The oil industry is profiting $10 million every day because of the war in the Middle East... “We could tax that,” said @hadrianmk.bsky.social, through an “excess profits” or “windfall” tax. The government could then use that money to improve affordability for Canadians. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...
Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ www.carbonbrief.org/clean-energy...
A water recycling plant Elon Musk promised to build in Memphis to offset the huge amount of local drinking water Grok's data centre devours has been postponed indefinitely.
Apparently, Musk considers drinking water for local people less of a priority than increasing computing power for Grok👇🏾
People living in areas with elevated air pollution are 11% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than those living in areas with cleaner air, study finds.
The sharpest differences were for liver, colorectal, kidney, lung + bladder cancers.
www.euronews.com/health/2026/...
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Why are Canadian media reporting on Canada Post as if they've all been given a script to follow? Journalists are interfering with the union's contract ratification vote by parroting Canada Post management's talking points and telling Canadians that it isn't viable.
"The real effect [of AI] was not the eradication of millions of jobs, but a more subtle and pernicious transformation of work and workplaces to reduce the leverage of workers and shift that power even further to their bosses."
on oil. Innovation is what we need.
“Instead of capturing windfall profits for the public good, Ottawa is bankrolling fossil fuel companies and starving services needed during the climate crisis” ricochet.media/politics/car...
As long as fossil fuel expansions in pipelines & production continue, Canada remains tarred into a destructive past dedicated to profit from pollution. Mark Carney’s not an innovator, just another ‘Bring back the good old days’ rich old man. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
“It takes a certain philosophy to build a business servicing the supply chain demand for animal slaughter identically to the kill chain demand for human slaughter.” novaramedia.com/2026/04/20/p...
🔴 Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops
Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of ‘solar zealots’ and I'm enthusiastically along for the ride. Thankfully I'm not alone.
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/22/b...
“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.
It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”
OpenAI is now under criminal investigation in Florida over the FSU mass shooter’s alleged ChatGPT use. My recent investigation (linked next in thread) uncovered this emerging danger with chatbots—including high-risk threat cases that were not known to the public www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
“the private insurance companies are working directly with the Smith government to “help facilitate a smooth transition for Albertans” to a new, two-tier health-care system”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
breachmedia.ca/pandoras-box...
"(W)e have a premier that’s not only coaching the other team, but she’s also refereeing the game." #TraitorDanielleSmith is doing everything she can to make sure the separatists have all the advantages. Her endgame appears to be the destruction of Canada #abpoli #ForeverCanadian
"That is not a gathering shaped by the values of welcome and humility. It is a gathering shaped by access and privilege."
Almost 100 faith leaders across the province have penned an open letter condemning Smith's elite "Christian Summit" that costs up to $650 a ticket.
#abpoli
Duane Bratt: “going after the integrity of the electoral system is even worse. It opens the door for mistrust in elections, court challenges (and likely further attacks on judges), and strains on the capacity of Elections Alberta. All in the midst of referendums and a potential separation threat.”
"Techlordism is already here. The repercussions are breathtaking: ubiquitous surveillance, automated targeting on battlefields, macroeconomic instability, the end of democracy as even an ideal (cheered by Peter Thiel) + the death of universities.” @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
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Say it with me.
Government services are not businesses.
Governments are not businesses.
Neither should be run as a business.
If you think they should, you have the fiscal understanding of a 4 year old.
The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...
every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"
You think he deigns to actually write anything? This is the product of one of his minions prompting an AI to generate the most fawning possible coverage of him, followed by no less than three revisions based on “no, MORE sycophantic”.
“Gas’s reputation as a reliable and affordable energy source has taken a serious hit, and plans for its speedy adoption in Asia’s developing nations have been derailed”
This + storage + electrification = possibly the biggest energy story of the decade
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
On surveillance pricing. Fascinating.
"...Lewis is doing exactly what a good populist is supposed to do: at once initiating a critical public conversation about an issue of widespread concern and inspiring his ideological adversaries to openly side with corporate power and defend the indefensible."
"Electricity generated from wind and solar is largely insulated from fossil fuel price volatility – once built, the fuel is free."
This is what I told @dharna.bsky.social @theguardian.com who published this article.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Danielle Smith decided to open Pandora's Box in order to keep her separatist supporters at bay. Now the rest of us have to contend with the forces that she unleashed. #abpoli #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...
The world is learning a lesson in real-time:
reliance on oil and gas imports = extreme vulnerability.
"Electrification will be seen as the shock absorber."
— @70sbachchan.bsky.social
And it only took a few weeks.
The Americans are trying to carve us up, like Russia did/is doing to Ukraine.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
it is legitimately unfathomable how the US squandered its significant EV early lead primarily through entirely backwards short-sighted policy decisions in support of the oil industry which likely has already set the stages of the US auto industry's demise. a death in slow motion.