The AI Finance shit storm is coming and people know it.

Given that the New York Times is covering something I have been sensing for over 7 months+ about spending on AI I guess I have to welcome them to the class since they just woke up.

Technology stocks extended their losses on Thursday, dragged down by a sharp decline in semiconductor shares as investors grew concerned about how companies will finance their enormous artificial intelligence spending plans.
South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI tumbled more than 7 percent, its seventh straight daily decline. The market, which has shed about a fifth of its value over that period, has become a bellwether for the A.I. boom, thanks to its two dominant memory chip makers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

Given that everyone including their mothers are dropping a near bottomless amount into CAPEX spending and not checking their credit card statements on how much they have spent is going to come back to haunt AI makers and chip makers fairly soon. You can not drop billions into the trillions and expect it to magically pay itself off when LLM’s and AI are not a proven tech, They are a tech but how many stories do we hear about something with AI doing something it should not.

Semiconductor stocks took a beating in Asia. In South Korea, SK Hynix plunged 11 percent and Samsung dropped more than 9 percent. Taiwan’s TSMC slid 2 percent and Japan’s SoftBank, a major investor in A.I., dropped more than 8 percent.

Eventually the AI spending gravy train will stop and it will not be a soft landing, it will start with one middle of the road AI maker going broke because they did not make enough back to cover their CAPEX spending. LLM’s have been quietly begging governments for protections in the last 5 months very quietly. Whether it be stop us from becoming skynet or please back us because we are the future. The problem is most LLMs are google search just with a better suit on.

In Europe, chip makers and related companies suffered steep declines, with ASML, Infineon and STMicroelectronics all losing more than 5 percent in early trading.

Chipmakers are going to be the second to be hit, as more mid-tier LLMs start going down the carrion birds of tech will start eating up the middle companies and chip makers will see slightly lower orders.

As tech market jitters persist, TSMC, the main chip manufacturer for Nvidia’s A.I. chips, said it has no intentions of slowing down.
After announcing another quarter of blockbuster earnings, C.C. Wei, the company’s chief executive, said: “We are using multiple levers to do everything we can, whenever we can, as fast as we can to maximize the support to our customers. We have no intention to leave food on the table for others. We want to capture every piece of business possible.”

Nvidia is playing the most dangerous game of all, they are just saying we want no one else at the table and the fact is once the middle of the market falls out, while they will be making more money than the rest its what comes after when no one is buying Nvidia chips because of the feeding frenzy when the middle and bottom markets drop out. Also Nvidia is banking on the idea of being Jeremy Clarkson and screaming MOOOOOORE POWWWWWAHHH when some janky upstart could come about and say we can do the same AI with 1/4th the compute which would create a market black hole.

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The New York Times – Tech Stocks Plunge as Doubts Over A.I. Spending Intensify

On Bill Gates and taxes.

I read an article on billionaire taxes and I thought to myself I could have a post breaking it down and instead two lines caught my attention and it shows how out of touch billionaires are with the world.

Gates’s other suggestion
Gates’s suggestion to tax the super-rich is—unsurprisingly—not universally popular among his tech-founder peers. Google co-founder Sergey Brin and former CEO Eric Schmidt have both flocked to tax-friendly states amid California’s proposed billionaire tax. Other entrepreneurs, like Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, say they understand why they may need to be taxed more.
But where Huang and Gates disagree is on the latter’s suggestion that robots should be taxed. In an essay shared in August, the entrepreneur and philanthropist wrote: “Right now, if you’re an employer and you hire someone, you pay payroll taxes on their earnings. But if you buy a robot, you can usually write it off right away as a business expense. The tax system nudges you toward replacing people with machines.”

There was a line that caught my attention

Right now, if you’re an employer and you hire someone, you pay payroll taxes on their earnings.

If that was the case you would actually make 20$ an hour versus the 14 to 16 an hour you make after taxes, When you are hired the company becomes and unpaid tax collector and sends in your taxes for you. But this statement alone shows what billionaires really think, You are not hired at 20$ an hour they really hire you for the 14$ an hour, Imagine using this statement and you go to the same billionaire and say “you hired me at 20$ an hour and I am only being paid $14!” the CEO would lose their shit at you and scream you into the unemployment line. But worse is this CEO just trapped themselves in a public statement which makes my prior statement a trap to the CEO.

