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On climate change and lighthouses:
"today’s business leaders aren’t lobbying to illuminate risks and aren’t building lighthouses... those who appreciate the new risks are either trying to benefit privately... or are trying to keep risks hidden." probablefutures.org/perspective/...
"today’s business leaders aren’t lobbying to illuminate risks and aren’t building lighthouses... those who appreciate the new risks are either trying to benefit privately... or are trying to keep risks hidden." probablefutures.org/perspective/...
Solstice greetings: guiding lights · Probable Futures
It’s a testament to technological progress that lighthouses have become scenic. These towers with their glass rotundas are now mostly quaint relics whose images evoke nostalgia and attract tourists to...
probablefutures.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
On climate change and lighthouses:
"today’s business leaders aren’t lobbying to illuminate risks and aren’t building lighthouses... those who appreciate the new risks are either trying to benefit privately... or are trying to keep risks hidden." probablefutures.org/perspective/...
"today’s business leaders aren’t lobbying to illuminate risks and aren’t building lighthouses... those who appreciate the new risks are either trying to benefit privately... or are trying to keep risks hidden." probablefutures.org/perspective/...
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I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
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Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.
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Look around you. Do you see policies being implemented at scale? Do you see the end of investment into new fossil energy? Do you see phasing out of existing fossil infrastructure? Do you see massive renewables deployment and the lowering of demand for energy and materials?
You do not.
3/n
You do not.
3/n
December 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Look around you. Do you see policies being implemented at scale? Do you see the end of investment into new fossil energy? Do you see phasing out of existing fossil infrastructure? Do you see massive renewables deployment and the lowering of demand for energy and materials?
You do not.
3/n
You do not.
3/n
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What does all this tell our children? It says that climate denial, racism, anti-trans, anti-vaxx, anti-Canada are all ok - do this and you too can be elevated to the "favorite child" position in the front seat of the car with Dad. 22/22
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
What does all this tell our children? It says that climate denial, racism, anti-trans, anti-vaxx, anti-Canada are all ok - do this and you too can be elevated to the "favorite child" position in the front seat of the car with Dad. 22/22
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Let's not miss the other thing this signals: we will do business with hard-right racists and bigots. Smith is extreme right, a trump ally, anti-trans, anti-vaxx and has threatened to try to divide Canada if she doesn't get her way, at a time when her friend donald trump threatens to invade.. 21/22
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Let's not miss the other thing this signals: we will do business with hard-right racists and bigots. Smith is extreme right, a trump ally, anti-trans, anti-vaxx and has threatened to try to divide Canada if she doesn't get her way, at a time when her friend donald trump threatens to invade.. 21/22
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This last point, rolling back the new greenwashing laws - has nothing to do with permitting a project, it is just an oil industry wish-list item to allow more climate disinfo.
And it is not an "agreement to agree" - they committed to do it.
17/22
And it is not an "agreement to agree" - they committed to do it.
17/22
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This last point, rolling back the new greenwashing laws - has nothing to do with permitting a project, it is just an oil industry wish-list item to allow more climate disinfo.
And it is not an "agreement to agree" - they committed to do it.
17/22
And it is not an "agreement to agree" - they committed to do it.
17/22
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Regarding industrial carbon pricing they agree to agree on it by April 1, 2026.
Google "an agreement to agree"..
Hint - in contract law this is called an "unenforceable promise". 10/22
Google "an agreement to agree"..
Hint - in contract law this is called an "unenforceable promise". 10/22
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Regarding industrial carbon pricing they agree to agree on it by April 1, 2026.
Google "an agreement to agree"..
Hint - in contract law this is called an "unenforceable promise". 10/22
Google "an agreement to agree"..
Hint - in contract law this is called an "unenforceable promise". 10/22
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It feeds disinfo and climate denial. Our children are watching the annual increase in forest fires, smoke, etc.
