the children yearn for the mines

"Dawn Farrell, CEO of the Major Projects Office, explained a little more at the news conference. The office’s main focus, she said, is helping to secure financing that makes the projects competitive internationally."
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Lol
1 The Sisson Mine

2 Crawford Nickel project

3 Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project

4 Iqaluit hydro project

5 Nouveau Monde Graphite Phase 2

6 The Northwest Critical Conservation Corridor
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

anywho, more of this instead plz "Canada's PIPEDA should be amended to include clauses specifically aimed at protecting the privacy of [Indigenous Peoples]. This should include an amended definition of personal information that reflects its relevance in Indigenous contexts" iapp.org/news/a/data-...

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"Strider’s integrated global intelligence platform leverages AI, open-source data, and proprietary methodologies to enable organizations to secure critical assets and inform decision-making to better compete in the global economy."
www.striderintel.com/newsroom/dav...

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before I go off further and say something that'll get me a door knock, all I'm gonna say is pay attention to what Canada does with its "sovereignty". That's all. Super simple task y'all

I can't even attend Canadian tech events anymore because everyone sounds so utterly delusional going on and on about "AI" this and "AI" that, "digital sovereignty!", "Make Canada Great Again!"

It's taking all my willpower to not just stand up and shout "what the fuck is wrong with you?!"

and I thought NFTs were bad... yet here we are with even more ridiculous tech. I really don't know how else I can articulate how absurd all this is, and combining it with all the drooling around "Canadian sovereignty" to justify it, I'm sorry but I can't take this seriously anymore. Clown ass colony

Hyperscale datacenters pumping out useless LLMs has gotta be the most ridiculous thing humanity has ever done, it's basically just an excuse to print money for Oil & Gas while keeping the egos of tech bros inflated and satisfied. And we're all supposed to go along with this? It's absolute madness.

We don't need all these "critical infrastructure" projects. But Oil & Gas are scared their assets are stranded so they need to convince everyone to get them to market through export or a local market like energy generation. Thus incredibly wasteful tech like "generative AI" when crypto didn't work.

When I did my MA thesis on "Peak Oil" in 2012, Big Oil was worried less about supply shortage and more about demand decline. If you told me back then that they'd convince everyone in 2025 to create more energy demand through stuff like this I'd think you were mad bsky.app/profile/jeff...

alas

we're literally cooked www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

sovereignty tho www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

when we say that Canada is just a bunch of corporations in a trench coat it wasn't supposed to be taken literally. alas
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