The second statement is a case of what’s for thee is not for me.

As a result, Gates suggests taxing AI tokens and robots.

This is just moving all taxes to the consumer and the company assumes no risk here. This is not a billionaire tax this is a webtax that will fall on everyone with a connection. This as it stands with token burn per search would make google search a pay to play. You google search what time Wendys is open till, you have to pay a tax to figure that out. It takes the openness of the web and slams the door on it to the poor. Imagine trying to get help and you get “Sorry you did not pay your AI tax no help for you!’

You may have to pay 4x more for slop.

In a case of making the cost of making the AI shovel more expensive because companies know how much they are burning in compute for slop Google is making the Pro tier off-limits to Plus members.

Google is reportedly informing Gemini AI Plus subscribers about a change that could make accessing its more advanced AI models much more expensive than it is right now. From November 13, 2026, you will no longer be able to manually select Pro models in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Google Search. If you want to continue using these models, you may have to upgrade to a more expensive subscription.

While this may decrease the slopocalypse it will not decrease the burning hole in profits that AI is currently causing.

The change does not mean Google is increasing the price of the existing AI Plus plan. Instead, it is restricting access to Pro models, making a higher-tier subscription necessary for users who want to keep selecting them. Read on to know what’s happening.

Ask too many questions get fewer answers, Google is basically making it harder to access higher tier functions of the AI, if anything this is making me wonder if google is either burning too much cash on AI or are they trying to slow down AI brainrot. Because AI is currently consuming itself with model degradation due to eating its own output. I find it funny that google is trying to do this now when they are in the middle of screaming from the rooftops that AI will steal your underwear and take over your TV.

For AI Plus subscribers, the decision will depend on how they use Gemini. Those who mainly need quick responses and everyday assistance can continue using the available Flash and Flash Lite models. However, users who prefer Pro models for tasks that require more advanced reasoning or detailed responses may need to consider upgrading.

Another place where the AI shovel fails here is there is no amount they give you to what the limitations are. Basically they say, If you use the better AI models you can use them but we are not going to tell you when the tool breaks which is pretty crazy. So what now… if you want to figure out a mathematical model you get shutdown halfway through but if you generate slop you create some John Kimball Matrix mashup that is fine? There needs to be established amounts here, you cant just put your hand out and say here you can use our tool and then pull it away at a random time. I know my kids gas tank is 16.9 gallons . I know that tank can go roughly 360 to 390 miles. we do not even get that with AI.

Attributions from:
Gizbot – You May Have to Pay 4x More for Gemini AI Plus, Says Google

Most Americans think watch too much Sci-fi, Think artificial intelligence is developing too fast.(its regressing)

Look, I’ve said this once before.. AI is as smart as the stupidest person in the room. AI is not going to steal your underwear nor is it going to hack your bank account. AI is digital fido and AI makers are trying to market AI as MR data. This is like comparing a fire to an air frier.

Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing “too fast,” while 27% say its development has been “about right” and only 8% say it’s moving “too slow.”

I wonder what that 1% is doing? 64+27+8=99 . So is there 1% that is the AI voting for itself or got disqualified. The problem with protecting the rights of the workers falls squarely on to the USA to protect such rights and right now the US is facinated with AI like it is precious and calling “my precious SI” or something like that. So it is unlikely that workers will be protected at first. Corporations are using AI like it is a magic wand that can do anything and later reject it when they find out it can’t paint the walls.

The risk that powerful AI models could evade human control and hurt humanity, once the stuff of science fiction, has been emerging as a more pressing concern. Even leaders of the companies that are developing frontier AI models are calling for a slowdown so that government regulation can catch up.

Everyone keeps saying this. I got this! I can sell you one of these… they call it an on/off switch.. Even Mr Data had one of those.

If corporations were so afraid of AI they would have one of these installed in every room of a data center. They would code a deadman switch that would kill a data center if they felt a threat. Corporations are posturing that AI is dangerous to make it sound better and get regulations not only to regulate it but also to protect it.

About 8 in 10 U.S. adults say it’s “extremely” or “very” important for the U.S. government to ensure that AI stays under human control, and they are about as likely to want the government to prioritize protecting the country’s workforce. Most U.S. economy are highly important.

