Jeff Schering
@yakkadoo.com
The truth will make you cry
so follow the liars
tho' they lead you to destruction
you'll have a smile on your face
so follow the liars
tho' they lead you to destruction
you'll have a smile on your face
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From South African divestment to today’s Palestine solidarity movements, universities use neutrality to justify inaction while students push for accountability. It’s time to confront the contradiction and defend open debate over institutionalized silence.
Institutional neutrality or institutionalized silencing?
The partial ceasefire in Gaza offers an opportunity to reflect on how universities have responded to a level of student activism not seen since the protests against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s...
canadiandimension.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
From South African divestment to today’s Palestine solidarity movements, universities use neutrality to justify inaction while students push for accountability. It’s time to confront the contradiction and defend open debate over institutionalized silence.
Interesting observation. My takeaway is that the consensus in published material is that climate change is real. Because this info is part of LLM training corpus, LLM will also (most of the time) have that same consensus. Some risk though that deniers could label this consensus as 'hallucination'
LLMs are fast becoming a major source of information.
In a new piece over at The Climate Brink, I argue that LLMs are fundamentally consensus machines, and could help defragment our information ecosystem – at least if their creators do not put thumbs on the digital scale.
In a new piece over at The Climate Brink, I argue that LLMs are fundamentally consensus machines, and could help defragment our information ecosystem – at least if their creators do not put thumbs on the digital scale.
Consensus machines
Will the AI future inadvertently recenter expertise?
www.theclimatebrink.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Interesting observation. My takeaway is that the consensus in published material is that climate change is real. Because this info is part of LLM training corpus, LLM will also (most of the time) have that same consensus. Some risk though that deniers could label this consensus as 'hallucination'
Not sure how billionaire owned and developed AGI is going to save us, particularly when it comes to climate change. We already know what to do, we simply choose not to do it. We'll ask it how to stop climate change, and it'll say "Stop using fossil fuels". Then we'll shut it off.
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Not sure how billionaire owned and developed AGI is going to save us, particularly when it comes to climate change. We already know what to do, we simply choose not to do it. We'll ask it how to stop climate change, and it'll say "Stop using fossil fuels". Then we'll shut it off.
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No one is free until we're all free, and our communities won't be whole or just or thriving and just until they are safe for trans folks to live and grow and enjoy life like everyone else.
Love and solidarity to every trans person everywhere.
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Love and solidarity to every trans person everywhere.
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
No one is free until we're all free, and our communities won't be whole or just or thriving and just until they are safe for trans folks to live and grow and enjoy life like everyone else.
Love and solidarity to every trans person everywhere.
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Love and solidarity to every trans person everywhere.
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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The BC NDP government talks a lot about rebuilding the forest sector, but they don't talk at all about addressing the simple reality that this industry has cut too much, too fast, for too long, in too many places, and that this still continues.
www.biv.com/news/resourc... #bcpoli
www.biv.com/news/resourc... #bcpoli
Leaked report claims B.C. timber harvest is vastly overestimated
An undisclosed report obtained by BIV estimates the province is likely approving twice as much logging than can be sustainably harvested
www.biv.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The BC NDP government talks a lot about rebuilding the forest sector, but they don't talk at all about addressing the simple reality that this industry has cut too much, too fast, for too long, in too many places, and that this still continues.
www.biv.com/news/resourc... #bcpoli
www.biv.com/news/resourc... #bcpoli
This is really cool. Wolves have learned how to pull crab traps out of the water. Includes video.
www.sciencenews.org/article/crab...
www.sciencenews.org/article/crab...
A wolf raided a crab trap. Was it tool use or just canine cunning?
Video from the Haíɫzaqv Nation Indigenous community shows a wolf hauling a crab trap ashore. Scientists are split on whether it counts as tool use.
www.sciencenews.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This is really cool. Wolves have learned how to pull crab traps out of the water. Includes video.
www.sciencenews.org/article/crab...
www.sciencenews.org/article/crab...
BC Greens Fight the Oligarchs tour.
The first time I heard the word 'oligarch' was in Russia in 1993. I thought it was a Russian word! Former KGB and Communist Party mucky-mucks ended up owning all the things. Russians were not impressed with those guys. Oligarchs are just as bad here.
The first time I heard the word 'oligarch' was in Russia in 1993. I thought it was a Russian word! Former KGB and Communist Party mucky-mucks ended up owning all the things. Russians were not impressed with those guys. Oligarchs are just as bad here.
**Beep Beep** We’re on tour!! 🚗
This month, we’re travelling across the province, meeting with communities building bright solutions to reclaim BC’s economy for working people, not the billionaires.
Fighttheoligarchs.ca ⚡
#bcgreens #britishcolumbia #billionares #wealthtax #greenparty #bcpoli
This month, we’re travelling across the province, meeting with communities building bright solutions to reclaim BC’s economy for working people, not the billionaires.
Fighttheoligarchs.ca ⚡
#bcgreens #britishcolumbia #billionares #wealthtax #greenparty #bcpoli
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
BC Greens Fight the Oligarchs tour.
The first time I heard the word 'oligarch' was in Russia in 1993. I thought it was a Russian word! Former KGB and Communist Party mucky-mucks ended up owning all the things. Russians were not impressed with those guys. Oligarchs are just as bad here.
The first time I heard the word 'oligarch' was in Russia in 1993. I thought it was a Russian word! Former KGB and Communist Party mucky-mucks ended up owning all the things. Russians were not impressed with those guys. Oligarchs are just as bad here.
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**Beep Beep** We’re on tour!! 🚗
This month, we’re travelling across the province, meeting with communities building bright solutions to reclaim BC’s economy for working people, not the billionaires.
