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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Finally setup Strata on my Framework Desktop 128GB and HOLY!! This is so much better.

I have done this in the past and its really rewarding. I went with an off the shelf mini PC and ran OPNsense in Proxmox but you can basically do this with any old PC, and really lightweight hardware or a compatible router if you run OpenWRT. aftermath.site/opnsense-pro...

Remember they’re the “good ones”

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

It’s a hard moment to be someone who cares about stuff like wealth inequality and the climate crisis -- I mean, look at B.C. Luckily, I have some good news for you today!! At a time when governments are all but abandoning the fight against the climate crisis, the kids are fighting for us all:

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear Too bad we don't have national leadership that is serious about renewable energy over fossil fuels. #cdnpoli #canada #neoliberal www.bbc.com/future/artic...

yup.

Did they misinterpret the memo? The world is clamoring for renewable energy like battery backed solar and wind because they are not dependent on world affairs. Besides, there’s a LNG glut coming. ieefa.org/resources/ln...

I've loved computers since I was able to hold a controller. Growing up I learned technical skills because I wanted to play the latest Bioware,Bethesda and ArenaNet games. I still dream of developing a game one day, and am a software developer now because of gaming. The death of Bioware hits hard.

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

mad at the big platforms? really want to decentralize and own your data across all your social media? pay attention to this in the next couple months and put your internet time where your beliefs are, and make the atmosphere flourish i’m so excited!!!!

Wrote about BioWare closing for The Guardian. Still can’t really believe it. Thanks @mackeza.bsky.social ♥️ www.theguardian.com/games/2026/o...

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

what exactly DOES happen to materials from a major studio that’s closed? where do physical hard drives, documents, etc go? who maintains all this pointless secrecy? if you know or have stories, get in touch: nathan@aftermath.site, nathangrayson.666 (signal), aftermathdotsite@proton.me (proton mail)

Nice job burying a backtrack on plans for vehicle emissions standards in today's announcement. www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...

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Being absolutely pedantic, the "block" on their supposed "path to prosperity" was the collapse of global oil prices in 2014. It had fuck all to do with Trudeau.

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“Too many people who voted NDP their whole lives are watching rents climb, being sent to the picket lines and are wondering who is still fighting for them,” Green Leader Emily Lowan said in an interview with The Tyee. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

Albertans have officially voted not to hold a vote on whether they should leave Canada. But uh, they also narrowly voted *for* some really gross, anti-immigrant trash that looks to scapegoat migrants for problems they didn’t cause. So no to separatism, but yes to racism? Yikes:

Documents like these are insightful because they suggest the government is knowingly acting out of step with public opinion (and many of their own voters):

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Are we gonna do this, Bluesky? Are we all just gonna not understand accounting? 72B$ of the 80B$ is convertible notes. They became greater liabilities because the company's valuation skyrocketed. They don't have an 80B$ loss in the sense that almost everyone here is imagining.

new version of tg is out for, ya know, man in the middle nightmare reasons. it also includes a few fixes, an mcp server, an agent SKILL.md, etc. should have it in my homebrew tap by tomorrow, available with nix now tangled.org/aly.codes/tg

I’m hearing from friends in Alberta that today is actually hitting folks pretty hard. Not the vote to remain, which was a relief, but the other 9 questions.

Yo. @kenney.nl has done more to support up and coming devs, empower non artists and people starting out with accessible tech than any other single person I’ve encountered. Just wanted to throw that out there for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Now? Now will you fucking enforce passkeys?

Cut off his access to all the services property taxes fund and see if he understands how stupid that question is.

On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...

"The US conservative movement is engaged in a nationwide effort to reverse child-labor laws and reinstitute child labor" sounds like a crazy leftie conspiracy theory, but ... yeah. It's real.

Poll: British Columbians overwhelmingly want government to build new renewable projects over natural gas. cleanenergycanada.org/poll-british...

So much of Canada’s oil and gas conversation makes NO sense. But WHY is that? Well thanks to a WILD new report from Greenpeace Canada, the network of murky figures muddying these conversations about energy are coming into view:

yep prospect.org/2026/10/15/t...

Support Double Fines new game, I know I did!

Something others may enjoy, even though I am personally not going to subscribe only because it is on substack.

BREAKING: BC Greens' new platform includes Universal Basic Income to support workers displaced by technologies like AI.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Media was all over Avi Lewis for his reflections on the genocide. But after a major newspaper appeared to threaten him — a major party leader —and his family as a result, the media fell all but silent.

Less than 24 hours until THANK YOU BUS DRIVER is out! We need your support more than ever as an indie studio, so we hope to see you and your friends clocking in tomorrow for your first shift! 🚍 🧡 doublefine.com/tybd

This is just such a fundamentally dishonest piece. EV sales *are* surging everywhere in the world except the United States. It's almost like America is the outlier here -- and that this is a reflection of domestic political and policy choices. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Awaken, mortals, for it is ROCKTOBER! It’s been 17 years since Brütal Legend first began melting faces, and as the prophecy foretold, Tim will be playing throughout the day on Xbox and PC to help you snag that “Six Degrees of Schafer” achievement. Good luck, roadies! 🤘🏽🖤🤘🏽

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