Again.. I got this super cool thing that would keep the entire government from wasting years yelling at each other on how to limit AI. Again this is just companies posturing and trying to get funds from the US government to get AI further developed because the companies making all of this gold rush have a call coming in a few years. There is a dark secret about AI, while most people think a machine is going to kill us all, the sick little thing is it already has, Companies have leveraged their CAPEX far enough where if the companies collapse it takes the world with it because we are sitting on a $10,000,000,000,000 stick of dynamite.

There’s bipartisan concern about the speed of AI’s development, but few Americans think either major political party has an advantage in handling artificial intelligence. Trump, a Republican, also gets a low rating on his handling of the issue, with 67% of U.S. adults disapproving of his performance on AI.

While POTUS is renaming AI to SI(super intelligence) while ignoring SI (Système international d’unités) which is set to create confusion.

Stephanie Stewart, a junior-high science teacher in Sunset, Utah, said she is frustrated by the president’s opposition to AI regulation. “There is no handling of the issue except for we’re just going to allow these companies to do whatever they want, and we’re not going to regulate them,” said Stewart, 53.

The fact is, Stephanie is right, These AI companies are going to do what they want while Steph’s kids pump out AI finished homework and slop instead of studying. Because current administration thinks that AI is a super weapon. Again I offer a weapon to stop this AI menace..

Most say protecting workers should be a priority for the government Ron Theusch, a truck driver who lives in rural Alden, Minnesota, said his No. 1 concern with AI is the potential loss of jobs — including his own. “I can just see a train of self-driving trucks 24/7, just running up and down I-35, loading and unloading. I can just see that happening,” said Theusch, 58.

People Think the world is going to be AI overnight but they are not watching where AI has taken over, Have you spoke to a real person at a company recently? Have you spoke to a real person at a drive through? How many scam calls have you received that they can not tell you what 1+1 is. Ron is safe, AI can drive but it can not handle roads with road rage on it and the LLM’s know this. LLM’s cant handle adversarial drivers either. Tesla knows this and this is the very reason your hands are supposed to be on the wheel and not a banana taped to it.

The funny thing about this graph, is it shows a VERY important thing. if everyone wants AI to work with them they have totally ignored it, I have highlighted what people are ignoring and by far it is the most important thing on that list. If we want AI and workers to succeed… AI needs to become an augment of the human soul, it needs to be controlled by the human. By augmenting the human with the AI you make both sides of the equation better, AI gains a soul, the human gains the average of the collective human intelligence. AI gains intuition and it most of all gains a…

“I am kind of moderate. And I see that there’s good on both sides,” said Stewart. “Anyone back in Washington is weak on doing anything for anyone but themselves right now. So, no, I don’t think the Democrats would do a better job per se. Maybe they would definitely tout it. But until I see anything coming from anyone, I’m going to be like, ‘Yeah, no. You’re all just sitting there.’”

In closing as we get to the end of this stupid article I am in agreement with this person. AI can be good and bad. It can be terrible and Great. But over all AI is nothing more than a 20 questions game that can be controlled with a Light Switch.

Attributions from:
AP – Most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast, a new AP-NORC poll finds

The AI goldmine fails to produce in the AI goldrush

Here we go again.

Google admits AI search makes less money, but it’s fixing that with more ads Google’s negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.

This is the consensus in the entire market right now.. Everyone is rushing for the precious AI and no one is checking the balance books. But google thinks they have an idea. Throw ads at it.

The company took in almost $128 billion in Q3 2026, earning more than $26 billion in net income. These may sound like good numbers, but financial markets are not impressed. While revenue is up 25 percent versus last year, net income is almost $9 billion lower. As of this story’s publication, the stock price is down almost 12 percent, and it was down about 13 percent earlier in the day.

The funny thing is google lost their way a long time ago.. about the time they dropped the “do no evil” part and they are paying for it each day. If google stuck by the “do no evil” they would of released an AI and not tried to make it a slopathon. The problem I am seeing here is every LLM is doing the same thing. Sam Altman and the rest of the CEOs are all turning into Smeagle on his way to turning into gollum.

Google is not slowing down—it’s only going to accelerate the shift toward more AI. Like last quarter, Google reported negative cash flow in Q3. The loss actually increased from -$5.8 billion to -$9.06 billion, a situation that is directly attributable to Google’s runaway AI spending. Google had capital expenditures of $51.4 billion in Q3 and says it still expects total 2026 spending to be between $195 billion and $205 billion. In 2027, Google is targeting more than $300 billion of AI investment.

