"A recent Stanford study found that employment for 22- to 25-year-old software engineers fell nearly 20% between late 2022 and July 2025, even as hiring for older engineers grew. " via Fast Company register.inc.com/index.php/em...

“A journalist’s job is to interrogate and find truth ... such as Trump being a felon, racist, and someone who seeks to willfully undermine the will of voters and the rule of law, we commit journalistic malfeasance if we cover him with a neutral framing.” www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...

"...some analysts are holding up Builder.ai as a potential case of 'AI washing,' in which companies falsely promote products or services as AI to attract attention and funding." restofworld.org/2025/builder...

Going through some edits today, and this stood out as totally on brand: "Could Ganesh’s mouse play a bigger role in the plot?"

"Pluralities of professors (close to half) in large public universities affirm that academic standards have declined in recent years and that grade inflation is a serious problem." www.chronicle.com/article/meet...

I've been thinking about this a lot - is it possible to copyright yourself to protect your individuality being sucked into the LLMS? www.fastcompany.com/91360589/den...

Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/f... via @techcrunch.com

"By automating these decisions, we replace them with references to generalized, previously established, socially constructed imaginaries." mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-decision...

"People do not believe journalists try to be fair, balanced or impartial — or do not agree that what we are offering meets those standards. This is their experience, and our defensiveness will not change that." - trustingnews.org/heres-the-pu...

"Every year scores of Australians and thousands of others are denied entry to the United States. C.B.P. has full discretion, after all. What is new is the politically motivated deployment of that power to exclude speech that the government does not want to hear." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“I think many people assume there’s some baseline level of confidentiality there. There’s not. Everything you submit to an AI system at bare minimum goes to the company that’s hosting the AI.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“First is using AI for research and investigations,” Zach said. “Number two is internal workflows and processes those like knotty or just robotic parts of everybody’s job… And then the last area of focus is reader experiences.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

"...we are heading towards a place where not only are image and video [AI] generations likely to be good enough to fool most people, but that those capabilities will be widely available and, thanks to open models, very hard to regulate or control." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...

As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind indiginews.com/first-person... via @indiginews.bsky.social

"To come up with a good AI policy for a university ... one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

This is why our student newsroom at OTR is filled with plant life! “According to a 2020 study, researchers found that 27% of participants saw a significant reduction of pulse rate when staring at a small plant on their desk" www.fastcompany.com/91334123/wha...

"These fraudsters — sometimes called ghost students, Pell runners, or straw students — are hitting the system’s central application portal at an alarming rate."

via @thestar.com & @andytakagi.bsky.social #TTC track diversions for streetcars comin' in slow just in time for summer www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-s...

Check out my latest with lead author @karmicangel.bsky.social — and see how discussions on AI ethics in newsrooms may not be keeping up with practice

New and open access from @karmicangel.bsky.social me and April Lindgren - re. how AI is being used & how AI ethics guidelines are being developed (or not) in Canadian newsrooms #journalsim #AI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A public inquiry cleared former MP Han Dong’s name, but the cloud of foreign meddling still looms over candidates of Chinese descent. thelocal.to/don-valley-n...

23andMe has declared bankruptcy - delete all your data ASAP: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

"...if Singh can’t convince Canadians his party represents more than a protest vote, it never will." via @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/with-the-ndp...

#APPLY The ‘Friends of Canadian Media’ Scholarship will be awarded annually to a student who demonstrates a strong enthusiasm for politics and a solid comprehension of journalism’s role in a thriving democracy. rtdnacanada.com/rtdnf-launch...

Right now, the fine print on how Twitter/FB/Insta are using your social media data is more transparent than how Musk will use your social insurance data, America.

AI generated works of art may be eligible to win awards at state fairs, but they are not protected under American copyright law, according to new guidance issued by the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) on Wednesday. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/us...

A geographer explains how maps’ place names, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, are decided www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How NOT to use AI ethically or well: "The automated fraud detection system generated nearly 63,000 cases between 2013 and 2015 in which Michigan residents were accused of fraud, about 70 percent of which would later be found to be false." www.fastcompany.com/91265363/sta...

The best part of being a kids author is talking about books and writing with classrooms full of excited students. #thankfulgratefulblessed

Four Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars - deadline is March 31 www.torontomu.ca/graduate/pos...

Starbucks proves it was never really a ‘third place’ Starbucks surprised many with its new code of conduct for customers. www.fastcompany.com/91262321/sta...

"Instead of scanning women’s faces for distress, Lucknow had built a system to detect potential perpetrators’ physical movements—a surveillance network that could track patterns of stalking, harassment, and assault in real time." www.theplankmag.com/ai-safe-city...

#nerdalert How to Fix the Passive Voice (and when it's ok to use it) wordsmarts.com/fix-passive-...

Doctors Say AI Is Introducing Slop Into Patient Care gizmodo.com/doctors-say-...

"In 2024, Ye is a rapper who put hate into the world so he could rap about being condemned for it." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... This one's going into my examples of great features for my students.

As a lawsuit unfolds over the dish’s origins, it’s time to ask: has its popularity done more harm than good for Indian cuisine? www.thejuggernaut.com/butter-chick...

"He’s cut off in mid-sentence as a bunny hops top speed straight at us, barely touching the ground, that's how fast she's going, closely followed by a lumbering zombie in a jean skirt, closely followed by a screeching hamster." #AmWriting #TalesFromTheApocalypse

"Journalism’s fight against disinformation risks irrelevance if it fails to consider how the human mind processes and reacts to both falsehoods and facts." www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/gett...

It's been a hard two weeks, but we're coming out the other side thankful for our friends and family and all their support.

"People worry about bias creeping into AI. But what if you add bias on purpose? Thanks to Google, we know where that leads: Black Vikings and female popes." www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1...

I've set up a starter pack of journalism trainers, innovators and all-around cool kids on Bluesky. Find them here: go.bsky.app/Dvq5mRC

Always fun to chat with the CBC Books folks about a good mystery (or three!) www.cbc.ca/radio/thenex...

A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

Fierce debates, heated referendums, and lasting controversies marked Newfoundland and Labrador’s path to Confederation. Discover the full story in the latest episode of Canadian Time Machine. 🎧 Listen: lnkfi.re/canadian-tim...

"The day after the US election, X experienced its largest user exodus since Elon Musk bought the platform, with reportedly more than 115,000 users deleting their account on that day alone." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/these-r...

Oh, I'd love to try some of these for #Thanksgiving www.thejuggernaut.com/brown-chefs-...

From “ouch” to “aïe” to “yakayi,” languages across the world exclaim pain using similar-sounding words, hinting at a common origin www.scientificamerican.com/article/expr...

Tiny sliver of sunshine claimed.

How AI is offering journalists protection from persecution in Venezuela "'Venezuela Retweets' is hosted by two AI avatars [who] share real news created by journalists who have found "reporting the news an increasingly dangerous business." theweek.com/media/how-ai...