The danger of how sensitive social media algorithms are is highlighted by the fact that yesterday, I idly clicked on a random Tweet that crossed my feed and saw the OP was part of eating disorder Twitter; and today, my feed is totally inundated with “thinspo” pro-anorexia posts.

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.

there will come a day when there are no more presses, and I will miss them. beautiful machines, beautiful to hold a newspaper in your hands. digital isn’t and has never been the same.

not like that

well that’s devastating

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

I’d like to go back in time to 2013 when I was moved to sports and assigned as the Goldeyes reporter and so had to learn the sport of baseball, and not do that

oh my god

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

peak baseball is indistinguishable from the feeling of hitting your head against a cement wall

sports was a mistake

time for a world series walkoff hbp

guys don’t have any agency over childbirth, we have agency over whether or not a backup catcher hits a home run if we just yell at the television more.

How Canada is doing

stop manifesting 18 innings with your posts, you don’t really want that

JAYS FAN THREW THE WORLD SERIES HR BALL BACK

oh no

Real final boss stuff here with Ohtani third up

okay, where in Winnipeg are people watching the game

To mark Media Literacy Week, we wrote about how these amazing kids launched their own school paper — an effort teachers hope will prepare them to navigate the wider media world in which they will soon be immersed.

Well I stayed up until almost 3am but at least it wasn't worth it.

It’s okay, Jays. You’ll get ‘em in game four, which starts ten minutes from now.

Awesome that every search engine and major social media site is forcing AI news summaries onto everyone // Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

"We have stories of women giving birth actually in the rubble, beside the road." Andrew Saberton, an executive director at UN Population Fund (UNFPA) described the “sheer devastation” that he witnessed on his most recent travel to Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This is so devastating. Danya was an incredible teacher of the sport on YouTube — I watched him for years, and got beyond excited every time he posted anything new. It really felt like he was our friend Danya making us fall in love with chess. Heartbreaking.

To anyone who has spent more than five minutes in Ukraine, or frankly just knows anything about the language dynamics there, the entire “Russian speakers should naturally be part of Russia” just makes your eye uncontrollably twitch for how divorced from reality it is

Trump’s raging inability to hold any position longer than his last phone call is unmatched. He is the most influence-able person on the planet.

Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."

Chicago No Kings

I wrote a love letter to making soup, because I don’t know the weather put me in that kind of mood www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

For @spitfirenews.com, I found that increasingly realistic AI-generated videos are being deployed to harass, smear, and create endless offensive content of influencers, whose likenesses are already readily available online. It’s happening to private figures, too. spitfirenews.com/p/ai-generat...

There is simply no better writer at summing up the Internet and its place in this moment. This is like a thesis statement for the state of the modern world.

Can we please not act like Japan hasn’t had cheap matcha-flavoured everything for many, many years

Story call-out: I'm looking to speak with someone in Manitoba who can describe a specific personal or professional occasion in which they were impacted by misinformation, or lack of media literacy.

Sort of as an aside to the news of Justin Trudeau canoodling with Katy Perry, I’m reminded how certain discourse about him revealed how totally people are submerged in their media bubbles

am making a career transition to full-time generative media AI hater. this weekend’s column www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

A couple weeks ago, I had the incredible chance to visit Bolivia with a team from the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation, to learn about work they’re supporting that is led by — and bringing economic self-determination to — Bolivian women. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

these “divisive issues” are always like, “would Jesus want us to round up poor immigrants, tear them away from their children and throw them in camps,” and it’s really hard to read the Bible and come to any conclusion other than “no, seems like not”

Kyiv being hit hard tonight, drones and missiles. An acquaintance’s apartment was hit by a Shahed; thankfully she’s ok. Watching from afar hurts. So does knowing I couldn’t handle one more of these nights if I’d stayed. Please, all, stay safe.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

the “but my taxpayer dollars!!” people continue to find fascinating uses for taxpayer dollars

Safeway canada really calling me out

Heartbreaking. Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’m on a work trip to Bolivia. This is my first time seeing macaws in the wild. I absolutely cannot understand the first person who listened to the noise these things make and said “yeah, I want that in my house.” The most hideous, ear-splitting racket outside my hotel room window every morning

I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.

yeah we noticed that

An open letter, to the children: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.