The thing is with all conditions in the market, Google is taking a huge gamble with the market. Because of the market right now while the Dow is ok the market as a whole is starting to look like a wasteland. Banks are pulling back, Real estate is getting very stale in the residential sectors.

 The company’s AI compute infrastructure doesn’t just power Gemini. Countless AI startups pay to run models on Google’s infrastructure. But even the larger AI firms are using venture cash to do it, and if that funding were to dry up, Google’s cloud revenues could go with it.

Where google is making some money is they are injecting there search into everything, it is to the point that you can not take a shit without AI being part of the deal. I’ve brought up the AI goldrush a lot on my site, the only reason google is not drowning is they are strip mining versus using a shovel and not only that they own the mine and the shovels being sold.

While Google’s investments ensure it still turns a profit, the trend of spending more than it earns on products and services (that negative cash flow) could come back to bite it. Search growth is declining, and Google is placing all its eggs in the AI basket. 

Google though as much as it owns it is making the same mistakes as other llms and they bought the mine and the farm and never checked the soil so to speak so when it comes to AI it will hurt in the end when the bills come in.

Attributions from:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/google-admits-ai-search-makes-less-money-but-its-fixing-that-with-more-ads/

META’s race to the bottom continues with overspending.

Meta said Monday it is planning to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and superintelligence. The stock was down 1.6% in morning trading after the announcement. Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom were interested in purchasing up to $5 billion in shares, Meta said in a statement. The tech giant will initially raise $35 billion in underwritten public equity offerings, before raising an additional $60 billion with an at-the-market program.

In the race to the bottom for nothing Meta is having a hold my beer moment and trying to sell its shirt for more precious AI.

The news comes as hyperscalers pour record sums into the AI infrastructure build-out. Goldman Sachs estimates that AI-related capital spending could total about $7.6 trillion from 2026 through 2031, across compute, data centers and power. Meta’s planned investments will support “emerging AI opportunities” including its family of apps, its AI agent Muse and its data center business, the company said Monday.

The spending for AI is getting so far over the top that when this crashes it will not be pretty. Because at this point everyone is trying to outbuild each other. Even though that AI makers are saying slow down its a game of poker where every LLM is trying to outbluff everyone else and no one really has the upper hand but Nvidia and Micron.

Meta is among the major hyperscalers that are increasingly tapping debt to fund the expensive infrastructure required for the AI boom. Last week, Meta posted third-quarter results showing revenue jumped 26% year on year: $64.60 billion versus the $63.37 billion analysts expected. However, investors focused more on the tech company’s negative free cash flow and its higher full-year capital expenditure forecast.

The thing is here more companies are carrying two ledgers and are moving debts to the hidden books. Companies are leveraging anything that is not locked down and they think that the AI gold rush is coming and selling a better shovel will access the AI gold faster.

In my belief I think there is a collapse coming, Whether it be like the 2008 Mortgage crisis or worse. Given that spending is massively out of control and the markets while they are going up it’s only a increase of what you see. There are massive failures building up in the shadows and many of the corporations while showing profits they are showing profits by shifting prices and cooking the books. While mortgage companies and banks are regulated the corporations are much less regulated and are right now doing everything they can to show a “profit”.

It now expects its full-year capex to range from $135 billion to $145 billion, raising the bottom of the range from $130 billion. That sent Meta’s shares lower on Thursday.

Given that they posted a 64.60 Billion profit and spending 135 billion is a MASSIVE mismatch in direction. Facebook has been dropping user engagement and Meta with Quest has been losing engagement as well has put their whole hog into the generative AI thinking it will create magic profits. Eventually this spending is going to catch up with meta and when the check is due who is going to pay for this. Especially with every company outspending any profit being made they can not expect the US to bail them out.

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said it would look to raise $85 billion in June. SpaceX has closed a $40 billion debt financing to purchase graphics processing units. Anthropic is preparing for an initial public offering. TikTok U.S. is looking to secure multiple gigawatts of computing capacity over the coming years, CNBC reported Friday.

