The debate over UPOV 1991 - a kind of patent on seeds - is raging again in Argentina. Milei wants in, as required by his trade deal with the US, but farmers & local seed producers say NO! Summary of positions, in Spanish: ruralnet.com.ar/crisis-semil... @etcgroup.bsky.social @lughiotto.bsky.social
As space junk accumulates, astronomer Sam Lawler explains why we should be concerned about the rapid proliferation of private satellites in low orbit: thenarwhal.ca/space-junk-f...
“There is absolutely no scientific merit whatsoever in the National IQ database,” Sear told Retraction Watch. “That means that any conclusions drawn from the database will be faulty and worthless.”
So this is genuinely the extent of the BBC’s front-page “investigation”: they spoke to one alleged crook and recorded him boasting, one victim of apparently unrelated abuse, one non-immigration lawyer who “thinks” there’s a problem, and Jess Phillips. It’d be laughable if it weren’t so serious 7/
This reporting from BBC stokes division, racism and homophobia, and fails to engage with that reality faced by most LGBTQIA+ individuals. I will be making a formal complaint and hope many others will as well
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
- Increases and prolongs reliance on fossil (so next crisis hurts even more)
- Often doesn't pass through to consumers (fossil co's just pocket it)
- Benefits enjoyed more by the rich (who drive bigger cars longer distances)
- Decreases gov't revenue so you end up paying for it in different ways
I mean look at this shit they built to breed new cultivars, the temperature difference between the top and the bottom is 25 degrees. the terraces simulate elevation so they can grow plants for any environment at one site. (it is called moray if you want to look into it)
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
The bacon is good here, and ubiquitous!
My mother is currently paying $1000s to give up her American citizenship. Different strokes.
Would you rather live in AB than Nfld?
My cancer care has been great in Scotland. But I have a trans kid.
And the sour cream here tastes weird.
Ben, do I move back or stay in the UK? I can't tell which is worse when I take all the issues into account and I don't know how to rank them.
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The Liberals stand for nothing.
no Google, I don't want to shorten the quote of UNDRIP Article 31(1) on my slide deck, you know, the one where "Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their: cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression..." etc. 🫠
I think you will find that the retraction states that the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.
I never heard this when I lived in Canada, but hear it all the time in Britain. Is this a new thing, or a regional thing?
I hope so. I'm early career at 50.
The government of the USA and the government of Canada aren't seeing eye to eye about everything, but one area where they continue to march in lockstep is their tireless dedication to worsening the global climate crisis as rapidly as possible. 🧵1/
Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.
Today in AI:
Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.
Everyone involved should be fired.
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the way the publisher has fumbled the bag on Heated Rivalty is exhibit #71895 in Vat-grown MBA Industrial Complex Types Don't Know Business
they don't understand such difficult concepts as:
"when you know people will want something, make it"
and "when you make it, make it attractive to buy"
Please consider signing this petition being submitted by @leahgazan.bsky.social . The cuts to Agriculture Agri-Foods Canada are elbows to our own groin, not elbows up. We need continued well funded agricultural research in Canada
I suspect I am not the assumed target of these policies, but if paying thousands of pounds per year in visa fees and health surcharges to live here on a substandard wage isn't enough, the sneering hatred of immigrants tips me over into thinking seriously about going back where I came from.
Did you read the whole thing
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There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.
If you are Canadian, sign this petitition to prevent the downsizing of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's research capacity. Now more than ever we need publicly funded agricultural research:
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New advice from the Scottish Land Commission highlights how tax could support climate action and land reform — but also the practical challenges of introducing a peatland carbon tax. 🧵
Got a surprise in the mail today! Written with wonderful colleagues, I have a chapter on the Treaty Land Sharing Network in this book that's just out from the University of Regina press.
#settlercolonialism
