apatheticalbertan

analyzer of policy, sport enjoyer, occasional opinion holder

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today.

Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate.

This government is spending billions of dollars in public money to expand the very industry that’s causing climate breakdown — at a moment when renewables are cheaper and more available than ever before.

No more climate-wrecking corporate welfare. We need a government that protects the people and places we love.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

We have an answer!

The power plant supporting the new Meta data center will require 1.25 million liters of water a day.

Currently, Sturgeon County uses 1.1 million liters of water a day municipally.

So, this power plant doubles the water requirements.

H/t @SilentSnow89!

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Smith is making a big deal of the fact that the Meta center is supposed to be using closed loop cooling...

But the power plant, Project Greenlight says in its application it's going to be pulling the water for the plant from Sturgeon County's municipal water...

How much?

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@GiantsHodl @ComradeWatchdog @Jests_Hitman @rossjbolla You’re so smart you can’t even address any point being made by me, and keep saying “trust me bro the billionaires are so smart bro they’re creating a utopia bro trust me!” When in reality they’re destroying our environment and costing us billions in tax dollars for unreliable tec

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@GiantsHodl @ComradeWatchdog @Jests_Hitman @rossjbolla One question: how do you suppose that’s the outcome? The only example you’ve given me for AI improving the world is self driving cars. I can get the same result from hailing a taxi or taking public transit. A car driving itself is a novelty that doesn’t move the needle 1 bit.

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@GiantsHodl @ComradeWatchdog @Jests_Hitman @rossjbolla Oh Tesla? The vehicle with autopilot so good Elon had to get US safety regulations changed for him after it failed every standardized safety test conducted on it in the US? The same autopilot that is illegal in the EU? Ok man totally what fucking awesome tech you’re shilling for

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@GiantsHodl @ComradeWatchdog @Jests_Hitman @rossjbolla You’d have to have the same IQ as Jaxon Dart to be sniffing the farts of all these AI industry dickheads telling you how “world changing” the technology they’re literally trying to sell you are. Everyday people know it’s a novelty act. Yet I’m to believe it’s world changing? Ok

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@GiantsHodl @ComradeWatchdog @Jests_Hitman @rossjbolla Elon told us we’d have had autonomous cars by 2020. It’s 2026 and Elon and his tech billionaire butt buddies are now telling us how inevitable and invaluable these AI models are, yet ask anyone who isn’t in the bag what they think of AI and they’ll tell you it’s redundant shit.

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@BoredLizard10 @GoodPoliticGuy It’s a fucking municipal government that is elected to represent the will of the people. There is no such thing as “propriety information” when your job is to represent the will of your constituents. Are you fucking stupid, or just willfully ignorant?

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@GiantsHodl @ComradeWatchdog @Jests_Hitman @rossjbolla I cant get a reliable answer from Google’s AI on the best of days, and you think AI is going to run vehicles autonomously? Unrelated note but I have a seaside property in Saskatchewan I’d love to sell you.

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@JJ_McCullough It’s literally a fucking quote from an Israeli settler you wet noodle pretending to be a “journalist”. That head of yours is meant for critical thinking, not a place to house your dirty moustache that looks like Eugene Levy’s eyebrows.

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@darrenrovell The country that produces the most amount of NHL players per capita is Finland, and that’s because they heavily subsidize and fund youth sports like hockey through government programs. Want more high-level talent playing for your nation? Invest in allowing ALL children to play.

[apatheticalbertan @extremepath7]

@Elect_Elliott @swooper74 @avilewis Right. As evidenced by the most prominent and wide-reaching propaganda outlets being crowdsourced initiatives. Like the Rupert Murdoch owned Fox News/Ny Post. Or the Ellissen owned CBS. Or CNN which is now eventually also going to be owned by the Ellissens. So many examples!

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

This is completely out of line.

Minister Miller says, "It isn't up to me to speak to, or insert myself in, the curation of any particular exhibit.” And then he does exactly that.

His comments are a direct attack on the independence of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights – exactly what the Museums Act is meant to prevent.

The story of the Nakba needs to be told. It’s a hard history to confront: Israel’s independence was achieved with massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the forcible displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians.

And it’s a story that’s not over: all of those assaults on human dignity and fundamental human rights continue to this day.

This is the very purpose of museums like the CMHR: to shine a light into the corners of history and connect historical events to the present. Public education informed by the principles of justice and human rights.

The “error that needs to be rectified” is not the exhibit, it’s the Heritage Minister’s unacceptable political interference. He should retract his comments, apologize, and leave curating to the curators.

https://t.co/mD8FLlDw5d

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

A Microsoft worker has quit and sent a mass email detailing Microsoft's complicity in surveillance tech Israel uses to hunt Palestinians

https://t.co/8LX7Rz7yEq

[Jeremy Omand @jeremyomand1]

Hi, I work in real estate development. This is insane.

Yes, most projects are struggling. No, taxpayers should not be used to backstop private developers who misjudged the market.

If government wants more housing, build housing. Build it at cost.

That would be bad for my industry, but good public policy isn’t supposed to protect our profits, it’s supposed to serve Canadians.

[Yuen Pau Woo @yuenpauwoo]

My motion calling on Canada to examine its risk of complicity in grave violations of international law in Gaza was defeated 40-12.

Here is the exchange that preceded the vote:

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

Canada is about to go Full McCarthy against anyone critical of Israel for its horrifically genocidal conduct.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

People are dying, systems are breaking down.

This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

It’s a blatant violation of international law, a crime in progress.

Canadians are connected to Cuba: we’ve been welcomed, had great holidays, heard incredible music, done business and made friends.

We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble.

And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.