I come to you with vulnerability but also *some* (moderate) expertise and a genuine interest in today's information ecosystem. Why isn't there anything about the new Robby Hoffman special (Wake Up) produced by John Mulaney on YouTube search results? Clips? A trailer? A preview? Help me understand. 🙏

For your pleasure I wrote up the news that apparently the University of Austin is not a great place to work: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Here's a bit about what we're working on at #UofT in the higher ed & tech space with @drdonnakidwell.com leading the way... and it was my pleasure to write about it! ⬇️ Aligning, collaborating, and dreaming big for a secure, scalable and ethically governed technology environment for all. 🔮🤖🌿

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

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Since Christmas is around the corner, a reminder that Wikipedia has a store. And the profits go to a project billionaires hate, so you're buying an object and getting free spite.

So, you want to breach some Charter rights? Apparently quite a few Canadian politicians do. Post from @jaredwesley.ca comes with this handy-dandy flowchart. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/why-use-th...

Populations on whom Canadian governments have used or threatened to use the notwithstanding clause, allowing them to override Charter rights: - trans and nonbinary kids - religious minorities - homeless people - teachers edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

I’m so tired of Doug Ford being the Mayor of Toronto. 🤦🏽‍♂️ Apparently he forgets that he’s supposed to run the Province of Ontario. Can’t even elect him out, because the other parties, voters can’t get their shit together. 😔 #ONpoli #TOpoli

Almost twice as many Canadians see immigrants as being unfairly scapegoated and most believe that we should continue to welcome newcomers while fixing housing and healthcare shortfalls. Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/

give it up one time to our patron saint before game 5 begins

I guess a bunch of extremely talented and respected actors saw the cinematic masterpiece THE PROPOSITION (2005) and said, "Sure, John Hillcoat! I'd love to be in TRIPLE 9" (2016). Lol!!!! I've never seen such a disjointed, nonsensical hot mess in my LIFE. This has been movie reviews with Jovana.

I can't believe they want BOTH parents to have full-time jobs, be serious.

"And I feel strongly that we have a social contract by living together, that we do need to look out for each other. And fortunately, looking out for yourself equally looks out for others." I agree with Halperin. Vaccines are part of our social contract. I had to top up my measles one too.

Whenever I hear "New South Wales" I think, like... you can't have both, you know? Are you new or are you south?

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI: 1. A little guy in a red suit with horns on one shoulder, and 2. A little guy in a white suit and wings on the other shoulder.

Here’s the most important measure of Ontario’s self proclaimed « working for workers » Conservative government. They pretend that laws requiring employers to draft policies about this or that is progress. But real measure is enforcement of labour standards. www.thestar.com/news/gta/wor...

"The possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved."

When y’all cancel your Disney+ subs, please consider giving some of that money to your local NPR or PBS station, or other independent media like @boltsmag.org or @propublica.org

"your phone will shut down" don't threaten me with a good time!!

Recommend following and supporting @pressprogress.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, and @scpartners.bsky.social. Send me suggestions!

This is classic CDN media misrepresentation. What went down at Christie Pits wasn't two sides of the same issue. This was a hate rally demanding mass deportations against people who live in Toronto. It was a fascist hate gathering. They were countered by people standing up for their neighbours.

We are hosting our second and final information session for the 2026 Fellowship on Tuesday, September 16, at 7 pm EDT. Apply to be part of next year's cohort now! Information session registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Announcement: www.techpolicy.press/call-for-app...

JOB ALERT: We are recruiting for the newly created role of Information Security Program Manager. Apply by Sept 30. citizenlab.ca/2025/09/job-...

Today, the board of directors of The Canadian Tax Observatory welcomed @hscoffield.bsky.social as the organization's founding CEO. Learn more about her ambitions for the new research and policy centre at: www.canadiantaxobservatory.ca #TaxPolicy #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #EconSky #TaxFairness

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Honest question about this article (and I am pro-journalist and I love journalists): How do you report "they cut 12% of staff over 2 years" and "this agency is completely dysfunctional" without also asking "hey do you guys think the dysfunction is due to these staff cuts"?

"While there has been momentum in the UK and EU on regulating online harms, the Trump administration is a major counterforce. If Canada moves forward with online harms regulation, we will face a U.S. backlash." ...in case you're wondering who runs this place. www.thestar.com/politics/ai-...

This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.

Oh damn wow ok.

Whoa!!! This is on our normal route to preschool w. kid every day. (We're fine, AFAIK nobody hurt but whoa!!!)

Doug Ford says bringing employees back to the office will boost productivity, mentorship and help the downtown economy. Critics cite the environmental, mental health and equity tolls of forcing everyone to commute — but they also say the benefits are imaginary.

It is very funny to write a whole article about how Twitter isn't cooking your brain while demonstrating precisely the ways in which Twitter is cooking your brain.

Ummm... 😬

TL;DR talking to GPT-5 like it's a wittle baby will reroute prompts to older, less secure models. So why not eliminate the app's ability to parse user inputs and reroute? Because resources. "Older models are relatively less resource-intensive and cheaper." www.darkreading.com/application-...

governments outside the US need to resist attempts to use US-style free speech hysteria to stop it from reining in socially harmful tech companies. the age limits are an experiment worth trying, even if my preferred policy response is more about platform design.

Mm.

Toronto chief planner @jasonthorne.bsky.social has supported and helped spread a lot of urbanism STARTER PACKS created by others, but now he’s put together his own! Bluesky already has the best urbanism community and conversation on social media. Please share his Pack far and wide to help grow it.

Excellent. Solidarity with workers asserting their rights against a government all too keen to take them away.

ISO hot takes on Extended Producer Responsibility, Ontario Regulation 391/21, the non-profit (?) Circular Materials, and changes to the Blue Bin recycling program in Toronto. Spiciest takes only please! And/or link me to your waste management starter packs. www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

It's so weird how LLMs know so much about things I don't know anything about, and yet make fundamental and basic errors about things I do know anything about. Oh well, I'm sure that's a coincidence.

if you are mad at people on bikes because they are biking where you're walking, you are almost certainly actually mad at cars

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

This was a virtual public sphere which is why we should not be allowing private ownership of public spaces, whether virtual or physical.

C&C Music Factory stands for "crumpets and coffee," which they enjoyed every morning.

Local news FTW!