The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦

Our biggest shortcoming is our lack of imagination. We struggle with paradigm shifts. That’s why we’re not acting on the climate crisis. We can’t imagine the ship really is sinking. That we have but hours to prepare. We still think we’ll be in NY harbour by Wednesday.

A growing body of research suggests this "cognitive offloading" harms long-term learning and critical thinking abilities. "The concern is about what cognitive scientists call 'desirable difficulties' — the productive struggle that builds skill over time" #AI #LLMs

The question isn’t whether the crooks will try to steal the election, but rather if American society will continue passively commentating the crime(s) as if it weren’t involved, implicated and responsible. “Not my fault” is the new “I was just following orders”. #midterms #trump #maga

"The federal CISA employees repeatedly told the trump appointees that their request to hack the machines was impossible because the agents capable of pulling off such an operation had been laid off by Elon Musk's DOGE program" Also… illegal? …Unconstitutional? JFC y'all are complacent.

We need some hope. It starts with accepting where we are. And doing something about it. Together. Worldwide.

Used to be, client satisfaction mattered. It no longer does. The less control we have over what information we are fed, the easier it is to manipulate us. Regulate Big Tech now, or democracy dies.

How is it still this close? Disinformation. It is a cancer. And Fox News, Meta, X, & TikTok are the cigarettes. What happens when you delay treatment? The cancer spreads. The host dies. The world is on the brink. The antiscience ascendancy is not by accident. We are under attack. #ElbowsUp

It really is like chemotherapy. A general strike, social unrest, a toppling of this corrupt, criminal regime is the only thing that will work at this point. MAGA controls much of traditional media; all of social media; the legislative, judiciary and executive branches. It isn't going to get better

The only way we avoid the coming catastrophes is by aggressively addressing the concerted sabotage being leveled against us by social media algorithms, predatory scientific publications and corrupt corporate media. Information is power. Disinformation is treason. #ElbowsUp #CdnPoli #Climate #War

There is massive support across generations and demographics in every corner of the country. Think of everything we could fund if we made the fossil fuel industry pay up a portion of their obscene profits. How could your community benefit? Reply and let us know!

BREAKING: The vast majority of Canadians support imposing an excess profits tax on oil and gas companies. We know these companies are making absurd levels of profit by exploiting the Iran war and global energy crisis while the rest of us pay for it. #cdnpoli #taxbigoil

Unless they are stopped, all the worst things that Trump and the Republican Party are going to do are in the future, not the past. This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.

That incompetence on this scale should not be swaying more voters is proof: Our information ecosystem (corporate & social media) is broken. It rewards misinformation. Democracy cannot function in the absence of a shared, objective reality. Address the root cause or we are finished. #Climate

There will never be the least amount of satisfaction in having been proven right Not about this, not about the climate crisis We either tackle disinformation at its source—NOW—or civilization collapses. This isn't a game—It's war. Science & Sustainable Societies versus Nihilistic Greed

There's a powerful, hidden force behind mass migration: climate change

A new player has entered the #LongCOVID game. This looks very promising indeed. Actions speak louder than words.

It's like #BlameCanada, only dumber. Stupid pun, scary truth. #Bots #Zelenskyy #Yandex #Climate #Disinformation

This crisis in democracy needs to be addressed at its source: The People don't want to destroy the world for profit. The Bots wanna. [I'll see myself out]

It's no secret that bots have been manufacturing the far right's international ascendancy.

 Are we just going to keep pretending it doesn't matter? As the world literally burns and democracies fail to address the biggest threat human civilization has ever faced? 

#climate #cdnpoli #oligarchy

"Troll farms hide behind proxies, hijacked devices and Western clouds," he wrote on X. "They're still operating." ...He wrote on X. Oh, the irony. #Bots

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

What no one seems to understand is that the thing crippling me could very well be crippling them too: it's just a question of degrees. But nah. It's gotta be something else. My question to them: Why? Why would they be completely unscathed when so many of us were left utterly disabled? #LongCOVID

Everyone feels it. Nobody gets it. #COVID didn't just disable some of us. #LongCOVID isn't a binary condition.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.

