We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.

SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision

Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour

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How that whole group of musicians just sang him out as his coffin left the church.....so moving. I cried. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Watch Bono and Eddie Vedder Perform at Glen Hansard's Funeral

Bono, Eddie Vedder, Hozier and many other musicians gathered in Dublin to honor the late Glen Hansard.

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size of corp debt one rung above junk is close to record highs

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

bloomberg.com

Having experienced Trump 1 in the UK/France, I saw firsthand how his attitudes towards women reshaped how men everywhere thought they could engage with women. Headline in FT today: 'Trump effect' is weakening corporate gender goals across the globe'

I am currently having a very intense nostalgia for the SIBL (Science, Industry & Business Library) branch of the NYPL (Madison & 34th), which closed in 2020.

more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

So we should frame the COVID-19 response for what it is: a profound success of public health professionals in the face of overwhelming opposition, an absolute failure of our broader communities to extend compassion to its members, and a sign of the general orientation of our culture.

I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.

This also is the reason why I limit my time on socials. There's really only so much we can all take.

Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · 3d ago

For a while now my policy across all media has been I Don’t Want To Pay Money To Feel Bad and it’s been pretty great. Plenty of feeling bad for free/getting paid to feel bad for my job to be found elsewhere.

An important new tool: www.eenews.net/articles/a-n...

A new source of data about data centers reveals their climate impact

With a single number, a new publicly available tracker scores — and highlights — the little-known climate pollution from data centers.

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Targeting the taps: Why foreign hackers are striking Quebec's water plants | CBC News

Last week, the municipality of Saint-Noël was the victim of a cyberattack that targeted its drinking water facility. Cybersecurity experts traced the attack back to an organized Russian hacking group ...

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Mid-year resolution: Stop reserving large-print titles at the library (I see a title I want, I don't read the fine print, and boom, I get a book that doesn't work for me)

As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.

Lockdowns showed that states can pour massive resources into making the politically impossible happen quickly, the public will accept huge changes if they understand why they're needed, and that we should listen to scientists. Something to remember when it comes to action on climate change.

If Canada increasingly sees Europe as its key security and military procurement partner, Donald Trump has only himself to blame

Canada turns to Europe for its security

Donald Trump’s capriciousness has pushed Canada’s military spending towards Europe

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I just don’t understand why people disrespect their own minds this much, that they would rather hand over their cognitive capacity to a black box algorithm that can be manipulated to say that birds grow out of seed pods

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · 4d ago

I haven’t had any interest in gen-AI since years ago when a Twitter mutual posted screenshots of his successful effort to convince an earlier version of ChatGPT that birds weren’t real and instead were just another form of plant. It began making up citations and conferences for this “discovery.”

I'm in Cap Saint-Jacques park, looking for the beach. And I am (very predictably) lost. Yes, there is a map. No, it is not helping. Sigh. (I decided to pause the search for a hearty lunch.)

Gah. I pass by several of these intersections regularly: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

These Montreal intersections have the most cyclist collisions. Here's why | CBC News

With the future of the city's cycling infrastructure under consideration, CBC wanted to know where the most dangerous areas are for cyclists — and why.

cbc.ca

Deep thoughts.

I really need to remember to only eat a few (max, 2) of hubs' banana-chocolate muffins. I went overboard, and it's really messing with my IBS-riddled intestines. (Still holding out hope for a bike ride today, as it's my last unemployed Friday).

Russia is already at war with the West, part 3 000: www.lapresse.ca/actualites/r...

Bas-Saint-Laurent | Une cyberattaque russe cible une station d’eau potable

La petite municipalité de Saint-Noël, dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent, rapporte que sa station d’eau potable a été visée par une cyberattaque d’origine russe, la semaine dernière. « L’important, c’est que l...

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“We need to stop burning fossil fuels. Because as long as we keep burning fossil fuels, temperatures will increase globally." – Friederike Otto, Imperial College of London #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition apnews.com/article/glob...

Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate

Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France.

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Montrealers: Consultations are now live on Laurier, de la Commune, Meilleur, and Cote St Catherine. Fill them out here: realisons.montreal.ca

Love the phrasing: "On X, a social media platform that some people still use" (Credit to The Europeans substack newsletter for that)

Breaking news: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called on Gianni Infantino to be replaced over Fifa’s controversial plan to sell a stake in a new commercial entity, adding to pressure on the president of world football’s governing body after one of his top advisers quit. ft.trib.al/dHg0aCI

Weather forecasting is a good example of why @ntusikov.bsky.social argues that the US evisceration of its regulatory and scientific agencies means Canada needs more, not less, government to pick up the slack. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Whither the weather balloons? U.S. changes leave Canada with less notice of storms, experts say

American stations have strayed from regular launch times observed around the globe as part of co-ordinated scientific effort

theglobeandmail.com

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

I’m not enough of an expert to evaluate the claims here but if they’re true, I’ll be a lot more concerned about the possibility of large-scale (economy level) financial problems than I have been

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...

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Donald Trump has turned the United States into an economic banana republic

The U.S. President’s vision is to turn the country into a Third World economy

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