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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦

@berlinskyjohn.bsky.social
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Victoria, BC Retired physics prof and, in case you can't tell, a Liberal 🇨🇦 #IStandWithTrudeau #LiberalMajority #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 #MarkCarney

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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 1h
"When we repeatedly rule out what we want in order to prevent what we fear, we risk never building the alternative we would actually support." www.andrewjweaver.ca/2026/09/29/v...
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Vote splitting, fear, and the voters we forget - Andrew Weaver: A Climate for Hope
“Don’t split the vote.” It is an argument that can sound practical, even responsible. But too often, beneath it lies a much less inspiring message: vote for us, otherwise you will get them. What disap...
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 23h
BC has bungled the roll-out of the provincially-funded program to provide RSV vaccine for seniors over 75. The problem is failing to inform pharmacies in a timely way and providing them with only a small fraction of the needed vaccine, particularly for Victoria. @dianagibson.bsky.social
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nope. www.projectarrow.ca
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Project Arrow 2.0 Launch | Project Arrow
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why Carney is not building a pipeline for Alberta Carney, Smith and the oil companies all have their own plans — but they can’t all be right www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Carney, Smith and the oil companies all have their own plans — but they can’t all be right
The politicking around a new west coast oil pipeline is almost done. Now the real work begins — and the real challenge reveals itself.
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citytechie 🇨🇦 @citytechie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/w...
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A Transcript From The Times Interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada (Gift Article)
New York Times journalists pressed the Canadian prime minister about a range of topics in an hourlong interview last week. Here’s a transcript of their conversation.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I read the entire interview transcript. His ability to discuss these topics effortlessly and articulately is on another level. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/w...
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A Transcript From The Times Interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada (Gift Article)
New York Times journalists pressed the Canadian prime minister about a range of topics in an hourlong interview last week. Here’s a transcript of their conversation.
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is an excellent podcast with Marci Shore about the current political situation in the US. open.spotify.com/episode/3ush...
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How new fascism operates
Ideas · Episode
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CTV News is talking about American customs officers going through people’s cellphones. Why bother travelling to the United States to begin with? I’m continuing to boycott that country.
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm thinking of supporting Andrew Weaver in his campaign for MLA in Oak Bay-Gordon Head. Given how chaotic the outcome of this election is likely to be, he seems like a solid, sensible person to have in the legislature. I'm curious if others in the riding are interested in supporting him.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hard truth: If you wait until you feel better to start living, you might be waiting forever. Go live your life. Do it sad. Do it anxious. Do it uncertain. Because healing doesn't always come before the experience. Sometimes, the experience is what heals you.
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𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘤𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘺 🍁 @ajohmss1956.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't think I've ever heard an American president threaten to annihilate another country during a speech to the UN. You must all be so proud.
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collburns.bsky.social @collburns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
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collburns.bsky.social @collburns.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We really need to start applying heavy fines on these Companies. GET WITH THE F*CKING PROGRAM 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Don Hoskins | 🍁 Future EU Associate 🍁 @djbhoskins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Leader of the Free World leading again... Mark Carney gets more done in one afternoon than some leaders do in 2 years... Link coming as soon as it's published... True North Strong & Free! 😎🇨🇦🍁✊
Graphic with text:

A joint commitment to multilateralism, international law, peace and prosperity

September 21, 2026
New York, United States of America

Initial co-sponsors: Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, India and Kenya

“We come together at a time of profound global transformation. The escalating pace and scale of global change are reshaping our present and will define our collective future.

We are concerned by growing polarisation, the spread of conflict, violations of international law and the increasing resort to power politics, protectionism, coercion and the threat or use of force. These trends are a threat to international peace and security and harm global cooperation precisely when it is needed more than ever.

We recognise that economic interdependence is increasingly used as a source of leverage, disrupting trade, supply chains, investment and development finance. At the same time, shared global challenges, including the triple planetary crisis of climate emergency, biodiversity loss and pollution as well as the rapid development of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, require stronger cooperation and more effective provision of global public goods.

