Did something happen with it recently? I ask because of this post/meme: https://lemmy.ca/post/69868615

View it here: https://weather.gc.ca/?layers=lightning

The alert:

9:57 PM PDT Saturday 22 August 2026

Impact Level: Moderate

Forecast Confidence: High

Conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms that may be capable of producing heavy rain.

When thunder roars, go indoors! Lightning kills and injures Canadians every year.

Heavy rain can cause flash flooding and significant reductions to visibility.

Severe thunderstorm watches are issued when conditions are favourable for the development of thunderstorms capable of producing damaging hail, wind or rain.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or post reports on social media using #BCStorm.

In effect for:

• Metro Vancouver - central including the City of Vancouver Burnaby and New Westminster

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50956626

Insane animation

This is my exact concern, patients will feel compelled to say they consent even if they do not, whether it is because of politeness or deferring to authority

When Rebecca Green arrived for her first appointment with a urologist, she was asked whether she consented to having the appointment transcribed by artificial intelligence (AI).

She said yes without hesitation.

"I don't want to be in her bad books or be that annoying patient who takes up more of her time," she said.

NOTE: These might not actually do anything. See here: https://lemmy.ca/post/69184349

A “anti-hail cannon” could be a Canadian first, as a Quebec apple orchard says the device could protect its crops from icy weather.

The cannon has been deployed at Verger des Bois-Francs southeast of Montreal by Maxime Brie. Hail has long been an agriculture producer nightmare as it can bring significant crop damage.

Anti-hail cannons aren’t a new invention for farming, having originated in Europe but are now manufactured in various countries such as New Zealand and Germany.

The Spanish-made one used by Brie is one that he claims has never been used in Canada before. The device cost them $160,000.

They work by causing controlled explosions near the base that then blast shockwaves into the air, which turn hail into harmless water.

By being connected to a weather station run by SPAG, with meteorologists monitoring conditions at all times from a facility in Brazil, it allows the device to better respond to storms.

During the same period over the previous 10 years, Louisiana reported an average of seven cases and one death. All nine cases reported this year were associated with wounds exposed to seawater, and all patients had underlying health conditions,” the LDH said.

Vibrio bacteria occur naturally in warm coastal waters and are found in higher numbers from May to October, when water temperatures are warmer, according to the LDH.

Insert joke about a few sticks of RAM

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/[email protected]/p/887755/palantir-registered-to-lobby-b-c-health-authorities

The Canadian arm of controversial U.S. data mining company Palantir was until recently registered to lobby B.C. health authorities.

B.C's lobbying registry, and the IJF's lobbying database show Palantir Technologies Canada Inc. was registered as a lobbyist in B.C., seeking contact with provincial and regional health authorities, Ministry of Health and B.C. Hydro. The registrations have been active on and off since 2021, with the latest ending in June.

For example, if you open this page, it will look like you can edit the title and sidebar, and even add/remove mods: https://photon.lemmy.ca/c/onguardforthee/settings

It doesn't actually work, and nothing will happen when you press save.

I noticed it just now while using the UI to add some new mods to a community.

Either Claude Opus 5 just leaked a trove of private 2024–2025 chat logs from Anthropic employees (& general public) asking the AI to edit their personal letters, or it’s generating one hell of a hallucination. It’s almost certainly the latter. But read the examples and you might start second-guessing.

It leaves you wondering what exactly is going on with Claude Opus 5—and whether we’re looking at a hallucination, or a model trained on its own creator’s internal data.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/49563489

I didn't know this was happening, oops

When the evacuated B.C. community of Boston Bar was ordered out Thursday due to the Brunswick Complex wildfire, officials shut the water off to protect critical infrastructure and prioritize firefighting efforts.

That night, someone turned the water back on, according to the Fraser Valley Regional District.

“Unfortunately, when they did so, they did it incorrectly and they caused some damage to the infrastructure,” said district chair Patricia Ross.

The game is described as:

Find the Canadian city.

A green dot appears somewhere in Canada (10 provinces).

Guess the nearest city or town and earn points based on how close you are.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40526401

More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profit

nice!

Police in southwestern Colorado say a man from British Columbia [Canada] has died after the helicopter he was piloting crashed on Sunday.

The body of 56-year-old Nicholas Dale of Sooke, on southern Vancouver Island, was pulled from his helicopter that went down in the Silver Jack Reservoir, in a remote area southwest of Aspen, Co., according to Adam Murdie with the Gunnison County Sheriff's Office.

Murdie says Dale had been helping firefighters with the Gold Mountain Fire, which has grown to about 148 square kilometres. Dale was the only one in the helicopter at the time.

The global relevance of this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/republicans-canada-sanctions-wildfire-smoke

Republicans threaten Canada with sanctions over drifting wildfire smoke

Fires are also blazing across the US and the Trump administration has repealed several climate protections

Feel free to use this space to organize any designs that you want to do :)

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15132563

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Their 'Quarter Life' series, which this article is a part of, is a good fit for this community IMO: https://theconversation.com/topics/quarter-life-117947

An excerpt from the article:

By a certain age, the story goes, you should have a few things locked down: a successful career, a loving partner, a couple of children running around in the house that you’ve purchased.

If you miss these markers, dread tends to set in. You may feel everyone else is moving forward, and that somehow you’ve fallen behind. This is one of the most common anxieties we encounter in life. It’s also one of the most misunderstood.

As a developmental psychologist, I want to offer a more accurate and liberating account of what’s actually going on. The feeling of being behind is real. The timeline producing it, is not.

Some psychologists call this schedule we set in our minds as a society, the “social clock.” In 1965, American developmental researcher Bernice Neugarten and colleagues described these age norms as a set of shared expectations about the “right” age to finish school, marry, buy a home or start a family.

These age norms may feel like natural law. But they are not. They are cultural conventions, and like all conventions they vary from place to place and shift from one generation to the next.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40405556

I think this article and headline does a poor job of explaining the wider context around this one.

It is likely to be aimed at financial traders who want to see market-moving news fast. Trump’s social media posts often cause sudden swings in global markets, especially when he writes about trade and tariffs.

For firms, a delay of even seconds can be costly. Until now, banks and traders had to monitor the app manually. The new system will send posts directly to paying clients.