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Here’s the blunt reality — reasonably-sized electric vehicles need to be the future of cars, but cars can’t be the future of urban mobility.

Fewer cars.
Less driving.
More inviting mobility choices.
Better communities and cities.

These are the 4 pillars of the REAL urban transportation solution.

That's an argument against *bad* public transit.

#Cansky, treatment has made my nails really weak and splitty
Any advice? #oncosky

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Does Luke know 52 is more than 48?

not to mention they stole untold millions in copyrighted material to do it

Made it even harder to get a human in customer service. Poluted the internet with slop while also starving it of traffic. Encouaged death and murder. Further corrupted my industry. Contracted people in developing countries to cheap and traumatic work. Took work from writers/artists. Annoyed me.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I dust my house. My AI robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

I worry about reducing complex, thought-driven processes like "research" or "evaluating sources" or "coding data" to a series of discrete tasks to be outsourced, when there's so much that goes on cognitively both between and after the steps of those processes.

📈Oil prices are spiking after escalation around Iran.

🥣 Food prices likely next.

1/2 the world’s calories depend on synthetic fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

This is a food access issue.

👉 #FuelToFork
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Even military drone pilots experienced PTSD symptoms. Autonomous weapons solve this and other problems for the military. Moral and legal culpability are dispersed throughout the whole system. Murder becomes a function; murder of the innocent becomes a glitch. No one is to blame.

Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe

So if I’ve understood correctly, we’re going to carry on supporting illegal wars whilst also blaming people who flee the ensuing chaos and destruction

Both Carney and Poilievre backed the strikes. The NDP condemned them. If bipartisan support for bombing countries bothers you as much as it bothers me, contact your MP ourcommons.ca/members and tell them Canada should be a voice for diplomacy, not rubber-stamping unauthorized military action.

Trump’s attack on Iran violates UN rules Canada has agreed to uphold. It contradicts numerous values PM Carney claimed he supported in Davos. Endorsing illegality, violence, & destruction over dialogue and peaceful resolution is not what Canadians were promised, or support.

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’ Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before it’s too late.

New article out about what a million satellites could do to our atmosphere. It's bad. https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

Today the Scottish Land Commission publishes its ScotLand Futures roadmap, setting out practical steps to reform how land is owned and used.

Three priorities:
🌱 Open up land opportunities
⚖️ Rebalance ownership power
🏘️ Put communities at the heart of decisions

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Saskatchewan used CCS for enhanced oil recovery. You don't have to look too far to see it's dodgy.

Space does not belong to America. Why is it only America that is getting a say in this obviously terrible proposal?

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is there a Bayswater support group but opposite? There must be many more parents who are supportive of their children's transitions.

Agreed. I had zero risk factors (other than being a woman) and got breast cancer at 48.

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.

A big problem here is that we're not defining terms when we have these conversations. What do we want students to learn? How is this process helping with that? /4 www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I think it is more prevalent in the UK (source: a UofEdi PhD supervisor training course I just took - and the data they cited which i didn't take careful note of)

Came here to post this. His baskets are amazing! (more pics in article)

These photos by internationally renowned photographer Nicolò Filippo Rosso were taken while he collaborated with our teams near the border between #Sudan and #SouthSudan.

People who treat the opening ad lib as if it's not taking place in real time!!! Into the sea with them!!! Eternally!!! They'll have plenty of time IN THE SEA