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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@AnnaAnthro

Will be interesting to see how a relatively small market like #Québec can enforce this.

In any case I hope they can take it national.

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AnnaAnthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#quebec durable goods law comes into effect - companies can no longer sell products without repairabilty

#montreal

https://globalnews.ca/news/11465319/quebec-durable-goods-law-comes-into-effect/

Quebec durable goods law comes into effect | Globalnews.ca

Quebec measures targeting retailers when it comes to sustainability of goods and planned obsolescence of products comes into effect today.

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Hmph.. Yet another reason to stop burning #fossilfuels

Seems that the Carbon 14 in the atmosphere is being swamped by the vast amounts of carbon from burning. This is impacting the effectiveness and accuracy of carbon 14 dating […]

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Thems fightin words 🤛

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/proposed-pipeline-scott-moe-danielle-smith-politics-1.7651187

#cdnpoli #skpoli #bcpoli #abpoli

sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@bigclimate.bsky.social

Nenshi has always been a fossil fuel cheer leader. I think it must go hand in glove with being an Alberta politician.

So the choice is a fossil head who is also a fascist homophobe, or a fossil head who is socially progressive.

Fortunately there is exactly zero chance […]

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/rejectthepipeline/?source=direct_link&

#abpoli #cdnpoli #climatechange

Prime Minister Carney: Reject Smith's BC Pipeline - Leadnow

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Perhaps Canada Post should be tasked with building some by-canadians-for-canadians digital hosting infrastructure. Something that is reliable, trustworthy, safe ... and "profitable".

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@dangillmor

Yup, Apple caves to the fascists. Just like when they killed Airdrop in China a few years back because kids were using it to share protest information.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/apple-airdrop-china-ios/

#apple #fascism #cowards #ice

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@chris

Is that the muffler from your Kona EV 😜

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6d

BREAKING: Premier Smith announcing that the province of Alberta will recognize the Hectate Strait as the "Strait of Alberta" going forward.

She expressed her commitment to making this a reality by threatening to hold her breath and stomp her feet if her demands […]

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Good news but I find it interesting that all the charger locations listed are in Alberta while the money is coming from BC and Canada.

Youre welcome 🙂

https://electrek.co/2025/10/02/96-dc-fast-chargers-are-coming-to-western-canadas-highways/

#ev #alberta #abpoli #bc #bcpoli

96 DC fast chargers are coming to Western Canada’s highways

Wallbox Supernova 180 kW fast chargers will power SureCharge’s new network with 24 sites and 96 fast chargers across Western Canada.

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d

After cancelling 11 gigawatts of wind, solar and energy storage projects which would have resulted in thousands of clean energy jobs, Danielle Smith decides they should sink public money into another oil pipeline to the coast.

This will surely fail as there is no social license in #bc for […]

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Progress.

"At full capacity, the facility is expected to produce up to 49.5 gigawatt hours annually. The Windsor plant currently employs over 950 full-time staff, with hiring expected to grow to 2,500 positions as production scales up." […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@katharinehayhoe.com

RIP, She will be missed.

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

New Abacus survey released:

"Two-thirds of Canadians (66%) support keeping in place some version of Canada’s EV mandate....

Only 27% of Canadians do not wish to see any federal requirement for more electric vehicles. "

What is surprising to me is that only 39% of Albertans want it fully […]

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@mattblaze
That would imply a level of self awareness that neither men possess...

sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Turns out it was the French marine biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power.

So the Washington Black series is complete fictions. That said IMO the author could have incorporated Jeanne Villepreux-Power into the novel.

In any case its an enjoyable little adventure.

#aquarium #JeanneVillepreux-Power […]

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Been watching the series "George Washington Black" and I got to wondering who exactly did invent the #aquarium ?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10059166/

#tv

Washington Black (TV Mini Series 2025) ⭐ 6.4 | Adventure, Drama, History

45m | TV-MA

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 8d

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

A group of scientists huddle excitedly around a monitor. One says:
"The program has detected a signal sent from another galaxy, but we need to upgrade to a paid version before we can reply."

The screen reads "Choose a plan To unlock replies: 1. Student 2. Basic 3. Pro 4. Expert "

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 8d

🤦

https://electrek.co/2025/09/29/doe-props-up-dying-coal-with-625m-days-after-wright-mocks-clean-energy-subsidies/

#renewables #coal #fossilfuels #climatechange #uspol

DOE props up dying coal with $625M days after Wright mocks clean energy subsidies

Trump's DOE funnels $625 million into coal revival after axing $13 billion for renewables, doubling down on dirty, outdated energy.

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Spooky May Likes Toronto 🎃 @mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Wait! Some tell RFK Jr that the Imperial system is giving kids headaches so they're taking more Tylenol. Maybe this time, we'll standardize on the metric system.

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@chad

Awesome car! We have a 2024 and I can say without hesitation that it is the best car I have ever owned.

#ev