📲 Our privacy and choice are slowly eroded by the profit-seeking technology.
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SF Gate: Google hates you. “I never expected Google Search to cease searching, and neither did my overlords at Hearst. I naively assumed that Google, for all of its amorality, still found tremendous financial value in the sharing of information, of using the internet’s unfathomable power to connect people with one another, and with one another’s work in turn. I didn’t expect it to become […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/sf-gate-google-hates-you/The Guardian: Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong?. “The mythopoeic infrastructure assembled in and around San Francisco carries risk for humanity as we know it. It justifies steering technology along a path that is, at best, indifferent to the needs, hopes and aspirations of everyday humans in a quest to deliver a future that only looks […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/the-guardian-our-tech-overlords-are-planning-for-conscious-ai-to-conquer-the-cosmos-what-could-go-wrong/
The Guardian: Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong?. “The mythopoeic infrastructure assembled in and around San Francisco carries risk f…
STAT News: MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart. “And far beyond the life sciences — in chemistry, physics, astronomy, AI, quantum computing and more — equally remarkable new discoveries, innovations, and tools are paving the way for decisive leaps. Then why are so many optimistic scientists now losing heart? Because the nation’s research enterprise is […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/30/mit-president-why-so-many-optimistic-scientists-are-losing-heart-stat-news/Inside Higher Ed: White House Aims to Establish Political Oversight of Federal Grants. “The White House is advancing a sweeping rule change that would give administration officials more power over billions of dollars in federal grants. The regulations seek to codify that Trump officials have the right to keep doing what they started last year: canceling thousands of grants that they said […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/29/inside-higher-ed-white-house-aims-to-establish-political-oversight-of-federal-grants/
Donald Trump is trying to block clean energy projects that could power millions of American homes — and Congress must stop him. The Trump administration is using the Department of Defense and federal permitting reviews to stall or block hundreds of wind energy projects across more than 30 states. These projects could produce enough electricity to power roughly 15 million homes, but Trump’s agencies are reportedly refusing to move them forward — not because the law requires it, but as an extrajudicial attack on clean energy. This political attack on renewable energy is coming at the exact moment families are being crushed by high electric bills, gas prices, and inflation. Blocking cheap wind power means more dependence on fossil fuels, higher costs for consumers, fewer good jobs, and more climate pollution. Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s clean energy blockade. Investigate the administration’s obstruction of wind projects and pass protections to ensure renewable energy projects are reviewed fairly and without political interference. Congress cannot let Trump quietly turn routine permitting reviews into a backdoor ban on wind energy. Lawmakers have the power to investigate the Department of Defense, demand answers from federal agencies, hold public hearings, and protect clean energy projects from politically motivated sabotage. Every blocked wind project means fewer jobs, a weaker grid, and more money flowing to fossil fuel corporations while working families pay higher utility bills. Communities need affordable power, cleaner air, and energy infrastructure that is built for the future — not another giveaway to Trump’s Big Oil allies. Add your name now and demand Congress stop Trump’s attack on clean energy before more projects and jobs and lost. The petition to Congress reads: "Stop Trump’s war on clean energy. Investigate the administration’s obstruction of wind power projects, protect fair permitting for renewable energy, and prevent political interference that raises costs for families, kills jobs, and worsens the climate crisis."
David Moscrop: “The debate over the future of Canada Post ultimately forces us to ask what we want public institutions to be for. A mandate to serve the collective good is not the same thing as a mandate to maximize the bottom line. The two may occasionally overlap, but they are not the same project.”
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https://thewalrus.ca/canada-post-lost-a-record-1-57-billion-in-2025-so-what/
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