An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities. The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u... via @nytimes.com

An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities

The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.

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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.

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Finally, a resolution: x.com/ExtendoClipz...

ExtendoClipzzz (@ExtendoClipzzz) on X

Did Fenix Flexin really use AI to make “Rubberz”? 🤯 This video breaks down the evidence step by step and shows how they figured out the process behind one of the internet’s biggest viral tracks. BUST...

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Mike Hager@mikehager.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wracked by the Fenix Flexin AI question…

NEW: I got a copy of the mediators report that made several recommendations, including binding arbitration. They've been accepted, ending this job action According to BC Nurses Union survey, top 2 priorities for striking workers are wages and benefits. Looks like both have been/are being addressed:

PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 5d ago

BC’s Longest Nursing Strike Ends After Mediators Step In Their recommendations include sending the union and employer into binding arbitration over wage increases. pressprogress.ca/bcs-longest-...

UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...

Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."

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WHO IS ASKING FOR THIS

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New 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...

This is much closer to what it's like for your standard content creator. It would be great if full-time work as an online creator (streamer, artist, presenter, comedian, writer, etc. it's all ART) was possible. But the reality is… nah. Linked report influencermarketinghub.com/creator-earn...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

Is this why people think BS followers equates to cash.

Very neat archaeology work documenting the persistence of these Indigenous Mexican settlements during “one of the most radical and transformative periods in the country’s history”. www.heritagedaily.com/2026/07/two-...

Two indigenous communities that survived the Spanish conquest discovered in Mexico

Archaeologists in Mexico have identified two Indigenous settlements that remained inhabited after the Spanish conquest, shedding new light on the survival of native communities during the early coloni...

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As the planet heats up and weather gets more extreme, a @nature.com paper shows a remarkably consistent media tic: - catastrophic effects always predicted at a fixed date, like 2050 - since 2000, effective climate action is always reported as 17 years off www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Asked whether India would allow #Bishnoi and others to be extradited to the United States, its High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh Patnaik said Indian courts would decide once the U.S. makes formal requests.

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 4w ago

“Show me the video,” Evaniel Johnson told The Associated Press. “Please show me that — and then I’m OK. Until you show me that, I’m gonna fight and advocate for my grandson until there’s no breath in me.”

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4w ago

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B.C.'s Attorney-General Niki Sharma says the province is preparing to sue #OpenAI in BC and California for failing to notify authorities when #TumblerRidge shooter made violent prompts in the months before the mass killing earlier this year.

Over the last few years, 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has has become mildly obsessed with hustle bros and their online get rich quick scams. He goes LARPing to see how exactly they do this: Read the story here: www.404media.co/how-i-bought...

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

And the same for authors and books

The Ford Government Just Deleted Thousands of Long-Term Care Reports. Here They Are. - thelocal.to/long-term-ca...

The Ford Government Just Deleted Thousands of Long-Term Care Reports. Here They Are. | The Local

The provincial government has eliminated access to long-term care home inspection reports from before 2023. We have over 10,000 of those reports, and are restoring access to the public.

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450 kegs of backup beer. 10x as much toilet paper. And a server burning as many calories in one chaotic shift as many runners would burn in a half-marathon. Jesse Winter and me on the crush of World Cup visitors on Vancouver's Granville Street businesses: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A day in the life of a Vancouver server on World Cup game day

For 12 gruelling hours, The Globe shadowed Kaylee Banks, tracking her heart rate and step count as she worked through a marathon shift

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Tatyanna Harrison went missing from Vancouver in May of 2022, but her remains were not identified until August that same year.  An inquest into her death began today and is expected to wrap up later this month.

Inquest into death of a 20-year-old woman from 2022 begins today in British Columbia - APTN News

20-year-old Tatyanna Harrison went missing from Vancouver in May of 2022, but her remains were not identified until August that same year. Numerous questions have arisen since and an inquest into her…

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Alongside HonestReporting Canada, HR Canada Charitable Organization claims to fight anti-Israel bias in news reporting. Now it’s battling the CRA to keep its charitable registration. zurl.co/boEMK

"They appear to be advancing a particular viewpoint while omitting information necessary for a balanced and comprehensive understanding of the subject matter," concluded Auditors. Pro-Israel media ‘watchdog’ HRC fighting CRA’s attempt to revoke its charity status: futureofgood.co/pro-israel-m...

Pro-Israel media ‘watchdog’ fighting CRA’s attempt to revoke its charity status – Future of Good

Auditors allege HR Canada Charitable Organization acted as a ‘conduit’ for HonestReporting Canada, carried out no charity work

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Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

9 years ago, NBC gave this woman $20 million a year to host a morning talk show and be one of the top faces of its news division.

Today, we launched the Free Access for Journalists program: free access to the IJF’s 23 million+ rows of public interest data for reporters across Canada. Learn more about this program and check your eligibility today: theijf.org/free-access-...

This is just terrific reporting by @themadstone.bsky.social, @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @katieworth.bsky.social Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Heard a touching story of loss at this morning's pre-match march. #drugpoisoningcrisis

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · last mo.

Book launch is this Sunday (June 28) at 1pm at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve in Chilliwack. Come for the book, come for the snacks, I don’t judge.

Grace Kennedy@gracekennwrites.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s here! CANADA’S ENDANGERED ANIMALS, in the flesh! The books arrived at my door late last week, which means they will be in bookstores near you either now or very soon. The book is beautiful, the illustrations by Alex MacAskill are spectacular, and I guess the writing is okay.

"I’m comfortably asocial — a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.” - Octavia E. Butler #HappyBirthday