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Although wholesale gas costs have dropped, the cost of electricity is rising. Much of that is due to ADDING more nuclear to the mix, at exorbitant, locked-in costs and subsidies.
So I guess small nuclear reactors won't be better than scaling up cheap renewables. Fancy that. 🤔
So I guess small nuclear reactors won't be better than scaling up cheap renewables. Fancy that. 🤔
There’s some very bad news hidden in the Ofgem price cap for January announced yesterday: the electricity to gas price ratio has jumped to 4.67, its highest level since before the energy crisis.
This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals
This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Although wholesale gas costs have dropped, the cost of electricity is rising. Much of that is due to ADDING more nuclear to the mix, at exorbitant, locked-in costs and subsidies.
So I guess small nuclear reactors won't be better than scaling up cheap renewables. Fancy that. 🤔
So I guess small nuclear reactors won't be better than scaling up cheap renewables. Fancy that. 🤔
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This has implications too for contributors to Canadian political parties - though in our case the contributions are feeding the conservative party.
Not only through direct contributions, but also by through owned media that so directly influences Canadian voters.
PostMedia anyone?
#cdnpoli
Not only through direct contributions, but also by through owned media that so directly influences Canadian voters.
PostMedia anyone?
#cdnpoli
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This has implications too for contributors to Canadian political parties - though in our case the contributions are feeding the conservative party.
Not only through direct contributions, but also by through owned media that so directly influences Canadian voters.
PostMedia anyone?
#cdnpoli
Not only through direct contributions, but also by through owned media that so directly influences Canadian voters.
PostMedia anyone?
#cdnpoli
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I really hope that when the Supreme Court rules, they determine that the notwithstanding clause doesn’t oust judicial review.
AB and SK are fighting it because they don’t want to show their fake ass evidence. They want to attack their citizens with no recourse, no review.
#abpoli
AB and SK are fighting it because they don’t want to show their fake ass evidence. They want to attack their citizens with no recourse, no review.
#abpoli
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I really hope that when the Supreme Court rules, they determine that the notwithstanding clause doesn’t oust judicial review.
AB and SK are fighting it because they don’t want to show their fake ass evidence. They want to attack their citizens with no recourse, no review.
#abpoli
AB and SK are fighting it because they don’t want to show their fake ass evidence. They want to attack their citizens with no recourse, no review.
#abpoli
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Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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“foreign states or other grps can easily use [these models]…[to] influence policy decisions, warp electoral strategies, & erode public trust in the democratic institutions that rely on accurate polling.
This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪
This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“foreign states or other grps can easily use [these models]…[to] influence policy decisions, warp electoral strategies, & erode public trust in the democratic institutions that rely on accurate polling.
This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪
This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪
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all i wanted was a world where I could talk about politics with my friends without ever discussing two presidents giving each other blowjobs but woke took that away too.
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
all i wanted was a world where I could talk about politics with my friends without ever discussing two presidents giving each other blowjobs but woke took that away too.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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This is so foundational to our human interactions that they teach kids about how sharing and ownership work in kindergarten and earlier. All the AI boom folks are lacking in the social basics even four-year-olds have a better grasp of.
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This is so foundational to our human interactions that they teach kids about how sharing and ownership work in kindergarten and earlier. All the AI boom folks are lacking in the social basics even four-year-olds have a better grasp of.
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As always with the RebelCons/MAGAs, the question is:
Are they truly dumb enough to believe what they're selling us, or do they KNOW what they're saying is utter twaddle?
If one assumes that Mulroney isn't that dumb, it means that he's a snake oil salesman like Slogan Boy.
Are they truly dumb enough to believe what they're selling us, or do they KNOW what they're saying is utter twaddle?
If one assumes that Mulroney isn't that dumb, it means that he's a snake oil salesman like Slogan Boy.
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As always with the RebelCons/MAGAs, the question is:
Are they truly dumb enough to believe what they're selling us, or do they KNOW what they're saying is utter twaddle?
If one assumes that Mulroney isn't that dumb, it means that he's a snake oil salesman like Slogan Boy.
Are they truly dumb enough to believe what they're selling us, or do they KNOW what they're saying is utter twaddle?
If one assumes that Mulroney isn't that dumb, it means that he's a snake oil salesman like Slogan Boy.
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Where is the sustainability in this? You are building fossil fuel infrastructure when you should be building renewables. You weren't elected to put money into American owned projects. What happened to your elbows?
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Hey🇨🇦Tired of the majority-owned U.S.-based hedge funds’ control over Canadian media, foreign ownership influencers? Time to go to House of Commons website and sign petition e-6879 and e-6821. It’s time for 🇨🇦Canadians to vote, vote, vote to safeguard our sovereignty! Let me know if you voted.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #america #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #capitalismkills #killCapitalism #capitalism #abolishcapitalism #fuckcapitalism #SocialJustice #ethics #ClassConsciousness #WokeAF #FalseConsciousness
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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That an ex-con, enriched by a speculative activity that is both utterly useless & environmentally destructive, in cahoots with a despot who threatens our country, now tops the ranks of Canadian capitalism, proves we've gone right off the rails. Time to think big about change.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
That an ex-con, enriched by a speculative activity that is both utterly useless & environmentally destructive, in cahoots with a despot who threatens our country, now tops the ranks of Canadian capitalism, proves we've gone right off the rails. Time to think big about change.
