Eric Brooke

Eric Brooke

@ctowisdom.bsky.social

They, Them, Their Technology, Climate Change, Humanity, Games, Books, Science, leadership, startups

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Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

The world is a bit brighter in Toronto with the most effective mayor we have had in an age re elected, as well as more progressives on the council.

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Kasey Gifford
@kaseygifford.bsky.social

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.

bloomberg.comWall Street Eyes Record Bonuses as Profit Heads Past $90 BillionA blockbuster year for New York’s trading and investment-banking firms is poised to deliver record earnings for the industry, with profit on pace to exceed $90 billion, and bonuses expected to reach a...
Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

Selfish, greedy, cruel, rage, weak policy, short term buying of votes, medium and long term costs - the right wing populists like Trump and others - we actually better need conservatives who think about the long term and where this ends not short opportunists www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

torontotoday.caOP-ED: Right-wing populism comes to Toronto’s mayoral raceTwo university professors argue that Brad Bradford's campaign is steeped in right-wing populism by portraying Toronto as a declining city, and stoking fear, resentment and anger

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.

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Uplifting News
@upliftingnews.bsky.social

Egyptian farmers are growing crops beneath solar panels, reducing water evaporation and heat stress on plants while generating clean electricity. Many crops thrive in the dappled light panels create.

grist.orgWhy Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels: the additional shade reduces evaporation and heat stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity. 🌞 Many plants evolved to grow in the dappled light of the forest floor, and so…Why Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels: the additional shade reduces evaporation and heat stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity. 🌞 Many plants evolved to grow in the dappled light of the forest floor, and solar panels can supercharge their growth. 🌼

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Inflation eating up worker pay. Household debt and student loan defaults at a record high. 8 million people have lost healthcare the past year. Thousands have been sickened by disease outbreaks and contaminated food. Trump says, "Pretend I'm on the ballot" ahead of the midterms. Please do.

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

Worth thinking about - is the end of global tech as me move tech which listens to your government whoever that is, some people focus on the control I am more concerned with accountability- which are seeing less and less from the USA apple.news/Alo7hSqI9Qly...

apple.newsOpinion: Google Maps has become a tool of digital imperialism — The Globe and MailThe ‘Lake America’ mess shows that U.S. tech companies are so powerful, they get to render geographic reality
Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

Two USA companies sit in the supply chain of almost every large Canadian internet provider. And Bell, the largest provider in Canada It is at no Canadian internet exchange www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-ow...

linkedin.comWho owes the "Internet" network you are on?Sixth in a series on Canadian digital sovereignty, written as an open question rather than a settled answer. The last article went to the wires and asked what Canada is missing and what finishing it w...

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)
@covid19disease.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Canadian Scientists Develop an Inhaled Vaccine Mist That Delivers Immunity Directly to the Lungs, Right Where Viruses Enter Two scientists, Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, developed AeroVax, an inhaled vaccine mist designed to reach the lungs in just 2 minutes.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Elon Musk is planning to spend up to $200 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.024% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

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Elizabeth Warren
@warren.senate.gov

Tech executives are warning that AI could lead to “a level of wealth concentration that will break society." I refuse to accept that. If we’re going to build a future that works for everyone, we need to tax AI and invest in people.

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

A Canadian judge came home, said "Alexa" — and Alexa was dead. Amazon had closed her account. Her credit cards died the same morning, "no matter where they were issued or by what bank." She wasn't convicted of anything. New piece: your photos, your money, your words — which apps deserve them? 🧵

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

A Canadian judge came home, said "Alexa" — and Alexa was dead. Amazon had closed her account. Her credit cards died the same morning, "no matter where they were issued or by what bank." She wasn't convicted of anything. New piece: your photos, your money, your words — which apps deserve them? 🧵

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

Also: bought is not owned. When Amazon closed her account, everything she'd purchased went too. Export your playlists. Keep what you've paid for as files you control.

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

A Canadian judge came home, said "Alexa" — and Alexa was dead. Amazon had closed her account. Her credit cards died the same morning, "no matter where they were issued or by what bank." She wasn't convicted of anything. New piece: your photos, your money, your words — which apps deserve them? 🧵

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

The surprise: Canada has more options than you've been told. Encrypted storage in Toronto, encrypted email in Vancouver since 1999. Invisible because they grew on revenue, not US venture money — so they never make the lists.

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

A Canadian judge came home, said "Alexa" — and Alexa was dead. Amazon had closed her account. Her credit cards died the same morning, "no matter where they were issued or by what bank." She wasn't convicted of anything. New piece: your photos, your money, your words — which apps deserve them? 🧵

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

Three questions sort every app you use: Who owns this — and whose law reaches it? Can I take my data and leave? What actually matters to you? Not privacy. Recourse — courts you can reach, a regulator you can call, a government you can vote for or against.

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

A client asked: can you run a serious production app without depending on USA tech? I audited 38 stack components. 21 can be Canadian-controlled today. 16 resolve with allies or open source. Exactly one has no escape for anyone: the chips. First in a series. 🧵👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/jurisd...

linkedin.comJurisdiction is a failure domain - Canadian digital sovereigntyFirst in a series on Canadian digital sovereignty, written as an open question rather than a settled answer. This one is for people who build and run systems.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
@jvipondmd.bsky.social

"The oil and gas industry has known for decades that its wells were releasing far more planet-warming methane than companies acknowledged, according to industry documents identified by an environmental group."

nytimes.comOil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents SuggestThe companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.

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Windhorse
@windhorse.bsky.social

Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.

Eric Brooke
@ctowisdom.bsky.social

Is Trump's hostility to Canada new, or old? I documented every US threat against Canada since 1866 — 83 incidents, all sourced. Presidential threats: 6 in the first 150 years, 26 since 2017. Charted by decade, it's a hockey stick. This week, they tariffed those too.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/tariff...

linkedin.comThey Tariffed Hockey SticksFitting — because if you chart 160 years of US threats against Canada, the graph is shaped like one. Yesterday's 50 per cent duties are entry No.

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”