"Grok was on pace to soar past Gemini's total, but its civilization had collapsed by day five leaving it with no means to continue, and while ChatGPT also collapsed by day 6, it had 'only' two committed crimes within this time period"

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI www.wired.com/story/i-work... "AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad."

When you complain about data centres on social media you're literally using the thing you're complaining about to complain about it.

No major tech vendor has commissioned or conducted independent cognitive offloading research on their own products. #onted marketing language: "Google & Microsoft took time to understand #education & made sure to include guardrails for the use of its tools" www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/p...

"This initiative will support high-growth companies by placing top students in high-impact R&D roles, strengthening Canada’s innovation workforce and supporting long-term economic growth." www.canada.ca/en/innovatio... #cdned #cdnpoli

#AI & Humanity: Evolution or Revolution? youtu.be/AZIQ90TUTaM?... "What happens when 70% of GDP comes from AI and not people? Does a government have incentive to put money into the development of their people when they don't get an economic return on that anymore?"

When you complain about data centres on social media you're literally using the thing you're complaining about to complain about it.

#Canada rocking the world with #digitalskills well below the average: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... Any year now we'll start expecting #cdned to address this multi-generational crisis. #onted

In @chatterhigh.bsky.social and available in both official languages, it offers a deep dive into cyber careers with the CSE & Canadian Centre for #cybersecurity. If you're in #cdned and are looking for bilingual all Canadian content hosted here: resources.chatterhigh.com/discover-car... #onted #abed

Date: June 3-5, 2026 Location: Dineen Auditorium & Allison McCain Commons, University of New Brunswick - Fredericton, NB. Canada. aiarc.ca/2026/ #cdned

#AI, like all #tech, is designed to consolidate control in the hands of the few.

"Frontier labs will build, gatekeep, and exploit 3-5x Mythos-level models to disrupt nearly every industry with substantial knowledge work expenditures - is the real end goal to just replace software developers with Claude Code?" catboosted.bearblog.dev/thelastcompa...

Canada is building big — new ports, mines, and power plants that will transform our economy for all. With the Canada Strong Fund, all Canadians can share in the returns of those nation-building projects.

"IMS is defined as a collection of adversarial behaviours, tools & tactics, techniques, & procedures that are presumed to be linked to a single malign threat actor, or to a group of malign threat actors, whose identity may be unknown" international.canada.ca/en/global-af... Or not.

ODINI Malware Uses CPU Magnetic Emissions to Breach Faraday-Shielded Air-Gapped Computers cybersecuritynews.com?p=149570 Coming soon to a spy thriller near you.

In @chatterhigh.bsky.social and available in both official languages, it offers a deep dive into cyber careers with the CSE & Canadian Centre for #cybersecurity. If you're in #cdned and are looking for bilingual all Canadian content hosted here: resources.chatterhigh.com/discover-car... #onted #abed

CSE: The most important organization you've never heard of youtu.be/GyiPpqRd-Fw?...

#Canada rocking the world with #digitalskills well below the average: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... Any year now we'll start expecting #cdned to address this multi-generational crisis. #onted

If #AI enters the learning process too early, it can interrupt the productive struggle that builds minds. If it enters later it can play a very different role. It can take on a unique iterative dynamic that drives a newfound learner centricity" #education www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

www.quantumindustrycanada.ca/2026/05/01/i... " #AI is about extracting insight from data, #quantumcomputing is about expanding what is computationally possible"

"a perversion of the contract between writer and reader" Or between teacher and student, or doctor and patient, or lawyer and client. If you let AI represent you as a professional in any communication it's about the least professional thing you can do. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"China overperforms relative to the size of its economy, with an LQ of 1.36 (meaning 36% above the global average). By comparison, America underperforms with an LQ of just 0.88 (12% below average)" #Canada's is 0.58 (42% below avg) #cdnpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social itif.org/publications...

Been following NICE for years, so I am thrilled to be speaking at 2026 NICE Conference and Expo. Please check out the details of my talk at: tinyurl.com/3n64kc9m #cybersecurity #digitalskills #quantum @ictc-ctic.ca

Don't need to teach programming anymore now that we have vibe coding! "5,000 had virtually no security of any kind. Many of these web apps allowed anyone who merely finds their web URL to access the apps and their data. 40% of the apps exposed sensitive data" www.wired.com/story/thousa...

Meta’s disregard for its users and its reckless spending are driving it into the grave. But unfortunately dying Internet companies can do a lot of damage on their way down. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

"68% of 18-34 year olds surveyed reported being a victim of at least one type of financial fraud. In comparison, the statistic is 39% for those ages 35-54 and 31% for individuals over the age of 55" www.bccpa.ca/news-events/... cyber literacy is foundational for financial literacy

"If you want to understand the future of a country, do not start in its universities. Start in its kindergartens-by the age of 5, the story is already being written. Early childhood development is not just a warmup act for #education; it is the foundation" #onted www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

"Leaders assume that anthropomorphizing #AI will make the technology feel less foreign - but humanizing AI can shift accountability away from individuals - what’s more, it doesn’t meaningfully increase people’s intent to adopt" hbr.org/2026/05/rese... Strange that everyone keeps doing it then.

