Mike Murphy-Burton
@mikemurphyburton.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood tech-creative ADHD magpie.
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In an era of false advertising, disinformation, misinformation & misleading claims, we actually had a law which forced corporations to speak plainly & honestly w/ Cdns….& PM @mark-carney.bsky.social w/ no evidence this was hampering investments, scrapped it.
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Opinion: Ottawa is scrapping Canada’s greenwashing rules. This is a mistake
Canada should not back away from holding firms to account for what they say about the environment
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In an era of false advertising, disinformation, misinformation & misleading claims, we actually had a law which forced corporations to speak plainly & honestly w/ Cdns….& PM @mark-carney.bsky.social w/ no evidence this was hampering investments, scrapped it.
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First some background: In 2019, I wrote a story about a UCP candidate named Caylan Ford
I obtained leaked messages showing Caylan Ford making controversial statements about race, immigration and white supremacist terrorism
Caylan Ford resigned and Jason Kenney publicly condemned her comments
I obtained leaked messages showing Caylan Ford making controversial statements about race, immigration and white supremacist terrorism
Caylan Ford resigned and Jason Kenney publicly condemned her comments
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
First some background: In 2019, I wrote a story about a UCP candidate named Caylan Ford
I obtained leaked messages showing Caylan Ford making controversial statements about race, immigration and white supremacist terrorism
Caylan Ford resigned and Jason Kenney publicly condemned her comments
I obtained leaked messages showing Caylan Ford making controversial statements about race, immigration and white supremacist terrorism
Caylan Ford resigned and Jason Kenney publicly condemned her comments
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The world blew past the dangerous 1.5 degree red line.
Our grandkids will pay the price.
Canada was the outlier in the G7 because of massive oil production expansion.
Mark Carney has decided to go all in on planet burning as a national strategy.
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Our grandkids will pay the price.
Canada was the outlier in the G7 because of massive oil production expansion.
Mark Carney has decided to go all in on planet burning as a national strategy.
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/07/c...
Carney tells business crowd a new pipeline project is 'going to…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The world blew past the dangerous 1.5 degree red line.
Our grandkids will pay the price.
Canada was the outlier in the G7 because of massive oil production expansion.
Mark Carney has decided to go all in on planet burning as a national strategy.
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/07/c...
Our grandkids will pay the price.
Canada was the outlier in the G7 because of massive oil production expansion.
Mark Carney has decided to go all in on planet burning as a national strategy.
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/07/c...
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God, a thousand times this.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
God, a thousand times this.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
Recently joined a gym after many years without dedicated exercise, and now I think I need to be part of the #swoletariat.
Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Recently joined a gym after many years without dedicated exercise, and now I think I need to be part of the #swoletariat.
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the thing about having lots of money is that it literally gives you a form of madness
madness is a state of having departed from a shared default social reality, as well as having an incapacity to authentically connect to it
the ultrawealthy are sane only in their own insane worlds
madness is a state of having departed from a shared default social reality, as well as having an incapacity to authentically connect to it
the ultrawealthy are sane only in their own insane worlds
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the thing about having lots of money is that it literally gives you a form of madness
madness is a state of having departed from a shared default social reality, as well as having an incapacity to authentically connect to it
the ultrawealthy are sane only in their own insane worlds
madness is a state of having departed from a shared default social reality, as well as having an incapacity to authentically connect to it
the ultrawealthy are sane only in their own insane worlds
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Why Canada, under PM Carney, is offside w/ where the world is moving, in a dramatic manner, away from fossil fuels:
1) EV sales ⬆️ 3,300% since 2015. By 2030, they will rep 40% of all new auto sales.
2) Renewable energy accounted for 92% of the
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1) EV sales ⬆️ 3,300% since 2015. By 2030, they will rep 40% of all new auto sales.
2) Renewable energy accounted for 92% of the
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Opinion: A decade after the Paris Agreement, the clean economy is winning
As the world’s climate negotiators gather in Brazil, they must understand that the energy transition is now inevitable
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Why Canada, under PM Carney, is offside w/ where the world is moving, in a dramatic manner, away from fossil fuels:
1) EV sales ⬆️ 3,300% since 2015. By 2030, they will rep 40% of all new auto sales.
