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Hey it's Friday and the Canadian oil industry made $1.5 billion in profits this week.

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It’s a thing here as well. This is the app that my kiddo class uses splashin.app

#ShareGoodNewsToo

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this.

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This is a long shot, but I had forgotten to save a post that suggested that when Silicon Valley use the word 'agentic', they are actually invoking something else and suggested a better word for what they trying to get across...

.. and I cannot remember this word :(

California just hit an inflection point for batteries California's electric grid just broke a new record, providing as much power during peak demand as six Hoover Dams.

Batteries just delivered 43% of California’s peak demand. 🔋⚡

That’s HUGE.

Stored Solar = Less gas. Lower costs. Cleaner air.

This is the future of the grid: shorturl.at/xMJTo

#ClimateNews #EnergyNews

I know, right?!?!

Go listen to Reply All’s nuanced take on the viral ‘feral hogs’ tweet Reply All digs beneath the meme

Additional context for those unaware of the growing menace of wild hogs: www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/10...

This pairs nicely with an article that I saved from yesterday: "Alberta testing AI-powered drone technology in battle against wild boar" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I don't know what to with this information.

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

All of these guys sitting around having a tea party with their dolls.

reads: Introduction In March 2026, an Anthropic employee released the source code of Claude Code, a wrapper around their large language model that is widely used to generate code in programming tasks. Its thousands of lines of Typescript code contained many hopeful prompts and in cantations to shape Claude’s behaviour. Here are some examples: “Report outcomes faithfully”; “Never characterize incomplete or broken work as done”; “Be careful not to introduce security vulnerabilities ” (prompts.ts in Anthropic 2026) . There is more than a passing resemblance here to the Azande witch -doctor apprentice who, while stirring the medicine, utters: “You medicine which I am cooking, mind you always speak the truth to me. Do not let anyone injure me with his witchcraft, but le t me recognize all witches. … Let me be expert at the witch -doctor’s craft so that people will give me many spears on account of my magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 93). In the case of Claude, the incantation s appeared insufficient: analysis of the codebase, which according to a company executive was “pretty much 100% written by Claude Code ”, revealed severe security vulnerabilities (Townsend 2026).

what an introductory paragraph!!

The Commander Thinks Aloud YouTube video by The Long Winters - Topic

Now that the crew of the Artemis is safely home, l decided that it safe to share this song with my son, although I had to leave the room because it always makes me cry youtu.be/kdtIjnpeolE?...

New solar and wind 60% lower cost than nuclear! Ontario procures new solar and wind energy sufficient to power 350,000 homes - at 60% lower cost than nuclear! Don't stop there

Ontario procures new solar and wind energy sufficient to power 350,000 homes - at 60% lower cost than nuclear! Don't stop there.
#onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/on-new-solar...

I wrote about the language of space geology today

librarian.aedileworks.com/2026/04/09/i...

What I am really pushing for is a resistance to the uncritical adoption of AI as a bandaid solution to cover up the consequences of austerity politics in the legal system. That is hard to put in a headline, so I'll let the quotes speak for themselves:

windsornewstoday.ca/windsor/news...

On a light blue background the text says, 'Open Data & AI: what if we used AI as an excuse to provide structured open data to our communities?' Presented by Mita Williams. Wednesday, April 8th at 10am-11am PST, Virtually on Zoom. There is a headshot of Mita, who has dark, graying hair at shoulder length. She has lighter skin, wears glasses and is smiling. She wears a green sweater over a dark collared shirt.

Next Wednesday, April 8th at 10am, Law Librarian Mita Williams will present on Open Data and AI and how library staff can contribute to making community data accessible through existing projects. Register today! bclaconnect.ca/resources/co...

In Your Spare Time: Ursula K. Le Guin Podcast Brings Her Entire Blog to Your Ears - Reactor Yes, even the blog posts that are primarily cat photos

The new podcast In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin pairs Le Guin's blog posts with commentary from authors, librarians, critics, and more, including David Mitchell, Emily Wilson, Rick Riordan, Robin Hobb, and Vajra Chandrasekera.

Hey friends! I’m giving a free talk next Wednesday! You just need to pre-register with the good people at @bcla.bsky.social

Brilliant! Everyone buy bell hooks' book Communion on June 16th! (the release date of JD Vance's book Communion).

On International Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the lives, strength, and contributions of 2-Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender diverse (2STNBGD) people. We also reaffirm the importance of equality and human rights.

Pentecost, by Friar Juan Bautista Maíno, 1615-20, 📸 via @MarchMadnessMBB

April from Parks and Rec saying “because I didn’t think March 31st existed.”

Organized Abandonment | Sarah Jaffe In a time of escalating climate catastrophe, we need something other than paeans to resilience.

"The anti-state state consolidates wealth and power in the hands of fewer and fewer, while making cuts to services that will only become more necessary as disasters multiply."
(h/t @copystar.bsky.social )

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I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Avi Lewis: "There's no party which is speaking up clearly and consistently against war. There's no party that is speaking up clearly and consistently about getting off the most destabilizing force in the global economy right now, which is oil."