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Eos @eos.org · 07/10/2026

In Finland, rewetting forestry-drained peatlands could yield climate benefits within decades, a @restorationecology.bsky.social study suggests. eos.org/articles/res... Read more in our October issue: eos.org/themes/secre...

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Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades - Eos

That’s much faster than what most scientists thought.

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isaac @sevier.io · 08/10/2026

If we can pass Medicare for All, we can make electricity free for everyone too. The logic is the same: cut corporations out and start providing what everyone needs to live. www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n...

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'Medicare for All' message attracts midterm voters buckling under medical bills

Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.

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404 Media @404media.co · 07/10/2026

Apple's Inactivity Reboot feature made it harder for cops to break into locked iPhones after 72 hours of inactivity. @lorenzofb.bsky.social obtained a video that shows how a new tool offered by GrayKey can crack that. @josephcox.bsky.social has more. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpzC...

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 08/06/2026

I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 07/10/2026

Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. Big tech and AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. abcnews.com/amp/Politics...

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Former FTC Chair Khan dismisses 'constitution' signed by AI leaders to self-police

On "This Week," former FTC Chair Lina Khan called on Congress to help regulate AI.

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Sue Stone @knittingknots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Detained immigrants at Georgia ICE facility launch mass hunger strike | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Detained immigrants at Georgia ICE facility launch mass hunger strike

At least 73 people estimated to have joined protest against prolonged detention and Folkston facility’s ‘violations’

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 07/10/2026

"Computer: end program, and save."

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Didn't that hack come directly from their lab? Like not even third parties using their models in sketchy ways but their own researchers doing it? Seems pretty cut and dry.

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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Knowledge is Power (so ban books): The bans involved a “record number of unique titles” – exceeding 7,000 – involving more than 4,000 authors, illustrators and translators. Analysts found 114 school districts which banned books during the school year, “the highest number ever for a single year”.

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US book bans in public schools reach record annual high of 12,000

Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Banning 1984 is... Orwellian. And keeping books that help you understand gender and identity out of the hands of kids is so harmful /hateful. #booksky

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 02/10/2026

U.S. investigators reportedly believe that unidentified hackers broke into an oil supertanker's propulsion system as the vessel headed toward Texas this summer, which does not seem great. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looks like their have been similar tribunals where a woman received damages and of course its an awful situation regardless of gender. Just the one of the first times I saw a legal outcome like this was a man which seemed odd. Are private tribunals the best/ only remedy? No criminal proceedings?

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seems like countless men do this daily, why is it a man is being rewarded damages? Has the same been done for women? Many struggle to even get videos taken down. @samleecole.bsky.social did a whole podcast on this...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think it's the result kf being captured by the logic of credit ratings and growth indicators. As his books points out what we value in economics does not capture our values effectively. But this tripling down on the same old broken economic models is unforgivable and not the way to best Trump.

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is not Canadian Value(s). This is a massive step in the wrong direction from a PM who was an UN envoy for climate finance. We are seeing the political elites fight harder than ever to maintain the status quo. It's time to get serious about pushing back.

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Much of the oilsands (or tar sands) is American owned and the more we contribute to the continuation of oil and gas dependence globally the more wars for oil and American resource colonialism we will see. Canadians want to be part of the solution and a global community doing the right thing...

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was the moment our PM announced support for what they are now calling the Pacific Link pipeline which would send an additional 1 million barrels per day of oilsands crude to the coast. I'm all for diversifying trading partners away from the US but this isn't that... #cdnpoli #bcpoli #climate

PM Mark Carney and Albertas Premier Danielle Smith in Fort McMurry announcing support for a new dangerous oilsands diluted bituemen pipeline. They are st s podium that says csnsds strong for all and are flanked in the background by workers in hard hats. Carney and Smith look very happy yet it makes me very sad.

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So glad to have found your post about the event today. Thank you for doing what you do and doing it so well @katharinehayhoe.com. ❤️ Appreciated you responding to my "trillion dollar question". It gives me hope seeing groups of communicators coming together like this. We will join the org.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Max Ufberg @maxuf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the summer, I visited Ukraine’s hidden offices and testing fields to meet the startups, soldiers, and government engineers making cutting-edge AI weapons at a pace the rest of the world is scrambling to match. Read more @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91611099/ins...

fastcompany.com

Inside Ukraine’s secretive tech world building the future of war

I visited Kyiv’s hidden offices and testing fields to meet the startups, soldiers, and government engineers making cutting-edge weapons at a pace the rest of the world is scrambling to match.