Welcome back to Canada, President Obama. Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us.

Inspiration for the cybertruck.

“AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out #AI literate #STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead." futurism.com/future-socie...

"Leaders assume that anthropomorphizing #AI will make the technology feel less foreign - but humanizing AI can shift accountability away from individuals - what’s more, it doesn’t meaningfully increase people’s intent to adopt" hbr.org/2026/05/rese... Strange that everyone keeps doing it then.

Graeme Young: Lessons from Germany on youth employment policy (2016) policyoptions.irpp.org/2018/05/less... Since 2018, Germany's youth unemployment rate has remained low & stable between 6-8%, while Canada's has fluctuated more widely, peaking above 14% (where it is now) #cdned #cdnpoli

"organizations looking to move the needle on workforce through apprenticeship programs: -Set ambitious goals. -Measure progress to those goals -Communicate through respective organizations about what they are trying to accomplish." www.aem.org/news/breakin...

Vass isn't known for equivocation: " #Canada spent decades ceding control of the digital economy to foreign private actors. Without a comprehensive governance framework, billions in public spending on “sovereign” #AI infrastructure will fail to deliver" #cdnpoli app.cyberimpact.com/redirect?ct=...

"cognitive harm from #AI is no longer speculative; it is a documented risk. When foreseeable harm intersects with an absence of institutional governance, it transitions from an educational quality problem to a matter of legal negligence & liability" www.cognitiveprivacyproject.org/ai-tutors-co...

"criminal extortion group ShinyHunters claimed its attack on Instructure affected 9,000 schools worldwide (including K–12 & higher ed) & compromised the personal identifying information of 275 million people, including students, teachers & staff" #cdned www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

"Students are saying that they want AI integrated into the substantive intellectual work of their discipline — strategy formation, decision-making under uncertainty, the parts of business education where judgment lives" tawnyameans.substack.com/p/what-stude... #AI #education

#Quantumsensing in #mining "uses quantum sensors to detect magnetic fields a mere 100 millionth the size of Earth’s-LandTEM replaces other magnetic sensors. It is being used in Australia and in #Canada" www.csiro.au/en/news/All/... @mark-carney.bsky.social we need to get on top of quantum education!

AI news ages badly: "Tech experts are sold on the benefits of leveraging #ai to handle cumbersome and sometimes complex tasks in applications ranging from business to healthcare to education and entertainment—and beyond" www.forbes.com/councils/for... By an 'expert panel'!

"Tesla employs an odometer system that utilizes predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual mileage traveled by Tesla Vehicles”

#Educational #technology isn't leveling the playing field hechingerreport.org/educational-... #edtech analysis from 12 years ago. “Given the wizardry of these machines and their ability to support children’s self-teaching, might we begin to see a closing of the opportunity gap?”

So, the 'research' most pro-AI education 'experts' leaned on turned out to be so full of statistical errors as to be almost incoherent - didn't stop Nature from publishing it though. Now it's in hundreds of downstream papers validating the use of AI in education. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Before we can argue about course design, we need to look honestly at what students themselves are signaling about how they want #AI integrated into their #education. And here the data is more coherent than the institutional response to it has been." tawnyameans.substack.com/p/what-stude...

"getting lost in their own projects and finding it harder to confidently add new features. They can move faster, but they lose the deeper sensemaking that connects decisions to intent, and intent to code." margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02...

"young people face an impossible contradiction. They are being told, on the one hand, that these tools are going to eliminate millions of jobs, and on the other that they have to use them if they don’t want to fall behind." #ai www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Calls for more #tech #education as provinces eye cellphone, social media bans in schools | brocku.ca/brock-news/2... #onted #cdned "Any restrictions should be reinforced with ongoing teaching on digital literacy, digital citizenship, online safety & #AI literacy" This isn't a plan, it's panic.

I've seen a lot of #ai integration across #cdned over the past year & much of it is simply an extension of existing pedagogically problematic #edtech contracts. The presentations at #abed ATLE Emergence this week have been critical & cautious. There is a reason why #Alberta gets the results it does.

We're figuring out how to dissenshitify the internet with Cory Doctorow! Join us on May 14 to find out how to make the internet better for not just yourself, but for everyone. www.eff.org/event/effec...

"It also forced you to think harder about the quality of the musical idea, as opposed to relying on the seduction of preset sound design fuckery." simonshackleton.substack.com/p/1991-learn...