John Alcorn
@johnalcorn.bsky.social
Canadian musician. No time or patience for racists, white supremacists, mysogynists, homophobes, transphobes, antisemites, islamophobes, etc.
This 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...
Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear
The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country
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Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.
A simple way to think about basic income. Wealth transfer is also a transfer of power.
Lloyd Robertson, former CTV News chief anchor, dies at age 92. Mr. Robertson, a legend of Canadian journalism, joined CTV in 1976 and served as chief anchor and senior editor from 1984 to 2011. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Lloyd Robertson, former CTV News chief anchor, dies at age 92
Mr. Robertson joined CTV in 1976 and served as chief anchor and senior editor from 1984 to 2011
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We need to tax billionaires until there aren't any. We can't have these losers buying up our media.
Vulture@vulture.com · yesterdayThe Paramount CEO David Ellison took to the NYT op-ed pages to make his case for why the Warnermount merger is a good thing, actually.
“Ben-Gvir, who presides over Israel’s prisons as national security minister, has said that the idea was inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the immigration jail in Florida that was shuttered after reports of horrific human rights abuses.”
Truthout@truthout.org · 19h agoAn Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.
Canada’s new Food Security Strategy won’t end food insecurity. The strategy largely overlooks the single biggest contributing factor: inadequate incomes, by Nick Saul and Jasmine Ramze Rezaee www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Canada’s new Food Security Strategy won’t end food insecurity
The strategy largely overlooks the single biggest contributing factor: inadequate incomes
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That's why this System Cascade is going to be so much crazier Slight changes in soil & water levels were enough to start the dominos for the Over Optimization vulnerability of Mesopotamia in the Bronze Age We're pushing Climate Change, Wealth Inequality, AND Technological Compression INTENTIONALLY
AI data centers could raise electric rates in Northern Virginia by 25% by 2030. Nationwide, data centers are already helping push power bills up faster than the cost of living.
Poor Communities Are Paying the Price for "Free" AI Tools
AI data centers produce massive noise pollution, use huge amounts of water and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.
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Have any of the CEOs warned @mark-carney.bsky.social ?? Cuz he seems not to be aware??
One of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”
This isn't the new normal. It's just the beginning
This summer’s disasters appear to have boosted climate multilateralism, at least within Europe, and underscored the need to tackle fossil fuels. But we may not be waiting long for the scientists' “wor...
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Also time for everyone to switch to clean energy just as fast as they can.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterdayCash from misery. Time to spread these profits around a little. #climatecrisis
this editorial manages to avoid the phrase "climate change" entirely
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 4d ago
"Estimates by experts have found that these cuts are leading to the early deaths of thousands of people a day; some have estimated that they've killed over 700,000 people ... [B]y 2030, the DOGE cuts could cause over 14 million preventable deaths, including 4.5 million children and babies under 5."
Truthout@truthout.org · last wk.Elon Musk has shared that he got “carried away” during his time heading DOGE — with the billionaire seeming to express only mild regret for the sweeping, illegal government cuts that are slated to kill millions of people across the world over the coming years.
"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.
Guy I knew at work said he had a date and while they were eating chicken, his date told him chickens are descended from dinosaurs and then he couldn’t finish the chicken. He asked me if this was true. Yeah, bro, they’re dinosaurs. I’m sorry it ruined your date I guess.
Five days ago, the Rhine - at the point where it enters the Netherlands - reached its lowest level ever recorded: 6.47 meter above sea level. Now it's at 6.35 m.
Opinion: Why is the US engaged in a ‘forever war’ with the International Criminal Court?
Opinion: Why is the US engaged in a ‘forever war’ with the International Criminal Court?
The ICC is one of the few remaining institutions that can hold individuals to account for so called atrocity crimes
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“Standing with all those affected by the devastating wildfires across Europe”. - PES Party of European Socialists & Democrats
After spending years dehumanising and vilifying Trans+ people unchallenged, the BBC has now started the "Are there too many Black and Brown people working in the NHS?" thing
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · yesterday"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
See 2026 on right? It’s the hottest the El Niño subsurface has ever been measured. If we are being honest, we have to do serious research into how excess heat due to climate change (90% stored in Ocean) likely fuels stronger El Nino’s. To no one’s surprise, stored heat is coming back to haunt us!
Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 2d agoAnother El Niño Record! Watch as heat back ups at the end. The heat building below the surface, which fuels El Niño, is higher than ever measured. This shows the heat just below the Trop Pacific sfc, moving from the W.Pacific Warm Pool where it’s stored, to the E. Pacific Sfc where El Niño forms 1/
Marine scientists identify the recent capture of a juvenile tiger shark off Falmouth, Massachusetts, as a critical indicator of climate change. The appearance of the tropical predator highlights how rising sea temperatures make northern Atlantic waters increasingly hospitable to southern species.
Tiger shark caught off Massachusetts could be sign of warming waters
Nate Rouette and his brother Nelson went shark fishing on Cape Cod hoping for an exciting catch, but were shocked by what they reeled in.
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Israeli settlers in own words: "I think now, after they killed one Israeli, we need to kill all the people in Tal and Sarra, even Jit and Farata," naming the Palestinian villages closest to the outpost. He added, "God chose us [and] because of this you are jealous." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
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Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d agoPeople still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.
"I’ve dreaded this moment for ten years and it’s finally here. These are the conditions that lead to WWIII. That's not something I've ever said before." youtu.be/5r8mEzTdggk?...
The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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"Kushner is the ‘chief negotiator’ for Israel and Gaza and Iran; and for Ukraine and Russia. He is not an elected or appointed official. He’s a mafia operative who is Trump’s son-in-law, which is how authoritarian kleptocracies work... (1/2)" youtu.be/5r8mEzTdggk?...
The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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"Using AI compliments, intensifies, and accelerates privatization of the public sector, and that's in addition to any harm that it's doing to work ... The labor movement should be contesting the idea that the imposition of AI is inevitable."
Truthout@truthout.org · 2d agoOrganized labor’s response to AI has been fraught. Where some see an inevitable shift that simply needs to be regulated and could potentially even create jobs, others see a dangerous trend that will result in further job losses along with a variety of other problems.