A man has been fined $5,000 for using AI in his defence, because the multiple cases it made up wasted everyone's time. (He also lost his case) www.lapresse.ca/actualites/j...

Ça va capoter au PQ quand ils vont lire cette nouvelle 😳

"Move fast and break things" and "better to ask forgiveness than permission" get us a whole suite of "AI" literally built out of consent violation and coerced control, where human consent is not meaningful a possibility, and uses that suit to try to coerce or replace anyone who might tell them "no."

…not merely as fantasy but as a deep & abiding desire in their lives, & that this shows up not just in What they create, but How They Create & Use It: stealing material for training; capturing huge amounts of resources from vulnerable ppl, often outright deceptively; implemented via coerced consent…

Some ppl seemingly misreading this as "consider the consent rights of the 'AI' literally created to fulfill/via tech dudes' desire for total degrading control over everyone & everything" rather than what I'm actually saying which is that a Lot of tech dudes seem to want that total degrading control…

I see it's another day when tech people are demonstrating that they should have been forced to pass humanities classes before being allowed to do anything at all.

Posting this to read later: how to cover populism as a journalist reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...

"Fascist regimes work to blur reality and to confuse us, to make it impossible to know what is truth and what is fiction. And AI does this perfectly."

Lifelong sculptor and provocateur from Quebec is fighting to save the fountain he built in San Francisco (you may know it from Tony Hawk) gift article

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

“There are many living witnesses to what happened,” Mastromonaco says. “But it’s either not broadly acknowledged or it’s trivialized, perceived as anecdotal and insignificant. But it wasn’t anecdotal, and it wasn’t insignificant.” @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/were-immigra...

This guide teaches investigators how to try to identify AI-generated content, even under deadline pressure, offering seven advanced detection categories that every reporter or investigator needs to master.

Canada could be cleaning up in the global competition for highly qualified personnel, were it not for NIMBYs, cowardly city councils and Conestoga having ruined it for everyone.

Why the f*ck are you promoting this claptrap without pointing out thalidomide wasn't rigorously tested, drug safety testing was completely redrawn because of the thalidomide disaster.

I assume most of the actual reporting pointed out that this is bullshit, but this is one of those cases where even repeating the claim in a chyron or headline is irresponsible, unless the headline itself makes clear that it's not true.

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Again, with the essential use of sibling controls, in a nationwide prospective study in Sweden of ~2.5 million children, no increased risk even with higher dose exposure jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Let's talk about "gold standard science"

/4 Also struck by Texas giving us the best statistics — because of their record-keeping of these these — irrefutably documenting that both legal and undocumented Immigrants commit crimes at very significantly lower rates than native-born people.

Straight from the people making AI: All AI systems make stuff up because they were (inadvertently) designed to lie. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

"Depressed people often don’t have the energy to commit violent crimes, and psychotic people usually have trouble executing an elaborate plan. It’s angry people who kill, particularly angry men with access to firearms." www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

This brings up a great point. It can be hard for a competent and fair-minded person to understand the irrational & mean hypocrite, because they're trying to judge them based on the same values.

"There is no reason to fear getting yelled at by dumbasses. It is inevitable. Many people will read what you write, and the ones who will be most motivated to take the time to say anything about it are the ones who think it sucks."

At least on social media, one reason people are "like this" is: the internet removed even the smallest frictional costs for blurting out whatever stray neuron is in your brain. Used to be that even to send a letter, you'd need paper, a stamp, etc, and in the time it took, the impulse would pass.

Law by David Bowie is the song to explain humanity. Whenever you are confused at someone's actions, remember the lyrics. youtu.be/-mqso64wQT0?...

It's also a good opportunity to remind people that science doesn't generally change via revolutions brought about by geniuses. But this narrative is very appealing to PragerU's fanbase.

23 year old Justin Miller has been arrested for encouraging victims to inflict “cutsigns", the process of cutting his screenname into their flesh. The complaint filed claims Miller was part of 764. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...

Whatever their makers may have intended, AI models have turned into machines that deliver confident-sounding bullshit.

Here's a nurse* who was an anti-vaxxer but learned to change her mind macleans.ca/longforms/co... *Don't be surprised. I once had a nurse tell me that breast milk contained pre-implanted embryos.

This brings up an interesting take as to why the CAQ may not have the legal scope to do what it wants to do.

Was in CTV news talking about potential reasons behind the declining sales of orange juice in Canada. I love talking about food stories and I really appreciated the opportunity to talk. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...

Sid Stevens, the founder of a Montreal institution, has died www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Here’s an idea: instead of having to say “sorry about that!”, consider leashing your dog! Consider leashing your dog

Why were we able to see the spiral rocket plume last night, but not during other rocket launches? The time of day, the Sun’s light, and the direction the rocket heads into space causes this effect…

⚜️Êtes-vous favorable à la souveraineté... ET prêt à voter oui ? 📊Mon analyse du sondage CROP publié ce matin dans La Presse ↓ www.qc125.ca/p/etes-vous-...

And it’s not good enough to say “if we don’t build this someone else will.” Tell us why a world with this in it is a better world. Not a more advanced world… a better one.

ChatGPT "doesn’t care about things like answering the question correctly. That only happens accidentally as a result of trying to sound like the text it was trained on... They’re constantly hallucinating. That’s all they do." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Remarkable take on MAGA fury over Jeffrey Epstein from historian Nicole Hemmer: She roots it in pathologies on the right that go back a half century, to McCarthy, the Birchers, through the idea that Civil Rights was a commie conspiracy to the present. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/1979...

One of the first things I ever wrote about crypto. January 2022. blog.mollywhite.net/abuse-and-ha...

Superman has been firmly anti-shitbird for a long time.

Here is CTV Montreal's report on these arrests. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/on-...

I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦 (I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

abovethelaw.com/2025/07/tria... Textbook instance of ‘if we are seeing one there are going to be SUCH A LOT we never see.’ AI is a scourge. In so many ways.

the coverage does *not* have to multiply the epistemic caution with further disclaimers like "a word considered by some to be racist/ sexist/ anti-semitic/ etc." You can say: x person used a racist word, an anti-semitic slur, a demeaning sexist term, etc. Those aren't attributions of mens rea. 2/

OK, one more Shylock thing. I suppose news coverage has to maintain a certain caution about attributing mens rea and has to pretend that someone might be telling the truth when they say *about their own state of mind* "I didn't know that was racist/ sexist/ anti-semitic/ etc." But... 1/

⚔️ Blockbuster exhibitions about Knights in medieval Europe & the mighty T-Rex killer dinosaur among the many must-see retrospectives & expositions this Summer 2025 🦖 My roundup ⤵️ www.mtl.org/en/experienc... Via @mtl.org

The critique of the King's language around his passion for Canada and so forth is fair game. If the Palace hadn't included a strong defence of Canada in there, though, it would have been a problem, shall we say.