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Stefan Hostetter

@steho.bsky.social
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Organizing & Storytelling with Green Majority, Stories We Don't Tell, Harbinger Media Network, Toronto Climate Action Network (he/him)

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Stefan Hostetter @steho.bsky.social · 9h
The fight against AI starts with data centres but getting the full picture of the harms they create for the communities around them can be tough. So tune into Green Majority at 11am tomorrow on CIUT 89.5FM to catch my interview with @parismarx.com on their new book Hyperscale hyperscalebook.com
hyperscalebook.com
Hyperscale by Paris Marx
An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.
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Stephen Thomas @stephenjwt.bsky.social · 10h
Let's check in on those "Asian Markets" that today's oil export pipeline are looking to serve if/when it's built: 👀 "China’s oil demand is expected to fall by 600,000 barrels a day, or 8.9%, in 2026, marking ​a third straight annual decline" #cdnpoli #energysky energynow.ca/2026/09/chin...
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 10h
Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 10h
This is very wonky and utterly infuriating. Logging companies (w/help from IKEA!) say *literally cutting down trees* should count as carbon negative and be credited as good for the planet. And they might get away with it. newrepublic.com/article/2157...
newrepublic.com
Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 14h
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Brooklyn Rousseau's Lonely Heart @glamgothcollective.eurosky.social · 21h
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On current trajectory, and per current forecasts (including official NOAA outlook), all extant ENSO indices are expected to exceed all-time historical maxima at some point during Oct-Dec 2026--and quite possibly by a huge margin (depending on index).
Plot by Daniel Swain showing temporal evolution of ONI vs RONI index during 2026, representing two different ways to visualize El Nino intensity. The ONI has been at record levels since May, and the RONI has been at near-record levels since June. Data directly from NOAA.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h
Steven is one of our best here in Nashville. Stellar reporter, exceptional writer, and all around admirable human being. Follow him here: @iamstevenhale.bsky.social.
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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · 13h
I am beyond furious that public funds are being spent for this project that will: a) accelerate the climate catastrophe b) enrich the mostly foreign-owned oil companies
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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It has been over 11 years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its 93 calls to action. Since then, 14 of them have been completed. That is just 15%. In over a decade. www.indigenouswatchdog.org/2026/09/01/t...
indigenouswatchdog.org
TRC Calls To Action Status: September 1, 2026 - Indigenous Watchdog
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.
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Stefan Hostetter @steho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Truly worth digging into. The Toronto of the past that is based on car commuting and sprawling single detached homes votes overwhelmingly against Chow. The Toronto of the future feels very differently.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canadian politicians I have a policy resolution I’d like to bring to the floor #cdnpoli
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All those Toronto drivers who shouted about bike lanes' [non-existent] effect on emergency vehicles will no doubt throw their support behind congestion pricing. Right?
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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The TTC has said the busway ... was completed early and under budget." Let's hype that as much as we hype delays and over-budget projects. This is the kind of competence in transit projects we're looking for. www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-f...
thestar.com
Here’s a first look at the Scarborough busway. For residents, it follows years of sluggish commutes
The new Scarborough busway will open this week and will run from Kennedy Station to Scarborough Centre, three years after the Scarborough RT was decommissioned.
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Stephen Thomas @stephenjwt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yet another generational mistake that wastes tens of billions of dollars, does real harm to communities, wrecks the climate and hurts energy affordability in Canada. Visionless, and a damn shame. Canada Strong 🫠 #cdnpoli #energysky #bcpoli #climate www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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LNG Canada to move forward with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. | CBC News
LNG Canada says its multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to oversea...
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a model case study for “here’s how to murder, you can do it to a child, and they won’t even say you did it they’ll just say the victim got in the way of the weapon”
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2/3 Sources: - "McGuinty has also argued that Palantir Canada — a branch of the American billionaire-founded artificial intelligence company working with Israel — is a Canadian company." - www.readthemaple.com/liberals-awa... - proton.me/business/blo...
readthemaple.com
Liberals Award Millions To U.S. Company They Say Is Canadian
The government funded Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of defence giant RTX, formerly Raytheon.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great column. It really is the most transparent level of gov't (police notwithstanding). Things are tight. I often get comments like "city hall is corrupt" - well, show me where? It has the most openness, the most public eyes on it. Other levels, far less transparency (looking at you, Ontario)
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Emma McIntosh @emmamci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Project South corruption probe began with an alleged plan to kill a Toronto jail official. But it also unearthed a web of other alleged schemes involving misuse of police powers. My latest is one of those tales, about an actress/private eye and a GPS tracker: www.thestar.com/news/crime/h...
thestar.com
How a former actress turned private eye ended up in the crosshairs of the Project South police corruption probe
Newly released court records detail how a former actress turned private eye ended up in the crosshairs of the Project South corruption probe.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus. Good follow up.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse.”
