The workslop apocalypse is upon us. People submitting polished but error ridden work they didn’t read has claimed another victim. Deloitte is going to refund the Australian government for an evaluation of its compliance framework that was full of AI hallucinations.

Happy PTA weekend to all who celebrate.

That’s not going to encourage people to restart their cancelled subscriptions.

Why do they keep going to Substack?

In Saskatchewan, a new generation of farmers are experimenting with techniques to make their farms more sustainable and climate-proof. It’s working. Their soil is healthier — and so are their bottom lines. thenarwhal.ca/saskatchewan...

To all who celebrate!!! Do you remember??? 🎶🎶 Earth Wind and Fire #September

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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Good info for short fiction authors looking to find whether their works are part of the Bartz v Anthropic class action

Revisit your defining, pop culture childhood trauma - now in 4K!

New #WriterBeware blog post: Did your contract require your publisher to register your copyright? Don't assume they did. writerbeware.blog/2025/08/29/i...

Consider this a PSA for maintaining sanity here on Bluesky

For years, federal governments have relied on section 107 of Canada’s Labour Code to end strikes. In Air Canada’s case, the Canadian Union of Public Employees called their bluff—and won. It’s a move that could reshape the future of collective bargaining. thewalrus.ca/air-canadas-flig...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Politics > science & common sense = BS The barriers put in place to stop access to one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in decades? The doubtmongering lies? Is AB gov full MAGA? Alberta sets COVID-19 vaccine shot price at $100 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

First time watching #Dark Immediately goes in the top 10 Incredible how good a show can be when crafted with intent.

I am not surprised to see @businessinsider.com caught up in this AI mess, but @wired.com is a disappointment. That team was doing a fantastic job with detailed, investigative reporting.

Our official plan for AI safety is "politely ask the chatbot not to be racist and corrupt"

Would love to celebrate the recent expansion of political podcasting in Canada. The number of progressive #Canadian voices (political, medical, scientific & entertainment) that generate funds from Substack and/or host their merch via Shopify just confounds me.

Hear, hear... Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility www.nature.com/articles/d41... "The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic." #VaccinesWork!

Ironic that despite the calls for employees to be in the office five-days-a-week for valuable “hallway conversation” purposes, almost as much money is being spent on AI data centers powering the technology that companies hope will replace their workers as is being spent on new office buildings.

this is so fucking dumb. THEY NEVER SOLD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. The disinformation is out of control. Worthless media hacks

Think about all the tech bros who caved immediately

BREAKING: Doug Ford has just renamed his family cottage "The Office" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Also anyone saying this is just boardroom disconnection (it is) needs to also know this is what a company does when they are completely out of ideas. Tech hasn’t got shit left.

Alien: Earth is off to an amazing start. Wild casting choice to pair Malcolm McDowell and Amélie

A 24-year-old US-Indian man living in Ottawa, Canada, Saihajpreet Singh, exposed for developing a network of MAGA bots including DOGEai to influence US elections, politics, and public opinion to support Donald Trump, the US Republican Party, and Israel. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

Just like you should not be on Twitter, you should not be on Substack. There are viable alternatives that aren’t The Nazi Bar.

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

What he said 👇

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

I’m certain there is a lesson that won’t be learned here for a certain subset of CEOs

It truly is!

You're so close

The wall is clearly at fault. ❌ No high vis vest ❌ No use of hand signals ❌ Was slowing the flow of traffic

Chef’s kiss: the locally unlicensed doctor who injected them with peptides, after which they fell deathly ill, says it wasn’t the peptides because he asked AI and the AI said it wasn’t the peptides RFK Jr. has said he wants to lift restrictions on this, while restricting lifesaving vaccines

There are people who I would enjoy reading and paying to support, and never will as long as they are on Substack.

More baby #wildlife This little one follows me around as I work in the yard. #Canada

Boycotting upcoming Paramount and Paramount+ releases is an easy decision. Would not want to be doing a press tour for them anytime soon. (even though The Running Man will be caught up in this)

As @gregpak.net has noted, unless there was a specific clause in all the contracts that allows for this, they can't go back and retroactively amend contracts without the author's consent. This is a class action suit waiting to happen.

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

The absolute ridiculousness of current global events makes me wonder if those crazy kids from #Dark have been trying to fix things again.

Paramount+ sub = $60 a year Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.

i just did this for $10/month. worth every penny.

Behold the groundhog. A profile in courage. #wildlife #Canada

Love this

“What the data centers don’t understand is that they’re taking up the community wealth....We just don’t have the water.” Thanks to water guzzling data centers, Newton County, GA is on track to be in a water deficit by 2030. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

Good morning from the breakfast crew. #Canada

Mama raccoon enjoying her morning grapes to beat the heat.

It would be interesting if we had an entire industry, a heralded profession that’s elevated to a calling, whose entire point was to inform the public and interrogate what power is saying vs what it is actually doing.