Mason Wright

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - BBC News Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

"Solar ... is now so cheap that large markets for solar can emerge in a country in the space of a single year."

Another historic milestone for the energy transition, which is doing things seemingly daily that I was told quite often until quite recently were impossible www.bbc.com/news/article...

A photo of two baby girls - Sonja Martha van Sister and her younger sister Rosaline.

6 October 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sonja Martha van Sister, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with her younger sister Rosaline.

OpenAI's Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns In a video that went viral, a clip shows Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth, raising copyright concerns.

Social arsonist OpenAI makes racist argument about why laws should not apply to them.

Brazilians avoid drinking after authorities confirm methanol poisoning cases, including 1 death Authorities in Brazil have issued warnings about methanol poisoning linked to distilled beverages. The Health Ministry confirmed 11 cases and is investigating 116 more.

Authorities in Brazil have issued warnings about methanol poisoning linked to distilled beverages.

Listen, there are a lot of influencers who get their content from legacy media and investigative journalism and then tell you not to support legacy media or investigative journalism.

That’s grifting.

Oh no was that a New West Times screencap? 🫣

Today the mayor of Vancouver called me an antisemitic terrorist supporter. Here is my speech:

This isn’t controversial
Being against what the UN calls a genocide is not controversial
Being against apartheid is not controversial

Happy Nuit Blanche, Shawn!

More Americans than ever now get news on TikTok, Pew finds One in five Americans say they regularly get news on TikTok, a dramatic uptick from just 3% in 2020, according to a Pew Research Center analysis published last week. “During that span, no social…

One in five Americans say they regularly get news on TikTok, a dramatic uptick from just 3% in 2020. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/more...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

"No real consequences of any sort have thus far come for OpenAI, and the company now seems completely disinterested in pretending that it did not train its tools on endless reams of copyrighted material." www.404media.co/openais-sora...

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps. 1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says “Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” 2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…yes, sir!” 3rd panel: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…” 4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, “How I hate him!”

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Trump to generals: "Canada called me a couple weeks ago. They want to be a part of it. To which I said, 'Well, why don't you just join our country. Become the 51st state. And you get it for free!' So I don't know if that made a big impact but it does make a lot of sense."

Wow

US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.

📣We're delighted with the Court’s decision yesterday.
It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊
tinyurl.com/4db9u2fn

Right now it's Lucius. Earlier it was the new Doja Cat. Wolf Alice before that. It's been a good year for music!

At a speech, Vice President JD Vance says “if you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with is a Nazi”

Disgraced podcaster Alex Jones sports a Hitler mustache and says it makes women think he’s sexually attractive.

OK, just help me understand here

Misinfo?

Vintage black and white portrait of two young children, one with curly hair and one with straight hair, both wearing sweaters.

20 September 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Jacob Pinto, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in October 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber with his sister Sientje.
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The first gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

I currently subscribe to @propublica.org, @boltsmag.org, @thecity.nyc and @the-downballot.com. Independent journalism has never been more important than it is right now, so I recommend finding a few news sources you trust and showing them some love.

Interesting thought

When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer

this is a very good and incredibly sad piece about Canadian national treasure Robert Munsch, the author of phenomenal children's books Angela's Airplane, the Paper Bag Princess, Thomas's Snowsuit, and many others

Munsch has dementia. Fuck dementia.

Payday lender ordered to refund thousands of customers after B.C. investigation Thousands of British Columbians are entitled to refunds following an investigation by the province’s consumer protection regulator into a payday loan company’s lending practices.

1/2 - 1000s of British Columbia customers of the payday cash lender CashMoney may be entitled to refunds after company was found guilty of breaking loan protection laws. linked article says to go to company's website or call them at 1-877-526-6639...

3. I was granted withholding of removal by an immigration judge in the Otero Immigration Court on April 30, 2025 on account of the likelihood that I would be persecuted or killed Case 1:25-cv-03135-TSC Document 21-1 Filed 09/13/25 Page 2 of 5 if removed to Nigeria. My wife is a U.S. citizen. She filed an I-130 petition on my behalf for me to receive a family visa. That petition was approved four months ago. 4. I am currently detained in Dema Camp in Ghana, where myself and other people who were also deported from the United States are being imprisoned. We are constantly surrounded by military guards.

5. I am originally from Nigeria. In Nigeria, I was a member of one of Nigeria's main political parties, the P.D.P. In 2018, 1 started being violently targeted by members of the ruling political party, the A.P.C. In November 2018, members of the A.P.C. beat me and other party leaders with plank woods, iron rods, and machetes. The attacks escalated from then and happened several times until I left Nigeria. 6. I fled Nigeria in 2019 after being tortured by the military and police officers for the Nigerian Department of State Services. They tortured me and kept me locked in a dog cage for three days until they let me go and told me they would kill me if they ever saw me again. After this incident I had to leave Nigeria to save my life. 7. Nothing in Nigeria has gotten better since I left. The situation in the country has become worse. The political party that targeted me is still in power.

9. The officer finally told me that we were going to Ghana. I told him that I am afraid of going to Ghana and that I cannot go to Ghana. 10. He told us "whether you like it or not, your ass is getting on that plane." He then straitjacketed me extremely tightly, tying me from my shoulders to my feet. 11. I was put onto a military plane with the other people who were taken from their cells. I remained straitjacketed for several hours until I pleaded with the officers to remove it so that I could use the restroom. I begged the officers over and over again to take off the straitjacket so that I could use the restroom, otherwise I would urinate on myself. They finally removed the restraints on my legs after pleading with them for a long time, but left the restraints on my upper body.

23. We are all afraid for our lives. We are not safe here, and now they are planning to hand us over to our country's government for further persecution and torture. We don't know what our futures hold. 24. We urgently need help. We do not want to meet with government officials of our countries or to be returned to those countries. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on September 13, 2025. /s/ Signature September 13. 2025 Date

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case.

Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS: There is a weekend hearing going on right now before Judge Chutkan, due to imminent risks of these people being re-deported from Ghana to their home countries.

Pulling for the #salmonbellies tonight. A win would be historic. Can't be there, but go slap that tail, Bellies! (btw that's not a thing anyone says)
#manncup2025

Man I got distracted thinking about who gets Langley Farm Markets in the divorce

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts Armed with a revolver, the 16-year-old shooter systematically reloaded and fired as he wandered the school, trying to find new targets, police say.

Colorado school shooter's social media accounts "include references to Holocaust denial, and the name of one of the accounts appeared to end with a reference to a prominent white supremacist slogan" www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

A graphic showing my score on Bloomberg's Pointed news quiz for the week of Sept 12: 87.5

I'm here for the breakaway Republic of Fort Langley