When the federal government says "we are going to build more oil & gas infrastructure" (WHETHER THEY INTEND TO OR NOT) that signals the climate is not important or urgent. 8/22
When the federal government says "we are going to build more oil & gas infrastructure" (WHETHER THEY INTEND TO OR NOT) that signals the climate is not important or urgent. 8/22
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It feeds disinfo and climate denial. Our children are watching the annual increase in forest fires, smoke, etc.
When the federal government says "we are going to build more oil & gas infrastructure" (WHETHER THEY INTEND TO OR NOT) that signals the climate is not important or urgent. 8/22
When the federal government says "we are going to build more oil & gas infrastructure" (WHETHER THEY INTEND TO OR NOT) that signals the climate is not important or urgent. 8/22
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Let’s be clear: The Liberal caucus memo is making an argument for deeper integration with the US.
Any country that refuses to take any action that might upset another country is not in any way sovereign. It’s a de facto colony. No invasion necessary.
Any country that refuses to take any action that might upset another country is not in any way sovereign. It’s a de facto colony. No invasion necessary.
Hard to overstate the extent to which this is not what anyone voted for
Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.
www.readthemaple.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Let’s be clear: The Liberal caucus memo is making an argument for deeper integration with the US.
Any country that refuses to take any action that might upset another country is not in any way sovereign. It’s a de facto colony. No invasion necessary.
Any country that refuses to take any action that might upset another country is not in any way sovereign. It’s a de facto colony. No invasion necessary.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil | Philosophy Break
For 20th-century German philosopher Hannah Arendt, most evil is committed by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
philosophybreak.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
@davidelfstrom.bsky.social can you recommend any usb to dc 5v to 12v cables that can help a usb battery power a 6 fan Arctic P14 crbox?
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
@davidelfstrom.bsky.social can you recommend any usb to dc 5v to 12v cables that can help a usb battery power a 6 fan Arctic P14 crbox?
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Peter Swenson, a Yale professor and one of about 20 million Americans with long COVID, says calling chronic illness a “journey” needs to stop. He feels “pinned down by it, stuck with it,” calling it a “bad trip” with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia and heart problems.
Source: archive.md/CgY81
Source: archive.md/CgY81
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Peter Swenson, a Yale professor and one of about 20 million Americans with long COVID, says calling chronic illness a “journey” needs to stop. He feels “pinned down by it, stuck with it,” calling it a “bad trip” with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia and heart problems.
Source: archive.md/CgY81
Source: archive.md/CgY81
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This is why it’s dangerous
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is why it’s dangerous
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It's not as if the ways to reduce traffic collisions resulting in deaths and serious injuries is a well-kept secret. It's just that San Diego continues to lack the political will to do enough of those things. #VisionZero
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's not as if the ways to reduce traffic collisions resulting in deaths and serious injuries is a well-kept secret. It's just that San Diego continues to lack the political will to do enough of those things. #VisionZero
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We call on BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans to drop their ~$81.54M stake in Tesla. Far worse than Tesla’s litany of labour + safety issues, its CEO and 13% owner is a raging fascist threatening the US, Canada, and others. Pensions will be worthless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy. 1/x
Elon Musk's speech in Germany raises concerns about his increased political meddling abroad | CBC News
Elon Musk's comments at a rally for Germany's far-right AfD party last weekend have raised concerns about the billionaire’s escalating political interference in foreign countries — including Canada.
www.cbc.ca
February 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
We call on BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans to drop their ~$81.54M stake in Tesla. Far worse than Tesla’s litany of labour + safety issues, its CEO and 13% owner is a raging fascist threatening the US, Canada, and others. Pensions will be worthless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy. 1/x
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So many of my colleagues laughed at me for saying this… but… a few colleagues didn’t… and I think they saved a LOT of lives in the first few years.
Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
So many of my colleagues laughed at me for saying this… but… a few colleagues didn’t… and I think they saved a LOT of lives in the first few years.
