Misinformation a barrier to women’s health: experts www.timescolonist.com/local-news/m...
"...rampant misinformation online about side effects of contraception."
@drjengunter.bsky.social: "... #misinformation is 'becoming a health crisis unto itself.'"
“At a Forever Canadian event in Edmonton this week, former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk delivered a blunt message: the push to tear Alberta out of Canada is reckless, economically naïve, and legally dubious.”
#ForeverCanadian
#ableg
#CdnPoli
prairiesexposed.medium.com/forever-cana...
“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
7/ Our findings suggest that COVID-19 may not be a short-lived shock, but a multi-year disruption w/ lasting implications for population health. #mortality #demography #covid @oxpop.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu
1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
“When asked if Alberta should stay in Canada, 70 per cent of respondents said the province should. Only 17 per cent believed Alberta should become an independent country & 4 per cent believe Alberta should join the United States.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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This has always been Kennedy's goal.
The Carney government is also cutting prison librarians to save…$2.5m. This is now a theme with the federal budget - it’s not about cost savings, it’s about destroying access to knowledge and information. #Cdnhist
On a warm summer late afternoon, I once sat down and talked to a honey bee, finishing her shift.
"I've seen you, hard at work, day in, day out. Buzzing flower to home and back again. And again. and again. Why work so hard?"
I'll never forget her answer: "Sometimes I get to nap in flowers."
Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words
If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.
“When I got home, I sat on the floor, wearing my helmet, and sobbed until I was hoarse with the overwhelm of my joy. I’d just ridden a bike for an hour! A bike! For an hour!”
The “greatest feeling in the world” after Long COVID. E-bikes and accessibility, via @heatherhogan.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
A watercolour painting of a bald eagle
And the Bald Eagle is finished 🥰
#watercolours #birdart #baldeagle 🪶
Alberta oil sands near Fort Mac
Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada's Oil Sands Wastelands https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/health/canada-oil-sands-fort-chipewyan-alberta.html
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who could have known that the Ponzi scheme of low taxes and delayed infrastructure maintain would one day have to be paid for?
True in city infrastructure, true for climate change.
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Five glass bottles shaped like maple leaves sit in a row on a wooden railing outdoors. Each bottle is filled with maple syrup in different shades ranging from very light golden to dark amber. The bottles have gold-colored caps. Trees and a house appear blurred in the background under a bright blue sky.
Between 2011 and 2012, several individuals stole 9,571 barrels of maple syrup, worth $18.7 million, from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec.
This theft from the Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve became known as The Great Maple Syrup Heist.
This is the story.
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No AI, I don’t want you to summarize everything. I want to read things and think about them with my own brain.
As the White House posts videos blending real footage of its war in Iran with clips from movies and video games, this talk from @justinling.ca is incredibly timely.
It's this Wednesday evening, at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Also will be livestreamed.
And it's free!
Registration ends soon:
You could get lung cancer even if you've never smoked.
www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec...
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
"Pluralists should avoid treating these votes as a normal exercise in democracy... It is a referendum on an approach to governance — a way to manufacture legitimacy while dodging the institutions that test ideas, protect rights and force compromise."
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026....
Lots of good reasons to mask, including:
“I like to keep an air of mystery”
Canadian govt officials dislike public access to info. Very simple.
US aid cuts: $45bn
UK aid cuts: $8.2bn
EU aid cuts: $2.5bn
France aid cuts: $2bn
German aid cuts: $2bn
Canada aid cuts: $675m
Aid has dropped by over 50% in the last two years. So it’s a good job the world is a lot safer now and there are definitely no major humanitarian crises brewing!
We changed BIG when the consequences were a lot LESS than what we’re facing from the #ClimateCrisis. Don’t let anyone tell you we CAN’T change.
“A Canadian oil and gas industry group is backing a proposal to consolidate Alberta's two largest river basins, a move that would make it easier for industry to transfer water in that area without requiring legislative approval.”
#BadGov #CdnPoli #Treaty #EIA
“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”
Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.
A North Box Systems PC fan air cleaner using 20x20 MERV 13 furnace filters. The unit is taped with rainbow hockey tape. Sitting on grey carpet.
A clean MERV 13 filter sitting on top of 2 dark grey used filters.
A clean HEPA filter and black prefilter on top of grey used filters and prefilter.
Filter change day at our primary care clinic! 3-4 times a year I go change the prefilters or filters on 12 air cleaners in our clinic. We have grown from solo practice to multiple primary care providers. Air cleaners in every room + free respirators for all; masks required.
What always seems to be missing in the “faster approvals” is that projects need to meet the requirements.
Reviews are not rubber stamps.
They are there to protect people, protect the environment, ensure long term stability & that the govt (citizens) are not left to pay for incomplete or bad work.
New post, on whether I could get Claude Code to complete a data task that had taken me AGES a decade ago…
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