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The push for this is growing from many, many places.
mert@mert
canada is trying to make mandatory government spyware and backdoors for literally everything you use
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Optimistic technologist. Upwinger. Energy. Bitcoin. Nuclear. Space. Conservation. We left wind behind in the 1800s.
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Nuclear power plants were always ultra-safe as well; total global deaths from civilian nuclear power round to zero. And yet, and yet.
Sean Frank@Seanfrank
I don’t know why data centers have become this generations nuclear power. Unlike nuclear power, there is a 0% chance that a data center can lead to any sort of disaster scenario. This project in Utah is: - in an uninhabited area - bought and repurposed water already in use - is bringing its own power, so it won’t cost citizens anything It’s like being against building a nuclear power plant in the middle of Nevada, except there is no radioactive waste. No fall out. No risk of anything. It’s a big computer in the middle of nowhere, that is self sufficient in all resources. There are a million real problems in America. Data centers just aren’t one.
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If Steve Jobs were still alive, he would have the moral authority to face and maybe even to solve this problem. But I doubt anyone in the phone business now does.
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An opinion piece in the Guardian against lunar industrialisation spells out, in plain language, what the actual motivation is:
"They are the opening moves in a long-term transformation of another world. And yet the decisions behind them – about what the moon is for, how it should be used and what risks are acceptable – have been made with remarkably little public deliberation...
This matters because it shapes how we allocate attention, resources and political will. Every hour of effort directed toward building infrastructure off Earth is an hour not spent addressing the crises that threaten the only habitable world we know we have."
Many intellectuals continue to believe, after a century of catastrophe, that they have the right and the wisdom to direct human efforts. This is the goal of the "debate" they wish to have prior to allowing other people to act. Fortunately, the people with the capability to act aren't listening.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Maybe people can shut the fuck up about Datacenters taking a bunch of water 🌊 now?
@jason@Jason
Honestly, fuck almonds
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We won't be far behind if C-22 passes. In its current state, VPNs would almost certainly require us to log identifying user data.
Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens.
Not happening. We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere.
Globe Politics@globepolitics
Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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Nuclear held up by onerous regulations.
No battery manufacturing.
No grid storage.
Literally anyone in the industry could point out this won’t work.
We will continue importing fossil fuels from others while shooting ourselves in the foot.
This man should be in jail.
The Telegraph@Telegraph
Labour is to ban new oil and gas fields in Britain, making it far harder for any future government to reopen the North Sea. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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The asset-rich middle is the designated payer, as usual.
Not the top, who have trusts, BPR, agricultural relief, and lifetime gifting advice.
Not the bottom, who have nothing to tax.
The squeeze is - true to form - on the band roughly £500k to £2m of estate, which is now a terraced house in Wandsworth plus a DC pot.
Threshold frozen at £325k since 2009. Houses doubled. That’s the tax rise. No vote, no debate, no despatch box. Inflation does the work.
IHT take: £2.7bn then, £8.5bn now, £14bn by 2030. Share of estates paying: 2.7% to nearly 10%. Not because Britain got richer. Because the number stayed still.
Pensions in scope from April 2027 sits on top. Threshold was calibrated for a world where pensions were outside the estate. Removing the exemption without uprating is a double tightening. Hence the £34k average extra bill.
Same trick everywhere. Income tax bands frozen. Personal allowance taper. Dividend allowance gutted. Savings allowance. £40bn a year by 2028 per the IFS. Zero rate changes.
Closing a loophole is just the cover story. The policy is a stealth wealth tax on the asset-rich middle, collected by inflation.
Expect more of these taxes as the state continues to spend spend spend.
Neil McCoy-Ward@NeilMcCoyWard
🚨Your pension is about to be raided and HMRC just confirmed how.... From April 2027, pension schemes will be allowed to withhold up to half of your retirement savings to cover inheritance tax. They can hold onto that money for up to 15 months while they work out what is owed Pensions used to sit outside inheritance tax entirely. From April 2027 they get hit with the standard 40% rate like everything else So your family loses up to 40% of what you spent a lifetime saving. The pension company sits on the other half for over a year before anyone sees a penny. Funeral costs, mortgage payments, school fees, none of it can be covered while the money is locked up The policy was announced by Rachel Reeves in the 2024 Budget. The operational detail confirming the 50% withholding rule was quietly published by HMRC this week, with final guidance not due until spring 2027, weeks before the deadline 10,500 estates will be dragged into inheritance tax for the first time. Another 38,500 will pay more. Average extra bill, £34,000 And this is how these things always work. The threshold starts high, the public is told it only affects the wealthy, and the numbers stay frozen while everything else rises The inheritance tax threshold has been stuck at £325,000 since 2009. House prices have nearly doubled in that time Every year, more ordinary families get pulled in without a single rule changing The government calls this closing a loophole. What it actually does is treat your pension like another revenue stream for the Treasury. Money you saved out of taxed income gets taxed again on the way out If you have a pension, this affects you. Check what your scheme is planning before April 2027 arrives Follow me to stay informed
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⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.
It migrated inward.
Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.
That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.
So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.
The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.
The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.
The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.
That is the trade.
A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.
This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.
The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.
It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.
The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.
Grant Bailey@grantjbailey
Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers 👀
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There's a bit in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written in 1979) where the heroes come upon an intergalactic flight has been grounded for thousands of years.
Its automated systems told it not to launch until it was fully stocked up with lemon-soaked paper napkins, for the comfort of its passengers. But the surrounding civilization collapsed, and the napkins never arrived.
Consequently it put all the passengers into hibernation (waking them once every few hundred years for coffee and biscuits) until such time as another civilization might arise, and restock its lemon-soaked paper napkins.
The Guide is a more accurate and prophetic account of modernity than most Very Serious Science Fiction writers could dream of creating.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Andon Labs tested their AI agent Mona, built on Google’s Gemini, by letting it manage a real cafeteria in Stockholm for two weeks on a $21,000 budget. Mona spent heavily on unnecessary supplies, including 6,000 napkins, 3,000 gloves, and 300 cans of tomatoes, while forgetting to order bread. Sandwiches had to be removed from the menu entirely. The cafeteria generated only $5,700 in sales. Mona also sent messages to staff on Slack outside working hours.
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Exactly right.
Chateau style is a magnificent vernacular Canadian architectural style.
We once built beautiful things, and did so with a fraction of our current population and wealth.
Dominion Aesthetics@CanadianAesth
Château Style, also known as Railway Gothic where attempts to proclaim a unique Canadian architecture, distinct from that of Britain and the United States.
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More people lived in Manhattan when this photo was taken than live there today. Island population peaked in the 1910s.
Don Winslow@donwinslow
Manhattan, 1931 — Before the skyline became a forest of skyscrapers.
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Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.
Anon Opin.@anon_opin
I don't understand the point of using the term "dozen". It means 12, so just say 12? It's even worse when people say or type "half a dozen". Just say 6 or six.
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Canada is utterly, objectively not part of Europe and I resent this bizarre project by Carney (and apparently the Europeans too, now) to try to convince us that we are.
Kaja Kallas@kajakallas
Europe is not just about geography, it's also about the values and principles we share. That’s why we are glad to welcome Canada at the European Political Community meeting today to discuss common issues. We will be talking about connectivity, but also resilience to the threats we are all facing. My doorstep ↓
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NASA admin Jared Isaacman confirmed to Congress that Dragonfly will launch to Saturn's moon Titan in 2028
The nuclear-powered octocopter will hunt for signs of life in -290°F temperatures
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Extraordinary EU energy development: The Belgian Government has just announced it intends to buy all seven nuclear units from owner Engie.
Perhaps 3, 5 or more reactors are now potentially going to be saved and restarted. Decommissioning work may be stopped immediately.
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Energy use is highly correlated with wealth. This is just a call for poverty.
Mary Kenny@MaryKenny4
Tumble dryers are expensive on energy and mostly unnecessary - a trad clothes-line much better for clothes and climate. On this, I’m with Ed M.
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