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
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i’ve actually done this, and in addition, asked them what our process is if someone gets abducted while traveling for work.
then offered to help answer that second question, so we can publish internal policy on it.
then offered to help answer that second question, so we can publish internal policy on it.
Realized his morning that I need to ask my HR department what the leave policy is if someone gets indefinitely detained by ICE, just to get them thinking about it
October 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
i’ve actually done this, and in addition, asked them what our process is if someone gets abducted while traveling for work.
then offered to help answer that second question, so we can publish internal policy on it.
then offered to help answer that second question, so we can publish internal policy on it.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Once again highlighting a key asymmetry in politics:
If you are boosting oil and gas, you can basically say whatever you want that fits the moment. Follow up is cancel culture
If you're advocating for anything else, you must be 100% accurate at all times or it will be used to discredit you forever
If you are boosting oil and gas, you can basically say whatever you want that fits the moment. Follow up is cancel culture
If you're advocating for anything else, you must be 100% accurate at all times or it will be used to discredit you forever
Dawn Farrell made the unusual claim before Parliament that the Trans Mountain pipeline fights climate change.
The Major Projects Office, which she heads up, was unable to substantiate that claim, @woodsideful.bsky.social reports.
The Major Projects Office, which she heads up, was unable to substantiate that claim, @woodsideful.bsky.social reports.
Major Projects Office can’t back up its boss’ claim Trans Mountain helps fight climate change
After Dawn Farrell told a House of Commons committee she believes the Trans Mountain pipeline helps fight climate change, Canada’s National Observer asked if the Major Projects Office she leads could ...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Once again highlighting a key asymmetry in politics:
If you are boosting oil and gas, you can basically say whatever you want that fits the moment. Follow up is cancel culture
If you're advocating for anything else, you must be 100% accurate at all times or it will be used to discredit you forever
If you are boosting oil and gas, you can basically say whatever you want that fits the moment. Follow up is cancel culture
If you're advocating for anything else, you must be 100% accurate at all times or it will be used to discredit you forever
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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
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A judge finally said it, and we all need to repeat this every time ICE is mentioned:
"We're not told why they took them, and we're not told where they took them. By definition, that's a kidnapping."
"We're not told why they took them, and we're not told where they took them. By definition, that's a kidnapping."
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A judge finally said it, and we all need to repeat this every time ICE is mentioned:
"We're not told why they took them, and we're not told where they took them. By definition, that's a kidnapping."
"We're not told why they took them, and we're not told where they took them. By definition, that's a kidnapping."
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“Batteries are going to get cheaper,” Kumar said. “Gas isn’t.”
#GreenEnergySolutions are the future, if you believe it, or not.
Countries who don’t adapt to this new reality will fall behind the ones investing heavily in it.
Here you can see why California is the 4th economy in the world! 💚
#GreenEnergySolutions are the future, if you believe it, or not.
Countries who don’t adapt to this new reality will fall behind the ones investing heavily in it.
Here you can see why California is the 4th economy in the world! 💚
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California invests big in battery energy storage - Los Angeles Times
Find out more: www.latimes.com/environment...
#ClimateAction
California invests big in battery energy storage - Los Angeles Times
Find out more: www.latimes.com/environment...
#ClimateAction
California invests big in battery energy storage — and leaves rolling blackouts behind
Batteries that pair with clean solar and wind energy or just bolster electrical grids in general have completely taken off and are making a big difference on the California grid.
www.latimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“Batteries are going to get cheaper,” Kumar said. “Gas isn’t.”
#GreenEnergySolutions are the future, if you believe it, or not.
Countries who don’t adapt to this new reality will fall behind the ones investing heavily in it.
Here you can see why California is the 4th economy in the world! 💚
#GreenEnergySolutions are the future, if you believe it, or not.
Countries who don’t adapt to this new reality will fall behind the ones investing heavily in it.
Here you can see why California is the 4th economy in the world! 💚