Sandy
@sandyalexc.bsky.social
Father, Husband, Skier, Motorcyclist, Proud 🇨🇦, Whisky Lover, Geek, n00b Amature Astronomer, Climate Change Solution Seeker
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Sandy
@sandyalexc.bsky.social
· Dec 11
The line that came to mind was "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;". Wow - what a great poem - describes our current mess pretty well
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I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News
Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I love ❤️ this so much.
October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I love ❤️ this so much.
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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
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1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean
The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.
www.justsecurity.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
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We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...
arxiv.org
August 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
"If you don’t follow climate policy closely, you may not know that the Trump administration is launching an effort to overturn one of the most fundamental pillars of American climate policy: the scientific finding that carbon dioxide endangers human health and
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-mercha...
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-mercha...
The merchants of doubt are back
But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt
www.theclimatebrink.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"If you don’t follow climate policy closely, you may not know that the Trump administration is launching an effort to overturn one of the most fundamental pillars of American climate policy: the scientific finding that carbon dioxide endangers human health and
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-mercha...
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-mercha...
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If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
The Time for a Pro-Democracy Movement Is Now
The Democratic Party must stop functioning solely as a political party and instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
www.lincolnsquare.media
August 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
August 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
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Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
August 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
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August 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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know your parasites 🪱🕷️🦟
August 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
know your parasites 🪱🕷️🦟
For many decades, a favourite expression of my brother's has been "hey you fucking guy"
And per @ritholtz.bsky.social , no forecast, no market prognosticator can predict what will happen when you put one single person in charge of everything and allow him to do whatever he wants. I am now referring to this as the One Fucking Guy Theory
August 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
For many decades, a favourite expression of my brother's has been "hey you fucking guy"
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I don't understand how any parent could so willingly serve as an enabler of the destruction of our world
That new usual suspects (Curry, Spencer, Christy, McKitrick, Koonin) Trump EPA climate denier report? (www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...)?
I asked chatGPT to evaluate it. It had no trouble producing a succinct and convincing refutation:
I asked chatGPT to evaluate it. It had no trouble producing a succinct and convincing refutation:
July 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I don't understand how any parent could so willingly serve as an enabler of the destruction of our world
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"Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report" by Dennis Pillion for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/3007202...
Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report - Inside Climate News
Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding...
insideclimatenews.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report" by Dennis Pillion for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/3007202...
'Michael Mann, director of the Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, says the study is nothing more than a rehash of debunked antiscientific assertions.
“It’s the usual mix of untruths, half-truths, and discredited if seemingly plausible claims we’ve
“It’s the usual mix of untruths, half-truths, and discredited if seemingly plausible claims we’ve
Latest on Money Trail: Key EPA climate study based on discredited science. "There is nothing scientific about this report whatsoever... what you would get if you asked an AI chatbot to write a fake climate report trained on climate denial propaganda" @michaelemann.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5n8xej3m
tinyurl.com/5n8xej3m
EPA Rationale for Ending Climate Regs Under the Clean Air Act Based on Discredited Science
Authors of the study EPA used to justify its decision are climate science deniers
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
'Michael Mann, director of the Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, says the study is nothing more than a rehash of debunked antiscientific assertions.
“It’s the usual mix of untruths, half-truths, and discredited if seemingly plausible claims we’ve
“It’s the usual mix of untruths, half-truths, and discredited if seemingly plausible claims we’ve
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Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
"If we will not endure a King as a political power we should not endure a King over the production, transportation, and sale of the necessaries of life.
pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/w...
pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/w...
We Should Not Endure a King – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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July 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"If we will not endure a King as a political power we should not endure a King over the production, transportation, and sale of the necessaries of life.
pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/w...
pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/w...
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The state is extreme now. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to Post-Extremism
When the state goes radical, the radicals become paramilitary
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The state is extreme now. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/welcome-to...
Molly and Abby enjoying Manchester Park
July 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Molly and Abby enjoying Manchester Park
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New from me: An exclusive interview with David Suzuki, who talked about reaching the conclusion that humanity has failed in the fight against climate change, and why communities should start preparing for more destructive natural disasters #cdnpoli #cdnenviro
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
www.ipolitics.ca
July 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
New from me: An exclusive interview with David Suzuki, who talked about reaching the conclusion that humanity has failed in the fight against climate change, and why communities should start preparing for more destructive natural disasters #cdnpoli #cdnenviro
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
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I'm going to present a slightly different take on this article than most. I really feel as though many are responding to the headline. If you read the full interview, it's a different story.
He's saying it's too late to avoid bad effects. He never says it's too late to do anything at all
He's saying it's too late to avoid bad effects. He never says it's too late to do anything at all
New from me: An exclusive interview with David Suzuki, who talked about reaching the conclusion that humanity has failed in the fight against climate change, and why communities should start preparing for more destructive natural disasters #cdnpoli #cdnenviro
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
www.ipolitics.ca
July 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I'm going to present a slightly different take on this article than most. I really feel as though many are responding to the headline. If you read the full interview, it's a different story.
He's saying it's too late to avoid bad effects. He never says it's too late to do anything at all
He's saying it's too late to avoid bad effects. He never says it's too late to do anything at all
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