“I just blue myself.”

Online gaming giants including DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics, and Bet365 are funding a web of U.S. super PACs that support candidates in favour of less industry regulation. The PACs don’t disclose their ties to the companies. www.sportico.com/business/spo...

dumb trade. sorry.

Google AI: Yesterday’s Canada v. South Africa match drew 19M viewers. Me: Interesting! Hey, Google, please tell me which news outlet reported yesterday’s match drew 19M viewers. Google AI: Idiot That number is from a completely different match. Ratings aren’t in yet! Me: [stifles scream]

Google’s AI Overview has decided Vancouver’s BC Place is going to host “the highly anticipated Bronze Final” of the World Cup on July 18, instead of Miami. I guess there is something more powerful than FIFA, after all!

Or, you know, you could just not buy from Amazon at all.

"Misogyny is at the heart of the worst mass violence in recent Canadian history ... Yet it’s still somehow controversial to note that misogyny is the common denominator in so much violence" www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @lizrenzetti.bsky.social

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

The wealthiest man in the world posts utter fictions at a machine-gun pace to his no-choice audience of tens of millions. These fictions cause deadly race riots in UK, terrible crises in many countries, and here justify his destruction of the org that solves these very problems

Some of what the Ontario government doesn't want you to know: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thoughts on Capitulation Day. This level of defeat in Iran is only possible at the hands of a super loser like Trump. To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. Read more: snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...

Local soccer officials expect the World Cup to bring a surge of interest in the sport. But that growth can’t happen without training, and retaining, a new generation of refs—the perpetually ignored, often abused officials who make the games work. thelocal.to/soccer-refer...

Lost access to Anthropic’s AI models highlights risk of relying on U.S. tech, Canadian experts say (along with anyone else who’s been paying attention for the past year and a half). www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

yay…?

"wealth inequality is growing in dimensions that we’ve never seen before." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/t...

Kind of classy! TTC welcomes fans of Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal (and all other Francophones).

Very nicely done, @tsnofficial.bsky.social youtu.be/PWRwM8fHFKs?...

Never mind what I said, kids - keep using your phones! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...

Looks like Ottawa just capitulated to U.S. streamers over C-11, tacitly agreeing with the MPA Canada argument that the CRTC's Online Streaming Act stipulations would be costs passed onto consumers. Essentially: Canadian government just lost its spine. www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

What would I like to draft with Copilot, you ask? A program that eliminates all of these goddamned AI-promoting prompts I’ve suddenly been getting from every piece of software.

"Irresponsible use [of AI in journalism] needs to be treated as seriously as any other act of fabrication. If it isn’t, it’s a tacit admission that these professional ethics are meaningless." - @michellecyca.com on 🔥 about the NYT's not-small AI hallucination whoopsie thewalrus.ca/the-new-york...

France is phasing out Zoom and Microsoft tools by 2027 over data-access risks tied to the US Cloud Act, which allows American firms to seize data stored anywhere. Legal scholars warn Canada’s digital future is at serious risk, but political will to act remains tepid. https://ow.ly/nM6M50YXuLC

Yes. And thousands of seats to that same game are also for sale *at face value* on the FIFA ticket site (and its official reselling Marketplace). Which would seem to make it rather unlikely that any of these crazily priced tickets actually sell.

Seven people died from poisoned Tylenol in 1982, and for more than 4 decades every pill in America has been sold in tamper proof bottles.

The Canadian government can recall a coffee mug that might crack or a kettle that might explode, notes @vassb.bsky.social, but with AI - which has demonstrated time and again its propensity to make dangerous errors - we seem to be, like, 🤷‍♂️ www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

“Increasingly it is the case that before you even get to publication, lawsuits come raining down on you" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Thrilled, honoured, tickled to be nominated alongside these rockstars. Huge congrats to @bkstar.bsky.social, Tavia, @jenstden.bsky.social, the CTV team.

Just wait ‘til they crack open Genesis (and Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy…).

Step 1: Delete ChatGPT.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

After years of covering misinformation, investigative journalist Justin Ling has reached a stark conclusion: “There is no amount of fact checking, media literacy, or platform moderation to solve the extent of this problem.” What comes after defeat? https://ow.ly/x0K650YC4LL

I want a universal extension for my phone and computer that gets rid of all these garbage idiot AI "tools" I did not ask for and want no part of. No, I do not need you to summarize a four-page PDF for me, eff off! God help us all if we can't process such things with our own mushy, wet human brains.

If Mark Carney wants to ever utter the words "cultural sovereignty" again (and who knows, maybe he doesn't), then the Liberals cannot allow Hollywood to steamroll over the Online Streaming Act/Bill C-11. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

The Ontario government seems scared of transparency. It doesn’t want its citizens to know about the lobbyists, policy advisors, experts or wing-nuts it talks to when it makes its decisions. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.

US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, requests an apology from The Globe and Mail for a column by Cathal Kelly about the US men’s Olympic hockey team at the State of the Union. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

"Bulk of the misinformation about the conflict with Iran ... came from monetized Verified accounts" on X, which get paid by views regardless of accuracy. Media need to boycott X, it's beyond irresponsible at this point to provide it any sheen of legitimacy: www.garbageday.email/p/sorry-babe...

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3

CBC announces 8.7-million Canadians watched the winning OT goal for the men’s gold medal hockey game yesterday. But in a change from longstanding practice, it doesn’t release average-minute-audience figures for the Milan Cortina broadcasts - only snapshots for the 10 “most-watched moments.”

Wow. And when National Observer declares this filmmaker antisemitic, they link to a video where dude literally blames Jews for societal decay and begins listing wealth Canadian Jewish men.

A doctor friend says they should make a special beta blocker for national moments like this. They could call it Canadolol.

My mother was a nine year old refugee when she came to this country. She and her sister spoke no English. There were no ESL classes then. But good teachers in the small town of Barrhead where they lived taught them, and taught them well. They all became voracious readers with beautiful diction.