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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 1d

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 1d

Googled the title of our new paper out today and the FIRST HIT was an AI sludge article that was completely incorrect

A: no we didn't analyse phosphorus isotope ratios in rocks
B: NOBODY analyses these
C: because phosphorus only has ONE stable isotope

Dead internet here we go

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 1d

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal

Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 2d

Canada's fossil fuel enthusiasts say they need 'moar pipelines now' to ship oil and gas to growing demand in Asian countries.

Meanwhile in 2024 the world's largest Asian country was installing the wind and solar equivalent of five nuclear power stations per week: www.abc.net.au/news/science...

'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month

While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.

www.abc.net.au

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9d

The “Bush being informed about 9/11” meme has been defeated.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 6d

Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 8d

Israel broke the last cease fire, let's hope they don't break this one. Trump's hatred of Obama is driving this deal though, so it might just hold. Obama got a Nobel Peace prize, so Trump wants one too. If the deal falls apart, no prize for Trump. Only US can hold Israel to the deal and force peace.

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🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 9d

I walked into the lounge last night to find my teenage son watching this. We have long admired @kurzgesagt.org and found their videos to be extremely illuminating. But this one in particular I think is so important right now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social · 10d

Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 10d

Meanwhile Canada goes all-in for oil and gas, with new solar and wind all but banned in Alberta, the land of wind and sun.

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal | CBC News

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new an...

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 10d

Waiting for a Star Wars reboot.

Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 11d

You should set up call forwarding before bed cuz then you'd at least get to choose who gets it.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 11d

Everyone needs to see AI for what it is—a project that undermines truth & agency while transferring wealth from individual creators to Silicon Valley companies & VC’s. Rooted in exploitation of humanity & the planet, it’s a tool for the radical right to claim dominion & end representative democracy.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15d

These are profoundly anti social tools that erode the social fabric. Their main purposes are harassment, abuse, demolishing consent and furthering an authoritarian project.

Any uses outside of that are incidental.

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 11d

I get the idea that a large majority of people won't resist until they have nothing left to lose, which pretty much guarantees violent resistance, which they don't want. And the violence has already started, but the resistance... not so much. It could be years before they have nothing left to lose.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15d

"AI" is absolutely and ONLY a marketing term, and at this point if it's being used, the intent behind it is to overpromise to the consumer/end user on the program's actual capabilities. And, of course, none of the "AI" is actually intelligent in any meaningful way.

derickhuth.bsky.social @derickhuth.bsky.social · 15d

It would be neat if it wasn’t marketed as AI. Predictive statistical modeling doesn’t really slide off the tongue I guess

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 16d

Meanwhile, they haven't finished jailing Wet'suwet'en land defenders for protesting the last pipeline rammed through their territory. (Sentencing hearing begins Oct 15 in Smithers)

Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 16d

Oh great. Another tax payer funded tar sands pipeline across BC in the works. At least it'll be Alberta taxpayers, to begin with anyway.

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 16d

Here we go with the press trying to stir up shit. Sure Canadians are barred from buying tickets, but most Americans are barred from buying tickets too. The purpose of the policy is not to bar Canadians, but to allow only locals.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If Jays end up playing Yankees in ALDS, Canadian fans can't buy tickets for New York games | CBC News

Canadian residents are barred from buying tickets to the potential American League Division Series matchup between the Blue Jays and the Yankees next week at Yankee Stadium.

www.cbc.ca

Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 18d

These two posts go together nicely

On demand waterslide delivery from xkcd.com/3147/ followed by John Scalzi post that begins "We had one delivered to our house..."

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 20d

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 21d

It's in the same class of lie as "Canadian LNG will displace Asian coal"

Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 21d

The Canadian Roadmap for Small Modular Reactors is 80 pages of bluff and blunder. The word "factory" appears not even once. There are no factories on the roadmap. Factories appear only in the SMR marketing materials and in the minds of industry liars, nowhere else.
smrroadmap.ca/wp-content/u...

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 21d

All this talk of SMRs being built in factories and thus benefiting from mass production is a bullshit lie. Small reactors are planned, but not a single one will be factory built. No SMR factories exist or are planned.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta has flirted with nuclear power before. Is it now ready to make a move? | CBC News

In an Edmonton hotel ballroom, representatives from the nuclear industry are buzzing about the potential to power Alberta by splitting atoms. The province has been excited about nuclear before, and wh...

www.cbc.ca

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 22d

OOPS

www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Shatner famously played Captain Kirk in the original Star Wars series and many of the movies. Despite his older age, Shatner has kept busy with film projects, including a leading role in the rom-com Senior Moment, and appearing in the 2023 documentary You Can Call Me Bill, which details his career and life.

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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 25d

I wonder why they chose a scene with people frolicking under a lonely old oak tree in a field rather than the clear-cut remains of a coniferous forest that generally results from "environmental stability of our communities".

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 25d

No jurisdiction that still allows clearcutting of its last 1000 year-old trees will have a forest sector that is resilient, innovative or sustainable.

#NationalForestWeek #bcpoli

A Government of BC Map showing the tiny pockets of remaining ancient forest in the province.

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