Jimmy Thomson
@jameswsthomson.com
Environment and climate journalist | Editor in Chief at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
Struggling to even understand what the point of this editorial is. It feels like there's a giant hole in the middle of it where a call to action should be.
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2h agoThis is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
On 🐙 THE NORTH STATE 🐙 host @youcaughtscott.com sits down with @nationalobserver.com's @natashabulowski.bsky.social and @desmog.com's Taylor C. Noakes to discuss how PM Carney's love affair with fossil fuels affects climate journalism. readthecatch.ca/climate-repo...
Hamilton's sudden reversal away from a bylaw intended to control data centres has left other municipalities worried about the legal risks of writing their own — and wondering what convinced Hamilton’s elected officials to flip their votes.
Hamilton's mysterious data centre reversal haunts other municipalities
All but one of the 16 elected officials in the city had voted in favour of a bylaw that would put a pause on new data centres in the city for a year. Then, at a council meeting the following month whe...
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Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Forget submarines. The technology Canada needs from South Korea is Turtle Chips. For, for, national security.
(Because there's already a war in the Middle East so the White House doesn't need me to create one)
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.
Are we disagreeing about the problem, or are we disagreeing about the solution? My column this week.
We agree on the problem. Why can't we find common ground with some solutions?
If we can’t have governments that push for education and agreement on the causes of climate change — and to be clear, we should have that, too — we can at least demand a healthy respect for the disast...
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It would be easy to call this the “new normal“ but that’s incorrect. In actual fact, “normal” is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. Just how bad it will get depends entirely on how fast & far we go on real, legitimate (not performative) #ClimateAction. We know how. It’s about will.
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 5d agoBordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
WHO IS ASKING FOR THIS
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Any company with a big AI footprint should simply not report its numbers this quarter
An amazing job for a deeply weird person
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6d agoThis InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
Stories like this make it clear that the way ATIP operates in Canada (basically, a coordinator asking staff to provide their own documents or emails in good faith) is asking for obfuscation and lying. ATIP needs teeth or it's worse than useless.
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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2FA to order a hamburger is so many steps more than I'm willing to take to order a hamburger
I'm pragmatically avoiding looking at the truck barrelling towards me as I lay down on the highway, and you're being a little bit crazy right now
Steve Chambers@planningtransport.co.uk · 6d agoPragmatic planet burning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Is Canada Failing the Next Generation? GenSqueeze founder, Dr. Paul Kershaw recently joined @maxfawcett.bsky.social Fawcett on his @nationalobserver.com podcast Power Lines. Their conversation sheds light on the growing generational divide in Canada and what we can do about it! #cdnpoli
Wealthsimple is showing off US election prediction markets, among many others — markets it's expressly forbidden to let people bet on in Canada.
Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 7d agoWealthsimple has strict regulations around how its prediction app can work. But experts say it’s already playing coy with the rules allowing it to operate.
lol, annnnnnnd there's the nail in the coffin, if there was still any doubt:
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
The jackals at Juno News are celebrating a talented journalist being laid off. Must be nice to never have to do layoffs because you can just invent reporters and pretend you hired them instead, eh Keean?
update: I am still unreasonably excited to stream the first-ever SpaceX earnings call next week
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2w agoyou're goddamn right I'm going to livestream the first-ever SpaceX earnings call on the AT Protocol put it on your calendar now: August 4, 2026, following market close at 4:30 PM Eastern stream.place/niedermeyer.online
The RCMP has warned the government that foreign actors could take advantage of self-governing communities in Canada’s North, newly obtained documents reveal.
RCMP worries foreign actors could gain foothold in northern Indigenous communities
Cash-strapped Indigenous governments in the North could be susceptible to attractive infrastructure and investment offers from foreign actors that could threaten Canada's national security, according ...
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It's "becoming the default way people discover information online" because a monopoly is making it the default way. This is such weird framing. It's like if Coke changed its formula and the framing was like, this underlines how quickly artificial flavours are becoming the default flavours.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · last wk.Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
SpaceX is out there blazing paths where no one has tread before, yet you mock
After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
Elon Musk’s tired schtick
Why does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?
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“Teens sue Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them *** Two of the teenagers behind the lawsuit are under the age of 18…” 3/16/26 … 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...
Teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them
Musk's AI chatbot has created millions of fake sexualised images, experts say.
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