Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦
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Novelist. Experience Snatcher. Birds. Gardening. Oddities. AI slop blocker.
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Wheeee! Remember to break up the doomscrolling for others.
over 1 year ago
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Nice scoop by
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#AI
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Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News
A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-artificial-intelligence-strategy-9.7216576
about 21 hours ago
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The U.S. couldn’t handle Canada as the 51st state.
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Spocking Canadian Money: A Tribute to Leonard Nimoy
Canadians honor Leonard Nimoy by turning $5 bills into Spock tributes—an artistic viral trend despite warnings from the Bank of Canada.
https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/contemporary-art/spocking-canadian-money-2015/
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Dan Whitehead
5 days ago
Everyone is (rightly) clowning on the Book of Life guy for getting in bed with the AI crowd, but there's a danger that the dopamine hit of outrage overwhelms good news. Like, I've seen dozens of posts about Gutierrez and only one or two about this. We need to be as loud about the good as the bad.
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'Iron Boy' Wins Cannes Prize In Major Year For Animation
Animated features and shorts were omnipresent across the Croisette this year, but only two animated titles left Cannes with awards recognition.
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/festivals/cannes-iron-boy-laser-cat-261541.html
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Dan Whitehead
5 days ago
We need to loudly oppose AI for sure, but the danger is that without also elevating human-made art with the same frequency and volume, it still makes AI the centre of the conversation. Anyway, Iron Boy looks gorgeous. Sony has picked it up for NA, LATAM, and some of Asia. That's fantastic news.
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Catsuka Player : Le Corset (Iron Boy) - Preview
Free video platform for animation lovers
https://www.catsuka.com/player/le_corset_iron_boy_preview
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Pest control guy looking under roof: Yep, I think I see a squirrel eye. Red squirrel:
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Robert Redford Laser Eyes Nod Meme
ALT: Robert Redford Laser Eyes Nod Meme
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TFW you cut your hair because it’s a carrier for black flies and mosquitoes.
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Introduce yourself with 10 bands/artists you’ve seen live: Bob Seger Bruce Springsteen U2 Sinead O’Connor Nick Cave Peter Gabriel Joe Strummer The Waterboys Primal Scream World Party
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6 days ago
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Iron Spike
10 days ago
You're not excited about technology anymore because what we're calling "technology" these days isn't even considering your desires when it's being developed. What's not disinterested in you is outright exploitative and hostile, even fundamentally anti-human.
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Send tech co’s the bill. Why should citizens pay the costs of these societal harms?
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Faine Greenwood
11 days ago
On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.
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Very much enjoyed *Margo’s got Money Troubles* on AppleTV. Particularly Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance. They’re on a roll with book adaptations and stellar (older) female characters.
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It’s not “tripling the cost of doing business in Canada”: it’s tripling the amount of required investment in Canadian production *partnerships* in which they will have a role. I wonder what the math is after deducting production tax credits.
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CRTC raising required cash contributions from online streamers for Cancon | CBC News
Large online streaming providers like Disney+, Netflix and Prime Video will be expected to contribute more of their revenue to Canadian content, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Co...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-streaming-canadian-content-9.7207714
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
14 days ago
AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.
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My IRL friends call me Chris
18 days ago
Important story here. "The Ukrainian drones were hundreds of kilometres away from the humans who launched them when they changed direction and struck an empty fuel depot in the city of Rezekne."
#GiftLink
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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...
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Schaffe
18 days ago
If you want to feel empowered this morning, here's a gift link of
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
banger article on women seeing through influencer attempts to convince us that we should fear the AI
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...
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Opinion | Is the Era of Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss Finally Over?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opinion/reese-witherspoon-mel-robbins-girlboss-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ilA.cwQj.1ThB2bUj7WKP
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Happy long weekend to all who have one.
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18 days ago
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Paris Marx
19 days ago
Few governments are more pro-AI than the one in the UK, and that’s causing them to ignore a load of risks that come with being dependent on the technology. It was great to chat with
@willdunn.bsky.social
to learn all about it!
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How are the Chinese officials pronouncing Marco’s sanction workaround name , ‘cause Lu can mean many things, including crass, stupid or rude, depending.
19 days ago
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Fledgeling Robin getting lessons in hopping, flying, and … camouflage today. Mama kept watch from a tree above. 🦉
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Kyla Lee
19 days ago
I just published Why a Judge Just Killed Alberta’s Separation Petition
medium.com/p/why-a-judg...
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Why a Judge Just Killed Alberta’s Separation Petition
…and What the “Duty to Consult” Actually Means
https://medium.com/p/why-a-judge-just-killed-albertas-separation-petition-c314b79c29aa?source=social.bluesky
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Canadian Paintings
about 1 month ago
May Day Alex Colville 1970
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albertagirl67 🇨🇦🇺🇦👊🐧🔥
about 1 month ago
Hope they get it done faster than their investigation into Kenney's leadership race. It's not just the privacy breach. Tactic is to use the database of names of eligible voters to populate a petition except these voters don't know they've signed a petition.
