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"Oil at $143/bbl is... where economic activity contracts not by choice but by necessity. The fertilizer window for Northern Hemisphere planting has closed — 2026 harvest yields will be materially lower regardless of when the strait reopens. Financial markets have repriced sovereign debt across the Gulf and emerging markets. Multiple central banks have been forced into emergency rate decisions. Food inflation is now a certainty for late 2026."
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Canada is right next to an economy that is DESPERATELY searching for more electricity, electricity is spiking in price, but Canada __ isnt __ building solar for EXPORT?
CANADA IS IMPORTING?
FROM THE US?THIS IS TOO STUPID TO BELIEVE
CARNEY IS A FOOL
Canada should be building billions in solar power to export to rhe united states
Idiots in Ottawa
We have to bring pressure
Carney is missing the point
Is Carney a trick of the billionaire bankers?
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"Oil at $143/bbl is... where economic activity contracts not by choice but by necessity. The fertilizer window for Northern Hemisphere planting has closed — 2026 harvest yields will be materially lower regardless of when the strait reopens. Financial markets have repriced sovereign debt across the Gulf and emerging markets. Multiple central banks have been forced into emergency rate decisions. Food inflation is now a certainty for late 2026."
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"Oil at $143/bbl is... where economic activity contracts not by choice but by necessity. The fertilizer window for Northern Hemisphere planting has closed — 2026 harvest yields will be materially lower regardless of when the strait reopens. Financial markets have repriced sovereign debt across the Gulf and emerging markets. Multiple central banks have been forced into emergency rate decisions. Food inflation is now a certainty for late 2026."
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"Oil at $143/bbl is... where economic activity contracts not by choice but by necessity. The fertilizer window for Northern Hemisphere planting has closed — 2026 harvest yields will be materially lower regardless of when the strait reopens. Financial markets have repriced sovereign debt across the Gulf and emerging markets. Multiple central banks have been forced into emergency rate decisions. Food inflation is now a certainty for late 2026."
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"Oil at $143/bbl is... where economic activity contracts not by choice but by necessity. The fertilizer window for Northern Hemisphere planting has closed — 2026 harvest yields will be materially lower regardless of when the strait reopens. Financial markets have repriced sovereign debt across the Gulf and emerging markets. Multiple central banks have been forced into emergency rate decisions. Food inflation is now a certainty for late 2026."
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If you like the cartoon ☝️ there are also some low barrier ways to support Canada Posties and their union:
https://www.cupw.ca/en/campaign/resources/take-action-stop-attack-canada-post
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Every time I'm confronted with some version of AI-is-inevtiable-here-to-stay-not-going-away talk, I like to remind myself of this helpful wikipedia page:
"List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk
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"MUNFA Raising Concerns About Cuts to Mathematics Department Faculty Positions"
https://vocm.com/2026/03/12/munfa-mathematics-department-cuts/
#munfa
#MUN
#newfoundland
#labrador
#postsecondary
#university
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"MUN hires VP without community consultation"
https://www.fundmun.ca/news/mun-hires-vp-without-community-consultation
#munfa
#MUN
#newfoundland
#labrador
#postsecondary
#university
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5/x Meanwhile, Memorial University's senior administration continues to actively undermine the governance structure of the university by finding ways to route around Senate (the body with decision making power on academic matters) through the use of a private consultant.
Details here: https://munfa.ca/administrations-spending-priorities-and-questions-about-shared-governance-at-memorial/
#munfa
#MUN
#newfoundland
#labrador
#postsecondary
#university
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4/x Fund the Freedom to Learn
"A plaque in the atrium of the Arts and Administration building on MUN’s St. John’s campus reminds us that our university was created as a living tribute to the enormous sacrifices made by the people of Newfoundland and Labrador on the battlefields of Europe: “In the freedom of learning their cause and sacrifice might not be forgotten.”
This legacy is a moving testament to the desire of the people of this province to build something of beauty and meaning that helps us all live better together now and in the future of this place."
https://themuse.ca/letter-fund-the-freedom-to-learn/
#munfa
#MUN
#newfoundland
#labrador
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We knew enrolments would drop if tuition were raised. Data were released today during an employee townhall.
Guess what? We were right (shocker).
