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👀 If the NYC pension boards adopt the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendations and move BlackRock's $42B mandate to other asset managers, it could be one of the most consequential climate-related actions ever taken by a pension fund in the US or anywhere in the world.
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
👀 If the NYC pension boards adopt the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendations and move BlackRock's $42B mandate to other asset managers, it could be one of the most consequential climate-related actions ever taken by a pension fund in the US or anywhere in the world.
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80% of suicides in Saskatchewan are by guns.
Saskatchewan leads the provinces in suicide rates.
Most rural gun deaths of intimate partners are caused by guns.
Sask leads in intimate partner deaths.
Why does the province think having more guns and making them more accessible is a good thing?
Saskatchewan leads the provinces in suicide rates.
Most rural gun deaths of intimate partners are caused by guns.
Sask leads in intimate partner deaths.
Why does the province think having more guns and making them more accessible is a good thing?
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
80% of suicides in Saskatchewan are by guns.
Saskatchewan leads the provinces in suicide rates.
Most rural gun deaths of intimate partners are caused by guns.
Sask leads in intimate partner deaths.
Why does the province think having more guns and making them more accessible is a good thing?
Saskatchewan leads the provinces in suicide rates.
Most rural gun deaths of intimate partners are caused by guns.
Sask leads in intimate partner deaths.
Why does the province think having more guns and making them more accessible is a good thing?
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The White Christian Supremacism of this administration is so extreme that it seems like it’s got to resolve with either a massive rejection of such illiberalism, or a violent, authoritarian imposition of it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The White Christian Supremacism of this administration is so extreme that it seems like it’s got to resolve with either a massive rejection of such illiberalism, or a violent, authoritarian imposition of it.
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
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Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
72% of the acts this year were female or BIPOC led. We won most accessible outdoor tourism event in Ontario. We had almost 1500 volunteers! I’m proud of us 💚💙💛 #HillsideFestival @hillsidefestival.bsky.social
#HappyHillside
youtu.be/EVO0pm4FK9A
#HappyHillside
youtu.be/EVO0pm4FK9A
Happy Hillside: a Hillside Festival Mini-Documentary
YouTube video by Hillside Festival
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
72% of the acts this year were female or BIPOC led. We won most accessible outdoor tourism event in Ontario. We had almost 1500 volunteers! I’m proud of us 💚💙💛 #HillsideFestival @hillsidefestival.bsky.social
#HappyHillside
youtu.be/EVO0pm4FK9A
#HappyHillside
youtu.be/EVO0pm4FK9A
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I was talking to an artist friend last night who is lucky enough to have a full time job illustrating for a Big Company and what he said was the work AI is replacing is work he wouldn't take anyway because, shocker, the client wouldn't appreciate art. We're about to see the pendulum swing back hard
It's going to be really funny when these AI art dopes have flooded the market with so much slop that human-made, messy, imperfect art becomes a huge hot commodity precisely for those traits and they can't understand why they are still being left out of actual art circles
The only good thing about this is in the future organic art will be highly sought after. By that I mean worth more money. lol
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I was talking to an artist friend last night who is lucky enough to have a full time job illustrating for a Big Company and what he said was the work AI is replacing is work he wouldn't take anyway because, shocker, the client wouldn't appreciate art. We're about to see the pendulum swing back hard
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Communist burger restaurant called The Hammer and Pickle
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Communist burger restaurant called The Hammer and Pickle
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if your default reaction to someone doing something monstrous or cruel is to assume they're mentally ill, you're not making a diagnosis; you're afraid to accept that they are just a person, just like you are.
Bigotry is a symptom of precisely zero mental illnesses.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
if your default reaction to someone doing something monstrous or cruel is to assume they're mentally ill, you're not making a diagnosis; you're afraid to accept that they are just a person, just like you are.
