What a Quebec-style controversy in Belgium. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/w...

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew in the @theglobeandmail.com on wildfire-related evacuations in the province:

I am begging the #HardFork podcast team to go read any of their own paper's reporting on environmental impacts of AI before they go uncritically repeating "good ideas" like waiving environmental regulations to power AI data centers.

Wait for it….

By contrast, 4 years ago, the fact that Trudeau was Biden's first call to a foreign leader as President got covered as a sign of the return to a more normal US-Canada relationship.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

A former home of climate scientist and vocal advocate for mitigation, Peter Kalmus was destroyed in the LA wildfires this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

I am kitten-sitting these guys next week. What are the odds I come out of this without adopting a kitten?

Had a class move online today because of this weather and finding it *hilarious*.

Promising a "small, eco-friendly footprint" for your eventual launchpad for recreational space travel really takes greenwashing to a whole new level. nytimes.com/2024/11/18/u...

A journalism update from the other place.

Is there anything more uniquely Montreal than this guy swinging in a hammock in the park over a sheet of ice?

Don’t you people even talk to each other?