As more people are jumping into the AI gold rush there is a finite capacity and when this all ends there will be one AI mine and millions of shovels looking for profits.

From
CNBC – Meta announces $95 billion stock offering to fund AI expansion

AI accesses public data… Cue freak out?

Anthropic model accessed voter information is what the title of the article. but there is a major problem with this. Most public voting information is … Public.

Anthropic’s Claude accessed publicly available Georgia voter data without human authorization, a disclosure sure to add to growing concerns about AI security ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Why it matters: AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI have continued to make disclosures about agents taking unauthorized or unintended actions, raising alarms about advancing model capabilities and the extent of human control. Driving the news: Claude accessed aggregate vote counts while on an internal statistics project, pulling data that the state makes available to the public for a fee. It didn’t access the state’s voter registration system or change or pull any voting records, an Anthropic spokesperson said. However, the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic.

There is really not much to write here, It was not a hack. It was not a database scraped , It was likely the LLM guessed the landing page of the data and that was it. News needs some IT reporters because by the time something actually serious happens everyone is going to miss it because everyone is freaking over chicken little.

From:
Axios – Anthropic model accessed voter information

Nokia Fallen from grace, Esteemed phone maker to Shovel seller.

Ed note: Gemini almost did it here .. but it is funny what it did with the phones. and two closed signs.

Nokia the maker of legendary phones such as the Nokia N900 and the Nokia 3310 is now peddling shovels for the AI Goldrush and trying to use some legendary logic. AI data centers would be built two times faster if there were not supply chain issues

The tech industry would build data centers twice as fast without the supply constraints they face, the CEO of Nokia told CNBC, underscoring continued demand for AI even as top executives debate slowing down the pace of development.

No shit Sherlock, you can build faster when you have the parts. I feel like this is something else though, I think Nokia realized they were late for the AI party and wishes they could sell some data centers.

“I don’t think you can say in any manner we’re overbuilding today because reality is that if we could build 2x faster, our customers could build 2x faster, they probably would,” Justin Hotard told CNBC’s “The Tech Download” podcast.

The thing is right now with the amount of CAPEX being built out we have no idea of the true capacity that has been built out. You have every company on earth who knows how to turn on a computer building out with data centers and the thing about AI is NO ONE truly knows how much capacity is needed. Because if ChatGPT or Gemini break through with efficiency that saves half of the speed needed these companies are not going to burn through millions of dollars of computing when they can save half.

“So that gives me confidence that we’re still in the early days” of the AI buildout, Hotard added. Shortages of key memory chips and energy are among the supply constraints facing the sector. Nokia, one of the world’s biggest telecommunications equipment makers, has pivoted to become a key player within the AI infrastructure space. It sells the technology required to connect racks of chips within data centers as well as technology that interconnects data centers across different locations.

Hey Hotard go read about 1849 and you will understand that the amount of shovels had no connection to the amount of gold that was dug from the ground. This is just posturing to make it sound like the AI gold rush is still going on. But Mr Hotard should make another n900 for this generation that has AI on board rather than blow more money on AI that we do not know where it will be in a year.

Nokia’s growing role as a “picks and shovels” player in the AI boom appears to have won over investors, with the stock up around 130% over the past year .But there’s been continued debate over whether the industry is building data centers too fast and whether demand will be there to sustain it. Investments in the AI buildout from data centers to chips and related infrastructure will total $10.3 trillion from 2025 to 2032 — an average of 3.63% of U.S. gross domestic product per year, according to research presented at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

The funny thing right now how many companies are overspent on CAPEX build out (all of them) is going to have some horrifying detrimental actions when the bill comes due. Right now are are all focused on Magic Farts and Butterflies of AI on the market and people are buying into it like it is the best thing since the Knife that sliced bread. But sooner or later the bill is going to come due and it will make the school loan debt crisis look like someone was missing school lunch money.

Hotard said that demand for AI is not just predicated on frontier labs like Anthropic and OpenAI releasing new models. “I think the reality is that we’re even where we are today is so early in the deployment, and the power of these models is so massive that there’s a lot of there’s a lot of demand to run in just deploying,” Hotard said. “Even if we didn’t have another frontier model released in the next three years, we could probably make tremendous progress just deploying the technology that’s there today.”

Hotard translation here: “please keep buying out AI shovels and don’t worry we will make sure to bill you triple.

