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Canadian Swede. Multilateral Civil Servant. Information systems, tech ethics, data science, design research, multimodal mobility, social democracy, climate mitigation, just energy transitions, socio-techno-economic theory enthusiast. Opinions mine.

LamineYamal celebrates Barçelona’s La Liga victory.
Hyperscale HSR not genAI slop centres.
Holy shit, OpenAI are dead. Opus 4.7 blows everything out of the water. Here's exactly how to use it. If you're still using it you're already behind. Anthropic don't have OpenClaw, it's over. Most people don't know how to use ChatGPT. Wait, new benchmark, Gemini 3 Ultra Pro Max is AGI, I take it back, Anthropic is cracked, here's exactly how to use it, most people don't know how to prompt. Update: Gemini trained on the test set, it's over for Google, xAI shipped Grok 5 and it called my mum, this changes everything. Just had dinner with someone at DeepMind, can't say more, but if you're not building agents right now you'll be a barista in 18 months, most people don't know how to use agents. Forget agents, MCP is the new agents, if you're not running 47 MCP servers in prod you're unemployed and don't know it, I've been saying this for months, here's the only MCP server that matters [link to my Substack]. BREAKING Sam tweeted a court transcript, it's over, AGI achieved internally, Mira left to start something with the guy who built the burrito robot, most people don't know this, Correction: xAI is a rocket company, we are so back, if you're not vibe-coding your TODO app on a private cluster you might as well delete LinkedIn, here's exactly how to vibe-code: step one vibes, step two code, that's the alpha, most people don't know how to vibe. A guy at the gym told me Anthropic have a model called Sonnet 9 that can taste colours, Opus 4.7 deprecated, if you're still on 4.7 you're NGMI, I will not be elaborating. Prompt engineering is dead, context engineering is dead, engineering is dead, the future is sitting very still and letting the model finish. DM'd by someone whose cousin works at Meta, Llama 5 has emergent capabilities including small talk and mild contempt, Zuck is vibing, most important week in human history, again. Quick sponsor break this thread is brought to you by my $4,997 cohort From Zero to Superintelligence in 6 Weekends use code DOOMER. UPDATE I have ju…
Der Eurovision Song Contest beginnt morgen, und die Israelis sind immer noch dabei. Macht nicht mit! Boykottiert ihn! Kultur darf niemals dazu benutzt werden, Völkermord, Siedlerkolonialismus und Apartheid zu beschönigen.
Lib-Cons finally merge.
The new Liberal-Conservative Party of Canada. Neoliberalism forever.
O&G is estimated to contribute 8.8% to Saskatchewan's $83.6B GDP, around $9.5B.
CRD Daily Mode Shares. Cars dominate.
Brian Topp on Avi Lewis in the Globe: "His policy priorities are clear. Out with Canada’s electoral system – proportional representation will now be the NDP’s only demand should Canadians give the party the balance of power in Parliament. Out with Canada’s resource economy – hitting the brakes on Canada’s jobs engine in favour of clean and green."
Stop crying your heart out banner taunts Vinicius in 2025.
Vinicius the legend
The spiral of climate collapse.
Per capita carbon emissions, cumulative, 1850-2021.
Canada's banks and fossil fuels.
Canada's economy and oil and gas.
Canadian banks are the world worst per capita investors in extinctionism.
As I’ve said a number of times on the UK media today following the arrest of the former Prince Andrew: When allegations involve the State as a victim, the State moves, rightly, at pace When allegations involve women as victims, the State barely moves The US, where the Epstein Files originated, hasn’t moved at all This tells you everything you need to know about power and how it operates - Nazir Afzal
Modal share of commuters, global comparison.
NYC voter share by commute type.
More broadly, the country has other far more urgent areas in need of investment. Top of mind is closing the family doctor shortage, providing clean drinking water to all Indigenous communities, delivering desperately needed affordable housing, and increased spending on national defence. These are as much nation-building projects as the proposed high-speed rail line. Even within the transportation sector, there are more impactful ways to invest $90-billion. The most urgent transportation problem that most Canadians face is getting around their own city, on gridlocked roads and underfunded urban transit systems. While initial forecasts estimate high-speed rail ridership at between 10.3 to 24 million trips per year by the 2050s, Canada’s urban transit systems together logged 1.6 billion passenger trips in 2024. The economic, social and environmental benefits of a $75-billion funding injection to operate, maintain and dramatically expand Canada’s urban transit systems far outweigh the benefits of inter-city high-speed rail – and would leave $15-billion to improve Via Rail’s unreliable train service in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor.