See here (2021): https://www.caut.ca/bulletin/news-munfa-fighting-a-doubling-of-tuition-fees-and-pse-cuts-in-newfoundland-and-labrador/
And here for today's data: https://mun.ca/evolve/media/production/memorial/administrative/evolve/Employee-Town-Hall-March-2026-(002).pdf
#munfa #MUN #newfoundland #labrador #postsecondary #university #canada
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2/x The cuts at our university are happening despite the university repeatedly showing that for every $1 of public money put into it, $2 - 4 come out into the broader economy. This tells us that the arguments for cuts are based on 'something' other than evidence.
#munfa #MUN #newfoundland #labrador #postsecondary #university #canada
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1/x For more than a decade, our provincial government has been defunding our university. Now, contract faculty positions are being cut, class sizes are increasing, while students' tuition has increased 2x-4x over the last 2-3 years. Literally, paying more to get less... #munfa #MUN #newfoundland #labrador #postsecondary #university #canada
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"As fires raged through Conception Bay North this summer, destroying over 200 structures, many evacuees faced their worst fear when the primary escape – Route 70 – was blocked.
Similarly when it comes to NL’s economic and climate emergency, our collective road to safety is being blocked by oil lobbyists in concert with the provincial government.
This was on display when Prime Minister Mark Carney visited our province on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025 to meet with Premier John Hogan."
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/opinion-oil-blocks-our-fire-exit
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1/n Given my broader research interests and the non-consensual inclusion of my work into AI data training sets, I figure I have some license to play around with these tools to get a sense of what they do. So I decided to experiment with what is sometimes called ‘local AI’...
Read more: https://joshlepawsky.site/experiments-with-local-ai/
Image: Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org
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2/n From their earliest days these terms were at least partially about marketing rather than strictly technical ideas (Hao 2025, 90) [...] There have been previous AI booms and busts. Historian Colin Garvey (2018) describes these previous cycles as “broken promises and empty threats”.
https://joshlepawsky.site/experiments-with-local-ai/
Image from: from Garvey, Colin. 2018. “Broken Promises and Empty Threats: The Evolution of AI in the USA, 1956-1996.” Technology’s Stories, ahead of print, March 16. https://doi.org/10.15763/jou.ts.2018.03.16.02
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3/n Spoiler alert: the models I experimented with failed spectacularly. But, the results were surprising and fascinating — not due to the failures themselves but how the different models I used failed.
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"Type “AI images” into your search engine and you will notice a pattern. Go on, give it a go!
The result is striking, and it’s the same on photo libraries and content platforms. In fact, the lack of variety, and the inaccuracy is almost inescapable. The predominance of sci-fi inspired and anthropomorphised images, and the lack of readily accessible alternative images or ideas, make it hard to communicate accurately about AI."
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Nafus, Dawn. 2026. The Cost of Staying with the Trouble: What Happens When AI Lives Rent-Free in Our Heads. Society Social Studies of Science.
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Nafus, Dawn. 2026. The Cost of Staying with the Trouble: What Happens When AI Lives Rent-Free in Our Heads. Society Social Studies of Science.
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Nafus, Dawn. 2026. The Cost of Staying with the Trouble: What Happens When AI Lives Rent-Free in Our Heads. Society Social Studies of Science.
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Nafus, Dawn. 2026. The Cost of Staying with the Trouble: What Happens When AI Lives Rent-Free in Our Heads. Society Social Studies of Science.
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Nafus, Dawn. 2026. The Cost of Staying with the Trouble: What Happens When AI Lives Rent-Free in Our Heads. Society Social Studies of Science.
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Network, Patchwork, Technate: geographical imaginations of the 'tech right' https://electronicplanet.xyz/2025/05/02/network-patchwork-technate-geographical-imaginations-of-the-tech-right/ #ElonMusk, #FarRight, #NetworkState, #Politics, #TechRight
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"If your experience of computing has been one of serial upgrades, with little thought to the source or destination of the device, it may be hard to appreciate the breadth of opportunity that the same set of components can present to people living in different economic contexts. Taken further, an anthropological approach to design helps us see that belief systems less centered on the Western individual embrace the notion of afterlives in ways that are far more common in daily life."
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Two (2!) full-time paid research jobs: "... experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positions with a Nation, band, or non-governmental organization"
Details here: https://civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/18/position-research-associate-in-indigenous-approaches-to-quantitative-research/
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Maybe of interest to @Aepasek ?
A Recipe for finding and mapping data centres https://electronicplanet.xyz/2026/01/21/a-recipe-for-finding-and-mapping-data-centres/ #DataCenters, #Environment, #Infrastructure, #Mapping, #Maps, #OSINT, #Point-and-grunt-computing, #SatelliteImagery, #Sustainability, #Tech, #Technology