Brian Owens
@scibri.com
Science journalist and leatherworker.
Reporter for @chco-tv.bsky.social
Author of Lyme Disease in Canada
New Brunswick 🇨🇦
www.scibri.com
Reporter for @chco-tv.bsky.social
Author of Lyme Disease in Canada
New Brunswick 🇨🇦
www.scibri.com
It's my birthday youtube.com/watch?v=h_TF...
Viking Birthday Dirge
YouTube video by CellistWithoutACello
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September 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
It's my birthday youtube.com/watch?v=h_TF...
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Gotta say, I couldn't agree more with Lewis on this. This message is needed now more than ever.
NDP's Avi Lewis says Carney is selling Canadian assets to 'the captains of Wall Street' | CBC Radio
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his Investment Summit in Toronto will help diversify the economy, but NDP Leader Avi Lewis says it will only make Canada more beholden to wealthy American corporations.
www.cbc.ca
September 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Gotta say, I couldn't agree more with Lewis on this. This message is needed now more than ever.
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Trump's cuts and political interference at NIH could be "the end of federal health research as we know it". My story for @bmj.com 🧪
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Trump’s “dismantling” of NIH research continues apace
The premier health research funding agency in the US has had a tumultuous time since Donald Trump’s presidential return, and things are only going from bad to worse, reports Brian Owens
When Donald T...
www.bmj.com
September 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Trump's cuts and political interference at NIH could be "the end of federal health research as we know it". My story for @bmj.com 🧪
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Trump's cuts and political interference at NIH could be "the end of federal health research as we know it". My story for @bmj.com 🧪
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Trump’s “dismantling” of NIH research continues apace
The premier health research funding agency in the US has had a tumultuous time since Donald Trump’s presidential return, and things are only going from bad to worse, reports Brian Owens
When Donald T...
www.bmj.com
September 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Trump's cuts and political interference at NIH could be "the end of federal health research as we know it". My story for @bmj.com 🧪
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Yes, there is indeed a problem, and a part of it is the astonishing anthropomorphization on display here. You don't give an AI "moral instructions". They don't "cheat". They don't "know" what they're doing, or "rationalize" it.
In my latest op-ed for TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety.
September 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Yes, there is indeed a problem, and a part of it is the astonishing anthropomorphization on display here. You don't give an AI "moral instructions". They don't "cheat". They don't "know" what they're doing, or "rationalize" it.
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Canadian Army restructures divisions around major conflict, territorial defence
Canadian Army restructures divisions around major conflict, territorial defence
The Canadian Army is undergoing its largest reorganization in decades as it transitions away from regional command structures toward duty-specific divisions dedicated to future conflict operations at home and abroad.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 10, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Canadian Army restructures divisions around major conflict, territorial defence
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AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it
Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development?
AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development?
AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
September 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it
Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development?
AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development?
AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
Taking the interior design of our new house seriously.
My office is going to be a room I actually want to spend time in.
My office is going to be a room I actually want to spend time in.
What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.
September 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Taking the interior design of our new house seriously.
My office is going to be a room I actually want to spend time in.
My office is going to be a room I actually want to spend time in.
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Observation: The powers that be want us to feel deep fear about misaligned artificial superintelligence, something that may exist at some point, but currently does not.
Those same powers do not want us to feel deep fear about climate breakdown, something that exists now.
Those same powers do not want us to feel deep fear about climate breakdown, something that exists now.
September 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Observation: The powers that be want us to feel deep fear about misaligned artificial superintelligence, something that may exist at some point, but currently does not.
Those same powers do not want us to feel deep fear about climate breakdown, something that exists now.
Those same powers do not want us to feel deep fear about climate breakdown, something that exists now.
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Is #ICanHasPDF still a thing? If so, anyone have access to this one: 🧪https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389934126001814
Is the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) really results-based? Considerations to ensure the effectiveness of the payments
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) is a newly established financing instrument. With projected annual disbursements of USD 3–4 billion, it r…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Is #ICanHasPDF still a thing? If so, anyone have access to this one: 🧪https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389934126001814
Enlisted a gang of our kid's teenage friends to demo our old garage. They're playing the work song 16 Tons on the Bluetooth speaker.
September 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Enlisted a gang of our kid's teenage friends to demo our old garage. They're playing the work song 16 Tons on the Bluetooth speaker.
An old Quebecois biker dude just told me how to get a "service dog" license off Amazon so that I could bring Wenlock into the pub.
They'd never suspect a thing.
They'd never suspect a thing.
September 5, 2026 at 10:36 PM
An old Quebecois biker dude just told me how to get a "service dog" license off Amazon so that I could bring Wenlock into the pub.
They'd never suspect a thing.
They'd never suspect a thing.
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this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine
‘DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 2’ isn’t fully dead yet.
• Script is complete
• Hasbro remains committed
• A new studio partner is being sought after Paramount passed for financial reasons
#DungeonsAndDragons #Hasbro
• Script is complete
• Hasbro remains committed
• A new studio partner is being sought after Paramount passed for financial reasons
#DungeonsAndDragons #Hasbro
September 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine
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New investigation from me. The 23 websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
New investigation from me. The 23 websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
Adventures in moving: taste the bottle of random home made blueberry wine you were given 13 years ago at a housewarming party.
September 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Adventures in moving: taste the bottle of random home made blueberry wine you were given 13 years ago at a housewarming party.
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The Jays are once again restored to "how about 'em" status
September 3, 2026 at 8:52 PM
The Jays are once again restored to "how about 'em" status
September 3, 2026 at 10:26 PM