There’s no AI or computational tech without humans. The question is one of labor: how much are we willing to be devalued, and to devalue others?

Fireworks explode on Highway 1 after collision near Hope, B.C. Pyrotechnics lit up the night sky on Highway 1 near Hope, B.C., Thursday after a semi rear-ended a pickup truck that was towing a trailer carrying a 'large quantity' of fireworks, according to authori...

Omg. The car driving through it. Glad no one was hurt. Also glad these won't be going off in my neighborhood.

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😂Was it a reminder to appreciate every moment? I kinda like his style. Give em 2+2, but don't give them 4.

How Big Beef muzzled methane research A new Guardian investigation reveals the U.N.'s farming wing downplayed livestock emissions after pressure from the meat, feed and dairy industries.

Also key:
The meat and dairy lobby: "as powerful and far-reaching as oil" heated.world/p/how-big-be...

New Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Says Maybe It’s Not Social Media, But Helicopter Parenting ... We’ve been covering, at great length, the moral panic around the claims that social media is what’s making kids depressed. The problem with this narrative is that there’s basically no real evide...

In other news, the Journal of Pediatrics recently had a fascinating study looking at tons of other research on increasing mental health challenges with kids and found that... a huge factor is probably THE LACK OF SPACES FOR KIDS TO BE KIDS. www.techdirt.com/2023/10/26/n...

Another beautiful day in the 'couv. Getting colder though.

First snow

You could probably get a calendar or two out of these pics!

The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change Lessons from how we tackled acid rain can be applied to our world today

We! fixed! acid! rain! And we can fix climate change 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Here’s our privacy policy

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a brutalized neon flex post with tire tracks all over it and tire tracks in the bike lane behind it.

Wear a bright Halloween costume kids.

Billionaires Should Pay a Global Minimum Tax, Researchers Say Governments should create a global minimum tax on the super-rich similar to a system agreed for major multinationals to deliver a significant boost to revenues, the EU Tax Observatory said.

“What we asked of corporations we now must ask of billionaires. It is time to establish a global minimum tax on the very rich.”

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I founded and run a disabled-led transcription and closed captioning business which prioritises working with disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent freelancers—and we are recruiting!

Especially interested in hearing from Black, brown, & PoC, LGBTQIA & otherwise marginalised disabled ppl 👇🏻

That is AWESOME 👏👏👏

I blacked out and bought eight more seasonal candles.

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👆 yes. And this scares the hell out of me.

Someone’s getting an ass-kicking

If the Lord wanted man to understand the climate, He would have made people who studied it for a living.

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Why was sand art being pushed so hard on us as kids in the 90s? Who benefited?

An imagine of the Whore of Babylon which reads the horrors persist, but so do I.

Just trying to get through my Wednesday.

Canada blasted by UN for continuing to allow ‘contemporary forms of slavery’ As one agricultural worker says: ‘You leave everything you know behind to be exploited’

Agricultural workers in Canada describe abusive and dehumanizing conditions — what the UN is now calling 'contemporary forms of slavery'.

As one agricultural worker says: ‘You leave everything you know behind to be exploited’

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"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelious

It's as if Marcus Aurelius foresaw social media or something.

Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global A new analysis has concluded that the Gulf Stream is definitely slowing, but whether it's due to climate change is hard to tell.

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 17, 2023 ~ Saying the 'C' word.

"As Earth’s climate warms, an enormous influx of cold, fresh water from melting ice sheets is spilling into oceans, possibly causing the Gulf Stream to slow or even veer toward outright collapse"
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

What happens on my ride when I see pumpkins in the fields 😂

Lights and layers #fallriding