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1/ You shouldn’t take medical advice from influencers. Especially not economists. A short thread on how Emily Oster went from COVID minimizer to “Make America Healthy Again” cheerleader — and why that matters. 🧵👇 www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-em...

The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up. A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree. www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

This was the game all along.

So you can't copyright anything you write with it, and if you use it to actually create something, they will own a piece. This company and this entire business model is for Suckers and Dopes only.

Great theorists make you see the world differently forever after. Can’t wait to share my next conversation for The Data Fix…

university admins will no more acknowledge their complicity in the damage done by AI than they did with covid

‘Keep Carleton Human’: Carleton University staff rallies to push for protections from A.I.

yes to this

I’d be very interested to see the governments evidence to support these sweeping benefits AI is going to bring. If journalists have the opportunity, I’d love to see this question put to the PM. The NDP’s AI platform is going to be extremely important in the upcoming leadership race.

Biohybrid Archives SG Monserrate - Living Techno-Natures: Biohybrid Objects, Life, and …, 2026 books.google.ca/books?id=jtW...

Remember this billionaire fighting to build what would be one of the world’s biggest AI data centers in Amarillo, Texas? Here’s perspective from resident Kendra Kay on why this would be a terrible idea for the community. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/project-mata...

Hometown hero. This gallery is next to my workplace, so I walk past every day and have seen the exhibit. The politest thing I can say is, "I don't get it" — but TBH it seems massively unimpressive. A supposed artist used an environmentally lethal plagiarism-and-regurgitation engine to produce THIS?

I’m looking for my right-hand person to come help me run the @aial.ie - Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE) - Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata) - Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Main Responsibilities👇🏾

Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plant’s workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workers’ council. /1

Don't fund public education, just rely on pie-in-the-sky 'entrepreneurial' bullshit that don't even reflect what universities should be. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

“The justice department court filing, submitted on Friday in an ongoing lawsuit, reveals that the so-called Doge signed a secret data-sharing agreement with an unidentified political advocacy group whose stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states.”

www.consultationpopulairesurlia.ca Une initiative de la société civile pour faire progresser le droit, les politiques et la réglementation en matière d’IA axée sur les droits de la personne et l’intérêt public

first taste is always free

Canada's Pension Plan: Grok is a "risk that must be corrected,” as it invests $310m USD into xAI's data centre in Tennessee. Lots of things to be outraged about: investing in CSAM-ing/deepfaking Grok, in Musk's empire & in destructive data centres. Do better CPP. www.thestar.com/business/why...

or..

meanwhile... bsky.app/profile/danm...

On October 31, 2025, more than 160 academics, experts, advocates, civil society and human rights organizations across Canada submitted a joint letter they had signed, protesting a severely deficient consultation process ...

Jensen knows that the AI bubble is about to pop and he's pivoting to robotics to save NVIDIA's stock price. He did the same thing toward the end of the crypto bubble. All of this is a giant scam. You can't build an economy on graphics cards.

The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI. 🤷 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

New episode of The Data Fix. New cover art by Oona Ode. Have a listen: on friendship.

A very strange turn of phrase in a WaPo article about protein I was using to distract myself from the runaway bus: “Entire data centers are devoted to the debate…” This seems new, measuring online discourse in data center usage

all these thought pieces about Canadians going all guerrilla fighter and such falls apart the moment you realize that our entire civic infrastructure and mental models about governance are dependent on digital infrastructure that are monopolized by US tech firms that don't care about "human rights"

Tech bros are doing their best to convince everyone they should have a best friend that sells their intimate details to the government and tells them to kill themselves.

calling a spade a spade.

i mean…

It fascinates me that the far right is obsessed with global secretive groups intent on world domination. Back in the ‘60s they were convinced that the UN was going to create a one world govt [nuts!] & of course in the 1930s it was Jewish ppl. The truth is far more interesting…

“It’s terrifying to think of the upcoming fire season."

everything is gambling now

What's the best map of global AI supply chains you've seen? Looking for visuals for a lecture on tech colonialism

Making bigger & bigger LLMs & expecting them to turn into a general intelligence is like breeding better race horses & expecting them to become locomotives (Cory Doctorow) It's a bubble designed to keep investors treating tech firms as if they're not mature technologies - but they are.

New episode of The Data Fix. New cover art by Oona Ode. Have a listen: on friendship.