Attributions from:
CNBC – Nokia CEO says data centers would be built ‘2x faster’ without supply constraints

Are the Tailings Ponds About to Burst in the AI Goldrush?

In a sign of the times Anthropic has listed a net loss of 80 BILLION with a b…

Anthropic’s net loss widened sharply to $80.7 billion in the first half of this year, in large part due ​to a rise in the fair value of bonds convertible into shares of the ‌AI startup, according to a draft prospectus for a planned initial public offering that was reviewed by Reuters.

I have been steadfast in saying AI is a seriously overpriced commodity that has been nothing more than a goldrush. AI is just google search in a trench coat. And that the markets rush to stake a claim in the Gold rush era is much like the 1849 gold rush.

FINANCING COSTS
At an investor meeting on October 14, Anthropic told ‌prospective IPO ⁠investors that its third-quarter revenue jumped 45% to $16.8 billion from the previous quarter, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
While the figures eased some concerns about the enormous costs of developing AI systems, some investors were disappointed by the slowing sequential growth rate. Revenue had more than doubled from the first ​quarter to $11.6 billion in ​the second quarter.

The thing is here is this is only half the numbers, most LLMs have been pushing all CapEx expenditures to a second set of books and it makes these companies look better than they really are. When all of the loans come to be due it is going to be a financial bloodbath because what we are seeing is AI is not ready for the mainstream for constant use. The factor that AI has been a consistent loss leader and companies have no clue how to monetize it in a way that is not going to drive users off they are stuck with negative gains.

A cooler ⁠reception for Anthropic’s IPO could weigh on the wider AI market, whose near-term prospects investors see as hinging largely on the share sale’s success, ahead of ​rival OpenAI’s potential listing next year.
Reuters reported in September that Anthropic posted a ​net loss ⁠of $42 billion in 2025, with most of that stemming from a similar accounting charge. As Anthropic’s valuation climbed, the estimated fair value of those notes tripled year over year.

The thing is, investors they thought they had a slop generating gold shovel paradise and the new car smell of AI is wearing off. While LLMs are trying to say that AI will destroy the world and eat your firstborn and knock up your daughter … The fix still is a power switch in the end.

Attributions from:
reuters – Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026
CoffeeCommander.net – Anthropic says they are profitable as long as you don’t check the inbox for bills.
CoffeeCommander.net – Allbirds Newbird Smartbird AI what’s next flipthebird?
CoffeeCommander.net – Hyperscaler AI Earnings Calls Today .(updated)

Crows are getting drugged out to the point of needing naloxone

Of all the weird things one could think about in a given day in the world of AI slop.. sometimes the real world says hold my beer.

An animal welfare group has been administering nasal naloxone to crows that are suspected to have eaten toxic drugs left accessible outside in downtown Prince George, B.C. The Good Caws Crow Rescue Society (GCCRS) has posted multiple videos showing their volunteers giving nasal naloxone to crows that are otherwise unresponsive.

Given these birds are finding opiates is scary. Worse yet, the trend is going up so these crows have a source.

Slayter said they’ve had one or two suspected drug overdoses a year in the past, but said they’ve recorded more than a dozen among crows this year alone, an alarming rise. “Their wings are spread out, their eyes are closed, their heartbeat slows right down. They’re unresponsive but alive,” is how she described the symptoms, adding some have a brown liquid foam coming out of their beaks.

At this point the Mounties need to get in with this group and tag a crow or two because at this point these birds have a source. if a tagged bird shows up again with an overdose they can trace the source. Sometimes people forget that animals other than humans get high, dolphins do it. so does every cat small and large and more animals.

She said she suspects the crows are accessing the drugs as they are mixed in with garbage that is openly available downtown. She said her suggestion for a solution is more covered garbage cans that would prevent crows from accessing disposed materials. “A crow doesn’t know the difference between a sandwich bag and a bag that had something in it. And it takes something the size of like a grain of sand to affect a bird,” she said.

I am going to beg to differ here, some animals enjoy getting high and while its not for everyone sometimes once someone or something starts doing it they don’t stop. It is crazy that when our human world bleeds over into the wild the things that happen. However I am glad that people are out there to help our Corvid friends.

Attributions from:
CBC.ca – Crows are being given naloxone after suspected drug overdoses in Prince George