2) Renewable energy accounted for 92% of the
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
1) EV sales ⬆️ 3,300% since 2015. By 2030, they will rep 40% of all new auto sales.
2) Renewable energy accounted for 92% of the
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
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Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
There is a part of my brain that keeps insisting The Outer Worlds 2 must actually be The Outer Wilds 2, because nobody would actually put money into a sequel to The Outer Worlds, and that part of my brain is wrong.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There is a part of my brain that keeps insisting The Outer Worlds 2 must actually be The Outer Wilds 2, because nobody would actually put money into a sequel to The Outer Worlds, and that part of my brain is wrong.
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To cease fighting against the rise of carbon emissions because it isn’t financially feasible in difficult economic times demonstrates how poorly we understand the real world costs of those emissions - on healthcare, infrastructure, crop losses/food insecurity
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Opinion: The fight against climate change appears to be officially dead
Rich countries are feeling less inclined to fight emissions in the years ahead, which will affect the world’s most disadvantaged
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November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
To cease fighting against the rise of carbon emissions because it isn’t financially feasible in difficult economic times demonstrates how poorly we understand the real world costs of those emissions - on healthcare, infrastructure, crop losses/food insecurity
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Sounds like we have a new series pitch
My working theory is humans have reached utopia and are mostly bored out of their skulls and the entire endeavor of star fleet is less about intergalactic diplomacy and more about throwing as many people into the most fucked up situations possible out of sheer ennui
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Sounds like we have a new series pitch
Back when I was trying to be a startup founder, one of the ideas I pitched a bunch was an independent reaction system that could attach a string of evaluations and discussion to anything on the internet.
The reason Bluesky is doing the "rude" post labeling based on keywords or downvotes is that for them it's an easy-to-do performative thing.
"Hey, we're doing something!"
Meanwhile actual harmful accounts (e.g. transphobes) can post their tripe freely because Jay thinks those are valuable ideas.
"Hey, we're doing something!"
Meanwhile actual harmful accounts (e.g. transphobes) can post their tripe freely because Jay thinks those are valuable ideas.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Back when I was trying to be a startup founder, one of the ideas I pitched a bunch was an independent reaction system that could attach a string of evaluations and discussion to anything on the internet.
There ain't no such thing as a good billionaire, but there ain't no such thing as an acceptable trillionaire.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There ain't no such thing as a good billionaire, but there ain't no such thing as an acceptable trillionaire.
Proposed solution: The length of debate required before a bill can be passed should be set based on the contents of the bill. Giant everything bills should have to be discussed to death before they can pass, and beyond a certain cap, it should be impossible to pass a bill because it takes too long.
Excluding the annexes in the print form of the budget, esp on 75 legislative changes, invites accusations of not affording opposition parties an opportunity to be fully informed or to perform their parliamentary duties.
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Liberals poised for omnibus bills as federal budget lays out 75 legislative changes
Former parliamentary budget officer compares long-criticized practice to Washington’s One Big Beautiful Bill
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November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Proposed solution: The length of debate required before a bill can be passed should be set based on the contents of the bill. Giant everything bills should have to be discussed to death before they can pass, and beyond a certain cap, it should be impossible to pass a bill because it takes too long.
I really hope there's something misrepresented here, but if there is I can't identify it, and that's a huge issue. Carney and his government's last selling point standing in my circles is his relatively benign stance towards social progressivism, and this is regressive as hell.
Why are you allowing your MPs on this committee to agree w/ witch-hunting pursuit of DEI amongst our best researchers at a time when you’re trying to attract the best scientists & medical students here, PM Carney?
This is beyond odious.
“The
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This is beyond odious.
“The
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Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
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November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I really hope there's something misrepresented here, but if there is I can't identify it, and that's a huge issue. Carney and his government's last selling point standing in my circles is his relatively benign stance towards social progressivism, and this is regressive as hell.
