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Hannah Spray

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Gardener, mom living in Saskatoon

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder: machines do not have intention or motivation or agency. If I leave bomb out on the street and it eventually blows up and kills people, did the bomb "go rogue" or am I a fucking criminal?
nytimes.com
OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026
I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
ca.news.yahoo.com
Carney government cut nearly half the jobs at nerve centre for managing wildfires: union
About 50 of the approximately 100 positions at the Government Operations Centre have been eliminated under the federal 'comprehensive expenditure review,' according to the largest public sector union.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every single damn day men kill their family members, including an incident just last week where a man in MT killed 8 members of his family — 4 of them children. But you barely heard a peep about it in the national conversation. Men killing their families is so common there’s a name for it… 1/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ABC NEWS: “ICE set to deploy a fleet of robot dogs to track and apprehend undocumented migrants…” Deranged. Dystopian. Nightmare fuel.
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 31/08/2026
Something something digital sovereignty www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Lake America replaces Lake Ontario on multiple Canadian websites after Google Maps update | CBC News
Some Canadian websites, including for the federal government, displayed maps with Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America on Sunday, a day after Google Maps announced the change to align with an executiv...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"I agree Musk is awful, but stay on X for the news"
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Satan was great so long as he was offering me cool stuff in exchange for my soul”
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
M. Gessen has written a truly extraordinary piece about the "soft fascism" faced by transgender people in America, and by trans people in Kansas particularly. Beautifully written and reported, deeply humane. I really hope you'll read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Gridlock by design: Hospitals are functioning as expensive parking spots for vulnerable citizens awaiting a more suitable place to take them in. This crisis was foreseen. It could have been prevented, by Jason M. Sutherland vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e... via @vancouversun.bsky.social
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Opinion: Gridlock by design: Why provinces have no excuses left for hospital bed-blocking crisis
Vulnerable citizens are stuck in hospital beds awaiting a more suitable place to take them in. This crisis could have been prevented
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/08/2026
Google’s AI team is instructing applicants to take special steps to avoid their resumes getting discarded by the company's AI systems
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Google’s AI Team Tells Job Seekers Its HR Filters Are Unreliable
Alphabet Inc.’s Google pitches its artificial intelligence tools to corporate clients as a way to more quickly sift through a mountain of job applications to find the most promising candidates. Some of its own AI researchers don’t want to rely on these tools when recruiting.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So brave Cadet Bone Spurs hid in an airport catering truck, leaving the White House Press Corps to be targets if Iran attacked Air Force One with Russia's help. Always the selfish, frightened coward, that one.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What happens? Our leaders double and triple down on fossil fuels and AI. time.com/article/2026...
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What Happens When the World is on Fire
"From America to Algeria, dangerous blazes are occurring around the world, giving us a glimpse into an age ablaze," writes John Valliant.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/08/2026
Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! As of August 5th, global sea-surface temperatures just set a new preliminary record high of 21.20°C. This breaks the previous record high of 21.17°C set on April 24, 2024. And yes, I had to extend the y-axis to plot this.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 06/08/2026
GEE I WONDER WHICH WILL HAPPEN.
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And in Canada we're financing gas plants... for U.S. corporations: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/24/n... See also: www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...
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Crown corp lends up to $200M for Meta data centre gas plant in Alberta
The gas plant, known as Greenlight, is classified as a project that is “likely to have significant adverse environmental and social effects.”
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 05/08/2026
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
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Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Jesus Christ
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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Google's move to AI means traditional SEO doesn't work anymore so every big company is now desperately doing Reddit AMAs to try and get their responses ingested by the Gemini slop machine and farted out in AI summaries
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Hi Reddit! I'm Annika Bizon, VP of Product and Marketing for Mobile Experience at Samsung Electronics UK & Ireland, and I'm back for another AMA.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I was in the grocery store yesterday, buying South African lemons, because I refuse to buy American produce. I vividly remember the days when Canadians boycotted South African fruit and wine, to protest apartheid. Now, the world’s turned upside down.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/08/2026
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
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The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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Laurence Thompson @thompsonlg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“for every 1°C rise in global temperature, the water vapour held in the atmosphere increases by 7%…. This increased water vapour in the air means…more evaporation from the seas & soils, leading to more intense droughts & dry spells; & more intense rainfall”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026
I'm not saying that anyone ever sat down and said, "Parents with sick children will pay whatever we charge for a thermometer at 2AM." They didn't have to: this is the kind of thing an automated system can do without any human intervention: www.ftc.gov/system/files... 15/
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Simon Enoch @simonenoch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Alberta’s Minister of Technology and Innovation, Nate Glubish, recently stated that he views “data centers as digital pipelines and digital refineries for us to help get the value from our natural gas to global markets.” www.desmog.com/2026/07/23/a...