"A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional."
Mamdani voters mostly used public transportation.
Solar oil rig.
Tweet from Jason Hickel with the following text: The top map shows which nations are most responsible for excess emissions. The bottom map shows which nations are most impacted by it. If we are not attentive to the colonial dimensions of climate breakdown, we are missing the point.
Oil and gas are largely inconsequential to Canada’s gdp (3%) jobs and government revenue (0.7%).
Highest Rankings. Canada ranks highest in Market sophistication (8th), Human capital and research (10th) and Institutions (15th). Lowest Rankings. Canada ranks lowest in Infrastructure, Creative outputs (24th), Business sophistication (19th) and Knowledge and technology outputs (18th).
When teaching assistants represented by TSSU went on strike in 2023, SFU hired Lions Gate Risk Management Group (LGRMG), a private investigation firm, to surveil picket lines. LGRMG had previously been hired to protect the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project and surveil Indigenous land defenders at the Fairy Creek old-growth forest on Vancouver Island. SFU ended the contract shortly after PressProgress reported on it.
Car brain "logic."
No. Spray bottle.
Table showing oil and gas contributes a mere 0.7% of jobs, 0.7% of govt revenue, and only 3% of GDP.
Map graphic showing responsibility for ecological breakdown Material use in excess of sustainable fair-shares (1970-2017)
Upstream (extraction-related) oil and gas contributions to Canadian and provincial economies, 2023. Source: Statistics Canada.
Oil and gas only contributes 3% to GDP, and provides 0.7% of jobs.
Extinctionist smip repellent.
Ariel view of Valberg Station
Heat map of wealth concentration in the Nordics.
Questions: How do students feel about using a tool or 'creative collaborator' that: has been trained on other people's creative output, without permission? depends on exploitative and potentially abusive labour practices? is a massively carbon-emitting and environmentally damaging technology? is based on a belief in the power of scaling, when this creates so many basic problems? is used to put people out of a job or to deskill them, even though it can't actually do the job tasks properly? is touted as supporting people at work but is so unreliable it actually creates more work to check it? is claimed to improve efficiency but undermines people's skills and capacities? that will be pushed into schools and universities while degrading education and learning? is really a way to privatise public services like health and education? is claimed to be ethical while helping to fill the internet with slop? is supposedly on the way to becoming a genius but carries on making really dumb mistakes? is ranked as 'intelligent' using measures that are ultimately derived from eugenics? is being made 'safe' in ways that actually make it a more powerful tool for potential dictators? has as a central goal, according to its founder, American global dominance? is increasingly turning towards the military for both funding and purpose?
And after tearing up the confidence and supply agreement with the governing Liberals last fall, the New Democrats can expect a frosty welcome back from Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has already ruled out another deal.
A senior cries after being evicted by a predatory property corporation.
What is the average cash benefit (saved taxes or higher transfers)? Depending on what you make before taxes, the party platforms could impact you very differently in saved taxes or in increased cash transfers https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/platform-crunch-comparing-all-parties-tax-cut-and-cash-transfers-promises/
Competing tax reform plan. One for workers, and two for the super weathy.
70 Candidates have endorsed the Palestine Platform 64 NDP.
Influential poll projector 338Canada predicts a riding completely wrong in 2021.
Federally assisted affordable housing units
Jagmeet Singh @jagmeetsingh.ca I have been horrified by how the lives of Palestinians have been disregarded by the political establishment. When Parliament voted on our ceasefire motion - children were being pulled from rubble and entire family lines were being wiped out. In that moment, Marco Mendicino had a choice. He chose to side with Netanyahu and opposed a ceasefire. Now, Mark Carney has appointed him as his Chief of Staff - his closest advisor and in one of the most powerful positions in his government. I cannot imagine the pain and hurt this has caused so many of you. I simply want you to know that the NDP will always stand on the side of justice, peace and human rights.
Do not obey in advance.