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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 9h

OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore

As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Siobhan Angus @siobhanangus.bsky.social · 3d

Gustave Lester and I are co-editing a special issue of Media+Environment on Critical Minerals and Media Technologies. Send us your abstracts by November 15! @mediaenviron.bsky.social

mediaenviron.org/post/3478-ca...

Call For Papers: Critical Minerals and Media Technologies | Published by Media+Environment

We invite contributions for a forthcoming stream of the UC Press open access journal Media+Environment entitled “Critical Minerals and Media Technologies,” edited by Siobhan Angus and Gustave Lester.

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v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport

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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 6d

Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 5d

Absolutely heinous.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 6d

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social: would this be so hard to say, if nothing else to protect Canadians aboard?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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camille-mary @camillemarys.bsky.social · 7d

Hâte de présenter sur le financement des musées dans un cadre de développement durable demain matin avec Dr. Lisa Baillargeon de l'@uqam.ca pour les équipes du Musée McCord, Musée d'art contemporain, Musée de la civilisation et Musées des beaux-arts de Montréal et du Québec 🏛🖼💰

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 8d

In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.

Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary

In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 10d

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We welcome Sean Field of @energy-ethics.bsky.social to talk about his new book Carbon Capital on the moral landscape of oil investing. A most provocative read! tinyurl.com/bdf2n82s @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 239 - Carbon Capital (feat. Sean Field)

There be tales of two Sean Fields on this week’s podcast. Happily, we are only welcoming (8:56) the smart and accomplished to the podcast to talk about his pathbreaking new ethnography of oil and fin...

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10d

Youth-led movements against Bill 5 and Bill C-5 continue in northern Ontario.

They're taking a stand against the proposed special economic zones in the Ring of Fire, mineral-rich land in the traditional territory of the Mushkego Cree.

Youth-led movements continue to oppose Bill 5 and C-5 in the Ring of Fire | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10d

interested in the history of mining, smelting, heavy industry, workplace health & safety, or company magazines in canada?the trail bc museum and bcrdh.ca have just digitized a complete run of "cominco magazine."
bcrdh.ca/islandora/ob...
thanks to @kellyblack.ca for the tip!
#bchist #cdnhist #envhist

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 12d

I said I should go to twitter again in a moment of missing museum twitter and was reminded that the vibes are still rancid there so HI hello I'm back. Have to admit I'm STILL getting a bit used to this platform but trying

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 13d

So you are saying…

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Margaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social · 13d

Museums as allies! Check out my interview with Trans Pride Manchester organiser Arlo West:
manchesterartgallery.org/a-venue-for-...

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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 13d

Find the postal worker picket line closest to you:

act-cupwsttp.nationbuilder.com/picket_lines

CUPW Picket Line Locations | Lieux de piquetage du STTP

CUPW Picket Line Locations

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 13d

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."

niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a...

#envhist #archives

Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories

Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 16d

The Canadian Communication Association will host its 2026 conference at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario June 2-4, 2026. Call for papers in French and English: acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...

CCA 2026 // June 2-4 // Windsor – Canadian Communication Association

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Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com · 13d

📢🍁📚 The call for papers for the Canadian Communication Association's annual conference is live! Submissions are due December 1. Great to see this event is continuing on in 2026 even though Congress is on hold for that year.

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 16d

The Canadian Communication Association will host its 2026 conference at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario June 2-4, 2026. Call for papers in French and English: acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...

CCA 2026 // June 2-4 // Windsor – Canadian Communication Association

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