Why isn't trust measured in organizations? Because #trust is rarely earned by leaders, it is expected. Because trust is squandered through layoffs, short-sighted decisions, zero sum games, greed, and ego. https://hbr.org/2025/11/if-trust-is-so-important-why-arent-we-measuring-it

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

Yes. Maybe raise that to the mid-20's. Our kids are not eyeballs for advertisers and targets for trolls. Denmark’s government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/denmark-moves-to-ban-social-media-for-children-aged-15-under/ #socialmedia

#stephencollins lays the #AIHype bare...because now #AI is in your peas! #cartoon #comic #funny #rofl

I don't always agree with Tom Muclair. He nailed this one - from 10 years of #environmental gaslighting to completely open disregard from the Liberals. So much for pur #green #economy. Tom Mulcair: ‘Only God can make a tree,’ but a bad budget can destroy it […]

Looks like BC has a brain when it comes to supplying power to data centres for #AI and #crypto. I love this line: "In that sense, looking at AI data centres “are not particularly attractive with respect to generating economic activity,” said Antweiler, chair of the strategy and business […]

I wrote about Bluesky a year after the big post-election surge in users, and whether you can build a happier version of Twitter while keeping its same basic shape https://www.platformer.news/bluesky-2025-content-moderation-fediverse/

Wab Kinew's gov't tabled bill 50 in Manitoba that won't allow any future provincial gov't to use the notwithstanding clause for provincial legislation without going through the courts first. This is what a true leader does for his constituents. Alberta's and Quebec's leadership pale in comparison.

I took a course with Dr Blit. His opening statement was, "I just sold all of my tech stocks" and "AI is the new electricity" and "generative AI can do everything in descriptive analytics". That was all I needed to know that he was a hype artist on par with #altman, #nadella, and #musk. Try not […]

"Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out." The Jay's gave Toronto and Canada an […]

Elbows all the way down, part 2. Carney fans were sure he wouldn't really have done this. Now I'm sure they'll say he's merely playing 4D chess. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...

I still remember meeting (then Premier) Bob Rae as a high school student when he toured an automotive supplier where I was working. He struck me as a thoughtful, genuine leader who saw trade-offs and had a clear moral vision. Rae introduced me to Rabbi Hillel's 3 […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

I am immensely grateful there are some intelligent voices that recognize the risk of #AI and that, instead of cheerleading the technology, it must be regulated. I hope the #canadian government listens. Our future is at stake […]

The pumpkins are ready... #halloween #canada #smurfs #Pokemon

The pumpkins are ready... #halloween #canada #smurfs #Pokemon

Good riddance. Now do the rest. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/prince-andrew-is-losing-his-prince-title-and-his-royal-estate-9.6960522

A week or so ago, I wrote about an absolutely horribly-designed poll from the government of Canada, theoretically asking Canadians what they thought we should be doing about "AI". I said that it was tilted so far in favour of AI - the questions basically embedded assumptions that we need AI, we […]

Now take this policy, and apply it to the unstarted, paused, and vacant apartments in the GTA. #housing #HousingCrisis https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/26/right-to-buy-reverse-brighton-tackling-social-housing-crisis

Edge cases matter when you're outsourcing decision-making to a system. #AI https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/armed-police-swarm-student-after-ai-mistakes-bag-of-doritos-for-a-weapon-3273512/

You can buy a copy here or wherever books are sold. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/808505...

RE: https://aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon/115428881079224079 Good cartoon highlighting terrible design. #Cloud everywhere creates enormous reliability concerns. If companies do that, they need immediate fail-over and fail safe protection...which is very hard.

tl;dr profit Why is Halloween starting so much earlier each year? A business professor explains https://theconversation.com/why-is-halloween-starting-so-much-earlier-each-year-a-business-professor-explains-267716

New Comic Strip found: Arctic Circle by Alex Hallatt for Sun, 19 Oct 2025 https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/arcticcircle/s-3885430 #comicstrip #arcticcirclestrip

Canada’s brain gain: A scientific migration amid U.S turmoil #elbowsup #tradewar https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canadas-brain-gain-a-scientific-migration-amid-us-turmoil/

No...no conflict here. #AI #school #education https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-teacher-union-microsoft-f7554b6550fb90519dd8129acac8e291

