Greg Blee
@gregblee.ca
Retired engineer & writer. Charting baffled, bemused middle course to make sense of the world. Cyclist, punctuation lover, former adventurer. Minimizing importance of politics in my life. Gulf Island dweller, treatied Snuneymuxw FN land, BC, Canada
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🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
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Vancouver? You didn’t vote for THIS. Tell him NO.
Incredibly short-sighted and irresponsible, and completely disconnected from the real values & priorities of Vancouverites. This move would be awful not only for Vancouver, but also for all the cities that Vancouver’s leadership has inspired over decades of North American sustainability leadership.
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Vancouver? You didn’t vote for THIS. Tell him NO.
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This guy fucking sucks
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This guy fucking sucks
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Act now, tell PM Carney & Ministers: no taxpayer subsidies for American billionaires!
Ksi Lisims LNG is no "nation-building project". & it's not Indigenous-owned. It's a Trojan Horse for the same Wall Street private equity giants buying up 🇨🇦 real estate, telecoms & energy infrastructure.
#cdnPoli
Ksi Lisims LNG is no "nation-building project". & it's not Indigenous-owned. It's a Trojan Horse for the same Wall Street private equity giants buying up 🇨🇦 real estate, telecoms & energy infrastructure.
#cdnPoli
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Act now, tell PM Carney & Ministers: no taxpayer subsidies for American billionaires!
Ksi Lisims LNG is no "nation-building project". & it's not Indigenous-owned. It's a Trojan Horse for the same Wall Street private equity giants buying up 🇨🇦 real estate, telecoms & energy infrastructure.
#cdnPoli
Ksi Lisims LNG is no "nation-building project". & it's not Indigenous-owned. It's a Trojan Horse for the same Wall Street private equity giants buying up 🇨🇦 real estate, telecoms & energy infrastructure.
#cdnPoli
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🚨 Patients are feeling the collapse of healthcare. Today, for the 1st time in my 30 years as a doc, the majority of patients I saw apologized for being sick & needing care. Some had many issues. Exactly none of their needs were frivolous; all were urgent.
#ableg
#abpoli
@albertadoctors.bsky.social
#ableg
#abpoli
@albertadoctors.bsky.social
a red light with a silhouette of a person in it .
Alt: A spinning red alarm light.
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
🚨 Patients are feeling the collapse of healthcare. Today, for the 1st time in my 30 years as a doc, the majority of patients I saw apologized for being sick & needing care. Some had many issues. Exactly none of their needs were frivolous; all were urgent.
#ableg
#abpoli
@albertadoctors.bsky.social
#ableg
#abpoli
@albertadoctors.bsky.social
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How To Run an Open-Source LLM on Your Personal Computer
An open-source large language model is a type of AI that can understand and generate text. It can function without depending on external servers. You can run models like Llama, Mistral, or Phi, privately and offline.
#hackernews #llama #llm
An open-source large language model is a type of AI that can understand and generate text. It can function without depending on external servers. You can run models like Llama, Mistral, or Phi, privately and offline.
#hackernews #llama #llm
How To Run an Open-Source LLM on Your Personal Computer
An open-source large language model is a type of AI that can understand and generate text. It can function without depending on external servers. You can run models like Llama, Mistral, or Phi, privately and offline.
hackernoon.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How To Run an Open-Source LLM on Your Personal Computer
An open-source large language model is a type of AI that can understand and generate text. It can function without depending on external servers. You can run models like Llama, Mistral, or Phi, privately and offline.
#hackernews #llama #llm
An open-source large language model is a type of AI that can understand and generate text. It can function without depending on external servers. You can run models like Llama, Mistral, or Phi, privately and offline.
#hackernews #llama #llm
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Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
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Alberta, watch what America is doing right now - with their refusal to support funding of the Affordable Care Act.
If Danielle Smith has her way with the medical system, we, too, will be facing $1000s in monthly premiums just to visit doctors.
She wants it that way.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
If Danielle Smith has her way with the medical system, we, too, will be facing $1000s in monthly premiums just to visit doctors.
She wants it that way.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Oh Canada … we had measles beat, now we are weakened by bandwagon untruths. Let’s go back to a nostalgic past when kids didn’t get sick with easily preventable diseases.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oh Canada … we had measles beat, now we are weakened by bandwagon untruths. Let’s go back to a nostalgic past when kids didn’t get sick with easily preventable diseases.
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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There's not a lot of organizations standing up for #ClimateAction in #YYC. We're one of them. Help push back on the denialism, anti-education & anti-expertise by donating to the Calgary Climate Hub. Help us help Calgary do THE RIGHT THING.
DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc
DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There's not a lot of organizations standing up for #ClimateAction in #YYC. We're one of them. Help push back on the denialism, anti-education & anti-expertise by donating to the Calgary Climate Hub. Help us help Calgary do THE RIGHT THING.
DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc
DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc
How to get this information thru to people’s attention, how to motivate them to pressure their leaders, how to jumpstart those leaders into appropriate emergency action???
We just published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... and here www.nationthailand.com/blogs/sustai...
Earth hits hottest level in 125,000 years
A global study finds 2024 was hotter than the peak of the last Ice Age, with record-breaking heat, ocean warming, and ice loss driving Earth toward irreversible tipping points.
www.nationthailand.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
How to get this information thru to people’s attention, how to motivate them to pressure their leaders, how to jumpstart those leaders into appropriate emergency action???
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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"Soylent Green is billionaires!"
- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with
- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Soylent Green is billionaires!"
- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with
- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with
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On November 9, 2004, Mozilla released Firefox 1.0, a major milestone in open-source web browsing and a significant moment in the evolution of internet data accessibility and analytics.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
On November 9, 2004, Mozilla released Firefox 1.0, a major milestone in open-source web browsing and a significant moment in the evolution of internet data accessibility and analytics.
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3. Fossil fuels must be phased out, period.
@joellegergis.bsky.social, climate scientist & a lead author of IPCC's AR6, emphasizes the "scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels"
The fossil fuel era must end. There is no other way around it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@joellegergis.bsky.social, climate scientist & a lead author of IPCC's AR6, emphasizes the "scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels"
The fossil fuel era must end. There is no other way around it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
3. Fossil fuels must be phased out, period.
@joellegergis.bsky.social, climate scientist & a lead author of IPCC's AR6, emphasizes the "scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels"
The fossil fuel era must end. There is no other way around it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@joellegergis.bsky.social, climate scientist & a lead author of IPCC's AR6, emphasizes the "scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels"
The fossil fuel era must end. There is no other way around it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In other provinces, journalists can use anti-SLAPP legislation to challenge lawsuits when they believe they are groundless or undermine the public interest
Alberta has no such laws, leaving journalists vulnerable to long and expensive legal battles
I believe that is fundamentally bad for democracy
Alberta has no such laws, leaving journalists vulnerable to long and expensive legal battles
I believe that is fundamentally bad for democracy
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In other provinces, journalists can use anti-SLAPP legislation to challenge lawsuits when they believe they are groundless or undermine the public interest
Alberta has no such laws, leaving journalists vulnerable to long and expensive legal battles
I believe that is fundamentally bad for democracy
Alberta has no such laws, leaving journalists vulnerable to long and expensive legal battles
I believe that is fundamentally bad for democracy
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Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
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@joeroganhq.bsky.social is spreading climate denial and disinformation. Let’s help get him on board saving a livable climate — spread this widely. Send it to people who listen to him. #climate
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@joeroganhq.bsky.social is spreading climate denial and disinformation. Let’s help get him on board saving a livable climate — spread this widely. Send it to people who listen to him. #climate
Not happy about the cull of the #Edgewood #Ostriches today, but the reasons for it make sense, given how virulent the #H5N1 virus is. Plus it’s potential for jumping to humans.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Not happy about the cull of the #Edgewood #Ostriches today, but the reasons for it make sense, given how virulent the #H5N1 virus is. Plus it’s potential for jumping to humans.
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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This government is shamefully abdicating its responsibility to future generations by not only not acting on the climate crisis, but by accelerating it.
I gotta say, as far as Climate leaders go this #MarkCarney is one hell of a banker
💥Carbon Tax
💥Emission Tax
💥Planting TREES
💥Greenwashing accountability(?!?!?)
✅ MORE Pipelines
✅ MORE #FossilGas LNG
He's a Conservative DREAM www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/04/l...
#ClimateChange #cdnpoli
💥Carbon Tax
💥Emission Tax
💥Planting TREES
💥Greenwashing accountability(?!?!?)
✅ MORE Pipelines
✅ MORE #FossilGas LNG
He's a Conservative DREAM www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/04/l...
#ClimateChange #cdnpoli
Budget 2025: Liberals scrap emissions cap, greenwashing rules as part of climate competitiveness strategy
Unveiled in Budget 2025, the long-promised strategy largely focuses on plans to "strengthen" the industrial carbon price and expand pre-existing investment tax credits designed to spur investment in g...
www.ipolitics.ca
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This government is shamefully abdicating its responsibility to future generations by not only not acting on the climate crisis, but by accelerating it.
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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social