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“One day, when it’s safe, when there is no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will always have been against this”
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 28/09/2026
Must-read article. We have to restore local control to the TDSB and end Ford's chaos.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
in advance of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation I spoke to Kimberly Murray & Connie Walker about their efforts to raise awareness about this looming destruction, which survivors may not even know is happening next year. read it today at @thenarwhal.ca:
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One way we all die is... this.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I suspect that this "ignorance" about Rich Kids, as much as anything else, is what prevents truly Leftist politics from taking hold in this country. There really is no danger of a "slippery slope towards socialism," despite what you may have heard.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Alberta, Canada, is planning a massive expansion of gas pipelines to power data centres. Read the leaked document that laid this all out, here: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-leak...
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hyper-fast acceleration is dangerous as well as pointless. As I wrote in 2024, the 0-to-60 metric is outdated and needs to die. No driver on a public road needs to go from 0 to 60 mph in under 8 seconds. Even the slowest car on the market is more than quick enough.
fastcompany.com
How fast can a car go from 0 to 60? It really doesn't matter
The auto industry has pushed this metric for decades. But cars—especially EVs—are so fast that comparing the decimals is pointless and dangerous.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An 87-year-old woman lived in the same Madrid apartment for 70 years. Then a real estate firm bought it and forced her out. The housing crisis is global because the underlying logic is the same: your home is someone else's investment vehicle.
nytimes.com
87-Year-Old Evicted From Her Home Tells Spaniards to ‘Fight’ to Avoid Same Fate
María del Carmen Abascal, whose case has become a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis, appeared in a video from her hospital bed after police officers removed her from her apartment.
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey Toronto, still figuring out who to vote for? @thelocal.to has once again published a Candidate Tracker for the municipal election, offering bios and platforms for *every single candidate* running. thelocal.to/candidate-tr... Yay non-profit service journalism! 🤓
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI can steal your brain, if not your soul. Don’t let it, is my advice. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
thestar.com
Bruce Arthur: Could AI be a trap for humanity? The evidence seems to be piling up
Whatever a soul is, the brain is where it starts. I’d prefer not to outsource mine, writes Bruce Arthur.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Candidate Tracker team has been in the trenches reporting and fact-checking bios and platform summaries for EVERY SINGLE CANDIDATE in the 2026 Toronto election. No AI, no campaign talking points. Bookmark it, send it to a friend, we'll update until election day. thelocal.to/candidate-tr...
thelocal.to
Candidate Tracker: Toronto Election 2026 | The Local
The only place to find reported, fact-checked biographies and platform summaries for every candidate running in the 2026 Toronto municipal election.
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ford can spin and blame the feds all he wants, numbers don't lie. Ontario's staring down a $13B deficit, record unemployment, costs skyrocketing, public services starving.
toronto.citynews.ca
Ontario posts deficit as health care, education spending surges
The province reported health-sector investments rose by $6.6 billion, or 7.2 per cent, compared to 2024-25.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/09/2026
The story of the bosses' revolt comes down to their experience, in 2020, of helplessly watching the labor-income line go up — and resolving, right then and there, to make sure that never happened again.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's still a win-win deal on the table. Mayor Chow offered to work with Premier Ford to restore the travel lanes but keep the bike lanes. Ford refused. Tell the premier on focus on the challenges facing all Ontarians: cycleto.ca/fight_trump
cycleto.ca
Fight Trump Not Toronto
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Hilltop Studios @playhilltop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IT’S HAPPENING. Curse of Resthaven arrives October 29 on PC, Mac, PS5 and Xbox. Two days before Halloween felt like the appropriate time to unleash the curse. And there’s more: we're giving you a bit longer to play the current demo and earn your bonus gold + skill points…
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die.
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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 23/09/2026
My latest: A trip to my hometown to see an ICBL for data centres get implemented. Despite the year-long pause, there are a lot of unanswered questions about what happens next.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Jersey has fined a huge data center in New Jersey over $1 million for installing and operating 62 large gas powered generators without state permits. This comes as other data centers, like Elon Musk's facilities in Memphis, pollute communities with unpermitted turbines and face no consequences.
gothamist.com
NJ fines data center $1 million for illegally powering facility with gas generators
Gov. Mikie Sherill said it was the largest fine handed out to a data center in state history.
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