Big Tech is lying to everyone about its fantasy-land AI deployment, and most of our "journalism" organizations are merely doing stenography. As usual. Ed Zitron is one of the few people who's doing, you know, his job […]

Amazing what happens when governments cooperate, focus on the citizen, prioritize - bringing time to completion from 3 years to 1.5 years is no small feat! #construction #toronto #lean https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gardiner-expressway-construction-complete-october-2025-9.6942578

Ghost #shakespeare makes some solid points. But the teacher should check #mastodon first. #stephencollins #cartoon #funny

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thefunnypages/115386448026588421 Bonus points for being the first comic I've seen with the word "planogram" in it! #merchandising #Retail #funny

Dominion Media Television dropped this absolute #StarTrek banger the other day and I couldn't not share it here.

Luke Kemp's "Goliath's Curse" offers interesting perspectives on past, present, and future societal #collapses. It travels a similar path to Tainter's "Collapse of Complex Societies", in that societies collapse when they can no longer sustain their complexity, but […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

TIL about the manual park transmission release. #automotive

It's interesting that when the US makes a loan to a company, they convert it to equity. When Canada makes a loan to a company, they threaten a lawsuit. One is a position of strength. One isn't. #tradewar […]

An inspirational suggestion - and a good reminder to dad's that your son's are watching. Even if you don't submit a letter to the site, you can still write one to your son and daughter. I wrote mine today. https://www.research.net/r/letterstooursons

SMH "The earth has enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed," - Mahatma Gandhi Really seems like that is what's driving #OpenAI. This is the foundation of the next generation of software.

Make tech a federally regulated industry and enshrine the right to remote work, you'd have all the tech talent you could handle in a flash. Also, that's completely unrealistic, but it's a fun thought experiment! Mark Carney hopes to lure tech workers to Canada. One problem: Canada is already […]

I've put a few new drawings up at www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale There are also badges, prints and a zine at www.tomgauld.com/shop

Culpability, by Bruce Holsinger, combines science fiction, ethics, drama into a whodunit involving #AI, #genAI. I do find the idea of an #engineer, in today's day and age, not only being accountability but also feeling accountable in today's hype-driven era being a […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

If you value other perspectives, insights about #systems and #societies and #ecologies, and #humility, I recommend "Sand Talk" by Tyson Yunkaporta. #SystemThinking #wisdom #indigenous #ecology #sociology

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Could not agree more with this: | The most productive people I know have a defensive near-conservatism about their tools. from https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-exhaustion-of-permanent-disruption I know that my own productivity is enhanced by not having to change tools or even versions for […]

Niemals Wieder! (Never Again!) John Hartfield, 1932 https://www.johnheartfield.com/John-Heartfield-Exhibition/john-heartfield-art/famous-anti-fascist-art/heartfield-posters-aiz/meaning-of-geneva

#okr's ... #deliverology 2.0. Mark Carney directed ministers to map out their objectives for coming year, letter shows https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/pm-carney-directed-ministers-to-map-out-their-objectives-for-coming-year/

😆 headline 10/10 McKinsey wonders how to sell AI with no measurable benefits • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/mckinsey_ai_monetization/

Leo XIV speaks out on ‘dictatorship’ of economic inequality and support for migrants in first major text https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/europe/leo-xiv-first-major-text-migrants-intl

TIL that anxiety and depression are nearly comorbidities with #endometriosis. (MIS)Treated] Endometriosis "acts almost like a cancer" [#mistreated https://podcastaddict.com/mistreated/episode/208130496 via @PodcastAddict

IT WAS TICKETMASTERS BOTS!!!!! ‘How are the tickets already sold?’: Some Blue Jays fans voice frustration after ALCS tickets sell out fast https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/toronto-blue-jays-alcs-tickets-sell-out-fast-some-fans-incredibly-disappointed-to-come-up-empty-handed/ 1/

My new #AIHype hero is Teresa Heffernan from Saint Mary's University. She just laid out the anti-hype argument against the harms of generative AI, clearly and powerfully. Worth a listen! The hope, the hype, and the sad reality of what AI chatbots do in some conversations with teens […]

It's PHYSICS FOR CATS publication day!! Luna has her copy: do you? www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2