Misinformation is harmless, they say, it's just a different POV they say ... "Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5k measles cases in 9 provinces and one territory." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

We need this to penetrate public consciousness. Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

okay i feel attacked

online: it’s bad for us

"The question is whether Grokipedia can succeed not as an alternative to Wikipedia but as a means to delegitimize it. 'Flooding the zone with shit' ... doesn’t necessarily seek to replace institutions of collective knowledge generation; it seeks to deface them." indicator.media/p/grokipedia...

I tend to agree with this. If AI works like its cheerleaders claim/hope it will - replacing whole swathes of human labour - then they need a real economic plan for dealing with the consequences of that. This can only mean heavily redistributing the profits.

If you use Wikipedia, you might have noticed that it isn't cluttered with annoying ads. They depend entirely on donations to remain free & independent. Why not toss them a few bucks? donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

grade 8. 1984. we were *briefly* allowed to play tapes in gym class. we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day. best gym class EVER.

"Tesla did not respond to CBC's questions about Nasser's experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies."" This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns: Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.

lemme get this straight: masked ICE 'agents' with zero ID or badge get to prioritize facial recognition tools - which are notoriously faulty, esp on faces that aren't white males - over people's actual IDs? to seize & disappear Americans? as policy? blink.

soon this admin will have the media fixated on whatever happened to the Bermuda Triangle or quicksand or whatever else was on TV last time Trump was in his right mind. while everything else burns.

Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

Most people cannot imagine how much aggregated data "identity verification platforms" have already assigned to your "persona" and sold to government agencies.

Opinion: Move fast and break things the wrong approach to AI policy www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

me, at store, purchasing heavy cream & chocolate to eat feelings. "hi" cashier: "i can only give you the senior's discount on the cream" my face, spanning denial, anger, bargaining & depression all in two seconds: "..." cashier: "oops" me, hitting the final stage of grief: "ima need more cream"

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

honoured & excited about this upcoming talk for #ReclaimOpen25 :)

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues] Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

huh, it’s almost like Canadians intended to inflict reciprocal harm on American exports to put homegrown political pressure on the Trump admin in favour of free trade.

sigh. NOT a good - or sovereign - path for Canada. we cannot build infrastructure on a crappy US company's advertising copy.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

ANTI FACIAL RECOGNITION

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

The reason they create devices is not to solve a problem but instead to build something that makes you a more perfect stream of data for them to monetize. www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

Edtech platforms "are not neutral 'tools' but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests." Excellent new policy brief on edtech platforms from @nepc.bsky.social and @philnichols.bsky.social

NEW: Neon, an app that pays you to record your calls so your audio can be used to train AI, and already rose to the top #5 free apps on Apple's App Store, has gone offline after a security lapse. We found the app exposed users' phone numbers, call recordings, and text transcripts of those calls.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

ruin a book with a car: Dead Pintos' Society (too plausible?)

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social's latest in the Chronicle - on welcoming AI critics to the table when deliberating on policy - is spot on: www.chronicle.com/article/some...

...and by 'great learning experience' they actually mean 'more content that keeps you clicking' whee wut

Still haven't raptured, this is some bullshit right here

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

we got a rapture coming on the day kimmel is supposed to return to network tv. #rapturetuesday is about to be lit 🔥

OpenAI: oh shit, we're losing gobs of money. Nvidia, help us! Nvidia: why should we help you? OpenAI: if we go out of business, we won't be able to buy your products anymore! Nvidia: solid sustainable business plan for all involved. Here's a boatload of money.

profit, surveillance, & authoritarian destruction of democracy: Thiel all the way down. "Palantir is the corporate backbone of Ice that the agency is relying on for surveillance and deportations"

"The incoherence is the point. Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology."

a small bird flew into my window this morning. i heard the thud. i suspect it died on impact, but the internet said it might be stunned, so to put it in a paper bag for an hour. i did. still dead. now i am playing Mahalia Jackson for a small soft bird funeral. & for this fucking month so far.

Brad Lander and ten other elected officials were arrested inside 26 Federal Plaza after demanding access to observe the 10th floor, where detainees are held. The group staged a sit-in before Federal Protective Service officers moved in with zip ties.

go Pope?

“Chrome’s cheating tool exemplifies Big Tech’s continuing gold rush approach to AI: launch first, consider consequences later and let society clean up the mess.”

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Seeing lots of people talking about canceling their Disney+ subscriptions. If you happen to have some extra money around that used to go to Mickey Mouse... small indie media sites like mine could always use some assistance. Especially these days. www.techdirt.com/support/