Today, we, the signatories to this Declaration, commit to work together in support of peace, stability, inclusive and sustainable development, shared prosperity, human dignity and rights for all.
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In an opinion piece that is virtually dripping with unintended irony, a former Editor writes that Trump has lost even the WSJ. www.wsj.com/opinion/help...
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Opinion | Help—I Feel a Bad Case of TDS Coming On
After 2024, Republicans blew a great opportunity to set the country back onto the right track.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history. #cdnpoli cultmtl.com/2026/09/mark...
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Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history
Prime Minister Mark Carney now holds the highest recorded approval rating in Canadian history, achieved earlier this month in a study by Spark Insights.
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Slightly more than 10,000 people showed up at the #ForeverCanadian Unity Concert in Calgary yesterday. Great Canadian music, friendship and patriotism brought us all together. Thank you artists, volunteers and Calgarians for your support!!! #CdnPoli
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Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The U.S. and Lithuania Clash Over Belarusian Potash
The critical mineral has driven a wedge between Washington and Vilnius, as the Trump administration pressures a NATO ally to engage with Belarus—sidestepping the EU in the process.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Alex Ovechkin: "I'm Russian and I support my country. I'm for peace and love. I can't say who's right and who's wrong." Meanwhile, Russia continues to kill Ukrainian athletes. In March, a Russian missile killed 9-year-old Hordii Udovychenko, a young hockey player from Kharkiv. 🕯️🕊️💔😢
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An important opinion piece that everyone should read from the Financial Times
Multilateralism is not idealism, it is a necessity
We need to strengthen our system of co-operation, not replace it

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, António Costa, William Ruto and Mark Carney 
The writers are president of Brazil, president of the European Council, president of Kenya and prime minister of Canada
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This guy is fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG0s...
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the whole audience turns on MAGA American in Krakow, Poland
YouTube video by Victor Patrascan
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
History of the price of oil related to global events and inflation. Note the precipitous drop in 2014 due to US Shale boom - not to the Trudeau government.
Global average oil price ($ per barrel)

1: Yom Kippur war. 2: Iranian revolution. 3: Gulf war. 4: Iraq war. 5: Demand from emerging markets brings record high, followed by slump during global financial crisis. 6: US shale boom. 7: Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 8: US & Israel attack Iran
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Lexy Cameron 🇨🇦 @lexycameron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
LOL!
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the president of the United States ..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Untethered Himself From Reality (Gift Article)
The president’s distortions have an impact on much more than belief in his claims about what he was doing on Sept. 11.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have been saying for a year that gambling is a public health crisis. And it's making young men angrier and more hopeless. GAMBLING ADS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL on television and the internet. Period. @wgreaves.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social
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More people are seeking emergency care for gambling, a new study says — and it's mostly men and boys | CBC News
New research published Wednesday in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found a nearly 100 per cent increase in emergency department visits, in just the past few years, following the rapid gr...
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Ken Wood part owner of 🇨🇦 @madhat59kenwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canada also had Green Technology projects in the offer book at the Economic Summit. But those saying he has abandoned climate/green didnt bother reading the offer book. #cdnpoli
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heated Policy 🔥🍁🇨🇦🇪🇺
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Fun Tom @funtomvids.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🧵 1/6 🔴 Last night after work, I swung by a nearby supermarket to pick up some green tea, Orios and an eggplant. As I waited in line at the cash, there were 3 young folks behind me, who looked to be 19 or 20 – 2 guys and a young lady. Without meaning to overhear their conversation, I heard it...
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The solar revolution made possible by cheap Chinese photovoltaic panels — and the rise of small-scale, individual power generation — is transforming energy in the developing and industrialised world alike." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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‘Offensively cheap’: solar power is looking up
Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“This is Canada turning from looking at itself as a North American nation to a trans-Atlantic nation,” said a senior Canadian official. “Canadians, we sound like Americans, we dress like Americans, but as a society we’re much more European.” Gift Link: www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Exclusive | Mark Carney’s Audacious Bid to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU
As trade talks with the U.S. collapse, prime minister pursues a major—and risky—pivot to Europe; an Ottawa book club plays its part.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Looks like a certain petulant brat got his saggy ass handed to him by a strong woman. You know how much he must have delighted in that. Thank you, President Connolly!
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've been listening to the podcasts by Marci Shore on European Intellectual History since Nietzsche while on my walks. Today's lecture, Lecture 15, Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism-Nature of Evil was the best so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naev...
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European Intellectual History since Nietzsche: Cls 15, Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism-Nature of Evil
YouTube video by YaleCourses
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump was never held accountable for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Thats is why he 100 percent will try to overturn the 2026 election when Democrats win Congress. The only question is Are Democratic leaders ready?!
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citytechie 🇨🇦 @citytechie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...
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Frank McKenna on the hoopla and FOMO around the first Canada Investment Summit
‘I’ve never seen anything like this‘
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Chinese are running away from gas cars! Gas car sales plunge 40%! Plug-in hybrid car (combine battery and gas engine) sales fall 29% Only sales of fully electric autos grew in August. The end of the internal combustion engine nears in China. carnewschina.com/2026/09/08/g... #energysky
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Gas car sales fell 40% in August in China [Charts]
BEVs were only segment which avoided decline.
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Notable understatement from Reuters Morning Bid: "Meantime, fresh jitters in the AI world ... were compounded by headline-grabbing warnings from Anthropic employees about an end to humanity. Markets won't be ⁠able to price that, ..."
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citytechie 🇨🇦 @citytechie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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They’re the backbone of so many buildings. So why doesn’t Canada make its own steel I-beams?
We stopped in 1999. Tariffs have made the question more urgent
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A history lesson.
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citytechie 🇨🇦 @citytechie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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EU envoy says a 'unique' new partnership with Canada forming ahead of…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"If there is indeed a 10 percent chance AI destroys us, there’s a 90 percent chance it doesn’t. What are we going to do with those odds?" open.substack.com/pub/davidmos...
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What Comes After Reading That AI Might Kill Us All?
Is there really a 10% chance we’re goners? No one really knows. But the seriousness of the risk asks us to find and pursue a greater purpose.
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Will Greaves @wgreaves.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Summer Update: Discussing Social Media and Meeting with the Public at the 2026 Victoria Forum @victoriaforum.bsky.social #yyj youtu.be/QKG_RMnDBUY?...
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Part 2 Summer Update: A Multi-Party Panel on Energy, Environment, and National Unity
YouTube video by Will Greaves, M.P. for Victoria
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sometimes the political cartoons are more poignant than humorous. They may make us laugh, or cry, or scream, but they always make us feel... .
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Canadians should watch this. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAw...
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Forward Guidance: A Stronger Canada
YouTube video by Mark Carney
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Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Buy Canadian 💪🇨🇦
Buy Canadian
Buy Local
Boycott u.s. food products
Boycott All u.s. travel

