sobre lo que vi. noahperiodismo.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/s...

Shifting Baselines: Cuando la promesa de llegar a Marte tiene forma de ojiva nuclear

El cohete despega y una nube gris cubre el horizonte. Las mujeres y los hombres que ven en el cielo la promesa del viaje interplanetario y la supervivencia de la humanidad no advierten que, detrás …

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Landowners and activists worry about impact to the environment around SpaceX's complex. n.pr/4xFiGrX

Elon Musk's Starbase wants to expand in south Texas

Landowners and activists worry about impact to the environment around SpaceX's complex.

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"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."

Uruguay, with 3.5 million people, generates 98% of its electricity from renewable sources. The architect of that transformation, Ramón Méndez Galain, put it simply: "The key is not technology; it is institutions. Once the rules are fair and predictable, the system builds itself."

Our solar power model isn't working — there's a fairer way

Solar lease-to-own could unlock Ireland's energy future — Uruguay, the Netherlands and Germany have all made this work with straightforward rules, writes Mary Teehan

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Shocking news! Just kidding. Anyone with a brain knew it was all a lie, but it's nice to have it officially confirmed

#DataCenters You know what to do.

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale

The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.

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“Evidence is building that AI tools can ‘deskill’ experts in medicine, computer science & other fields…a study of experienced physicians found that access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images seemed to cause the Drs’ performance to drop significantly whenever the system was unavailable”

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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There is no cryo stasis. No fancy super speed propulsion. No super smart computer to Macguffin miracles out of its made up arse. It's a scam wrapped up in a colossal Ponzi scheme. Should we be a solar system fairing species? Yes. Are we? No. Hell no and no where near.

America's roughly 1,100 billionaires (and 1 trillionaire) are collectively worth a record $9.24 trillion. The wealth of the bottom half of the US, roughly 65 million households? $4.3 trillion. It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of wealth concentration to continue.

honestly, not a serious technology www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...

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Only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society

Just 16% of Americans Believe AI Will Positively Impact Society, Pew Poll Finds

Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in the summer of 2024.

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There is a thrill in this. There guys are PUSHING SO HARD. They’re relentlessly doing interviews, writing articles and pushing propaganda. They’re used to everyone buying their bullshit!! But this time everyone’s like “nah”. It must feel inexplicable for them and that is so satisfying.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society

One plane forced to reroute because of a SpaceX explosion last year was running low on fuel, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency and fly the jet and its 283 passengers through a designated debris zone to reach an airport. (Published January)

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk

The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...

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