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‘Absurdly High’: Alberta Considering Almost 21 GW of Gas-Powered Data Centres
Expert warns that would require 200 billion litres of water and explode Canada’s emissions.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026
Really interesting story here. You know how the hyperscaler cowboys are powering their data centers with gas turbines? It turns out the demands of AI are not very friendly to those turbines. They're supposed to last 5+ years & instead they're wearing out in under 12 months!
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Don't use AI in your writing. Just don't. 🤖🫧💥 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/07/2026
A man whose Tesla crashed into a house last month in Texas and killed a woman while he was using its autopilot function has been charged with manslaughter, court records show.
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Tesla Driver Using Autopilot in Texas Crash Is Charged With Manslaughter
A front-door video camera of the crash, which killed a woman inside her home, showed the Tesla plowing into a house through its driveway.
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Laurence Thompson @thompsonlg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you are wondering where the smoke is coming from: 🇨🇦’s boreal forest is on fire - from coast to coast to coast.
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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Extreme heat is no longer merely a short-term weather problem, but an economic shock. >30C, productivity drops by 3%/degree, energy costs rise 1.2%/degree, people work more slowly w/more mistakes, sick leave rises by 3.5% when T>30C, and by 6% during prolonged heatwaves. www.dw.com/en/climate-c...
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Climate change: Heatwave costs the German economy billions
Never before has a June been as hot in Germany as in 2026. This has consequences not only for people and nature, but also for businesses. Heat reduces productivity and causes illness, while cooling is...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Oh, wow, you don’t sayyyyyyyyy
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The two Beznau nuclear reactors in Switzerland which are cooled by water from the river Aare, have been taken off grid due to the water overheating. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/energy-t...
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Swiss nuclear power station shut down as river warms
Beznau nuclear reactors taken off grid due to river water overheating.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/06/2026
Any attempt to save kids from online harms should start with saving kids from online *surveillance*, but that's the *opposite* of what we're doing today. 19/
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Actually existing AI used in a military capacity going about as well as you'd expect it (aka, attacking an ally, causing their government to collapse)
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Alexander Quon @alexanderquon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Leaked SaskPower documents show 'extreme' risk in $26B coal refurbishment plan www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Leaked SaskPower documents show 'extreme' risk in $26B coal refurbishment plan | CBC News
Documents predict the provincial government's coal refurbishment plan would increase the average cost of electricity by 95 per cent by 2040.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I honestly do not understand how you make the country strong by selling critical infrastructure
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 01/05/2026
Important new information on who knew what when. substack.com/@jengerson/n...
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SCOOP: Jen Gerson: Elections Alberta's massive failure could have put people in danger. I tried to warn them.
The most unhinged people in the province may now have access to the personal information of everybody who lives here, and there's nothing we can do about it
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Hannah Spray @hspray.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Trump’s Dreams for a Battleship Led to His Navy Secretary’s Ouster www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...
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Trump’s Dreams for a Battleship Led to His Navy Secretary’s Ouster
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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.
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How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay
Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Work in progress: sars-2 clearly increases risk of tuberculosis activation in central Ontario, on a timeline that is consistent with T cell injury. It does not impact risk of non tuberculous mycobacterial infections More follows
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 02/04/2026
“One of the more pronounced features of the Gaza doctrine," writes Neve Gordon, ”is turning life-saving medical sites like hospitals, health clinics, and ambulances into targets.”
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The Gaza Doctrine | Neve Gordon
On Friday, March 13, nearly two weeks into the Lebanese front of “Operation Roaring Lion,” Israeli forces bombed Burj Qalaouiyah, a village in the
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Y’all. 🎪 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...
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