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AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/chamath-palih…

Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role | TechCrunch
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.

"Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds"
#Canada #Emissions #Wildfires

Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds
Most of the carbon released during Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfire season came from burning soil and peat, rather than trees, according to new research from McMaster University.

Canada will join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new participant since Australia in 2015; the contest will be held in Bulgaria (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/01/canada-joins-eurovision-song-co…

Canada to ​join Eurovision song contest from 2027
Country is first to join since Australia in 2015 as event director says it ‘continues to welcome the world’

Cindy McCain urges Trump administration for more food aid to World Food Program
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5902945-wfp-cindy-mccain-trump-food-aid/

Metro Vancouver is a resource city. The mines are just somewhere else.
https://www.europesays.com/canada/151106/
VANCOUVER – The Resource Economy You Can’t See – Canadian Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events
By Stewart Muir How Metro Vancouver became the …

VANCOUVER - The Resource Economy You Can't See - Canadian Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events - Canada
How Metro Vancouver became the head office, the trading floor and the export gateway of a resource economy it has stopped recognising—and why the city’s own

Cliff Cash Comedy FTW.
▶️ MAGA can't OUT-DUMB this Comedian
#comedy

This is the One: dead center on target.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:itlxawcltyjh6mcxympjq4l4/post/3mn5vhizua22c

Shepherd (@neolithicsheep.bsky.social)
If you are not allowed access to the full range of human emotion and opportunity, if you cannot cry tears of grief without disapproval, if you cannot show tenderness without social correction, if you cannot decide you want to be a kindergarten teacher without being called a pedo, you are in chains

Imagine:
The bottom half of the world’s population has increased its wealth to 30 per cent from two per cent — a 15-fold increase.
The wealth share of the billionaire class has fallen from six per cent to 0.05 per cent
Instead of living in a culture where status depends on endless consumption, people are content with enough.
The idea sounds like science fiction.
But it is a very serious proposalput forward by French economist
Thomas Piketty and his colleague…

The Climate and Capitalism Can Be Fixed, Say These Brilliant Economists | The Tyee
Thomas Piketty and colleagues lay out a road map to reversing current dire trends.

Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-cxmt-wi…

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

In San Francisco’s A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.