Mike Csees @mikecsees@qoto.org

Last year, Pakistan installed an incredible 22GW of solar—more than Canada has ever built! Pakistan initially committed to slash emissions 20% by 2030. But in 2021, it upped that commitment to 50%, as it's a win-win: switching to clean energy addresses poverty too. Read more:

Break the climate silence!

Truly my greatest professional joy is that, not only did we get to build a tool to help people stop AI bots from scraping up their work without consent, I was able to have our in-house artist create a SLOP sign to mark the spot where the bots expire.

If you are a non-profit or open source project that does good internet stuff, we’ll protect you for free. If not, then you can pay us money and we will hook you up. Either way, good tools to put you in control over the bots. https://www.fastly.com/blog/take-back-control-make-ai-bots-play-by-your-rules

“To the Canadian health-care professionals practising in the U.S., let me say this. If you’ve been thinking about coming back to Canada, there’s never been a better time,” Carney told a morning press conference at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown.

“It’s time to come home.”

Carney rolled out a health-care plan that includes $4 billion for building and renovating hospitals and long-term care homes.

[Can I come, too?] #medicine https://nowtoronto.com/news/carney-urges-canadian-doctors-in-the-u-s-to-come-home/

As President Trump and the Justice Department shift resources away from prosecuting far-right extremism, Luke Baumgartner explores how civil rights organizations can build on the success of previous civil litigation to restrain extremist groups in the absence of criminal prosecutions. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-civil-litigation-can-hold-hate-groups-accountable

I did some digging this evening into a few of the things that have emerged to fill the #CVE gap. It was much less inspiring than I had hoped it would be

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/04-can-we-trust-cve/

Boston Globe - At a peaceful Lexington reenactment marking 250 years since the Revolution’s first battle echoes of America’s founding ideals clashed with today’s political tensions drawing parallels between Colonial resistance and modern debates over democracy. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/19/business/echoes-rebellion-tyranny-18th-century-250th-anniversary-celebrations-today/