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Mar Hicks
about 1 month ago
Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291125010186
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Has there ever been a technology so widely integrated before use cases are developed and harms researched?
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about 1 month ago
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Can’t think of a more sure fire way to get kids to find an alternative source/teach them about lack of privacy when using chats. Hope they all do it.
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about 1 month ago
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
about 1 month ago
If you’re in Kingston (Ontario) and want to see Ghost in the Machine, a critical takedown of AI because of its origins in eugenics (etc), please get your tickets here:
www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/ghost-...
@ghostdoc2026.bsky.social
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Ghost in the Machine
What if the real story of artificial intelligence is not about dazzling new machines, but about the old systems of power and exploitation that shaped them? In director Valerie Veatch’s provocative doc...
https://www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/ghost-in-the-machine
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DrSinBin
about 1 month ago
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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This
#MayDay
#May1
wouldn’t it be great to collectively down AI tools at work, school, home, and on social networks. Don’t use it? Don’t repost it.
about 2 months ago
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PACES Vancouver
about 2 months ago
Our goal is AI out of schools in BC.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...
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I feel sad for the Pakistani officials who were so proud of their mediation role and Islamabad as the site of historic talks.
about 2 months ago
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Iran could score big PR points if they allow ships to leave for the sake of the sailors. Or evacuate them at least. Horrific conditions.
about 2 months ago
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Brendel
about 2 months ago
Extremely annoyed at the amount of AI pics of the astronauts landing when we have actual real cool pictures of it that we should be sharing
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
about 2 months ago
Instead of cuts, if Carney was smart he'd invest $500 million in mRNA research in Canada, propelling us into a leading position in medical research.
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Richard Delevan
2 months ago
Maybe “I will raise electricity prices to build machines that ensure your family’s unemployment and brain rot, help target schoolgirls, and lock your country into neofeudalism under techbros” isn’t good politics. It would be great to see more Dems demonstrate some understanding of this.
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Does announcing talks won’t start until the assault on Lebanon stops count as “playing us”?
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about 2 months ago
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Tim Ellis 🍁
about 2 months ago
Sharing this thread with the afternoon shift mostly because I really enjoyed writing the last post in it lol
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Geoff Brumfiel
about 2 months ago
In the course of reporting this story on censorship over the Iran war, I actually had an experience with using AI that I thought I'd share because I think it illustrates the ongoing promise and problems with the technology. Short 🧵
www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
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How governments have tried to hide information about the Iran war online
Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5775780/us-iran-war-israel-satellite-imagery-planet-vantor-censorship
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“The E Street band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock and roll in dangerous times.” There’s the Bruce that influenced my youth.
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about 2 months ago
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
about 2 months ago
The best way to make women-dominated jobs attractive to men is to pay more for them. Not stupid gimmicks like telling men that care work is actually macho Men join sectors where pay and status are increasing. And pay and status increase when men join those sectors
www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...
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Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men."
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5773327/women-men-jobs-health-care-manufacturing?utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=bsky.app
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Judd Legum
about 2 months ago
One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war
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Desperate attempt to blackmail the UK into sacrificing its cultural industries or just an excuse to scale back?
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about 2 months ago
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So the outcome of this war will be higher consumer prices around the world as shippers pass on the extra costs. Awesome.
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about 2 months ago
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Jon Gambrell
about 2 months ago
APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military official says the country is still attacking
#Iran
, after White House said Israel agreed to ceasefire.
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Brian Finucane
about 2 months ago
Make Ayatollbooth Great Again
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David Hope
about 2 months ago
Transport Canada is seeking feedback on experience of road users with headlight glare. Worth putting your comments in if you have strong feelings about being blinded at night.
tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...
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Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night
Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.
https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 2 months ago
Slightly pursing my lips as I applaud President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner so everyone knows I'm not really supporting him
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Social Media Lab
about 2 months ago
For folks who like to roll up their sleeves and do their own research, we have a curated list of Deepfake Detection Tools for you to try. (If we are missing one, let us know. 🙏)
deepfakestracker.org/digital-fore...
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Digital Forensics – Deepfakes Tracker
Digital Forensics Deepfake Detection Tools Hive Moderation provides multiple deepfake detection tools capable of identifying deepfake images, audio, and videos. Tag(s): Audio, Image, Video DeepFake-O-...
https://deepfakestracker.org/digital-forensics/
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Mumbai hotel has a bunny garden. There, I learned the word “binkying”. It’s like dog zooming, but with air twirling.
#HappyEaster
about 2 months ago
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Leah Litman
2 months ago
may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.
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