Isaac Gauthier

Genius level of political acumen

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Sur la consommation et la provenance énergétique du boom de l’IA : www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Ne pas écrire des articles ridiculement techno-optimiste = challenge level impossible

Quoi ? Une IA me promet 20-30 % de croissance en échange d’une exacerbation des inégalités et de la destruction de l’environnement ? Où puis-je signer pour cette offre incroyable 😑

How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists Subpoenaed emails reveal the ways fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they often succeed.

“kill the story” wrote an oil and gas PR agent to the news bureau chief, because of course

At 7 PM (after 11 hours of reading) they reached the names of the murdered kids who are 6 and over

Rapidement sur Foglia, car c'est un des personnages auxquels je me suis intéressé pour mon projet. Ce qui est le plus intéressant, ce n'est pas Foglia en lui-même mais plutôt ce qu'il représente: le tournant vers le journalisme d'opinion dans la presse écrite.

Les angles morts de l’extrême centre Sa prétention à la rationalité masque une profonde irrationalité. Sa modération est devenue inflexible.

«l’extrême centre s’arroge le rôle d’arbitre du politique, comme si elle incarnait la sagesse pure, dénuée de passions idéologiques. Mais cette posture n’est ni neutre ni véritablement rationnelle»

À part une phrase (je vous laisse deviner laquelle), très bon texte👇
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Faire de l’argent comme de l’eau : quel est le prix de la marchandisation? – Pivot L’entrepreneur Olivier Primeau voudrait « valoriser » l’eau du Québec en favorisant son exploitation à des fins économiques.

REPRISE | En mai, Pivot publiait son dossier « Un peu de transparence pour l'or bleu »👇

L’entrepreneur Olivier Primeau voudrait « valoriser » l’eau du Québec en favorisant son exploitation à des fins économiques. Marchandiser notre eau la mettrait-elle en péril?

👉 pivot.quebec/2025/05...

PSPP devrait avoir une discussion franche avec PSPP.
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gotta love the grift

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Perhaps it isn't percolating as it should because the right keeps dragging us into the zero sum world they keep being worried about ...

The framing is wrong, progressives do have relationship advice for straight men - be interested in women (not just their bodies) and do better (emotionally, not just physically).

Caring about things other than yourself and big cars also helps. Maybe a hobby?

I disagree with the argument (will explain in thread) but it's an interesting take, and definitely raises some good points. Worth the read.

People getting angry at Ian about it should chill. Bluesky is the worst when it lives up its (mostly unfair) reputation as full of lefty scolds.

History is not going to be kind to this moment. And it is entirely deserved.

Bill C-5 revealing itself as a Trojan horse designed to appease Alberta's fossil fuel interests If Bill C-5 is to have any credibility in a climate-constrained world, it must confront the deeper issue: Alberta’s entrenched dependence on oil royalties.

Opinion: If Bill C-5 is to have any credibility in a climate-constrained world, it must confront the deeper issue: Alberta’s entrenched dependence on oil royalties.

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Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk - Nature An Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown drives widespread shifts in tropical rainfall through the propagation of high-latitude cooling into the tropical North Atlantic.

Palaeo-validation strengthens future rainfall projections: During HS1, AMOC slowdown drove tropical rainfall shifts via Atlantic cooling & wind-driven teleconnections.

Climate models show the same under warming; boosting confidence in future hydroclimate risks.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

“When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving. They were spending all their time just trying to find food.”

Pipelines won’t unite Canada. Clean energy will Betting, once again, on the same fossil-fuel horse might be what keeps Canada from becoming the energy superpower it could be.

🌡️ Sentez-vous à quel point nos étés sont plus chauds qu’il y a 15 ans?
🌫️ La piètre qualité de l'air vous inquiète?

On connaît la cause : le pétrole et le gaz. 🔥

Alors qu'Ottawa cherche à renforcer l'unité canadienne, il faut s'en départir. 🇨🇦

Ma lettre ouverte dans le @nationalobserver.com ⬇️

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

“The emergency is in front of us. And yet, some prominent scholars of the Holocaust continue to engage in open denialism or outright approval of mass atrocities perpetrated by Israel.”

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Should have guessed. TY

Aucun doute

I need to ask. Who is this man

Il y a certainement bcp d'aveuglement volontaire. Que plusieurs n'aient pas vu les images, ça ne me surprend pas, même si c'est moralement inexcusable.

Cette histoire est halllucinante, pour toutes les mauvaises raisons

Huge news that spells trouble for Canada.

Opinion | The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown

"The ["boy crisis"] myth persists because there’s always a market for anti-feminist backlash, and now that we’re in the middle of an anti-education backlash as well, a mostly female teaching force is sadly an easy target."-- @jessgrose.bsky.social

A-fricking-men.

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