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Image shows Canadas Brad Jacobs illegally touching the granite of the stone as Canada proceeds to win against Czechia and advance to the Olympic final.

When the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock.

For years, she has sat as a judge at the international criminal court, weighing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity; now she is on the same list as terrorists and those involved in organised crime. “It really was a moment of a bit of disbelief,” she said.

Not a ragebait post.

I started thinking why I hate AI and it's mostly:

• It is pushed down my throat very hard for what it does;
• The unauthorized use of content on the internet;
• The worsening of the environmental crisis;
• The content it generates is shit.

I am wondering do you have other arguments against it?

A groundbreaking wildlife bridge is under construction in Gloucestershire, with completion expected for 2027. The Gloucestershire Way bridge, set to be the UK's largest wildlife crossing, is part of the A417 Missing Link project, an initiative designed to build new roads while preserving the Cotswolds ' natural beauty and wildlife.

The wildlife bridge is a pivotal component of the A417 project, with an estimated cost of £460million. The wildlife corridor, which crosses the new A417 dual carriageway between Gloucester and Cirencester, will measure 37 metres in length, featuring a 27-metre stretch of grassland and a hedgerow.

The bridge will also accommodate walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

Nasrallah Abu Siyam shot dead in occupied West Bank as UN human rights office accuses Israel of war crimes

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian health ministry and a witness have said.

Raed Abu Ali, a resident of Mukhmas, said a group of settlers came to the village on Wednesday afternoon where they attacked a farmer, prompting clashes after residents intervened.

Israeli forces later arrived, and during the violence, armed settlers killed 19-year-old Nasrallah Abu Siyam and injured several others.

Abu Ali said the army shot teargas, sound grenades and live ammunition. Israel’s military acknowledged using what it called “riot dispersal methods” after receiving reports of Palestinians throwing rocks but denied that its forces fired during the clashes.

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WHILE CANADIANS WORRY about climate risk and the political direction of the United States, their retirement savings are quietly riding a very different bet. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is financing—and profiting from—Donald Trump’s renewed push to expand fossil fuels and accelerate artificial intelligence development in the US. It has partnered with private equity firms to acquire American oil and gas producers and financed AI companies like Elon Musk’s xAI.

The CPPIB is an independent investment-management organization responsible for managing the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Canada’s largest public pension. It was created by an act of Parliament, in 1997, and is accountable to Canada’s Parliament. The CPPIB’s primary responsibility is to ensure the CPP maximizes its long-term revenues with minimal risk.

The CPPIB has a policy on sustainable investing, updated in May 2025, that recognizes climate change as a serious risk and encourages adapting its investment strategy to evolving decarbonization pathways and investing “for a whole economy transition required by climate change.” However, the same policy indicates the CPPIB’s belief “that accelerating the global energy transition requires a sophisticated, long-term approach rather than blanket divestment.”

In response to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledges to fast-track major infrastructure projects, CPPIB chief executive officer John Graham stated, in September 2025, that the CPPIB was keen to invest in major projects, particularly in the energy sector. As reported by the Financial Post, Graham singled out fossil fuel pipelines, saying, “Here in Canada, we like pipelines. We like oil and gas pipelines.”

Its recent investments in the US fossil fuel and AI sectors are a growing concern to pension fund watchdogs, which argue that, at a time when the US is actively waging a trade war against Canada and destabilizing the climate, the CPPIB is providing capital to allow it to happen.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/59495292