Ford is using Ontario tax $s to build monuments to himself - it's quite simple really www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Ford is using Ontario tax $s to build monuments to himself - it's quite simple really www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Today we're revealing the cuts plans for our immigration system from Budget 2025. TLDR: These aren't efficiency savings they are major services cuts and cost downloads to cities poised to wreck our immigration system. @policyalternatives.ca 1/x
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
Fraser Health "says those who need overdose prevention services can use the Abbotsford Mobile Overdose Prevention Site at 1670 Riverside Road, from 12pm - 6pm, 7 days a week."
76 residents of Abbotsford died from drug policy last year.
this is abandoning people to die
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"Grammarly curated a list of real people, gave its models free rein to hallucinate plausible-sounding advice on their behalf, and put it all behind a subscription. That's a deliberate choice to monetize the identities of real people without involving them, and it sucks." @caseynewton.bsky.social
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alberta schools have been ordered to pull 160 books from school libraries.
The most ironic thing about this is that they're pulling graphic novel versions of 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, both dystopian stories about excessive government control.
an email with the header "Opt out" from me to expertoptout@superhuman.com. Body text: Hi there. No idea if I am one of your experts, but I’d rather not be. You see, I do actually edit people and I don’t need your hallucination machine ruining my bad reputation. Thanks Liz
I write emails! thanks to @caseynewton.bsky.social for embarrassing Grammarly into doing the bare fucking minimum www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
This is a push poll, by the notorious Conservative operative Nick Kouvalis, that the government has leaked to the Star
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
6/ Secretary Marco Rubio has repeatedly said no one has died as a result of cuts to foreign aid. Our reporting proves that isn’t true.
Read our full series about the fallout of dismantling USAID here: www.propublica.org/series/the-e...
The next ethics director will be VERY busy, investigating:
Was it ethical for NIH leadership to terminate studies on health disparities, including research at Duke on the health of transgender people?
Was it ethical for Bhattacharya to ban our team from using the words “racial disparities”?
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It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
Smith says she's cutting access to social support programs because she "heard that people were moving here just to be on social programs."
This sort of hearsay framing is a dangerous rhetorical device employed by populists. Consider Donald Trump. +
Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
Big scoop from @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social about Dr. Vinay Prasad leaving FDA. Again.
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
Carney cuts $192m from CBC at time when Canadian news, culture probably not important
News In Photo:
Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Front page of The Journal of AI Generated Papers
I think this journal is a great idea -- it makes it really convenient to completely avoid all these papers at the same time.
The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.
NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is considering filling part of Lake Ontario to accommodate his vision for a massive new convention centre in downtown Toronto. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1171935...
The feature, which launched in August, claims to help you “sharpen your message through the lens of industry-relevant perspectives.” When users select the “expert review” button in the Grammarly sidebar, it analyzes their writing and surfaces AI-generated suggestions “inspired by” related experts. Those “industry-relevant perspectives” include the likes of Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan, among many others. The Verge found numerous other tech journalists named in the feature, as well, including former Verge editors Casey Newton and Joanna Stern, former Verge writer Monica Chin, Wired’s Lauren Goode, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon, Gizmodo’s Raymond Wong, Digital Foundry founder Richard Leadbetter, Tom’s Guide editor-in-chief Mark Spoonauer, former Rock Paper Shotgun editor-in-chief Katharine Castle, and former IGN news director Kat Bailey. The descriptions for some experts contain inaccuracies, such as outdated job titles, which could have been accurately updated had Superhuman asked those people for permission to reference their work.
The endpoint of journalism is that an AI startup turns you into a fake "editor" without telling you and against your will www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Yet *another* terrible Doug Ford idea for Toronto's waterfront, with generous coverage via a government leak to @robertbenzie.bsky.social.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?
More and more, it feels like the lack of dangerous opposition is allowing Doug to be his most Doug-like self, which is to say, someone who once proposed a Ferris Wheel and a monorail for the Toronto Portlands