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes which makes it even worse if he loses. Its a foolish gamble which already seems to be backfiring. Honestly it's hard to discern what the party even stands for anymore right now. A steady hand is about the best they can offer. But this election doesn't match that idea. It's introducing chaos.

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've known David for years and wanted him to be Premier. But honestly this is unforgivable. He should resign. This election is a disgrace.

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm so mad at David Eby right now... This election in the midst of the "trade war" is not only unnecessary and short sighted. The Trump regime has two more years in power. The next election in BC wasnt needed for two more years. He's about to potentially hand over power to pro trump folks in BC.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.

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The End Times Fascists of AI, ft. Naomi Klein + Astra Taylor

Listen now (64 mins) | A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about “end times fascism” in the tech industry.

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404 Media @404media.co · 03/09/2026

Flock taught cops how they could surveil the No Kings protests and “small parades” using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases in a webinar last year. Here's a short clip from the webinar: @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/flock-taught...

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 03/09/2026

FBI tells me it's investigating the suspected breach at IDScan after a crime site let anyone to search the driver's licenses of 150+ million people, including the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. A DOD spox. told me it's aware and "evaluating" the report. Bypass for ad-blockers: archive.ph/5xFMq

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It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service | TechCrunch

An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 02/09/2026

Super scary - an identity theft service called Nexus is offering digital scans of identity documents for more than 170 million people in North America, including scans at airports and cannabis dispensaries. Krebs says the details check out. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses – Krebs on Security

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The U.S. ambassador to Canada reposted this

Repost by American ambassador to Canada Pete Hoeskstra of a Whitehouse post of an AI-generated photo of an eagle killing a Canada goose.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026

A democratic socialist AND a member of the Chickasaw Nation?!

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I could not be more grateful for @avilewis.ca being out there speaking on behalf of Canada in the midst if the most stupid trade war in history. youtu.be/5gEJOTQg0pY?... And thank you to @democracynow.org who have been doing some of the most important journalism on earth for decades. #cdnpoli

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“Most Stupid Trade Fight in History”: U.S. & Canadian Workers Lose in Trump’s New Tariff War

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

*rerouted to avoid Montana. 🙃

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/08/2026

It was just racist bullshit

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Ben West 🦋 @benwest.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Maddening bs as usual from Trump. He's posting AI slop about Keystone XL pipeline being back from the grave. And meanwhile the proposal requires State approvals, is a smaller pipe and only goes to Wyoming instead of Texas. Se routed to void Montana. Everything is a psyop with him. #cdnpoli

CBC news showing the ridiculous AI slop that President Trump shared on his social media. It's DJT holding onto a big falic pipeline coming up between his spread legs next to a tombstone that reads burried by Biden and ofcourse a couple America flags. Honestly it's so dumb I wouldn't be surprised if he made it himself with Grok or some SuperGrok BS he uses. The only upside was getting to listen to CBC reporters try to carefully describe what they are looking at.

A screen shot from CBC news showing the route of the proposed Keystone XL "Bridger" pipeline, which makes clear that this is in fact not at all the keystone pipeline. Don't get me wrong, we need to be reducing our dependence on fossil fuels not expanding it. This proposal is bad too. But it's not Keystone XL. Just wanted to point that out. They can argue it's a first step towards thus being built, albeit smaller. But that isn't the point of course. Its about keystone XL as a symbol. What's notable is how they need to route around montano. Its funny in this diagram as you see the pipeline route proposal now going way out of its way and turning a couple times to stay outside of that state.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So, uh, historically in China, Iran and Russia, a lot of cyber criminals are employees of intelligence agencies either moonlight in crime or intelligence. Tools from a major government contractor (I-Soon) in China were regularly used in crime. Someone is going to accidentally start a war.

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Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals (Gift Article)

The practice would align the United States more closely with countries like China and Russia, where spy agencies have long relied on private-sector hackers to help with national security missions.

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