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[Greenwashed @TVJones76]

Canada is #2 after Russia

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

All countries sorted by size (area). Perfect if you love maps and order! Source: https://t.co/uu0mGAzZTf

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Amazon is building a natural gas plant in Pecos County, Texas, to power an AI data center. Its permits allow 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, which would make it the single largest source of climate pollution in the country. For comparison, the dirtiest plant operating in America today emits about 16 million tons, so Amazon's is permitted for roughly double that. Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019 and promised net-zero emissions by 2040.

My Take
Amazon built a brand around sustainability. It co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, put net-zero by 2040 in its marketing, and used that image to win customers and quiet critics back when being green was good for business. Seven years later it is building what could become the biggest single polluter in the country, and its emissions rose 16% last year. The pledge held up while it was cheap to keep. Once AI made fast power more valuable than the green image, Amazon dropped it.

Microsoft and Google are doing the same thing with their own climate targets. Every one of them promoted these commitments when it helped with hiring, marketing, and keeping regulators at a distance, and every one is walking them back to power the AI buildout. This part is not about emissions for me. It is about what these promises were ever worth. A company that abandons a signature pledge the moment it gets expensive shows that the pledge was a marketing decision from the start, and the AI boom is making that obvious across the industry.

Hedgie🤗

[The White Rabbit Podcast @AllBiteNoBark88]

Good God
What a difference 5 years makes
The World Stealth Organisation now stating in their database that;

"Covid-19 vaccination can induce multiple sclerosis via cross-reactive CD4+ T cells recognizing SARS-CoV2 spike protein and myelin peptides"

In other words your own body turns against you.

Why are we living through such Evil & how did a species as intelligent as ours allow those responsible to get rich from the devastation they have caused.

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Seven figure TFSA’s is pretty wild. Kudos

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

Nobody is telling you how FUCKED the dollar's monopoly just became.

Everyone is watching crypto charts. NFT drops. The next altcoin pump.

Nobody is talking about the fact that Putin just stood on stage at the International Economic Forum and confirmed the workaround is already built.

He said it plainly: "Any country can at any moment be deprived of access to its legitimate assets, which are placed in dollars or euros, as well as to Western financial payment infrastructure."

That's not a threat. That's roughly $300,000,000,000 in frozen Russian reserves talking.

→ Russia got cut from SWIFT and had its reserves frozen after 2022
→ Putin says the West's financial monopoly is "clearly out of date"
→ BRICS is now building blockchain settlement rails no sanction can touch

He's not bluffing. He just signed a new digital currency law regulating exchanges, mining, and digital assets — specifically so Russia can settle foreign trade without ever touching a dollar.

💀 Here's what nobody is explaining to you:

This doesn't just change THIS sanctions fight. This changes ALL of global finance. Forever.

→ China has bought gold for 20 STRAIGHT months — over 2,300 tonnes stacked
→ Intra-BRICS trade already tops $1,000,000,000,000 a year
→ BRICS+ nations now represent nearly 40% of global GDP
→ The dollar still holds 58-59% of global reserves — but that number is bleeding, not growing

The US spent 80 years building a system where sanctions were the ultimate weapon.

Russia and China just spent 20 months quietly building the workaround.

This is not a currency swap. This is the first real crack in seventy years of dollar dominance, and Washington is still treating it like a talking point instead of an emergency.

Bookmark this. You're watching the biggest shift in global finance since Bretton Woods.

Follow and turn on notifications before it's too late.

[Logan Robison ⚡️ @LoganARobison]

My wife and I went to a new dentist when we first moved to town. He came highly recommended so we didn’t think twice.

At the first appointment, he told me I had 7 cavities. He told my wife she had 2.

My wife has never had a cavity in her life. But we reluctantly got them filled.

After she got them filled, I scheduled my appointment. But then, we got skeptical. Life comes at you fast when you’re staring at a bill to fill 7 cavities.

So I asked for a copy of the X-rays and sent them to my uncle who is a dentist in another state.

He confirmed what we were starting to believe. That dentist was full of it. The x-rays were such low quality that you couldn’t confirm if I had even a single cavity. Let alone 7.

We cancelled our appointment and found a new dentist. The new dentist said I didn’t have any.

The experience still shocks me to this day. Makes you wonder, how much medical fraud is out there that no one knows about? Especially in dentistry

[Nihaal Singh @_singhnihaal]

This segment by @BenMulroney perfectly captures the absurdity of this job posting.

“You are a friggin moron - whoever wrote this”.

British Columbia somehow manages to out stupid itself every time.

[Freddie New @freddienew]

My parents died suddenly in a car accident 25 years ago this year. I was 21, and became a guardian for my little brother and sister (10 and 12 at the time).

I've spoken about the accident and its impact on a couple of podcasts, but it's fresh on my mind as my brother just shared with me a handwritten letter I sent to him at his school. He's kept it with him ever since.

