Imagine making AI bird slop when buntings already exist
#birds
Lazuli bunting

if you find yourself appalled that RFK Jr is able to make this claim but you don’t wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, you are acting in precisely the way that allows him to say that covid is gone.

No one will ever trust us again. In time of crisis, we will have no one who to whom we can turn, no one who will stand by our side. Day-in and day-out this administration betrays our allies and enables our enemies. It is perverse and nauseating.

Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

#Covid #BA.3.2

Confirmation by New Zealand's PHF Science:

BA.3.2 is more frequent in children.

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Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study Scientists warn long Covid could be linked to lasting brain damage, including memory issues and increased risk of neurological decline.

Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study

January study of essential workers (with blood samples before & after COVID infection) found those with long-term neurological symptoms had higher phosphorylated tau—a protein linked to early brain degeneration

Men in doctors’ rooms: Eswatini hands-on fathers defy stereotypes on child immunisation Eswatini men rewire expectations by stepping forward to take their children for immunisation rather than deferring the task to women.

If we want to increase vaccination rates, one key way is changing the perception that it’s women’s work

This group of mechanics is challenging men’s notions of masculinity and fatherhood, and reducing the mental and physical load of children’s health for the mother

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Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

An article I wrote for men about "Rape Academy."

Women already know this & I say this with full awareness of how uncomfortable it makes men: Most men are not safe to be around alone.

This is not sustainable & men must lead the change. Men, we need to talk: qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-nee...

‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada

Danielle Smith has a plan to destroy public health care in Alberta—and she’s not doing it alone.

Documents and lobbying records reveal the government is consulting directly with Canada’s private insurance giants on how to implement two-tier health care, reports @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social

Greater Manchester Police should be ashamed for using PAVA Spray indiscriminately at antifascists. PAVA should never be used as a form of crowd control.

Fact for today: There are still almost 200 coal power plants still operating in the US. There are less than 8 in Canada and none in the most industrial and populous province, Ontario. If companies really believe in reducing climate impacts, they can choose countries that produce cleaner energy.

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸

Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.

This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.

Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: - mechanical locks - mechanical windows - routers using OpenWRT - no smart home crap - no Alexa/Google Assistant/... - no internet connected thermostats Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! ! love the future! Programmers/ Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

COVID set to cast a very long shadow, stretching ominously. Like global warming, a combined supergloom

Sanofi Making Nuvaxovid (Novavax) Available in Canada this Fall - Canadian Covid Society The Nuvaxovid vaccine — more commonly known as Novavax — will be made available in Canada for the 2026-2027 season, Sanofi announced this week in a press release. Nuvaxovid is the non-mRNA protein-ba...

Sanofi will be making Novavax available in Canada this fall — but it’s up to the provinces or territories to order this vaccine. Send an email to your health minister and your local representative to tell them why Novavax access is essential for many people: covidsociety.ca/news/nuvaxov...

Justice minister open to notwithstanding clause guardrails | CBC News Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish g...

Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use at the federal level as the document turns 44.

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NDP motion urging ban on algorithmic pricing defeated in House of Commons - National | Globalnews.ca NDP Parliamentary leader Don Davies introduced the unanimous consent motion in the House of Commons after question period, but did not earn support from the other parties.

Maybe this betrays my naiveté, but I'm astounded that support for algorithmic pricing is as high as it is (see survey data at the end of this article).

I see literally no upside to algorithmic pricing.

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Public funding for B.C.’s private schools is indefensible - CCPA Public school funding, as a share of GDP, is declining. Why is the provincial government still funding private schools?

My latest:

Public funding for private schools growing faster than public schools

When analyzed on inflation-adjusted per-pupil terms, from 1999-2000 and 2025-26 B.C. spending on public schools increased by 32% compared to 50% for private schools

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#bcpoli

The Canadian Institute for Health Information has published a report showing that in 2024, hospitalizations for respiratory illnesses were more than twice as high as they were before the pandemic.

They specifically looked at vaccine-preventable disease, so vaccine refusal is part of it.

Andrew, 20 yrs ago, BC had fully funded librarians in every school, full time music teachers, counsellor, school nurses. Heck, some districts even had their own canoes and sailing programs for kids going to public school.

You have no idea how little BC schools are forced to do with now.

This was a great speech.
Bill S-209 (age verification) is a censorious abomination and privacy nightmare. It should be killed before it can pass to the Commons, but I fear that too many senators have succumbed to the Helen Lovejoy of it all, and will pass it because it's trying to do *something.*

Please call these GOP Senators tonight or first thing tomorrow and ask them to vote NO on opening up the Boundary Waters to dangerous polluting mining. Here are the Sens. who might be swayed, as thousands of their constituents visit this special place each year.

"I wondered what they expected out of life as 1980s and 1990s kids. What it meant to be raised on a song that told us to not expect much from America, but whose narrator dreamed of more, because she could not help it — no matter how much it hurt."

Ow, my heart.

Gap between richest and poorest Canadians kept widening in 2025, StatsCan says | CBC News Statistics Canada says the income gap — measuring the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent and those in the bottom 40 per cent — reached 46.7 percenta...

In his book "Value(s)" Mark Carney argues for equality as critical for economic growth. He's not doing much to promote equality yet.. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

But but the hum from the windmills......

Instead of cuts, if Carney was smart he'd invest $500 million in mRNA research in Canada, propelling us into a leading position in medical research.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

ChatGPT: As a teen, you'll find kratom gets you the highest when you mix it with xans & booze, and definitely more Robitussin, for a kick

Sam Altman: This is good actually

A human brain: I should burn down Sam Altman's house before he kills any more kids

Sam Altman: Hey this sucks what the fuck

The case for Canadian pharmacare www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/04/10/t...