Scottish guy living in Costa Rica working for US hedge fund paper tells us to be nice about treason - they're good folks, back off, be respectful. Nada about meetings with US state department officials and $500 mil slush fund or 3 millions stolen addresses/phone numbers. Canadian media in action.

Nation's sports franchises mark Pride Month with the annual closing of the comment section www.thebeaverton.com/2026/06/nati...

Well I guess @maybeitsian.bsky.social will be dusting off a particular hat very soon.

There is not a single mention about the environmental cost of any of this.

hilarious for carney’s AI press conference to be in front of a bunch of medical workers weeks after the ontario auditor general reveal AI “scribes” to transcribe doctor’s appointments are wrong most of the time

This voting is absurd. Just, what are we doing here?

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

a little bit of wonky data center news from me this morning: while other tech companies are pretty explicitly moving away from evaporative cooling, google is defending it in specific watersheds as a necessary part of building sustainable data centers

US entertainment giants have pushed Canada to back down on fees. This is not the kind of thing you agree to before you even get to the table. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/06/03/o...

Our parliament is increasingly just there as a clip factory. The more MPs don't bother doing their actual work, the more they make the case to just be replaced by battle droids who can read the same canned speeches into the record and vote on cue more efficiently.

" But police can tackle a cyclist easier"

Great example of why the Liberals' push for "AI literacy" is misguided. "AI literacy" is a contradiction in terms, these tools are anti-literacy because people use them to offload the tasks that would lead to learning or remembering.

This story is the kind of work that made me want to become a journalist - to be able to bring to light an intimate, human story, something that few know about but that may in time affect all of us. I'm very grateful to my sources in this piece, who made room for me in the midst of their grief:

The longest tenured Habs players in the last 30 years: • Andrei Markov: 990 games • Tomas Plekanec: 984 games • Brendan Gallagher: 911 games The last two players to play 1,000 games with the Habs were Bob Gainey (1986-87) and Larry Robinson (1985-86).

imagine imagine imagine them tackling drivers who roll thru stop signs. Imfuckingmagine.

A force w many ongoing corruption scandals still behaves like goons. Systemic & goes right to the top of the culture. The chief needs to be fired.

Imagine being so unable to love your child that you set fire to the whole damn world instead.

Brendan Gallagher's place in the Canadiens record book: Regular season: 919 GP - 13th all-time. 246G - 14th all-time. 487P - 26th all-time.

Also, this is correct. Alberta has long told itself that it is The West, as if the country ended at the Rockies. bsky.app/profile/maxf...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

...I can't process this Gallagher news ATM. I was someone who pumped his tires from his draft day in 2010. Spent 2 years following his WHL stats and taking on people online who said he was too small for the NHL. I was PUMPED when he made the jump and just never looked back.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

It can make a bass run in 12 parsecs

iPervs coming to an Apple Store near you.

The most useless stat of MTL's 2025-26 season (including playoffs) The record of my jerseys by W-L-OTL this season: Hutson: 19-5-2 Suzuki: 8-4-3 Slafkovsky: 6-3-4 Markov: 10-4-2 Koivu: 6-6-0

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Adult who stands outside elementary schools with weird signs about children and gender claims the new leader of the BC Conservatives privately affirmed her position on a question of public policy to him during an in-person meeting:

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Getting kind of tired of self-styled serious people confidently asserting that data centre water use is a made up issue.

Transphobia is rape culture instance #5435788 www.advocate.com/news/crime/o...

The way these "AI checkers" work is very, very simple. It feeds part of the text into an LLM. If the LLM predicts, correctly, the missing text, it scores that as proof the LLM produced the text. And LLM's literally stole *every fucking book and forum post ever fucking written* to train on.

My most consistent unpopular opinion - an argument I've lost many times in the past 35 years - is that Pride is for the community & the community does not benefit from the parasitic involvement of corporate fair weather friends.

Someone follow up with book buyers at the big retailers (who shape a *lot* of what is seen) — Walmart, target, Barnes and noble, Amazon — ask the actual people who are buying books for their stores why they’re not pushing for more lgbtq+ stories bc buyers are immensely powerful in this conversation

1) Many times, asylum claimants who are rejected on first instance are granted status on appeal. Rejected doesn’t mean fraudulent. 2) If you think Canadian taxpayers should get these “luxury” benefits, then maybe you should talk to your premier instead of being a racist goon.

All this is simply justifying a lack of municipal reporting. Strong mayors powers are antidemocratic. You don't need AI to help you discover this.

"We built a computer program" isn't the same as "we used generative AI in our reporting." Why do managers, regardless of industry, all sound the same?

Canada Post is a *service*. No news agency ever asks how much the fire department lost. Nobody ever asks how much money the police lost. This is irresponsible journalism. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

For one last time this season, my article for @thehockeynews on last night's game as the Canadiens were eliminated by the Hurricanes: thehockeynews.com/nhl/montreal... #GoHabsGo #CH #Canadiens #Habs #THN

The last 10 years in a nutshell: Nazi: I’m a Nazi! Media: Outspoken Man Touts Unconventional Ideas Nazi: No, I’m just a Nazi. Media: Meet the Dapper White Nationalist Who— Nazi: No, seriously! I’m quoting Mein Kampf! I love Hitler! Media: Why Both Sides Have an Extremist Problem.

Gee I wonder why women and girls are less inclined to use tools that were popularized via their ability to create fake nude photos of women and girls

I wish this sketch were 1/3 as well known as “Are We the Baddies?” Especially in the age of AI. I mutter “bloody hell, now I’m offended” two or three times a week youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE?...

For the potential last game of the Eastern Conference Final, the league deploys a Game Management specialist. I wish we could enjoy the sport as it is, w/o the league putting their thumb on the scale because they don't believe the game sells itself.

Perspective regardless of tonight's result: Over the last 5 years, the only other Eastern Conference teams to make the ECF are TBL, FLA, NYR and CAR. MTL's rebuild could not have gone better in this short a time span. Take some lessons and come back next year if that's what it takes.

In case you still haven't caught on. The explosions are intentional but not in the way you think. They're getting huge government contracts, spending one tenth of it making a trash firework, then they'll go back to the well end take more taxpayer money. This is not a new scam. Space X does this too

According to one outreach worker, staff at Sanctuary Toronto and PASAN (a harm Reduction/HIV/HCV organization) have all been told they can’t do their work, which includes handing out snacks, water, toiletries and sometimes harm reduction equipment, at Union Station.

This isn’t a new phenomenon: During Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, the city cleared homeless people near the Rogers Centre, moving them into hotels and available shelters. In another instance, an encampment was cleared to make space for a Pride event that was raising funds to fight homelessness.

Several of Toronto's outreach workers worry about a crackdown on homeless people that may already be happening ahead of the 2026 World Cup. People report being ticketed for loitering, searched and told to leave for hanging around, and allege violence from private security guards.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes