Doc filmmaker + 🏀 fanatic with an emerging focus on the juncture of energy, equality + ecology. Finished HS seconds before the ritalin revolution.
Montréal, Quebec
Joined August 2009
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Llevo más de una década intentando explicarle al pueblo hondureño de que los humanos somos mucho más talentosos y creativos con nuestras manos q con los pies. Por fin llega un líder que lo ve claro, de q el basket es objetivamente mejor q el fútbol. Manos arribaaaa!!! 🏀🏀🏀
A light reminder on the historical connection between free trade, happiness and cranberry juice that I haven’t seen elsewhere.
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In Lebanon, Israel is not even bothering to invent excuses for bombing hospitals and fire stations. There is no attempt to fabricate claims about "command and control centers". They are just openly destroying civilian infrastructure on a massive scale.
After watching all 10 films nominated for Best Picture I'm fairly certain that Zone of Interest is the only one I will still be thinking about in 10 years.
It's simultaneously the most timeless and also the most important for this moment, as Naomi excellently explains...
New piece on Zone of Interest: the speech, the lies, most of all, Glazer's harrowing warning about how genocide can become "ambient."
This is what feels most contemporary, most of this terrible moment, about Glazer’s staggering film.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Wael Dahdouh back on air. I'm out of words to describe this man.
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In two months, Israel has destroyed a greater proportion of Northern Gaza than the Allies did of Dresden and Cologne. It’s approaching Hamburg levels.
I'm on the toilet at #COP28 and I can report that someone got pee on the toilet seat.
Does that mean the wrong humans are here? That humans in general don't care about others so we're f$%@ed no matter who comes? Or that someone was in a rush and forgot to put the seat up?
I'm on the toilet at #COP28 and I can report that someone got pee on the toilet seat.
Does that mean the wrong humans are here? That humans in general don't care about others so we're f$%@ed no matter who comes? Or that someone was in a rush and forgot to put the seat up?
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A large portion of Twitter is deeply confused about civility, generosity of spirit, charity, benefit of the doubt and other antique ideas. They don’t understand how powerful they are when you need to make progress. They instead think that they are for the weak or some irrelevant anachronistic etiquette.
Not everyone deserves them…but most of us do.
But even if you LOVE FIGHTING things out, you get better fights if there are rules and referees. UFC would not exist if it were anything goes. Only lunatics would go for eye gouging and permanent disfigurement.
Civility means many things. Better fights among them. The trolls and harassment are cheating us of the conflicts we want most want to see. Think about it.
1st time in my life watching Team Canada play a world-class opponent and have the best player in the game, hands down. Thank you @shaiglalex for all the work you've put in. It's a true joy watching you play basketball. #FIBAWC
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In my latest essay I try to highlight 2 key pts on climate change:
- current climate research doesn’t expect any imminent global tipping point that will spark runaway climate change
- climate tipping elements exist, but human emissions matter much more🧵
thebreakthrough.org/journal/…
Science tells us lots about human-caused warming + what might happen if we burn ALL fossil fuels. But on selecting the best responses to the challenge, it is only a tool and not an authority unto itself.
Important piece of the puzzle by @PatrickTBrown31
thebreakthrough.org/journal/…
If Donald Trump (or other figure you find objectionable) jumped in a river and saved your nephew from drowning, would you thank him? I would. I'll also thank Doug Ford admin for putting Ontario on the path to decarbonized electrical grid for many decades to come. #NuclearEnergy
Ontario has announced it wants to add a third nuclear generating station to Bruce Power near Kincardine, which, if built, would be the first construction of a new large-scale nuclear plant construction in Canada in three decades. cbc.ca/news/canada/london/on…
I toured Bruce last year with @MadiHilly and am excited its going to be providing even more carbon-free energy, on such a small land footpring. youtu.be/DM61idKNWtg
EP asked me some questions I'd never been asked about how I came to my interest in #nuclearenergy. It ended up getting real philosophical, political and a little nutty. But mostly fun.
If @jessefreeston didn't exist we'd have to invent him. Our conversation about his nuclear journey, human flourishing and the rat park (????) was wonderful and wild.
nuclearbarbarians.substack.c…
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Everybody get ready to bookmark this! @DecoupleMedia’s @jessefreeston just dropped the definitive video riposte to the perennial question: “What about the waste?”
teapaw.org/Dr_Keefer/status/16411…
THE ULTIMATE NUCLEAR WASTE VIDEO
@jessefreeston of @DecoupleMedia is back... This time with a masterclass on Nuclear Waste.
A communications master class from a master story teller and film maker.
youtu.be/jM-b5-uD6jU
