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The 2025 wildfire season in Canada has already been devastating for many communities, with both Manitoba and Saskatchewan declaring states of emergency.
So how do fires start? And why do they seem to be getting worse? @drewanderson.bsky.social breaks it all down: thenarwhal.ca/canada-wildf...
So how do fires start? And why do they seem to be getting worse? @drewanderson.bsky.social breaks it all down: thenarwhal.ca/canada-wildf...
What causes wildfires in Canada? | The Narwhal
Decades of putting out wildfires has made forests more flammable. Add lightning, human error and climate change — it’s a recipe for disaster
thenarwhal.ca
June 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The 2025 wildfire season in Canada has already been devastating for many communities, with both Manitoba and Saskatchewan declaring states of emergency.
So how do fires start? And why do they seem to be getting worse? @drewanderson.bsky.social breaks it all down: thenarwhal.ca/canada-wildf...
So how do fires start? And why do they seem to be getting worse? @drewanderson.bsky.social breaks it all down: thenarwhal.ca/canada-wildf...
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SCOOP: A controversial decision to increase cougar hunting in Alberta — including in parks — was "not based on science" but rather "direction" from the Minister of Forestry and Parks and input from hunters, @drewanderson.bsky.social has learned. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-coug...
Alberta cougar hunting increases ‘not based on science’: docs | The Narwhal
A controversial decision to increase cougar hunting in Alberta was ‘based on direction from [the] minister last year and input from stakeholders’
thenarwhal.ca
June 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
SCOOP: A controversial decision to increase cougar hunting in Alberta — including in parks — was "not based on science" but rather "direction" from the Minister of Forestry and Parks and input from hunters, @drewanderson.bsky.social has learned. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-coug...
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Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering".
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
June 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering".
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
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Why am I seeing so much commentary about OpenAI's theft of Studio Ghibli's creative work illustrated with synthetic Studio Ghibli style images? Just because you're talking about the harm doesn't give you a free pass to do more of the harm....
March 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Why am I seeing so much commentary about OpenAI's theft of Studio Ghibli's creative work illustrated with synthetic Studio Ghibli style images? Just because you're talking about the harm doesn't give you a free pass to do more of the harm....
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‘God knows what’s in the water’: Los Angeles surfers in limbo as wildfire toxins linger: In a city where surfing is a way of life, the wait to get back in the water has been agonizing. But new research offers a glimmer of hope Alex Sinunu was used to surfing three or four times a week in...
‘God knows what’s in the water’: Los Angeles surfers in limbo as wildfire toxins linger
‘God knows what’s in the water’: Los Angeles surfers in limbo as wildfire toxins linger: In a city where surfing is a way of life, the wait to get back in the water has been agonizing. But new research offers a glimmer of hope Alex Sinunu was used to surfing three or four times a week in...
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
‘God knows what’s in the water’: Los Angeles surfers in limbo as wildfire toxins linger: In a city where surfing is a way of life, the wait to get back in the water has been agonizing. But new research offers a glimmer of hope Alex Sinunu was used to surfing three or four times a week in...
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One of Canada’s biggest oil and gas companies was quietly allowed to bypass regulations while decommissioning more than 4,000 pipelines. #bcpoli Via @writermjs.bsky.social and @zakvescera.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/b-c-quietly-...
B.C. allowed CNRL to sidestep rules for over 4,300 pipelines: docs | The Narwhal
B.C.’s energy regulator quietly let one of Canada’s biggest oil and gas companies dodge the rules for thousands of ‘non-compliant’ pipelines
thenarwhal.ca
April 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
One of Canada’s biggest oil and gas companies was quietly allowed to bypass regulations while decommissioning more than 4,000 pipelines. #bcpoli Via @writermjs.bsky.social and @zakvescera.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/b-c-quietly-...
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Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery: Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped out Explore the series – Last chance: the extinctio...
Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery
Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery: Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped out Explore the series – Last chance: the extinctio...