'True North Strong & Free'
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Nobody in this country is in the stands. 40 million of us are on the ice.” 🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney knows how to communicate effectively to lead Canadians and the world in this historic moment.
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is there, perhaps, a long-term market for Alberta heavy oil in Asia? @maxfawcett.bsky.social
REUTERS
Asia is poised to take up 70% of Canadian oil exports, pipeline executive says
2 hours ago

SINGAPORE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Asia, led by China, ‌is expected to buy 70% of Canadian crude oil exports after the country's only pipeline that provides access to the continent expands its capacity by a third by the end of 2028, a Canadian industry executive said on Tuesday.

• Demand from Asia for Canadian crude has increased as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has disrupted supplies from the ⁠Middle East.

• The 890,000-barrel-per-day Trans Mountain pipeline from the province of ‌Alberta to British Columbia's west coast from where oil can be shipped to Asia hit full capacity for the first time in June.

• Canada's oil ‌output, the world's fourth-largest, this year is set to ⁠exceed last year's record of 5.3 million barrels per day, according to Canada's energy regulator.

• Mark Maki, chief executive officer of the pipeline operator ⁠Trans Mountain, said ‌the pipeline expansion would add 90,000 bpd transport capacity in ⁠the fourth quarter, and another 210,000 bpd by the end of ‌2028.

• "About two-thirds of ships that leave the dock go to ⁠Asia and then as we expand, I would expect ⁠that most of ‌that (expansion) will be going to Asia," Maki told Reuters on the sidelines of the annual industry gathering APPEC ‌in Singapore.

• Canada in July also announced plans to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific coast, which would give the country greater capacity to export to Asia.

• China, the world's biggest importer of oil, will ⁠remain Canada's single largest customer going forward, as heavy Canadian oil is an ideal feedstock for petrochemicals, Maki said.

• Maki said he expected some new countries to become customers, including Thailand, and that India, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam would increase their purchases of Canadian oil.

(Reporting by Chen Aizhu and Trixie Yap)
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: Is now the time to get serious about EVs in Canada? #cdnpoli
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John Berlinsky 🇨🇦 @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Article By: Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI Basically a cry for help to Please stop us before we create superintelligent agents who will destroy humanity. openai.com/index/an-ali...
Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established. And I believe that international coordination on future AI development needs to become a top priority for governments around the world.
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