Fighttheoligarchs.ca ⚡
#bcgreens #britishcolumbia #billionares #wealthtax #greenparty #bcpoli
This month, we’re travelling across the province, meeting with communities building bright solutions to reclaim BC’s economy for working people, not the billionaires.
Fighttheoligarchs.ca ⚡
#bcgreens #britishcolumbia #billionares #wealthtax #greenparty #bcpoli
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM
**Beep Beep** We’re on tour!! 🚗
This month, we’re travelling across the province, meeting with communities building bright solutions to reclaim BC’s economy for working people, not the billionaires.
Fighttheoligarchs.ca ⚡
#bcgreens #britishcolumbia #billionares #wealthtax #greenparty #bcpoli
This month, we’re travelling across the province, meeting with communities building bright solutions to reclaim BC’s economy for working people, not the billionaires.
Fighttheoligarchs.ca ⚡
#bcgreens #britishcolumbia #billionares #wealthtax #greenparty #bcpoli
Telus is trying very very hard to be worse than Rogers and Bell in the customer service department.
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Telus is trying very very hard to be worse than Rogers and Bell in the customer service department.
"I love the Libertarians. They're the clowns in the circus of life."
—David Gerrold
—David Gerrold
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"I love the Libertarians. They're the clowns in the circus of life."
—David Gerrold
—David Gerrold
The economic colonization of Canada by USA continues apace.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKV...
The Dark Connections Between Trump's Billionaires and Canada | The Goose 🇨🇦
YouTube video by The Goose
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The economic colonization of Canada by USA continues apace.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKV...
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Last week, we asked Mark Carney a simple question about the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal: “How much taxpayer money are we prepared to invest in a project that is American-owned and foreign built?” He deflected for 3 mins without answering the question. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD8...
Mark "Elbows Up" Carney Defends American-owned LNG Terminal
YouTube video by Dogwood
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Last week, we asked Mark Carney a simple question about the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal: “How much taxpayer money are we prepared to invest in a project that is American-owned and foreign built?” He deflected for 3 mins without answering the question. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD8...
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It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)
Good overview of the state of efforts to keep climate change to a minimum. (TL;DR: we are not on course to keep climate change to a minimum.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDm...
Did Bill Gates really say climate change is a hoax?
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Good overview of the state of efforts to keep climate change to a minimum. (TL;DR: we are not on course to keep climate change to a minimum.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDm...
I wonder: Countries that import O&G must pay with US$. The way you get US$ is to sell stuff into the US. But with the US tariffs, it's harder to do that, making it harder to import O&G, which makes renewables all the more attractive because for the most part that's only an up-front cost.
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I wonder: Countries that import O&G must pay with US$. The way you get US$ is to sell stuff into the US. But with the US tariffs, it's harder to do that, making it harder to import O&G, which makes renewables all the more attractive because for the most part that's only an up-front cost.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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BC billionaires hoard more wealth every year — and it’s making life worse for…literally everyone else. 2 minutes on how we got here and our game plan to fund the future⚡️Share & join us: bcgreens.ca/join/
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
BC billionaires hoard more wealth every year — and it’s making life worse for…literally everyone else. 2 minutes on how we got here and our game plan to fund the future⚡️Share & join us: bcgreens.ca/join/
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Fast-tracking Ksi Lisims LNG gives Trump’s billionaire donors a direct line to Canadian public dollars. It’s time to take this project off the fast-track list and stop pouring public dollars into fossil fuels.
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Fast-tracking Ksi Lisims LNG gives Trump’s billionaire donors a direct line to Canadian public dollars. It’s time to take this project off the fast-track list and stop pouring public dollars into fossil fuels.
Another Nation Building Project™ funded and built by the American nation in Canada using Korean-built floating LNG compressor plants with Korean steel. Asia gets the gas and Wall Street gets the cash. A handful of Canadians are needed only to dig it up and ship it out. T'was always thus though.
Mark Carney is about to announce more of his “elbows up” major projects.
But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.
That’s not even the worst part!
@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:
But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.
That’s not even the worst part!
@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Another Nation Building Project™ funded and built by the American nation in Canada using Korean-built floating LNG compressor plants with Korean steel. Asia gets the gas and Wall Street gets the cash. A handful of Canadians are needed only to dig it up and ship it out. T'was always thus though.
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The day pipeline security followed reporter @writermjs.bsky.social — and what he’s learned since about CSIS — has him asking a lot of questions. thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...
The deepening ties between CSIS and resource companies | The Narwhal
As the federal government earmarks resource extraction projects in the ‘national interest,’ the companies building them are deepening ties to CSIS
thenarwhal.ca
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The day pipeline security followed reporter @writermjs.bsky.social — and what he’s learned since about CSIS — has him asking a lot of questions. thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...
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CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
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About halfway through Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by @attackerman.bsky.social. It's packed with receipts and demonstrates quite well that Trump is not an anomaly, not by a long shot. This matters because getting him out of office won't change things.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
About halfway through Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by @attackerman.bsky.social. It's packed with receipts and demonstrates quite well that Trump is not an anomaly, not by a long shot. This matters because getting him out of office won't change things.
What in the ever living fuck? Clean hydrogen from methane? More proof that the fossil fuel industry has captured the Canadian government. Furthermore, this should be against the greenwashing regulation, but other parts of the budget water that down.
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
Ministers Dabrusin and Hodgson outline Budget 2025’s new Climate Competitiveness Strategy - Canada.ca
Today, the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and the Honourable Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, outlined the government’s new Climate Compet...
www.canada.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
What in the ever living fuck? Clean hydrogen from methane? More proof that the fossil fuel industry has captured the Canadian government. Furthermore, this should be against the greenwashing regulation, but other parts of the budget water that down.
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
www.canada.ca/en/environme...