Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Hyperscalers have conned investors by not disclosing their AI revenue concentration, all to hide that revenue growth is increasingly coming from Anthropic and OpenAI, and that their infrastructure was near-entirely built to support two unprofitable AI labs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

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We can could cook up various metaphors to describe what AI is doing to society. Try this on: what holds human societies & governments together are our shared beliefs on reality, as determined by the scientific method, our shared "facts", & our belief that such knowledge is even *possible*...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/

This is extremely violent. It’s an infringement on all children’s rights. Their bodies and lives belong to themselves. This is sacred. I attended a rural school where strapping with a machine type belt was rampant. It never happened to me but to many of my friends. The fear in that school was 🤯

Dr Lindsay Tedds@lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 23h ago

'Berta. School using the strap on kids in the year of our Lord...2026. RCMP says the educators at the schools are also not accredited teachers but are considered adult supervisors. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...

'Berta. School using the strap on kids in the year of our Lord...2026. RCMP says the educators at the schools are also not accredited teachers but are considered adult supervisors. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...

Girl, same. When I used to be on Facebook, I had so many people private messaging me about their LC (I'm a therapist.) They were not posting about it publicly. Many of these people knew each other, yet they all swear they don't know anyone who has long COVID, and *they* have Anything But Long COVID.

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

if you think you’d don’t know anyone with longcovid, but you don’t use any mitigation yourself, consider: yes you do, they just may not feel safe enough to tell you.

Think an independent Alberta could just ship most of its oil and gas directly to the US? Think again. Or in the case of separatist leaders: think once. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | An independent Alberta's U.S. oil exports would mostly be piped through other provinces | CBC News

Canada and separated Alberta could reach pipeline shipment deals. But there are no guarantees in trade talks, experts say.

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Rand Paul is a liar, and I'm sick of people only partially correcting him.

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Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social · 22h ago

I featured this graphic by separatist leader Keith Wilson in my latest article, but to prevent rabbit hole distractions I cropped out the astounding AI junk on the edge of this photo. Ottawa in…. New Brunswick? And what is that building? Sure not Parliament. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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i am now on my third book but getting cover art sketches and layouts always makes it feel so delightfully real :) and so glad a talented human artist is drawing lovely sandwiches for it!!

Many thanks to CBC Vancouver for a solid discussion on #wildfire, @mark-carney.bsky.social, and the false promise of carbon capture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tUB...

Are wildfires becoming worse?

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"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy. The University of Wyoming will be the only R1 institution, the only state flagship university, and one of two land-grant universities that do not offer a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...

plese refrain from airing any harmful prejudices about different states/regions -- thys ys about the loss of academic fundinge and ys the case, increasinglye, everywher

Textes from Sisyphus: UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE 🪨

Viewed over 400,000 times on IG and the devil bird app. 👀 "It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say: 'We knew how to protect you, and we didn't do it.'" -Violet Affleck to the UN

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Winner of the most brutal needlework art I've ever seen.

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · yesterday

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

So we've got homes & infrastructure being destroyed by climate change related events every year now. There are food systems failing in the world. Thousands of people are dying. The political response in Canada? Give delusional talks about being a "energy superpower" & don't talk about reality.

During a contentious interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several claims about COVID-19, vaccines and measles. Here are some of the statements that were factually inaccurate.

A Doctor Fact-Checks HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s CNN Interview

A public health expert fact checks RFK Jr.'s recent contentious interview on CNN with facts on vaccines, COVID-19 and measles.

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Thanks for asking @wgreaves.bsky.social ! We’d like SERIOUS funding for climate action please. Paid for by: - Ending fossil subsidies (that means zero $ for LNG or pipelines or gas-fired data centres). - Taxing billionaires and excess oil + gas profits. Our kids’ future depends on this!!!

I ask my bank this all the time. CIBC advisor literally said “we don’t do ethical investing”. I said I didn’t want my small savings to benefit me by investing in oil, nuclear power, war, elder abuse/neglect, big tech, etc. They looked at me like I was from a different planet.

Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 3w ago

Canadians have accumulated nearly $3 trillion in retirement savings, yet have almost no democratic say over how that money is invested. Why are our pensions financing fossil expansion and foreign capital instead of a livable future? @nickgottlieb.bsky.social makes the case for reclaiming them.

Dear fossil fans, Thank you to all of our loyal fossil fanatic fans for wanting to learn about everything from the origins of life to how life is still evolving today. You have helped make this podcast what it is today, and we just want to say THANK YOU 💗. Your favorite paleo nerds, Ray and Dave

Just how many dinosaurs 🦖❓️ have been found in Alberta’s Dinosaur Park Formation? Upwards of 40 - 50 species (they did not all live at the same time)! 🔊 Listen to and learn more in Episode #100 featuring the GREAT Phil Currie: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/phil... Art: Bestomater1 on DeviantArt

🎉🎉🎉 IT’S HERE! 🎉🎉🎉 We are excited to announce that our 💯th episode is...🥁🥁🥁... The Legendary Philip J. Currie and the Real Dinosaur Park!!! Ray and Dave talk to paleontologist and co-founder of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Philip J. Currie. 🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/phil...

Good to see. Less good? If csis has no power to stop this, and rcmp can only go in if criminal, what is the federal government doing to counter sophisticated information campaigns that are happening? Read more in Sturgeon’s reports from Wesley Wark, linked below

Naheed Nenshi@naheednenshi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Update: Here is the full letter. In an attempt to highlight a certain section, it appeared as redacted.

Out of the blue movie recommendation — our whole family watched “The Sheep Detectives” tonight. I hadn’t heard about it. It’s completely wonderful. What’s your movie recommendation that folks may not have heard about?