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery: Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped out Explore the series – Last chance: the extinctio...
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"we can already describe this moment as the most self-confident the far right has been in the West since the peak of the Third Reich."
January 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"we can already describe this moment as the most self-confident the far right has been in the West since the peak of the Third Reich."
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More than 40% of individual corals monitored around a Great Barrier Reef island were killed last year in the most widespread coral bleaching outbreak to hit the reef system, a study has found.
‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around a Great Barrier Reef island were killed last year in the most widespread coral bleaching outbreak to hit the reef system, a study has found.
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One of the world’s longest continuous bird counts has dashed scientists' hopes of a La Niña-driven recovery, as waterbird numbers in Eastern Australia fell by 50% this year compared with 2023.
‘Increasingly worried’: more than a quarter of a million waterbirds disappear from eastern Australia
One of the world’s longest continuous bird counts has dashed the ‘wistful optimism’ of scientists hoping for a La Niña-driven recovery
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:52 PM
One of the world’s longest continuous bird counts has dashed scientists' hopes of a La Niña-driven recovery, as waterbird numbers in Eastern Australia fell by 50% this year compared with 2023.
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Our most read stories of 2024:
In July, our joint investigation with @ftm.eu found that growing political backlash to lab-grown meat in Europe is being driven by an influential lobbying campaign fronted by a former beef industry executive and funded by livestock interests.
In July, our joint investigation with @ftm.eu found that growing political backlash to lab-grown meat in Europe is being driven by an influential lobbying campaign fronted by a former beef industry executive and funded by livestock interests.
How a livestock industry lobbying campaign is turning Europe against lab-grown meat
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December 24, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Our most read stories of 2024:
In July, our joint investigation with @ftm.eu found that growing political backlash to lab-grown meat in Europe is being driven by an influential lobbying campaign fronted by a former beef industry executive and funded by livestock interests.
In July, our joint investigation with @ftm.eu found that growing political backlash to lab-grown meat in Europe is being driven by an influential lobbying campaign fronted by a former beef industry executive and funded by livestock interests.
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Okay, so there's really no content in this article at all. Hinton gave slightly different made up numbers to the same ridiculous question and the reporter jumped on that as if it were meaningful
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years
Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Okay, so there's really no content in this article at all. Hinton gave slightly different made up numbers to the same ridiculous question and the reporter jumped on that as if it were meaningful
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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“I would say that AI is no danger to translators because it is radically retrospective. AI works with the archives… AI can never be ‘absolument moderne’ ’’ Henri Bloemen, Translating ‘Sensitive’ Texts and the Question of the Au... youtu.be/YJBV0tTCIHY?...
November 30, 2023 at 2:07 PM
“I would say that AI is no danger to translators because it is radically retrospective. AI works with the archives… AI can never be ‘absolument moderne’ ’’ Henri Bloemen, Translating ‘Sensitive’ Texts and the Question of the Au... youtu.be/YJBV0tTCIHY?...
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Overseeing reading of the morning’s mail. Actually, watching birds.
December 6, 2023 at 12:05 AM
Overseeing reading of the morning’s mail. Actually, watching birds.
Palestine Heirloom Seed Library garnant.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/p...
October 30, 2023 at 8:46 PM
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So, #linguistics folks: has anyone else noticed the phrase "hoover up" being increasingly used in American English? I'm seeing it primarily (only?) in the context of companies "hoovering up" data to train "AI" models and I'm curious if it's also being used in other contexts.
October 19, 2023 at 1:22 PM
So, #linguistics folks: has anyone else noticed the phrase "hoover up" being increasingly used in American English? I'm seeing it primarily (only?) in the context of companies "hoovering up" data to train "AI" models and I'm curious if it's also being used in other contexts.
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can't but recommend Cillian Murphy's "Limited Edition" mixtapes on BBC6 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 30, 2023 at 12:42 PM
can't but recommend Cillian Murphy's "Limited Edition" mixtapes on BBC6 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...