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Universities in Canada including UBC, SFU and UVIC coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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
breachmedia.ca
Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping https://gizmodo.com/someone-was-arrested-at-a-public-meeting-for-the-crime-of-anti-data-center-clapping-2000791608
Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping
After hearing an impassioned speech, Lux Claridge clapped, and was then arrested.
gizmodo.com
Carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, is turning out to be a perfect example of what the social critic Jacques Ellul called the “technological bluff.” Andrew Nikiforuk explains.
Calling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff | The Tyee
He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality.
thetyee.ca
Profit over people capitalism. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As Parasite Spawned Chaos, Taylor Farms Slow-Walked Response
The US Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’s worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in decades was a false posit...
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Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
nytimes.com
"Few things are more intuitive about the smartphone era than the fact that devices have torpedoed our interest in reading and dragged down the status that books and their authors once seemed to enjoy." archive.today/KLIEJ
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If you’re in line to perform in the World Cup final halftime show, stay in line!
Vancouver’s Villages Plan: Born in the U.S.A. (Public Hearing July 14) – Endgame 2026 cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/v...
Vancouver’s Villages Plan: Born in the U.S.A. (Public Hearing July 14) – Endgame 2026
How the U.S.-based, tech-billionaire-funded Abundance Network influenced B.C. legislation and democratic processes. Vancouver’s Villages as a case study. (To be updated with links and more. This ve…
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If You Have a Public Instagram Account, You Might Be Surprised What AI Users Can Now Do With Your Face https://gizmodo.com/if-you-have-a-public-instagram-account-you-might-be-surprised-what-ai-users-can-now-do-with-your-face-2000782694
If You Have a Public Instagram Account, You Might Be Surprised What AI Users Can Now Do With Your Face
Meta's slop generator has arrived late in the game, and you might want to opt-out from it.
gizmodo.com
Feds Planned to Sue Individual Canadians Over Online Posts, Internal Memo Reveals www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/07/06/f...
Feds Planned to Sue Individual Canadians Over Online Posts, Internal Memo Reveals | iPhone in Canada
An Access to Information request has revealed that the federal government put together an internal plan to monitor online content and potentially sue individual Canadians over what they post. The stra...
iphoneincanada.ca
Parker Molloy on why the panic about trans women in sports is not actually about fairness or protecting women & girls (in the similar way Gamergate was not about “ethics in games journalism”).
Reasonable Concerns
The wedge on trans people moved exactly where we said it would. The people who gave it cover are still quiet.
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Passkeys are phishing-resistant by design — they can't be phished, leaked in a breach, or replayed, whether they replace a password or back one up. These top sites haven't turned on passkeys yet. Let's change that. whynopasskeys.com/country/ca
Why No Passkeys? — Canada
17 of the top 25 websites in Canada don't support passkeys.
whynopasskeys.com
@davidebybc.bsky.social time for you to score some points and do this in BC! Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California - arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.
arstechnica.com
Right now in Canada political parties can legally vacuum up your personal data with zero safeguards. Your bank can't do that, so why can they? Learn more and sign the petition today 👉 voterprivacy.ca @openmedia.org 🇨🇦
Your Data. Your Vote.
voterprivacy.ca
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Feds Quietly Pass Secret iPhone Spy Bill Overnight With Zero Debate | iPhone in Canada
Canada's Liberal government is taking heat after pushing a controversial surveillance bill through the House of Commons late at night with zero debate and no recorded vote. Law professor and internet ...
iphoneincanada.ca
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Fido Hits Recent Promo Customers With a Price Hike After Just 3 Months | iPhone in Canada
Fido customers are seeing a $4 price hike show up on their bills, and a lot of them are not happy about it, especially since some only signed up a few months ago. The complaints started piling up on t...
iphoneincanada.ca
If the Illuminati Were Real, Peter Thiel Wouldn't Have to Start His Own https://gizmodo.com/if-the-illuminati-were-real-peter-thiel-wouldnt-have-to-start-his-own-2000773194
If the Illuminati Were Real, Peter Thiel Wouldn't Have to Start His Own
What's a billionaire to do when faced with the reality that there's no Illuminati to join? Get Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the horn, of course.
gizmodo.com
Two former advisors to the federal government recently told MPs the Carney government has “repealed or weakened virtually every climate policy” developed in the last decade and is ignoring the advice of climate scientists. @meyer.bsky.social covered the experts' testimony:
Carney is ‘shredding’ environmental rules, ‘misleading’ the public: experts | The Narwhal
The government shut out its own climate science and policy advisors, they say, while gutting Canada’s environmental protections in favour of oil and gas
thenarwhal.ca
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster karlbode.com/the-spacex-i...
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster
Once again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person.
karlbode.com
How Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime kottke.org/26/06/how-er...
How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime
Before making his revolutionary documentary film The Thin Blue Line, filmmaker Errol Morris worked as a private detective. His detective skills came in hand
kottke.org
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society | WIRED - www.wired.com/story/leak-e...
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
wired.com
Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour: probe - National | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1189968...
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Globalnews.ca – Watch and read Canada’s Breaking news plus Business, Health, Politics and World News
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Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions | United Nations University - unu.edu/inweh/news/e...
Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions
By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns
unu.edu
Cloudflare CEO says AI bots now exceed human traffic on the web: over a year earlier than anticipated, currently 57% to 43% by their metrics https://www.tomshardware.com/t...
‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.
tomshardware.com
