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LOL you gotta hand it to South Korea for gifting Trump a Silla dynasty crown. For those that don't know; that dynasty fell to financial instability, incredibly high taxes, wealth inequality and widespread rebellion against their king. Trump is too dumb to understand this is a prophecy and President Lee is basking in this moment, deservedly.

🧵 This is trending on Korean socials

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

“Every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses like Epstein-Barr or shingles.”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Stop. Going. To. America.

ICE recruits in training had disqualifying criminal backgrounds: report New hires are reportedly failing background checks, drug tests and open-book tests

💯connected to the limits of recruiting new ICE agents. Having criminal records should limit hires. But recently many have been hired with criminal backgrounds "in error" 😏 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

"...with the casino-ification of the economy, the breakdown of a meaningful regulatory apparatus to rein in all of the above—well, it has all come just in time to give novice investors a vehicle to sink their savings into the vague promise of superintelligence."
www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.

www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

Well done 👏. Also, suck it separatists 🫢

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Everything is a distraction from this.

Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"

😔 disappointment in many for not grasping the moment, or worse understanding but not caring

If we didn't have the 24-hour Trump gong show - the greater public may understand that climate change made disasters are already here

Mark Carney discusses the free trade "crisis" in North America and how Canada's economy is reorienting toward ASEAN

It just got 10% dumber.

Not a joke: Trump just imposed an additional 10 percent tariff on Canada because he still doesn't understand that Reagan was a vehement free trader. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

While great news, having incompetent PeePee as the Conservative leader limits the Cons' growth in the polls. PeePee staying the polarizing leader is a good thing for now🤔

Trying to turn your military into mercenaries. Russia is using a lot of these in Ukraine, maybe Putin gave him the idea.

HOW THE HATE CARD COULD PLAY IN CANADA: "MAPLE MAGA are setting the stage for a political play that has proven devastatingly effective across Europe and the United States. Their target will be to fan fears about immigrants." open.substack.com/pub/charliea... #onpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

A privately funded army, what could possibly go wrong 😑

Inside one Conservative MP’s ‘Restore the North’ tour, a Canadian take on Charlie Kirk’s movement | CBC News By asking how to 'restore the North,' Conservative MP Jamil Jivani hopes to expand Charlie Kirk's U.S. campus tour movement — and ignite a national conversation here in Canada.

The Conservatives have launched their Charlie Kirk imitation tour.
In a fluff piece, CBC casually mentions that it it supported by youth from a group demanding the forcible deportation of millions from Canada.
CBC presents it as "counter culture."
No.
That's hate.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American Scientific American confirms that human on a bicycle more efficient than salmon, seagulls, or jet planes, updating a piece from 1973.

Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American

www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America Scotland’s largest city reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland, or Montreal do a double take.

When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America

momentummag.com/when-bikes-o...

Rules-based trading system at risk of derailment, says UN chief The head of the United Nations said on Wednesday that the global trade system was facing major challenges due to tariffs, with developing countries worst affected.

Rules-based trading system at risk of derailment, says UN chief reut.rs/4ompDu5

methane fire

Methane is responsible for about a third of global warming.

But there is good news.

The momentum to #CutMethane emissions is growing, according to a new methanedata.bsky.social report: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

EU and US impose new sanctions on Russia to force ceasefire in Ukraine The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Russian energy majors for the first time, citing Moscow's "lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war". In parallel, the EU also adopted fresh sanctions.

Via Euronews: EU and US impose new sanctions on Russia to force ceasefire in Ukraine www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics

Wow, this is disappointing. This meeting was supposed to be a final confirmation of a deal agreed six months ago, and it would have been the first serious step in making the slow-to-change shipping industry cleaner & greener & ready for the future. The delay only hurts everyone in the long run. 🌊

Canada wants to detangle its data from U.S. tech giants. Can it be done? In the middle of a tense trade war, Canadian tech companies and policy-makers carve a path for data sovereignty

If sovereign data servers outside the reach of US law are the goal, why doesn’t the government just create a Crown corporation to build & run them?
This unthinking fetish for public-private partnerships is yet another example of how this government remains beholden to 1980s-era economic ideologies.

Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.

It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.

Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

Yet we live as though there's a backup planet!

"Scientists are worried that the natural land and ocean 'sinks' that remove CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...