"…the Golden State Warriors have no clue when Kristaps Porzingis will recover from his undisclosed medical issue." Call it by its name. There is no cure for #LongCOVID #MECFS #pwME #MedSky

That's a rhetorical question, right? You DO know the answer...? (Jesus Christ they genuinely don't know. Hint: It's not Trump. It's what — even now — enables Trump) Next November NOT being a clean sweep by science-abiding, community-minded, anti-corruption politicians is how.

The double standard is because of how low the bar is set: We expect such misdeeds and hypocrisy from the populist right. "Of course the wolves will eat sheep." So then why do you keep voting them in? I'll give you a hint: #META #X #Twitter #FoxNews #CorporateMedia #Disinformation

The double standard is because of how low the bar is set: We expect such misdeeds and hypocrisy from the populist right. That needs to change. Urgently.

Humanity's current approach to the climate crisis:

It's US economic and military hegemony that has allowed this brain-dead clown to ransack humanity's future. To the surprise of no one, Trump managed to overplay a perfect hand. The man who bankrupted a casino is actually pulling it off: He's going to bankrupt the United States of America.

"Tax burden in the province is Canada's highest — until you factor in the returns"

Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

“Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards.” — George Carlin #AI #LLMs #Bubble #Climate #Oligarchy #Grift

This parallels my thinking about AI and climate change. In the near term, AI will make climate change worse. In the medium term, AI could make climate change a lot worse. In the long term, AI might help address climate change -- but it will be too late to matter. mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

Saying "I told you so" was never going to be satisfying. The warning signs weren't subtle, they were buried. Disputed by Big Oil, mocked by conservatives. Who's laughing now? Big Oil. Still obstructing, still corrupting, still profiting from our imminent demise. #Climate #Clarkson #Carney

That any—unaccountable—private citizen should have this much power over the outcome of an illegal war of aggression is as dystopian as it gets. The fact that it's THIS drug-addled psycho only makes it worse. We either tax & trust-bust the oligarchs into extinction or civilization is cooked.

“Climate scientists appalled by politicians' refusal to accept responsibility as heatwave hits France… They say that years of warnings issued from scientists about the consequences of global warming have not been taken seriously.” Lack of leadership, and far too much disinformation. #ClimateCrisis

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

"Most states have a reckless endangerment offense. These laws criminalize reckless conduct that creates a substantial risk of injuring another person. Recklessness means knowing something is dangerous–eg predicting your pollution would cause “more violent weather”–& engaging in that conduct anyway."

Don't look away Look FOR a way They exist And they need you To insist #Climate

Mark, you’re announcing oil and gas pipelines like you want the parks to burn down. Pick à lane. You’re in the burn the planet lane at the moment.

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A rational, credible audience wouldn’t have been “awkwardly silent.” A rational, credible audience would have booed, and walked out. Staying silent as Trump attacks female reporters has been one of the biggest failures of a consistently failing American media.

#ButTheEconomy they said. Can't act on climate now, they said. Have to be realistic, they said. The people dreaming in colour weren't the climate activists, but the industrialists who convinced the world that this wouldn't happen. Now it's happening. #Carney #Carbon #Pipelines #CdnPoli

Mister Carney? You seeing this? Investing in a dying (and ecocidal) industry is not just immoral, hypocritical and vile: It is short-sighted, economic suicide. Wake up, Canada: Alberta suffers from Dutch disease and is taking us all down with it. #Pipeline #LNG #Canpoli #climate #oil #ev

MAGA: Proof that the education system has a leftist bias. What it has is an objective reality bias—facts don’t change. Climate science, gender studies, epidemiology are not opinion; they are humanity’s search for understanding. The GOP knows: People who don’t know better are the easiest to fool.

I give you: The alternative to urban densification. To the reviled 15-minute city. Ladies and gentlemen, behold: The American Dream. @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social #Sprawl

Say Trump is Iosef; The office of POTUS, Viggo; Say anyone who protests, contests, resists is Aurelio… Who might John Wick be? Not one person—not you, not me. No, Baba Yaga is the growing threat of a popular uprising. This entire scene reads like a lesson in revolutionary history: