Reposted by Simon GoringDavey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam 151936583
Reposted by Simon GoringDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Natives make up 1.1-1.8% of the US population but 0.4% of all STEM workers 🫠 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2026...ncses.nsf.govSTEM Talent: Education, Training, and Workforce | NCSES | NSFTalent is critical to the U.S. science and engineering enterprise and competitiveness. The U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce represented about a quarter of the to... 25214
Reposted by Simon GoringJen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Your morning #bcpoli read www.timescolonist.com/local-news/l...timescolonist.comLes Leyne: When your enemies are your friends — a private eye goes publicI figured she wanted some dragnet oppo research on the NDP. Turned out she wanted me to investigate her own team. 3248
Reposted by Simon GoringFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That: 28860751589
Reposted by Simon Goringblair @blairaf.com · 16/09/2026Once again pointing to my big "frontier labs are a Luciferian cult" neon sign 4408
Reposted by Simon GoringJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism. 202466791
Reposted by Simon GoringDr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Deep breath. Screams from the top of my lungs: "Producing species-dense sampling at biodiversity scale requires the material and expertise already held in natural history collections" 🧪 13819
Reposted by Simon GoringIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Using LLMs in science for “literature review” or “summarizing" is *automated cryptogyny* olivia.science/cryptogyny/ @olivia.science 🧵olivia.scienceCryptogynyOn the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions. 3389167
Reposted by Simon GoringDavid Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Here’s the case against Meta. It alleges FB and IG disproportionately steer for profit college ads to Black students and public college ads to white students. When I was at Lawyers’ Committee, we cited the Pittsburgh Press case in amicus briefs challenging Meta‘s discriminatory advertising.act.lawyerscommittee.orgHolding Meta Accountable 01210
Reposted by Simon GoringPause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 31/08/2026Are you a parent, guardian, caregiver? Are you seriously weirded out by gross AI invading your kid's school? You can change it! You can get 🌈 Organized! 🌠 DM for details 173
Reposted by Simon GoringThe Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Geoscience Society of New Zealand Annual Conference 2026 will be held in Rotorua, a uniquely dynamic geological setting known for its geothermal landscapes and deep links to iwi Māori. confer.eventsair.com/gsnz-2026 054
Reposted by Simon GoringThe Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Paleontological Society of Japan will hold its 176th Regular Meeting in person at Waseda University, Tokyo, from 29–31 January 2027. The meeting will include a symposium, special lecture, oral and poster presentations. www.palaeo-soc-japan.jp/events 0138
Reposted by Simon GoringVision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 30/08/2026Come visit us at Burnaby Car Free Day on Edmonds! We're here till 5pm 0233
Reposted by Simon GoringThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/08/2026Palestinians now control just eight per cent of the land in the West Bank. “92 per cent of the land for 50 per cent of the people—how is that sustainable?” a policy fellow who has been mapping Israeli settlements said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NcLSkjnewyorkermag.visitlink.meNew Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian StateThe breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant. 75923
Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. A man’s bike is stolen but don’t worry, he finds it. 010
Reposted by Simon GoringEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 29/08/2026New on the MAIHT3k newsletter -- how to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistance. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @deccamuldowney.bsky.socialbuttondown.comSix Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI”How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will... 210540
Reposted by Simon GoringEmily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026An “administrative error” will leave British Columbians with $1.5B less & LNG corporations with that much more. That's more than the budget of BC’s cancelled affordable housing program. Losing housing is a budgetary necessity, yet losing $1.5B to LNG corporations is just an error?biv.comB.C. admits to $1.5B budget error following BIV investigationPremier's office blames 'administrative error' for missing $1.5B in gas royalties; experts call the government's explanation confusing, and in some cases, demonstrably false 313048
Reposted by Simon GoringVision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 28/08/2026"[ABC] have, for 4 years, completely ignored the #1 cause of preventable death and injury in Vancouver, which is car crashes. Not just ignored it, that’d be one thing. But they’ve actually made it worse. They’ve had policies that have actively taken us backwards.” dailyhive.com/vancouver/ab...dailyhive.com'Moving us backwards': Ken Sim's track record on road safety | Daily Hive | UrbanizedWith the municipal election just weeks away, one group is slamming Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver for not prioritizing road safety. 04010
Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Someone was just having a conversation beside me about how expensive Charmonix has become, so yeah, this coffee shop is pretty fucking fancy. 000
Reposted by Simon GoringTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026Effective altruist troll paid by billionaires to push disinfo being on the Time 100 AI list tells the state of mainstream media. I don't know if y'all remember the effusive Time cover of EAs a few years ago, by an editor who's now comms director of Open Philanthropy (rebranded Coefficient Giving). 211029
Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Chapman’s ice cream is a real hero. Family owned, protected workers during Covid, and now this: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caChapman’s Ice Cream gives the scoop: Ontario company shifting from U.S. suppliers with no price increase | CBC NewsOntario company Chapman’s Ice Cream says it's moving to replace more than 70 per cent of its ingredients from the U.S. by mid-2027, promising no price increases until March 2028. 010
Reposted by Simon GoringMike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4... You gotta love it 071
Reposted by Simon GoringJustin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026another day, another leaked recording of BC Conservative funtimes this one is of a caucus meeting with Kerry-Lynne Findlay saying that if anyone stepped down to let her run in a byelection, she could “give them a role as a senior advisor” the party’s longest week continues! 1411220
Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you’re not able to send books to children, think of Dolly and support your public libraries. 000
Reposted by Simon GoringThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/08/2026The police chief in Senatobia, Mississippi, appointed last fall before the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old Black toddler, routinely used racist slurs in private text conversations with a colleague, reporters for Mississippi Today, Verite News and The New York Times have learned.nyti.msPolice Chief in Mississippi Regularly Used Racist Slurs, Private Text Messages RevealText exchanges obtained by reporters show troubling messages sent by the chief of a Mississippi police department facing an uproar over the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy in June. 35357163
Reposted by Simon GoringJosh Goring @whoisjken.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The OG data center, and the only one that matters. 011
Reposted by Simon GoringThe Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026📢 Neotoma Hierarchical Taxonomy Viewer Officially Released The Neotoma IT Development Team is excited to announce the official release of the Neotoma Hierarchical Taxonomy Viewer (HTV). 🌐 Explore the Neotoma Hierarchical Taxonomy Viewer: apps.neotomadb.org/taxonomy-vie... 064
Reposted by Simon GoringCarolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga-Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga-Ooga Chaka... 1194
Reposted by Simon GoringCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.wired.comThe Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Actually WorkICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain. 31994361
Reposted by Simon GoringStefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Come join us... go.bsky.app/8CD2yKk 12724
Reposted by Simon Goringe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/08/2026we know LLM companies are fueled by plagiarism on the supply side, but this raises the worrying question of how much plagiarism defines the demand side as well 301198314
Reposted by Simon GoringAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"something like the Minority Report...most of them had Moroccan names...they got house visits, got school visits...the self-fulfilling prophecy making it so." Monstrous story of the Dutch state using AI to "predict" which children would be "violent" Everyone should listen to this. 57649
Reposted by Simon GoringT. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026If you're even a _tiny_ bit into security and privacy, pay attention to this one. A court filing in a case against cyberhacker Peter Stokes revealed Microsoft's GDID embedded in EVERY Win11 install provided the FBI the ability to trace his PC across VPNs(!!) & proxies(!!) across three countries.windowslatest.comMicrosoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaintGDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it. 2017451182
Reposted by Simon GoringDr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 19/07/2026OMG The driver backed up on purpose to hit Hannah Rapp - and killed her. Female Boxing Legend - murdered by a random hater. I have no words www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS boxer Hannah Rapp struck and killed by driver while cycling, police sayInvestigators arrest 31-year-old man identified as Charles Medina in connection with death of Rapp who was 26 10308106
Reposted by Simon Goringthe moon report 🌕 @seachanger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026trump has also debanked Italian citizen Francesca Alabanese for her work at the UN to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. she is on an international blacklist created for terrorists and it is also illegal for anyone to bank for her — she must live entirely economically isolated and on cashenglish.elpais.comThe complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctionsThe UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories has become a leading voice in her country, but she is on a US blacklist as if she were a terrorist and can only use cash 1361208
Reposted by Simon GoringThe Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026🌿 Call for Abstracts | AGU26 Annual Meeting PP025: Vegetation Shifts and Climate Interactions on Millennial to Million-year Timescales. This session welcomes research exploring past vegetation dynamics and climate vegetation interactions across different spatial and temporal scales. lnkd.in/e2-jBQQx 043
Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The World Cup announcer kinda reminds me of Mikey Day from SNL doing his game show voice. 021
Reposted by Simon GoringBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 19/07/2026Claude is trained on the Claude Constitution, then when asked about moral patienthood, outputs text similar to that found in the Claude Constitution. 1338
Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A monogrammed Louis Vitton Trophy Trunk you say?! Wooowowowowowowowo! 000
Reposted by Simon Goring404 Media @404media.co · 24/06/2026Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.404media.coThe Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AILeaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. 941953655
Reposted by Simon GoringLeo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links" 451589792
Reposted by Simon GoringKatie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.wired.comMeta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking ProgramEmployees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models. 661930685
Reposted by Simon GoringJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"Radio-Canada was able to confirm that the shooter distributed a violent incel manifesto targeting women. The manifesto called for a violent revolution, invoking masculinist arguments."cbc.caLive updates | Montreal shooting suspect distributed violent incel manifesto targeting women: Radio-Canada | CBC 22816
Reposted by Simon GoringPause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 21/06/2026For school administrations, one of the key benefits of framing AI as "inevitable", is that it absolves them of responsibility. They're not making an active choice to put AI in schools, it's inevitable. If students don't want this, sorry about that, it's inevitable. 03916
Reposted by Simon Goringamy brown @amybrown.xyz · 10/02/2026always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay 48144962915
Reposted by Simon GoringJustin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026We’re going to get an intense round of “Vancouver should dream big and be a WORLD CLASS CITY” takes in the months to come, but the big reason Vancouver’s momentum ended was a spike in home prices and overdose deaths that was like few places on earth that sucked up all the oxygen 1213113
Reposted by Simon GoringAlan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This—and the most unambitious governments imaginable. A city needs more than a view of the mountains and a chance for developers to squeeze every last penny from its residents. 031
Reposted by Simon GoringJ. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Pick a movie. Keep one actor. The rest are played by Muppets. Star Wars, David Prowse 011