Caleb Wellum

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

Chartbook 413 The future of the world economy beyond globalization - or, thinking with soup. This year marks the 80th anniversary of 1945.

Tooze 10 yr predictions (& terrible soup metaphor):
1 Europe continues to decline
2 America punch above its weight because of $ & tech despite trumpism
3 Centre of world economy gravity shifts ever more to asia
4 Mercantilism & nationalists dominate econ policy
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

This is truly an amazing opportunity.

Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.

This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.

marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...

From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country (The Conversation) — The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been entangled in coal country.

From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country religionnews.com/2025/10/09/f...

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

The strategy does not develop linearly, it is adaptive and multifaceted. A summary of what we know about the fossil fuel industry and climate obstruction. Me, @kertdavies.bsky.social and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social in conversation with the great @amywestervelt.bsky.social

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Read about my father, Peter Amidon, who has passed on: aosa.org/peter-amidon...

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

CfP for the 2026 Tensions of Europe Conference is out!

Theme: The meaning of the past in sustainable futures
When: 8-10 July 2026
Where: Eindhoven, NL

Deadline: 4 January 2026

#histstm #historyoftechnology #envhist

Entire call and information ⤵

www.tensionsofeurope.eu/2025/10/02/c...

Hamiltonians need to work nearly two minimum wage jobs to afford rent: report Residents need to earn $29.16 per hour to comfortably rent a one-bedroom unit in the city.

“It’s no wonder we’re seeing homelessness numbers explode like they never have before in this community.”
www.thespec.com/news/hamilto... #HamOnt

I spend some time with investors who tell me they are ‘finance focused’ and ‘don’t do impact’. Then, we look at their portfolios and climate risks are everywhere, and ignored, in their supposedly rigorous financial analysis.

You might not ‘do impact’, but impact is doing you.

Disappointed by The Life of a Showgirl? Doug Paisley would never let you down like that.

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing" - @elizkolbert.bsky.social

Ticket | Hot Docs Watch the world’s best documentaries at the annual Hot Docs Festival each spring, and year-round at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

🚨 For folks in the Toronto area looking for something to do this Sunday 🚨
Hot Docs and DePOT partner UNIFOR are hosting a free 40th anniversary screening of "Final Offer" with a discussion on Canadian Sovereignty in the Time of Trade Wars - get your tickets in advance!

Mark Carney’s Shift From Climate-Change Warrior to Fossil-Fuel Cheerleader Canada’s prime minister has scrapped green policies and pledged to transform the country ”into an energy superpower.”

People (like Gerald Butts in this story) flatter Carney and delude themselves by claiming some great compromise on oil-climate is possible. Taxing oil and gas exports (in part to support domestic value-add) is a smarter policy than expanding either. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

...And in South Korea, new humanities enrolments are up strongly."

Respect the Humanities: "3. The humanities are on a roll. In Belarus, the humanities are so feared that the country has just declared the European Humanities University – which left the country and set up in neighbouring Lithuania about 20 years ago – an “extremist organization”...

Absolutely staggering how much energy data centers consume. To add another LA to the grid by 2030 is unreal, and all for bullshit machines. It's hard to think of worse investments humans could be making right now

I somehow missed the whole Anthropic buying and destroying millions of books to train their Claude AI thing. Major orc vibes... arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

Pope Leo calls for 'true ecological conversion' from words to action on environment The pope spoke Oct. 1 at the start of a conference marking the 10-year anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis' landmark document that encapsulated church teaching on the environment.

Pope Leo calls for 'true ecological conversion' from words to action on environment www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

YouTube video by Doug Paisley - Topic No One But You

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YouTube video by Doug Paisley - Topic Drinking With A Friend

More wonderful guitar: youtu.be/d7IRssHBozU?...

This Loneliness (duet), by Doug Paisley from the album Streets of Heaven

Take a moment for yourself today with the great Doug Paisley, one of Canada's best working songwriters and, IMO, our greatest guitarist. Singing here w/ the wonderful Joan Shelley. dougpaisley.bandcamp.com/track/this-l... #NewMusic #MusicThursday #Canada

Appreciate the effort and intent. But our bike lanes are in terrible shape--very hard on bikes! And we need many more secure bike parking spaces at the West Harbor GO station--Metrolinx won't listen to me about this but maybe they'll listen to the city??

I’m trying to understand why universities think students would be interested in paying $$$$ and going into debt for chatgpt edu, a thing they can use for free

Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

“We estimate that 5,400 (3,400–7,400) acute deaths in North America and 64,300 (37,800–90,900) chronic deaths in North America and Europe were attributable to PM2.5 exposure to the 2023 Canadian wildfires.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...