Isolated outages of diesel have been reported on social media.

Carl Brown – Internet of Bugs – noted that there is a simple way to prevent dangerous GenAI, just treat the GenAI companies like all other software companies

Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.

The tarsands are an example of how bad we are at detecting slow changes with the inevitable slowdown in the demand for oil for combustion

The Electric Vehicle story is a great example of how bad we are at detecting slow changes, back in 2010 EVs were niche vehicles, by 2015 practical but expensive commuter vehicles were on the market an...

DuckDuckGo private search with all AI features turned off. The classic results you expect. Always private.

Starting to see articles coming out showing that GenAI is not living up to the hype that has surrounded it for the last few years

Although not specifically about GenAI, it was prompted by a posting titled I’m done using AI, the key parts for me being I had a conversation with management about how a developer’s job is now is ...

Witness the battle over the Water Not Coal petition as Corb Lund leads a fight to keep it alive.

YouTube video by Pivot to AI

The Ontario city is the first to confront a question all Canadian municipalities will soon face: How to build AI data centres responsibly?

Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.

Gathered input on the future of time change in Alberta.

Trump’s war on Iran has done more to cut oil use than any carbon tax

Oil and gas production only sector in Canada to increase greenhouse gas emissions in 2024, inventory shows

U.S. leverage is real but uneven. Three guideposts help policymakers assess risk, timing and strategic trade-offs.

A some of the hype surrounding GenAI coding tools relates to the speed at which the various tools can emit code, but coding is not the rate limiting step in software development

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The first in my ongoing (and free!) Lunch & Learn Series. This one is aimed at the "data-curious": non-experts interested in how to think more clearly — and critically — about facts & figures & charts...

Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…

Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say critics

One of Trump’s favorite pollsters warns he’d lose to Biden in an election held today. Plus, the DOJ is spying on lawmakers who search the Epstein files, and a balloon gets mistaken for... a drone.

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

In another life, I did freelance news reporting for both CBC and the provincial broadcaster, Studio 2.

Canada's oil and gas industry is a fiscal time bomb due to oil well cleanup liabilities that have been kept off the books.