💻 Dear marketing/web page designers.

Increasingly I've been finding myself running my searches for credible information using a popup/advertising and AI -free source, and surprisingly the cost is incredibly low--only a few minutes walk...

📚 At a library, I am not bombarded with demands for attention or required to make a purchase, instead , I am greeted with a smiling face and a cheerful, "Hello, Lovely to see you again. Welcome."

Congratulations, you're losing my attention.

#Library #Tech

⚠️ The RCMP is looking for a Quebec man wanted for a murder in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In addition to his hometown of Sherbrooke, police believe Faucher has connections in Trois-Rivieres, Montreal and Mexico.

👉 “For your safety, please do not to approach Faucher,”

#Quebec #Montreal #Mexico
#Canada #TroisRivieres

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-man-wanted-on-canada-wide-warrant-for-2023-murder-in-central-labrador/

👏 👍 Manitoba won't approve massive AI data centre proposed for south of Winnipeg: Kinew

"We've taken a look at this project. We've taken a look at AI more broadly — what's happening across North America — and these hyperscale data centres don't appear to be in the best interests of Manitobans," he told CBC Manitoba Information Radio host Marcy Markusa on Thursday.

#Manitoba #DataCentre #Canada #Tech

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ai-data-centre-manitoba-9.7223138

⚠️ Word is from Admins and Mods, Russian bot farm accounts are becoming a real problem so the advice I'm hearing is, carefully vet new accounts following you and any you might want to follow.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

edit # 2
Thanks to
@nprofile1q... for providing this resource specific to the aforementioned Russian bot farm

https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/

edit: Look below this post--I will add a couple articles about how to spot a bot account

🌞 🚲 Solar Bike Trailer (for Charging Electric Bikes)

"If wanting to do this project on the cheap and with no energy storage or any other method of charging devices other than Ebikes, this is what I recommend."

#Solar #Biking #transportation

#Ebike

https://www.instructables.com/Solar-Bike-Trailer-for-Charging-Electric-Bikes

🇨🇦 ‼️ Cohere + Palantir

Canada partners with Cohere to accelerate world-leading artificial intelligence (see 2nd link)

👉 TechCrunch has learned that Palantir is also a Cohere partner. And Cohere’s models are already in use by various unnamed Palantir customers, according to info discussed in a video posted by Palantir.

#Cdnpoli #Canada #Privacy
#Palantir #Cohere

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/cohere-is-quietly-working-with-palantir-to-deploy-its-ai-models/

https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2025/08/canada-partners-with-cohere-to-accelerate-world-leading-artificial-intelligence.html

🇨🇦 ‼️ older article but relevant.

Some of Palantir’s programs, available to hundreds of local police departments, can create expansive digital and physical portraits of individuals — phone numbers, social media accounts, social security numbers, even their travel history logged by licence plate cameras. That has created concerns about just how much information #Palantir
should be allowed to amass and disseminate.

#Canada #Cdnpoli

https://opencanada.org/palantirs-big-push-into-canada/

🇨🇦 ‼️ The #Palantir case is not unique. It is the most documented example of a pattern: a Canadian sovereign function (defence, policing, health data, potentially more) is quietly routed through a U.S. platform, under a procurement regime that does not require disclosure at the point of decision, governed by accountability statutes that are internally inconsistent, and embedded deeply enough that reversal is expensive by the time the public learns.

#Cdnpoli

https://www.b2bnn.com/2026/04/the-palantir-map-what-canada-has-actually-disclosed-and-what-it-tells-us-about-sovereignty/