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Only Canadians would make their point in such a special way. So proud of my fellow Canadians and their amazing creativity-
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Canada must become the second such country.
We need strict rules. Create a line between politics and propaganda for elected representatives.
Implement new Standards of Parliamentary Behavior with sanction and even dismissal for dissemination of misinformation.
Well done to Wales! We should all follow their example!👏🏻👏🏻
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While the Welsh Government has announced plans to introduce a law banning politicians from office for deliberate deception, no such law is currently in effect. A separate law regarding candidates lying during elections will not take effect until 2030. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/…
This is not a Golden Retriever, it is a Yellow Lab. 🤯
I’ve gathered the funniest expressions of this Golden Retriever, who has rightly gone viral for the incredibly amusing facial expressions he pulls when meeting other animals.
#InternationalDogDay
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This video is AI-generated, not authentic footage. Unnatural motion artifacts—such as the dog's pupils distorting, the cow's nose physically merging with the dog's head, and unnatural fur blending—are visible.
Text-to-video model: Seedance 2.5:
hivedetect.ai/Jt2tK3
Barry U retweeted
Chapman's Ice Cream has just done something EVERY Canadian should know.
The largest ice cream company in Canada used to source fruit and nuts from American suppliers — for some, for over 30 years. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products.
So, what did Chapman's do?
📷 They called Italy.
📷 They called Spain.
📷 They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.
And the vice president said it perfectly:
"Even if Trump wakes up smarter than yesterday, we're about to sign long-term deals with other countries — and the American companies that supply them will have nothing but their eyes to cry for."
Oh, and on top of ALL that? They're COLDing their prices so that the average Canadian doesn't have to spend a single cent more.
It's a family business. No shareholders. Just the Chapman family saying: "The least we can do is make sure Canadians still have the means to buy ice cream."
That's what Canadian pride looks like.
Next time you're at the grocery store — grab some Chapman's.
Every scoop of ice cream is a vote for Canada.
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The trains in the Netherlands are 100% #windpowered. Over 5,500 trips a day 100% #renewable.
We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climateemergency #climateaction #climate #energy #renewableenergy #renewables #GreenNewDeal
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The parking lot at Disneyland #Paris went #solar. 67,000 #solarpanels will make it one of the largest solar canopies in Europe. Time to give every parking lot a #solarpower upgrade.
We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climateAction #climate #endfossilfuels
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Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done.
Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate
#biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions
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Here’s the truth, @Jason:
We have not reached AGI.
We are not even close to reaching AGI.
And moreover, you and your techbros who think we are there have a profoundly sad shallow understanding of what it means to be human.
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🚨Do you understand the irony of what just happened..
the FBI spent two years investigating Hillary Clinton for using a personal email for government work.. it dominated every news cycle.. it decided an election.. "lock her up.."
the man they put in charge of the FBI.. just got his personal email hacked by Iran..
the DOJ confirmed it.. Iran-linked group "Handala" breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and got his data..
think about the timing..
America has fired 850 Tomahawk missiles at Iran this month.. spent billions.. and Iran didn't fire back with a missile..
they walked through the front door of the FBI..
and here's what nobody wants to say out loud.. the FBI Director was using a personal email in the first place.. the same thing the FBI called a national security threat when Hillary did it..
the agency that decides what's a crime.. doesn't follow its own rules..
The rules only apply until you're the one making them.
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China is using folding mobile photovoltaic power stations, long strips of solar panels that unfold to quickly generate electricity, bringing clean power to construction sites, disaster zones, and remote areas.
Machine intelligence is signal based and can be expressed as an algorithm. Human intelligence is information based and cannot be expressed by an alogrithm.
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I'm pretty sure everyone at my company saw this article and now they all think we're in an AI crisis.
We're not in an AI crisis. We use Claude to summarize Slack threads.
But here's what's actually interesting: this whole panic reveals something nobody wants to admit.
Every company in America has been bullshitting about their "AI strategy" for two years.
We all saw the hype. We all knew we had to say something. So we rebranded our existing automation as "AI-powered" and called it a day.
My company isn't special. We're all doing the same thing.
The problem is now the executives actually believe their own bullshit. They think we have "significant AI exposure" because they've been telling investors we're "AI-first."
I just got pulled into an emergency meeting. Six executives asking me to explain our "AI dependency matrix."
There is no AI dependency matrix.
There's Claude for meeting summaries, there's some sentiment analysis in our support tickets that came free with Zendesk, and there's whatever Gmail is doing when it autocompletes my sentences.
But I can't say that in a room full of people who told their boards we're "transforming the business through AI."
So I said we have "distributed AI touchpoints across multiple vendors with no single point of failure."
Which is technically true. We use a bunch of different services that all have AI features we mostly ignore.
The CFO asked if we should "hedge our AI exposure."
I have no idea what that means. Neither does he.
What am I going to do: nothing. Because in three weeks, Anthropic will say something reassuring, the stocks will recover, and everyone will forget this happened.
But I'll have documentation showing I recommended a "risk assessment" that mysteriously never got prioritized.
The funniest part is that half these executives probably don't even know what Anthropic is. They just saw "AI" and "crash" in the same headline.
We're all pretending. The whole industry is pretending.
And articles like this just remind everyone how fragile the pretending is.
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This autonomous boat eats trash and is powered by 100% #cleanenergy - cleaning up over 50,000 kg of debris a day.
Time to clean up our mess, end #plasticpollution, and #ActOnClimate.
#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #waste #useless #buyless