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much of the work on AI-generated misinformation focuses on regular users/communities, while ignoring how political and economic elites can seal themselves into a hermetic slop box -- a repeat of the same mistake we made with radicalization and conspiracism in the previous decade
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
much of the work on AI-generated misinformation focuses on regular users/communities, while ignoring how political and economic elites can seal themselves into a hermetic slop box -- a repeat of the same mistake we made with radicalization and conspiracism in the previous decade
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I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
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This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Evidence has now emerged of the adverse consequences of the laws banning GAHT for trans youth in both the US and UK. This includes sharp declines in mental health and increased suicide attempts among transgender young people.
t.co/YZaiSgdDAl
t.co/YZaiSgdDAl
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5
t.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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I asked Industrial policy expert @jonasnahm.com on China's AI. Excellent response in thread:
1. China *is* investing heavily in AI but focus is not LLM but "physical and industrial AI"
2. New data centers regulations: 80% of AI power demand must come from green electricity
bsky.app/profile/jona...
1. China *is* investing heavily in AI but focus is not LLM but "physical and industrial AI"
2. New data centers regulations: 80% of AI power demand must come from green electricity
bsky.app/profile/jona...
3/15 China focuses on "physical and industrial AI" rather than large language models. Xiaomi's fully automated dark factories can produce one smartphone per second. BYD surpassed Tesla in EV production using AI-driven manufacturing.
August 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I asked Industrial policy expert @jonasnahm.com on China's AI. Excellent response in thread:
1. China *is* investing heavily in AI but focus is not LLM but "physical and industrial AI"
2. New data centers regulations: 80% of AI power demand must come from green electricity
bsky.app/profile/jona...
1. China *is* investing heavily in AI but focus is not LLM but "physical and industrial AI"
2. New data centers regulations: 80% of AI power demand must come from green electricity
bsky.app/profile/jona...
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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And that’s why it’s important we fund music and arts for every child right? Or is it the make rich guys richer thing again?
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
And that’s why it’s important we fund music and arts for every child right? Or is it the make rich guys richer thing again?
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This 2015 articles shows the world shelled out 5 TRILLION dollars annually to #BigOil companies. We could have FIXED ALL OF #ClimateChange 5x over by now if we just stopped with the handouts. PM #MarkCarney doesn't think we've paid out enough yet #Cdnpoli
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost $5 Trillion Annually and Worsen Pollution
The International Monetary Fund notes that subsides for burning fossil fuels enrich the wealthy and make air pollution worse
www.scientificamerican.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This 2015 articles shows the world shelled out 5 TRILLION dollars annually to #BigOil companies. We could have FIXED ALL OF #ClimateChange 5x over by now if we just stopped with the handouts. PM #MarkCarney doesn't think we've paid out enough yet #Cdnpoli
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
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now that I've had this thought it occurs to me this would basically be the most "subtitles required" English/French film ever produced for the majority of speakers of either language
it is time for Acadian-Quebecois-Newfoundlander dialect conflict in the form of a buddy cop film
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
now that I've had this thought it occurs to me this would basically be the most "subtitles required" English/French film ever produced for the majority of speakers of either language
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he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
#YQR 🦠 #measles exposure last Thursday, Nov 20th. If you were in the following locations, SHA says you should watch for symptoms for 21 days. (I’d bet checking you’ve got your MMR vaccine and masking indoors couldn’t hurt either 😷💉)
www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
#YQR 🦠 #measles exposure last Thursday, Nov 20th. If you were in the following locations, SHA says you should watch for symptoms for 21 days. (I’d bet checking you’ve got your MMR vaccine and masking indoors couldn’t hurt either 😷💉)
www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
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Jagmeet gets slagged but negotiating the dental program is such a huge achievement. This would have saved me so much needless pain and suffering if we had had something like this when I was a poor kid. And yes kudos to the libs too for following through. This is progress!
Nearly 6 million Canadians are now covered under our dental care plan — and they’re saving an average of $800 a year on dentist visits.
Find out more:
www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...
Find out more:
www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...
Canadian Dental Care Plan reaches new milestone as Government of Canada strengthens access to oral health care
Today, the Honourable Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health, announced that close to six million Canadians are now covered under the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) and can receive the dental care they...
www.canada.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Jagmeet gets slagged but negotiating the dental program is such a huge achievement. This would have saved me so much needless pain and suffering if we had had something like this when I was a poor kid. And yes kudos to the libs too for following through. This is progress!
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We used to have nice things
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We used to have nice things
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...