Peter Janes

Ottawa agrees to cover Bay du Nord oil project's UN fees, which could hit $1 billion The Canadian government has agreed to cover fees for a proposed deepwater oil project that could come due under a United Nations convention, and officials say the tab could hit $1 billion.

Carney fans, rationalize away!

I'll get you started. *Technically* paying the $1 billion bill for a Norwegian company isn't handing them money directly, as such, per se, sensu stricto.

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Me: I'm having a problem with your website. Here's full debugging information from developer tools in three browsers, a curl request showing all headers and content, and the URLs and error text.

Them: Can you send us a screenshot?

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🧩 Puzzle #964
🤔 5 guesses
⏱️ 10s
🔗 alphaguess.com/964

Hey @cira, it looks like unauthorized parties have gotten hold of email addresses from your database. I know this because my #CIRA-specific address just received a phishing attempt. (Unless you really are setting up a WordPress site under the ind.ninja domain using live user data, in which case […]

Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rock...

I was served an ad for Starlink in the middle of this article www.propublica.org/article/faa-...

I had a decade-younger friend refer to Weird Al's "I Want A New Duck" (which parodies "I Want A New Drug" by Huey Lewis and the News) as a "deep cut", and I had to take a moment.

Semi-regular query to see if anyone else remembers CBC Vancouver's "The Dog and Trombone", written by Jurgen Gothe and Bill Phillips; and, more to the point, if they've got recordings of it, especially episode 5 featuring Hap Hafner's cousin Hugo?

#CBCRadio #JurgenGothe #TheDogAndTrombone

I had another fantastically good day making use of Christchurch's excellent cycling infrastructure. My family and I biked over 30km today, all but a few blocks were on protected bike lanes or separated shared bike/pedestrian paths! We will all sleep very very well tonight.

Kinda like an AI summary except it's all researched and assembled and double-checked by actual humans, as a gift. Weird.

@grammargirl Every item advertised by Spatula City seems to be the one on the right, so that's definitive for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVrRfiG6C3E&t=3

As it seems to be Armchair General time for Iran, here's a few simple maps so we can pretend to know what we're talking about.

First of all, did you know? Iran is big. Like, this big.

This is absolutely bizarre, I’ve never seen anything like it, and I still don’t know what to make of it.

Rich Uncle Pennywise

Two night images. On the left a small dark cloud blocks the Milky Way in a sky brightly lit by stars. On the right, clouds over a city are much brighter than the sky, which appears dark, drab, and empty of stars.

Most people in brightly lit countries probably take for granted that clouds are bright at night, but this is completely unnatural. You can see it better in this pair of photos we published in a later paper (titled "Red is the new black") […]

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Much-needed action by the IETF: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9945.html

Tl;dr: Sand has historically been thrown in the gears by disruptive assholes and the remediation process was ultra-heavyweight and slow.

Axiom: Anything public-facing requires investment in moderation guardrails and […]

Graphic shows Doug Ford smiling on the left. On the right, text explains how first-past-the-post allowed a party to win a majority with about 40% of the vote by focusing on GTA swing ridings, then cut OSAP with limited restraint and reduced scrutiny by shutting down Queen’s Park. It argues proportional representation would require real majority support before major policy changes and enable more stable long term planning.

When governments can ignore most voters and still win, they can ignore entire generations too. Students pay the price.

Proportional representation makes every vote count and every group harder to dismiss.

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:

Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

🧩 Puzzle #947
🤔 4 guesses
⏱️ 13s
🔗 alphaguess.com/947

An iridescent sci-fi spider-like ship hovering over the surface of Mars. (It's actually a Shadow vessel, from Babylon 5.)

#ForAllMankind season 5.

@sundogplanets Living the George Carlin routine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

As they say in the Star Trek writers' rooms, the tech is teched... which means the 10-minute play I've directed is going in front of real human eyes on Friday!

I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do.

So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired […]

If we want housing policy backed by a true majority of voters, our electoral system has to reflect majority will.

Electoral reform is not separate from housing reform. It shapes whether real solutions are even politically possible. 10/10

I wonder if I currently have the *longest* #11ty build out there? 25 minutes and 19 seconds!

To be fair, 24 minutes and 50 seconds of that is retrieving remote data, which unfortunately can't be sped up. From cache, though, it's a nifty 39 seconds to write 3600 files, before any significant […]

https://leavesubstack.com/ — also, don't sign up for it in the first place.

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> Geoffrey Hinton, considered the 'godfather of artificial intelligence', says that if AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could lead to human extinction. But the Nobel Prize winner has a solution: AI must foster 'maternal' instincts, empathy and […]

Impressed (commendatory) that it takes until the fifth paragraph of this article to — still indirectly — identify *which* Canadian Olympic hockey team it's about. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/hockey/canada-us-womens-hockey-olympic-gold-2026-milan-preview-9.7093743

Shocked — shocked! — that #LdnOnt councillors want to increase parking, specifically going against the city's "climate emergency" declaration. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/parking-limits-9.7088706

Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi. The transition comes at a pivotal time for the series, which has […] The post Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube appeared first on Cord Cutters News.

Iconic #scifi series #Babylon5 is slowly being uploaded to YouTube in its entirety for free.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/

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Re the #GordieHowe bridge kerfuffle, I think Bugs Bunny said it best... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqVlkHSOJg