Búi Petersen

Spotify: Wrapped in complicity

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Nice salary :)

Petro-Provinces at Risk - Carbon Tracker Initiative How oil- and gas-dependent Canadian provinces face fiscal strain as the energy transition progresses  A number...

See CarbonTracker’s new report “Petro-Provinces at Risk”.

Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%

Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.

We had a ten-year-long debate over using the word “fascism” and the Coast Guard just…tweeted it out.

Canada is also falling for AI industry hype, which is threatening to escalate the environmental crisis and derail democracy.

"policymakers have a duty to serve the citizens and not cater to the whims of tech CEOs."

@mark-carney.bsky.social

The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Everywhere you look in Canada, there are no leaders of principle to be found.

More of that rules based international order the Liberals used to pretend to care about.

By "it" I mean the Conservative version of the event.

YouTube video by CBC News Liberal MP, Conservative Party dispute versions of meeting before floor-crossing | Power & Politics

This is hilarious. I can't stop laughing about this. I think they mentioned "calm and measured" at least three times. LOL (I actually suspect it was written by AI) youtube.com/watch?v=PmUz...

You mean immigration policy that is not based on an extractive colonial mindset?

The problem, once again, is that "AI" is whatever the fuck the author wants it to be, and is essentially, "the computer does cool stuff!"

The first example in this article is basically a supercharged database, which is not generative AI. So it confuses the reader right from the start/

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Carney also pushing data centres and "AI"industry nonsense, driving up energy demands to keep the oil industry alive, threatened as it is by cheaper renewables. I was really hoping Canada would be a little smarter and not fall for the "AI con."

Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Musk The pay agreement clears a path for Musk, the world’s richest person, to become the first-ever trillionaire

Could Tesla and its shareholders be any more out of touch with what’s happening in the world?

Inequality and grotesque wealth is destroying America, but sure, make this dickhead even richer.

www.thestar.com/business/tes...

Teresa Heffernan on how AI is shaped by fiction - Halifax Examiner Alas, the AI titans are not thoughtful readers. Rather, they have a laughingly dumb and adolescent read of fiction.

Teresa Heffernan on how AI is shaped by fiction

Morning File by me

While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.

It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?

I'm not in any way defending the form of this protest. But can you clarify why you think this is antisemitic? The way I understand it, this was a protest against the acts of the state of Israel, not targeted at Jewishness.

Say Hi to Tech Bro Carney | The Tyee As his government heedlessly embraces artificial intelligence, the threats to Canadians are clear.

This really bothers me. I don't think governing according to hype is the way to go. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Imagine if Canada was investing in research and universities, instead of burning everything down.

This is of course very subjective, right? Other people are likely to have a wildly different ranking, on both points.

I think everyone will continue calling it the Epstein Ballroom.

The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

SMU Part-Time Faculty Officially on Strike Thursday October 23 - CUPE 3912 After a long final day of conciliation, we were unable to reach a fair agreement with our employer, and as of tomorrow morning, Thursday, 23  October, we will officially be on strike. You have already...

Solidarity with our CUPE 3912 colleagues at SMU and MSVU in their efforts to secure fair and equitable contracts. cupe3912.ca/2025/10/22/s...

Tomorrow morning, October 24, 2025, we are having two rallies for our striking members:

At MSVU,10-11 a.m., in front of the Seton Academic Centre, 166 Bedford Highway

At, SMU 12-1 p.m., in front of the Burke Building, on Inglis Street

For Immediate Release: Saint Mary’s Faculty Union response to the CUPE3912 SMU Part-Time Faculty Strike Thursday, October 23, 2025 It is a sad and historic day for Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our University has never witnessed a strike in the history of our Institution, dating back to 1802. And yet, here we are in this profoundly unprecedented and disappointing moment, witnessing the first labour action on the backs of some of our hardest-working colleagues, the part-time Professoriate at Saint Mary’s University. These workers are the poorest paid precarious academic staff in Canada. Ranked the 3rd best undergraduate university in the country, Part-Time Faculty members, who deliver the core mission of SMU, are among the lowest paid. Shame on the Saint Mary’s University executive leadership and employer bargaining team, and Board of Governors, for exploiting their academic staff and for their shameful bargaining tactics. This is a very sad day for our institution. We stand in solidarity with our CUPE 3912 with our full support and call on the SMU President, Provost, BOG and Bargaining team to get back to the table immediately and work towards a fair deal now.

In solidarity with @cupe3912.bsky.social SMU
@ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social

I look forward to seeing what all the douchebags outraged about Confederate statues being torn down have to say about Trump literally demolishing the entire East Wing of the White House.

Timely, necessary, masterful work from The Beaverton 🇨🇦

Will the AI Boom Lead to Water and Electricity Shortages? It's a steep price to pay so that Mark Zuckerberg can sell AI-enabled spy glasses.

Angelenos face fines for sprinklers. Silicon Valley’s servers face none.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

You know Spotify is evil, right? Apple maybe a tiny bit less bad. Are there other options to hear it?