This is a breakthrough. I feel I have been witness to this with many people. #CovidIsNotOver tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...

Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

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The voter list leak sees its first lawsuit! This press release announces the launch of a class action lawsuit against the government, the chief electoral officer, the centurion project, the Republican Party of Alberta and David Parker. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

#Alberta #Separation Worth your minute 👏🏻

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · last yr.

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

We live in the stupidest timeline.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo ago

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

In case you weren't sure, it makes absolutely no sense to use gas to make electricity anymore. Not only is its climate impact on par with coal some of the time (methane leaks), but it's also flat out *more expensive* than solar + storage in nearly every scenario and in every part of the world.

The Last Gasp of Gas for Power Generation

As a companion to a piece earlier this week comparing the cost of dispatchable solar (solar + storage) to the cost of a barrel of oil, I…

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Shannon Proudfoot has the best analogy for the disingenuous position of Danielle Smith www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is one of the most thorough and accurate eviscerations of a dishonest, self-serving politician that I have ever read.

Smith empathizes with those who want to separate. Smith says those who chose "remain" need to not divide, to not demonize. Fuck all the way off traitor Smith, you're a separatist. #AbLeg #abpoli #FiretheUCP #MarlainaSmithLies

Rakhi Pancholi spitting fire at the UCP side of the aisle and calling out the weaponization of the Forever Canadian petition to appease the separatists in the UCP. Of note, no press release has been issued on today's committee meeting outcome... Yet. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Now we know. Smith committed to give separatists a referendum. She pre-recorded her tomorrow’s TV address, before the Legislature committee had a chance to vote on the #ForeverCanadian petition. UCP sent out a press release on a vote that didn’t happen, while they supposedly listened to me #ableg

One of the biggest problems with green technology is that big businesses can’t make endless money from it. Oil/gas is a consumable that they make money from pumping, transporting, refining etc. LOTS of money year over year The same is not true for wind/solar. That’s the biggest hurdle.

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Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

Every year I'm more convinced D&D really got it right when they made Intelligence and Wisdom separate attributes.

BREAKING! Today the UCP not only voted to circumvent the Chief Justice of Alberta, but they also voted to hide the letter the Chief Justice wrote raising concerns about the UCP's boundary process! We have the text of the letter in our new Substack! #abpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

How Democracy is Stolen

The Gerrymandering of Alberta Takes Another Step.

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We're going to keep on this story. If you have tips about the voter data scandal, the Centurion project or the connections between the UCP and the separatists, you can email @rorywh.bsky.social: Rory (at) national observer

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good shoe-leather reporting by @readtheorchard.org and the @nationalobserver.com's Rory White here. #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/08/i...

No one is better at keeping hope alive than Rebecca Solnit, the historian and essayist whose *Hope in the Dark* got me through the first Trump administration and whose *A Paradise Built In Hell* inspired my novel *Walkaway*: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070... 1/

On March 31, the UCP government introduced Bill 25, a piece of legislation that, according to the Canadian Civil Liberties Union, “entrenches censorship in schools.” Comedian Henry Sir gives us a satirical look at a “neutral” classroom under UCP supervision. #abpoli #ableg #canpoli

With the distinct possibility that the courts will prevent validation of the Stay Free Alberta petition, we are left with a single source for the separatists' claim that they collected enough signatures to spark a referendum. And that source is far from trustworthy.👇 But also...🧵

Marcello Di Cintio@marcellodicintio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm not saying that the separatists DIDN'T gather 177,000 signatures. That's certainly possible. But I am saying that the only source of this claim is Mitch Sylvestre. Some of Sylvestre's other claims include:

I don't know, I might be inclined to email Dan items that I have borrowed from my library...one email per item. It is usually cozy mysteries & knitting books which I'm sure will be scandalous. Or email him inquiries as to whether an individual item I might borrow is problematic. He is the "expert"!

My take on the BS from Alberta separatists: thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... So many harmful lies. For example, there is nothing subtle about how Alberta separatists scapegoat immigrants. To call this language a dog whistle is an insult to dog whistles. And the embrace of the "cowboy" myth?

Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy | The Walrus

The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality

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Ya so the guy, josiah, behind centurion project with our premier with her chief of staff Rob who wrote the free Alberta strategy on how to hold an independence referendum But Ya sure it’s unrelated

Seven solar companies most people haven’t heard of, are ALREADY providing more energy for the global economy than Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP: buff.ly/4ZprKPE We have the solutions. Time to dump the oil economy and implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Building a coalition of the willing, breaking deadlock, planning the transition without blockers at the table: it hit me that no matter what happens, Santa Marta is already a success. This conversation was unthinkable a few years ago. Overton window? Wide open www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock

Santa Marta conference born out of frustration at Cop summits, where renewable progress has been stalled by major polluters

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This week on ‘Whatever This Is’, we’re calling out the ultimate wealth transfer happening right under our noses: Danielle Smith’s two-tier education system. It’s a tactic ripped straight from the American playbook: Defund the public. Subsidize the elite. Segregate by class. #ableg #canpoli #abpoli

thetyee.ca/News/2026... Now our Recovery Alberta care delivery has been put at risk by sole source contracts and possible corruption. How far does this extend. How deep does the possible corruption go? And at the center of all of these deals is the same person... 1/4

Unpaid Subcontractors for Recovery Centres Say UCP Abandoned Them | The Tyee

One says he faces bankruptcy as publicly funded projects are stalled by a tangled legal fight.

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This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate