Vancouver Idea: a webcam to tell you how long the lineup to get ice cream at Rain or Shine is

This seems to be a threat to both national security and people’s personal data. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A Canadian payment giant is being sold to U.S. private equity. Is your digital privacy at risk? | CBC News

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are selling payment processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to San Francisco-based investment firm Francisco Partners. Some analysts are raising concerns around wha...

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as a researcher and communicator about fascism this is the central challenge - people simply don't believe it's real and that real people really believe it, they must've been fooled or coerced or something

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents mean it. They believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly." www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

The arrival of bird flu in Australia has scientists and bird lovers rightfully very concerned. It’s good to see proactive steps like this to protect vulnerable www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Phillip Island penguins to be vaccinated for bird flu

The targeted vaccination of 5,000 penguins is claimed to be the largest wild bird vaccination program undertaken globally.

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2026’s official slogan is “This would be funny if it weren’t terrifying.”

It’s definitely over for Infantino www.cbc.ca/sports/socce...

Trump backs Infantino as 3 soccer federations accuse FIFA president of 'deception' in open letter | CBC Sports

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Monday that it would be a 'terrible mistake' for FIFA to replace its embattled president, Gianni Infantino. This follows an open letter issue...

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"There is one type of rare, gargantuan, towering lie that makes all the other mass lies throughout human history seem like frightened, scurrying, little adorable fibs. This massive lie can best be summed up as 'when it comes to climate change... we have more time.'" - @ghostpanther.bsky.social

The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...

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Well this Monday sucks ass. Bad news all around.

I didn’t paint and attach thousands of individual popcorns to model trees just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

I love the expression "bereft of discovery". So true.

Joshua Bowman@thalesdisciple.bsky.social · last wk.

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

I’m still processing this 2 days later. I was sitting in a kayak when this baby beluga decided to play with me. Other whales joined in and you can see what happened next. What isn’t on camera is that one then started pushing me around the river for five-ish minutes. It was an unforgettable moment.

Remember as your eyes burn from the smoke today, Ken Sim and ABC voted to allow fracked gas in new builds, cancelled $8 million in climate retrofit grants; voted against funding for cooling kits for people in the Downtown Eastside; and got rid of the climate justice charter.

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

the sheer caucasity of Carney and Co to announce a pipeline "in the national interest" while First Nations burn

APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tonight on APTN National News: A First Nation in British Columbia grapples with over 200 homes destroyed by out-of-control wildfire. A First Nation in Ontario under evacuation orders is concerned it may be lifted while the community is still at risk.

People talk a lot about the causes of declining birth rates, but it's really simple. People used to need enough kids to put on a touring Shakespeare production - maybe six, even eight. But with the rising popularity of Samuel Beckett? Two is sufficient.

Machine learning is a technique that has been around for a decade. Calling everything "AI" flattens discourse. It aims to conflate chatbots and generative AI with single-purpose tools that have been proven to be useful.

Investigative Journalism Foundation@theijf.org · 2w ago

Could AI improve your commute? The City of Vancouver plans to pilot Google’s Green Light program, which uses AI and Google Maps to analyze and make suggestions for improving traffic infrastructure. zurl.co/pMhmc

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

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No link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism, large US study suggests

The findings reinforce existing evidence of the safety of MMR vaccination, the authors say.

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Twelve people from across British Columbia have been appointed to the Order of British Columbia, the province's highest honour recognizing exceptional contributions to the province and…

12 people to receive Order of BC, including Victoria reconciliation leader and Salt Spring conservation pioneer

Twelve people from across British Columbia have been appointed to the Order of British Columbia, the province's highest honour recognizing exceptional contributions to the province and beyond.

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This is like Sydney rain in Vancouver. Crazy!

I know I’m late to the party, but Stardew Valley is fun!

any turtle can be a snapping turtle if the jazz is smooth enough

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

They have done so many corruptions that I hadn't even heard about this 321-gem, 18-karat one that he thanked "his friends in Antwerp" for in a video message until now.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 3w ago

lol okay www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

Carbon capture is like dealing with an overflowing bathtub with paper towels instead of turning off the tap. Calling Carney's Carbon Capture Bluff via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Calling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff | The Tyee

He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality.

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🧠 AI is reshaping the people who use it A peer-reviewed paper warns AI in healthcare and the military changes the humans using it: their empathy, responsibility and critical thinking. The tool changes the user. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s43681-026-01197-x #SlowAI #AIethics #Deskilling 🧪

AI-enhanced trait modulation in high-stakes industries: a conceptual perspective - AI and Ethics

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into decision-making processes has transformed high-stakes industries such as healthcare and the military, raising critical questions about its impact on decision-making traits such as empathy, responsibility, critical thinking, risk aversion, and self-confidence. While prior research has largely examined AI’s effects on individual traits in isolation, a gap remains in understanding how these traits interact in a complex interplay of drivers. This study aims to identify the underlying drivers by which AI-supported decision-making reshapes decision-making traits in high-stakes industries. Methodologically, the work draws on 22 semi-structured interviews with healthcare and military professionals. Based on thematic analysis, we identified five First-Order Drivers associated with trait displacement—physical and emotional distance, abstraction, perceived inferiority, added entity, and scapegoating tendency. We further identified three Second-Order Amplifiers—technological, individual, and situational factors—which intensify the magnitude of the effects. Together, these insights are synthesized in the AI-Enhanced Trait Modulation (AETM) model, an integrative framework explaining decision-making trait displacement. To situate AI’s effects in relation to other technologies, we introduce a complementary heuristic, the 5S framework. Our results highlight the growing need for ethical governance, user-centric AI design, and organizational contexts that foster critical engagement in response to AI-induced trait displacement. Especially amid accelerating AI adoption and geopolitical tension, preserving the human core of decision-making remains an ethical imperative.

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