That he feels he can say this, publicly, is 100% Doug Ford giving this behaviour his approval. This should be an embarrassing secret bro takes to his grave. The way these people drive & treat others will be related too. The sociopathic lid is off.

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

Политико са разговаряли по телефона с Благомир Коцев. (нишка) 1/10

One reason society is so broken is that suburban life requires elevated extroversion, executive function, and planning ability to fulfill basic needs, at a time when online is rapidly degrading all of these at a population level.

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

You don't say.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Saw a post by an escape room employee saying they have to tell people ChatGPT won't solve the puzzles for them and... the point of an escape room is to use your brain to solve puzzles because it's fun. That is the whole point. What are you paying for

They've lost the 9yos

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/some... 1/n

This is very generous and a nice writeup of some of the tech critical media crowd, including yours truly

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I listened to 202 minutes of those AI-generated podcasts. They were not good. indicator.media/p/this-podca...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN chief warns world leaders that humanity has entered 'an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering.'

According to data provided by Statscan to the OECD, Canada's tertiary education system is experiencing BY FAR the fastest public disinvestment of any country in the developed world. (I am not sure the specific figures are 100% accurate, but the conclusion is still irrefutable)

My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences. And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it. whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

Loved this piece

So Elon has known is father was sexually abusing children for decades and has done virtually nothing about it. Sounds about right. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

It is naive to ask in 2025 what Russia's motives might be for sending fighter jets and drones into NATO territory. The motives are clear – gathering information and testing defensive capabilities and willingness to respond. It is no longer a matter of provocation—these are planned offensive actions.

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.

These are depressing times, but I am so glad that we will get to host an incredible advocate and leader @mcgillghp.bsky.social this fall! @zackieachmat.bsky.social will receive the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity! www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Good 🧵 If they could start at bald-faced eugenics, they would. Extreme positions are mainstreamed via respected sources promoting a highly sanitized version & easing people into the extreme position a bit at a time. The audience may not even need to agree with it to support or participate in it.

Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

This is great news. Interesting that new Canadians are more proud than Canadians born here. I guess they have more exposure to what the rest of the world is like. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

parrot reacts to daily news

Reminder that you can mute key words to effectively cleanse your timeline of hot takes in the aftermath of anything big I find that reading the news on the actual websites of CBC or Guardian etc is much more useful than being inundated with the entire internet’s takes

Преди малко се прибрах с такси и поне три пъти някви коли изгубиха контрол и свистяха спирачки Май има нужда от още закони какво да правят пешеходците

Bizarre assumption on Wright’s part- that AI “listeners” will generate profit for her AI podcasts. Profit here is marketing dollars - are marketing teams going to spend on content that will never reach a human (and therefore never convert to a purchase)?

Something I’ve noticed - our theory that algorithms drive the doomscroll seems incomplete. I end up doomscrolling bsky if I don’t play close attention to usage. Infinite (and often negative) posts, even if not “optimized” for engagement seem to have the same effect

I hate to be a contrarian, but for small and midsize publishers like us, reviews in major newspapers do sell books!

Wild to think that in 2025 and automatic transcription and easy keyword search of audio/video isn’t part of every multimedia post Spotify acquired and Podz in 2021 and scuttled it into a scroll bar. We could’ve made a quick visual scroll of your audio content ubiquitous

New York magazine asked me to explore Roblox and report back on what the hell is going on in there. I found kids are bombarded with covert ads, casino-style manipulation, and nonstop enticements to spend their parents' money. nymag.com/intelligence...

Giving ppl what they want based on what they click on is the opposite of curation, it is the opposite of taste. While ppl obviously will consume it, i think there's like a fatigue that sets in from the audience side. a subconscious realization of like, why am i paying for the thing i'm programming?

My theory is that the arrival of traffic measuring metrics supercharged distrust in media. Yeah, there's clickbait, but I think the real issue is that audiences actually get really tired of being given the thing they signal that they want. Even when its not a race to the bottom, it hurts trust

“Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.” “Most of this technology” came from US companies.

Whoa! From 1998. Still incubated with 35S, hahaha! I remember those days. Mostly analog (bringing your blot to the photographer) photography, but Photoshop was starting to be used in some labs. Can you see the unexpected duplications? #ImageForensics

In my father's poli sci classroom in 1970s Taiwan, he would always call out the 'spy students' in the back: "Take good notes! Spicy bit!" The class would titter. Even the report-maker would look a bit abashed. In this A&M student's righteous "Dear Leader" invocation, there was no shame felt at all.

The AI Darwin Awards are here to catalog the damage that happens when humanity’s hubris meets AI’s incompetence. The simple website contains a list of the dumbest AI disasters from the past year and calls for readers to nominate more. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-darwin-aw...

The nerdiest but honest way to explain iPhone events in 2025: This is how Apple plans to squeeze 1% to 2% incremental growth from a smartphone market that stopped growing years ago. The company is a genius at making money from this kind of dull thinking.

Happy birthday Ruby Bridges, who is only 71 years young. White ppl: “You’re still mad about what your ancestors went through?” Black ppl: “Ancestors?”

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Absolutely terrifying how good deep fakes are now. Watching video is going to become like trying to spot phishing scams in your emails- needing to verify veracity in multiple channels and probably starting to bias against only consuming a public person’s content from their direct channels

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.