Nick Tsergas
@nicktsergas
ㅤ Public-interest tech person • former Founding Editor, Canada Healthwatch ㅤ I write about science, business, and tech. nicktsergas.ca ㅤ
This is absolutely going to have an effect on AI search results and bot-summaries. Looking closely at how the page is constructed, that seems to be the point.
Join us, with @nrindernann.bsky.social, @apasek.bsky.social and more friends for a tactical dive into what went down in Canada's first datacentre battleground. Monday July 27 | 7-8pm est Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The datacentre debate is spreading across Canada. Are you a city councillor wondering what you can do to protect your community. Or maybe a very cool person who wants to stop one or more datacentres?
Word on the street is Mississauga will be the next Canadian city to move on a datacentre moratorium.
This is why a one-year pause on datacentre builds in the city of Hamilton makes sense. Without loopholes or exceptions. A snippet from my comments to #HamOnt city council earlier this week.
AI datacentre builds are being proposed all over Canada with unprecedented speed.
I wonder if GA dems will take this as a cue to stop paying for accounts on x (dot) com.
A man waits nearly a year for regulated psilocybin therapy to ease end-of-life distress and is denied. He applies for MAiD and is approved in 3 weeks. Bureaucracy moves fast when it wants to.
Paying people for plasma feels unethical. But Canada already gets ~80% of its plasma from the U.S. where the system is far more exploitative. We can't pretend there’s a standard of Canadian moral purity that we haven’t already broken. from @torontotoday.ca 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
We often treat measles immunity as a solved problem: "Childhood vaccination = lifelong protection" Might be a lazy assumption. A new Lancet study shows a slow, steady decline in measles antibody levels over the years. Does our “once in childhood is enough” thinking still fit the evidence?
Retrieved from production-like.nhsd.io/data-and-inf... @1goodtern.bsky.social
I know you don't write the headlines, André, but this one reads as quite credulous when halfway down the article, Jones says this:
omg. Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
Yep. Those ethical conflicts, they sure are underscored. (Humans don't write like that)
And how, exactly (one wonders), is a statement such as this made with this level of certitude? That whole novel pathogen concept was just lost on so many people. As science communicators, we need to do a better job of clarifying it for people. Any ideas?
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The thing I really want people to understand is that this doesn't stop at the U.S. border. 📎 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t... We're watching the public emergence of a global surveillance dragnet. And if you have a data fingerprint, you're in it. (See follow-up skeet)
fyi: x.com/Friesein/sta... There seems to be evidence of significant immune escape