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Yay! Canada! Let's spend our allegedly few tax dollars on pipelines and drilling!
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Yay! Canada! Let's spend our allegedly few tax dollars on pipelines and drilling!
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
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Middle of road NDP party loses.
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Middle of road NDP party loses.
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To repurpose a tweet from Sheryl: "If your position is that [Sask New] Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the [NDP] are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party [petro]fascist state."
#skpoli
#skpoli
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
To repurpose a tweet from Sheryl: "If your position is that [Sask New] Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the [NDP] are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party [petro]fascist state."
#skpoli
#skpoli
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It has become impossible to distinguish Liberals from Conservatives - as they both only work for the wealthy.
#cdnpoli #canada #neoliberals
shorturl.at/ToaAF
#cdnpoli #canada #neoliberals
shorturl.at/ToaAF
Carney is scrapping the luxury tax. Here’s how people are reacting
The Trudeau-era rule rules previously levied a tax on vehicles and aircraft worth more than $100,000 and boats worth more than $250,000.
shorturl.at
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It has become impossible to distinguish Liberals from Conservatives - as they both only work for the wealthy.
#cdnpoli #canada #neoliberals
shorturl.at/ToaAF
#cdnpoli #canada #neoliberals
shorturl.at/ToaAF
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"We have rule of law" unless you're trans in Saskatchewan, Muslim in Quebec, a teacher in Ontario or Alberta, a rail worker, a postal worker, or indigenous.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
Why should investors choose Canada over the USA for business?
PM Carney: “We have rule of law.”
PM Carney: “We have rule of law.”
Carney says Canada has "rule of law" when asked why investors should choose it over the US
YouTube video by Global News
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"We have rule of law" unless you're trans in Saskatchewan, Muslim in Quebec, a teacher in Ontario or Alberta, a rail worker, a postal worker, or indigenous.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
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I bet he made mad bank stabbing Albertans in the back. What a bunch of suckers and losers in that province.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
Globe and Mail exposes collusion with Australian coal grubbers by Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Rob Morgan
AER chief executive plotted by email with Valory Resources executives to suppress public hearing over Grand Cache coal mine. #cdnpoli www.crowsnestheadwaters.ca/p/globe-and-...
AER chief executive plotted by email with Valory Resources executives to suppress public hearing over Grand Cache coal mine. #cdnpoli www.crowsnestheadwaters.ca/p/globe-and-...
Globe and Mail exposes collusion with Australian coal grubbers by Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Rob Morgan
AER chief executive plotted by email with Valory Resources executives to suppress public hearing over Grand Cache coal mine
www.crowsnestheadwaters.ca
November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I bet he made mad bank stabbing Albertans in the back. What a bunch of suckers and losers in that province.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
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We’ve already seen so many good journalists and other critical voices across Alberta getting singled out one after the next by these long and expensive legal battles
Enough is enough
@pressprogress.ca stands behind its journalism, and we will defend ourselves vigorously in court
Enough is enough
@pressprogress.ca stands behind its journalism, and we will defend ourselves vigorously in court
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We’ve already seen so many good journalists and other critical voices across Alberta getting singled out one after the next by these long and expensive legal battles
Enough is enough
@pressprogress.ca stands behind its journalism, and we will defend ourselves vigorously in court
Enough is enough
@pressprogress.ca stands behind its journalism, and we will defend ourselves vigorously in court
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I can still remember when being antisemitic meant you discriminated jews and denied the Holocaust. Now, it mostly means you oppose genocide.
But it's not working anymore. The game is up. And I predict Paramount is going to regret this.
But it's not working anymore. The game is up. And I predict Paramount is going to regret this.
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I can still remember when being antisemitic meant you discriminated jews and denied the Holocaust. Now, it mostly means you oppose genocide.
But it's not working anymore. The game is up. And I predict Paramount is going to regret this.
But it's not working anymore. The game is up. And I predict Paramount is going to regret this.
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‘the anxieties of the fossil-fuel age—that someone, somewhere, will turn off the taps—do not apply to technologies which, once installed, produce power regardless of what their makers may have to say. Solar cells cannot be suborned in the way that silicon chips might be.’
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
‘the anxieties of the fossil-fuel age—that someone, somewhere, will turn off the taps—do not apply to technologies which, once installed, produce power regardless of what their makers may have to say. Solar cells cannot be suborned in the way that silicon chips might be.’
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Cleanup underway, driver rescued after tanker truck leaks suspected bitumen a carcinogen in North Saskatchewan River
#Cdnpoli #Skpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Cdnpoli #Skpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Cleanup underway, driver rescued after tanker truck ends up in North Saskatchewan River | CBC News
Mounties say a tanker truck has leaked what's believed to be bitumen into the North Saskatchewan River after it lost control on a highway northeast of Edmonton.
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Cleanup underway, driver rescued after tanker truck leaks suspected bitumen a carcinogen in North Saskatchewan River
#Cdnpoli #Skpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Cdnpoli #Skpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I wonder if we might convince Scott Moe that putting panels up along the easements for pipelines was somehow supporting the fossil fuel industry?
#skpoli
#skpoli
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I wonder if we might convince Scott Moe that putting panels up along the easements for pipelines was somehow supporting the fossil fuel industry?
#skpoli
#skpoli