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If other news was reported like climate change:

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

Discovered a new source of kinetic energy.

Sumer is icumen in So you better get this party started

every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence

Hate often spreads by dividing people into “us” and “them.” For 30 years, MediaSmarts has helped Canadians push back through digital media literacy education. Support this work and our 30th anniversary with a donation today: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/9910

The conversation I have had with each of my kids: "if you *ever* run into a problem online and you think you're in trouble, you can *always* come talk to me about it, and if you think I will be upset about a choice you made just start out by saying 'I may need some help.'" And I will take that...

I guess Tom Hanks never played Diplomacy.

I personally prefer a chronological feed, but let's not kid ourselves that it isn't an "algorithm." It's just an algorithm that's 100% weighted to a single input (recency) and, as a result, would be incredibly easy to game if it were made mandatory. If you think you see a lot of slop now...

Hel-LO! Come in, come in, come in

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

Recognizing deepfakes by sight alone is a losing strategy. Instead, it's far more effective to use media literacy skills to evaluate the source, context, and credibility of content. Solving this technical problem requires a more humanities-based approach.

Okay so I read the whole working paper behind this claim. I’m going to accept the causal analysis as-is and explain why I still don’t think this makes sense. Starting with: the comparison is between counties with vs. without lots of iPhone network coverage, NOT owning vs. not owning an iPhone 🧵

Even if this is true... We're talking about a drop in TEEN births. Whatever the cause, that's a good thing.

It's incredible that the entire panic over "ultra-processed foods" is based on the results of just *five* RCTs, four of which were less than three weeks long. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Common Sense Media survey of teens/tweens and AI is out. More evidence (not that we need it) that helping students understand how LLMs work is crucial. In my (college) writing course about AI, we begin there. /1

"2.5 billion gallons" sounds like a lot but is about 2 tenths of 1% of the amount of water (approx 5 million acre-feet per year) used to grow almonds just in California. www.c-win.org/cwin-water-b...

Misinformation in service of your cause seems like a good deal initially, but always ends up corrupting those who use it. It is in some ways more damaging to those who spread it than those who they seek to persuade bc it takes their well intentioned and needed energy and directs it to phantom harms.

I'm glad to see Brendan being consistent here in calling this out, I've been surprised that many people who have talked about misinformation and public policy in the past have sort of sat this one out, on an issue that is very important to get right.

Canada is getting ready to ban social media for kids under 16. The quote going around by cabinet minister Marc Miller: "it's obvious why it's a priority. Kids are dying." Every death by suicide is a tragedy but the numbers don't support this claim. I pulled Statistics Canada data to illustrate: 🧵

I’m sure some people use “Epstein Class” in good faith, to describe unaccountable elites who abuse their position and are protected illegitimately by a corrupt system, but, I gotta say, some people clearly mean “Jews,” and other people are at least reckless about whether it sounds like “Jews.”

Dropping a Popcorn Disabilities this Monday. The new SCARY MOVIE brought back Doofy and it was a great opportunity for me to talk about the "disabled fake out" trope in movies, and why the new movie undoes everything cool it created. [Gold Film Mavens] thefilmmaven.com/doofy-scary-...

“For the first time, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas worldwide in April 2026.” [ember-energy.org]

Did you know that some of our lesson plans come with plug and play video versions? We’ve designed them for teachers to present with minimal prep time (which just might come in handy around the end of the school year!). Here’s one for Grades 3-5: https://ow.ly/vtbj50Z8bmo

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

Youth for Responsible AI is a 12-week global fellowship for people aged 16–28 who want to do real, structured work on responsible AI. It's free, fully remote, open globally, and, importantly, it doesn't require any prior AI experience. youthforresponsibleai.com

🚨 Intellectual humility = key tool against AI misinformation! "Individuals with higher humility scores rated pseudoscientific content as significantly less credible, while showing no correlation with credibility assessments of accurate content." Study (preprint): arxiv.org/html/2606.03...

"Ultra processed food" is the physical manifestation of "screen time"

While @romanmars.bsky.social is launching 100 Objects, I'm hosting @99pi.org this week! To celebrate, we have our most shamelessly Canadian episode yet, courtesy of producer max collins. Hope you like it! 99percentinvisible.org/episode/669-...

this is my kind of company motto right here

Happy Pride Month from Krypton!

Nuthatch. An older comic.

We are so thankful to the parent who allowed us to share their story. "Trust, Betrayal, and Child Exploitation, A True Story Of A Hidden Predator Within the Family Circle" www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/trust-b...

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i wrote about motion capture, animation, and bodies in games for TEEN VOGUE! it's very excited to have a byline at a magazine that i've been reading since i was teen✨ www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...

the fact that a percentage of americans believed, and then *un*believed in climate change, suggests to me that not talking about climate change is obviously not the answer as beliefs and policy wants are shaped, not taken as given

Rare Saturday morning cartoon...I mean YT video! For years now people have wondered if corporations are secretly spying on their conversations using their phone mics. Recently, some companies claimed to have that ability. Turns out, they were SCAMMING other companies! skepchick.org/2026/05/is-y...

Checking to see if the vampire is available this afternoon Pre-interview with the vampire Interview with the vampire Just one more question by email for the vampire Fact-checking the vampire Sorry we didn't use any of your quotes, vampire

So, despite all the ideologically fuelled fearmongering and spin by people like Vinay Prasad et al, THIS...👇 No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

On social media you can IMMEDIATELY see: -whether people like what you’re saying -exactly how much they like it compared to other ideas -what they’re saying about it -what they’d prefer you to say -how they perceive you for having said it The instinct to reshape yourself in response is overpowering

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

It's a testament to how ingrained reading left-to-right is (if your first language reads that way) that when I saw this picture, I assumed the poster was starstruck from meeting Weird Al... Each medium has a unique aesthetic form Audiences negotiate meaning #DMLKeyConcepts

Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” was originally published in 1993. An immediate critical and commercial success, it went on to become the most widely cited book about comics. Among comics scholars, McCloud's opus is both beloved and widely debated. 1/10

There are only two seasons in Canada, Windchill and Humidex

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

The only scientifically accurate depiction of Helen of Troy is in Larry Gonick's "Cartoon History of the Universe." Everyone else is just a coward.

In case you were wondering, the "anxious generation" of teens is more likely to report a life satisfaction rating of 8, 9 or 10 than anyone in the three next older decades (25-54) www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-60...