I've transcribed it below; he told me last night that it's helped him many times over the past two decades. Sharing it here in case what I said back then in an attempt to help a little lost boy is of assistance to anyone else.

23 July 2002

To Harry, From Freddie.

1. Don't panic.

2. You have many people watching your back. I am one of them and I am watching it very closely.

3. The accident was nobody's fault. Therefore we cannot legitimately blame anyone for it. We call it an accident for this reason.

4. We cannot bring Mummy and Daddy back – but this has important consequences:
– We need to remember what they taught us.
– We need to behave as they would have wanted us to.
– Because they are not alive, but we are, we owe both ourselves and their memory a duty to live as well and as fully as we possibly can, not to give in, not to give up. Because of the accident we have been given a very special insight into what it means to be alive – to live as fully as we can, to consider others, to work at what we are good at, and work even harder at what is difficult.

Something has been wasted, something has been lost. We must make sure that our lives are not. We shall always regret that Mummy and Daddy are not here – let us not regret anything we do, or know that we had a chance and threw it away.

Whatever happens, I have got your back. Even if I do sometimes hit you with cricket balls.

Run straight, look your foe in the eye, and never back down. Strength and honour!

I love you very much.

[foley (follard) @follard]

I went to Dartmouth. It costs roughly $60,000 a year all in. I now build homes for a living. They cost roughly $350,000 to build.

Both of these numbers are completely insane. And they are insane for the exact same reason.

The moment the government guarantees a loan, the seller stops caring what the buyer can actually afford. College tuition exploded after the federal government started backing student loans with no underwriting and no discharge in bankruptcy. Home prices exploded after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started buying mortgages and removing risk from lenders.

When a bank knows it will get paid no matter what, it will lend to anyone. When the bank will lend to anyone, the seller raises the price. When the seller raises the price, the buyer just borrows more. Nobody feels the pain until the bill comes due 10 or 30 years later.

Colleges added $200 million rec centers and hired thousands of administrators because students were writing checks with money that didn't feel real. Home sellers listed at $500k because they knew the bank would approve it regardless of whether the buyer could sustain the payment.

I benefited from both systems. My Dartmouth degree opened doors. The homes I build get financed by these same banks. I am not pretending to be above it.

But I look at both industries from the inside and tell you they run on the same engine. A guaranteed loan that disconnects the buyer from the real cost of what they are purchasing. The university and the mortgage lender have the same business model. They are financing tools that happen to have a campus or a front door.

If the government removed the guarantee from the student loans tomorrow, tuition would drop 40% within five years. If Fannie and Freddie disappeared, home prices would correct in the same direction. The prices are essentially fake. They are a reflection of how much debt a bank is willing to issue, not how much the product is intrinsically worth.

I say this as someone who went to an expensive school and builds homes. Both systems are broken in the exact same way and nobody talks about it because too many people profit from the status quo.

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

More bad news for luxury Real Estate in Vancouver.

[fOx @fOx1257067]

Countdown of the 9 out of 10 most addictive songs of the '80s...

So let's hear it... what do you think deserves the #1 spot?

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

First and last video played on MTV

[Saadat Wahid @SaadatOne]

Wildlife in Banff National Park, Canada - see; how fearlessly and freely bears walk even on the roads.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[Overton @overton_news]

RFK Jr. reveals the single most disturbing thing he discovered in Anthony Fauci’s diaries.

This is peak hypocrisy. No other way to put it.

KENNEDY: “One of the things that was new to me in his diary was his admission that he got a pulmonary infarction in July of 2021 after receiving the vaccine.”

“So he took the Moderna vaccine on TV… to show people it was safe.”

“And then he got one of the primary most expected adverse events, which was potentially deadly blood clots in his lung, myocardial infarction.”

“He kept that secret from the American public, and we only learned about it because of the diary.”

“He was getting the best medical treatment that is available to anybody in the world at Walter Reed and all these other centers. There were doctors fawning over him.”

“Meanwhile, he was telling other people to take this product and concealing the fact that he himself, after announcing this press conference to show it was safe, had actually gotten very, very sick from an injury that was highly expected and highly likely to be caused by the vaccine.”

[Shahanshah of the Internet Age @ChazakielDoremi]

Nobody seems to understand this but I cannot stress enough that a judge told Anthropic that training their AI models didn't constitute copyright violation as long as they 'transferred' the text instead of 'copying' it, legally necessitating the destruction of the books

[juan @juanbuis]

i can’t believe someone solved recipe design decades ago and everyone just decided to ignore it

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This guy built a roller coaster to stop his fish getting bored

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

When Dire Straits took the stage at Live Aid in '85, most fans had no idea why Sting joined them, but when he started singing the opening lyrics to "Money For Nothing", they realized it was his voice on the radio hit which widely went unnoticed til then 🔥 Goosebumps when Mark Knopfler finally plays that guitar riff and the crowd takes over for the drums.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