More than one person suggested I was being hasty suggesting Carney is too far right when he started doing a bunch of Conservative shit pre-election. I feel justified saying firmly that I was not. I don’t think there was a better option, but I think Canadians need a revitalized NDP ASA-fucking-P
The federal Liberals’ new budget proposes to cut about 10% of government jobs over the next four years to bring the public service to a “sustainable size” — reneging on its election promises. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #CanPoli
Get Ready for Harper-Style Public Service Cuts, Says Analyst | The Tyee
Budget 2025 proposes cutting 40,000 government jobs.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
More than one person suggested I was being hasty suggesting Carney is too far right when he started doing a bunch of Conservative shit pre-election. I feel justified saying firmly that I was not. I don’t think there was a better option, but I think Canadians need a revitalized NDP ASA-fucking-P
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The last time minimum wage was increased was on July 24, 2009, when it rose to $7.25 per hour. You can't even buy a sandwich for this amount anymore. The cost of living has risen approximately 51% since 2009 and they wonder why people are on SNAP?
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The last time minimum wage was increased was on July 24, 2009, when it rose to $7.25 per hour. You can't even buy a sandwich for this amount anymore. The cost of living has risen approximately 51% since 2009 and they wonder why people are on SNAP?
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
As much as I love @independentnl.bsky.social and think Rhea Rollmann is smarter than me, I honestly think the current fashion for hating consultants is historically incoherent. NL has been rife with folks who lie that we have the Best in the World Right Here and fuck it all up as a result.
#nlpoli
#nlpoli
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
As much as I love @independentnl.bsky.social and think Rhea Rollmann is smarter than me, I honestly think the current fashion for hating consultants is historically incoherent. NL has been rife with folks who lie that we have the Best in the World Right Here and fuck it all up as a result.
#nlpoli
#nlpoli
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When main stream climate science ignores the laws of physics and panders to hopium providers this is what happens:
Powerful winds are ripping through the Arctic, breaking up critical sea ice that once acted as a shield against disturbance from wind and waves.
Scientists warn the loss of sea ice is speeding up the region’s ecological collapse and could disrupt weather patterns far beyond the Arctic.
Scientists warn the loss of sea ice is speeding up the region’s ecological collapse and could disrupt weather patterns far beyond the Arctic.
Stronger arctic cyclones speed up polar melting, impacting global weather
Powerful winds are ripping through the Arctic, breaking up critical sea ice that once acted as a shield against disturbance from wind and waves. Scientists warn the loss of sea ice is speeding up the...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
When main stream climate science ignores the laws of physics and panders to hopium providers this is what happens:
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We’ve now been through a decade of the Michael Mann approach of assuming most distributions of outcomes are on the happy end of the spectrum while more reality-based climate scientists have been warning that our climate is in a far more dire state already.
Insanity is to keep doing the dumb thing.
Insanity is to keep doing the dumb thing.
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We’ve now been through a decade of the Michael Mann approach of assuming most distributions of outcomes are on the happy end of the spectrum while more reality-based climate scientists have been warning that our climate is in a far more dire state already.
Insanity is to keep doing the dumb thing.
Insanity is to keep doing the dumb thing.
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Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose
Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose
PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be mitigated by universal basic income, while also adding that they...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose
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This is just not sustainable.
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is just not sustainable.
Listening to Kamala Harris interviewed on The Weekly Show podcast, and, while it's not my circus not my monkeys...METRICS? REALLY?
It's wild to hear folks talking about how "voters aren't getting value for their money" when every person wants 1) better services and 2) a higher standard of living.
It's wild to hear folks talking about how "voters aren't getting value for their money" when every person wants 1) better services and 2) a higher standard of living.
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Listening to Kamala Harris interviewed on The Weekly Show podcast, and, while it's not my circus not my monkeys...METRICS? REALLY?
It's wild to hear folks talking about how "voters aren't getting value for their money" when every person wants 1) better services and 2) a higher standard of living.
It's wild to hear folks talking about how "voters aren't getting value for their money" when every person wants 1) better services and 2) a higher standard of living.