🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋

'Seasoned' campaigner & computer whisperer.

Ecology, democracy & infosec advocate.

Doing research & data viz +
🌐 knowledge graphs

@ClimateRace

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[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

true power

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

@SBalaghi reminds me of this...

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

Fable 5 is a honey pot.

https://t.co/gSzbOMzMAH

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

.@Shpigford made a browser extension called "Knockoff" that shows what a wasteland Amazon truly is by filtering out brands like "GODONLIF" "EHEYCIGA," ROTTOGOON," and sponsored products. Useful and illustrative even if you don't use Amazon

https://t.co/ENkYPQyex5

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

@claudeai Must have been a ton of people using the heck out of it today eh?

[theo @tboyblues]

hilarious thing to say while wearing what is possibly the gayest cowboy outfit of all time

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

When the government claims TMX is mega profitable (Tim Hodgson keeps saying $1 billion a year), remember that we BOUGHT IT for $34 billion.

So it won’t be profitable for *34 years* at this rate, and that’s if oil demand doesn’t decline! (It will!)

It very likely will NEVER be profitable:

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

@trq212 Ssssshhhh guys... this is an important "fable" to spread before the IPO. 🙃👀

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

@musifx @s_guilbeault That was a good argument in the mid 90s perhaps...

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

@s_guilbeault @MarkKersten The "southern route" is also the more densly populated route. The one that runs through farms and close to schools and along the banks of the Fraser river and then through burrard inlet.

There is no route with less harm to the environment when you're talking about toxic dilbit.

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

@davidpugliese 🇨🇦😦😡

[David Pugliese @davidpugliese]

RCMP Can Apply Israel’s Gaza Tactics To Canadian Policing: Briefing https://t.co/EYThVRMP4e

[The Citizen Lab @citizenlab]

1/ NEW REPORT: Former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while serving on the EU committee investigating Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Full report: https://t.co/IPiOhHDKix

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The British Museum removed the terms “Palestine”, “Palestinian” and “Israelite occupation” from its displays in direct response to months of lobbying in 2024, a Middle East Eye investigation has found

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

@xdamman Thanks bro

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Its wild to see this while in the midst of getting extreme heat warnings telling us to not go outside. Happy Canada day... we can and must do better than this.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

This is what the entire video is intended to couch.

It’s the only part that matters.

“We can’t afford to restrain the growth of an important part of our energy mix, oil and gas, to meet a short term goal,” Carney said.

“Our emissions will be higher in the next few years”

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 - the True North Strong and Free...

... from our neighbors to the south. It's like living above a meth lab up here.

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

BOMBSHELL reporting finds Princeton climate researchers took tens of millions of dollars from BP to publish research, shaped and edited by BP, promoting carbon capture & storage and fossil fuels.

Landmark "Wedges" climate paper promoting CCS now confirmed to be BP propaganda.

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

If you study #philosophy, not only might you have a job (despite your parents' worries), but you might even have an *interesting* job!

"In 2024 (...) 7% of those who had studied computer science were unemployed, against just 5.1% of philosophers." https://t.co/DaxedCOvd9

[🙃 Ben WΞst 🦋 @BenWest]

@CTVVancouver Seems like there is a story like this every day. WTF is going on Canada.

[Brett Forester @BrettForester]

Why CSIS started spying on Indigenous leaders decades after the RCMP stopped

Now former AFN national chief Ovide Mercredi says he wants to sue the federal government over the covert surveillance operations.

Watch: https://t.co/zxLGMOG6j2

[The Vancouver Sun @VancouverSun]

Vancouver's new police drones raise questions about privacy and oversight https://t.co/mAcEb03bae