Expanding the Feed the Cat livestream to rescue more! www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

307: The Feed Is Not a Movement open.substack.com/pub/metaview...

A short history of saving the world savingtheworldpod.transistor.fm

Accentism for profit? What Telus is getting wrong about accents theconversation.com/accentism-fo...

1,700+ pre-installed operating systems, ready to run virtualosmuseum.org

Cuba Girds for Invasion as Trump Launches Raúl Castro Indictment Amid Punishing Blockade open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Security envelope (inner) patterns dirt.fyi/article/2026...

5 reasons Stephen Colbert is one of the most important satirists in American history theconversation.com/5-reasons-st...

Shadowy digital libraries want to hold all the world’s knowledge and give it away for free. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...

Quiz www.atvbt.com/youre-weirde...

Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum -- after a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to scrap our current view of the condition and start again www.newscientist.com/article/2525...

Anti-Dystopia open.substack.com/pub/futuresl...

The Labour of Presence comment.org/the-labour-o...

Puppet theatres like the Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University are staging contemporary interpretations of vertep, reflecting on the events and effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine theconversation.com/the-puppet-s...

Voices: A New Model for Digital Dialogue on Israel-Palestine open.substack.com/pub/dpsorg/p...

Meta has been fairly silent, save for a small acknowledgement on an Instagram Q&A with Meta’s CTO, Andrew Bosworth. (Spoiler alert: Bosworth thinks users should do a better job of reading its terms of service). gizmodo.com/can-smart-gl...

contrived "anthems" for a contrived drive to separatism. If only the AI were in the right order in Machiavellian so i could do something clever with it..... theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...

Fertility rates are falling across much of the world, dropping from roughly five births per woman in the 1960s to a global average of 2.2 in 2024. The shift is reshaping long-term population growth, economic outlooks, and age demographics worldwide www.visualcapitalist.com/fertility-ra...

Overcoming the AI Wisdom Gap by Dana Humaid Al Marzouqi, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/brSYPE5?refe...

AI adoption by country in 2026 www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-ai-ad...

Warning Shot open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Bouncing back? nymag.com/intelligence...

AI-powered voice and audio tools can be “hijacked” through imperceptible sounds embedded in audio, forcing them to execute unauthorized commands without a user’s knowledge spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-aud...

Even Granta: futurism.com/artificial-i...

everything goes great in these types of demos until the moment something unexpected happens, like the robot in today’s viral video tripping on the step. futurism.com/robots-and-m...

Overcoming the AI Wisdom Gap by Dana Humaid Al Marzouqi, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/brSYPE5

The Fall of the American Empire open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Pickle Meets Petard -- Danielle Smith and the Separation question open.substack.com/pub/davidmcl...

CBC pausing production on satirical Indigenous "Northland Tales" show after complaints from current and former Conservative politicians www.castanet.net/news/Canada/...

Cartoon Network browser games www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-e...

Empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhood, circle cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’ theconversation.com/is-ai-really...

Perfectly Aligning AI’s Values With Humanity’s Is Impossible. Maybe the best we can do is make “neurodiverse” systems that challenge each other spectrum.ieee.org/ai-alignmen

Pope Leo has identified AI as one of the most critical matters facing humanity, especially its application in warfare and everyday life. They are themes he’s expected to explore more fully in his first encyclical, due to be released in the coming weeks. www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Has New Music Become Less Popular? open.substack.com/pub/statsign...

When words look like their meaning, we process them faster, new research reveals -- iconicity theconversation.com/when-words-l...

Victoria Uber Drivers negotiate Canada's first ride-hailing app worker Collective Agreement, get wage bonuses, wellness fund thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

World Cup 2026 soccer ball carries “connected-ball technology” that lets computers know when the ball is kicked, helping with offside decisions. theconversation.com/we-tested-th...

January 2021, the Healing Verse Poetry Line in Philadelphia launched. It's a toll-free 24/7 phone line (1-855-POEMRX2) that anyone can call to listen to a 90-second poem and learn about mental health resources. theurbanactivist.com/health/poetr...

interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interac...

What Autocrats Have in Common With Abusers www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/o...

Secure messaging service Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption, is warning it would withdraw from Canada if asked to compromise its users’ privacy under Bill C-22, Ottawa’s proposed lawful access legislation www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/16fdc50...

Gen Z are a bunch of cowards…or are they risking it all on crypto? The editors of The New Critic report on their generation’s Risk-geist asteriskmag.com/issues/14/th...

Judge quashes Alberta separatist petition, saying the provincial government had a duty to consult with First Nations www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Are movies becoming more simplistic? open.substack.com/pub/stephenf...

Alberta's False Claims on Trans Health Care thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.

Here's the Key to Understanding Trump's Chaos thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

When it comes to AI Scribe, the AI note taking software made available to healthcare professionals through government-approved vendors, the auditor found that there are sometimes serious errors in terms of the notes that are generated. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

In March 2026 Ottawa passed Bill C-12, a sweeping asylum reform barring people from making refugee claims if more than a year had elapsed since their first entry into Canada. The law is retroactive to June 24, 2020, and applies to claims made on or after June 3, 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...