this is the craziest thing I've read in a long time???? Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year, $16 billion, came from scams. Meta intentionally charges the scammers MORE and knows that people who click on scams are more likely to see more of them www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Canadian govt is committing money to recruit researchers from the US and elsewhere to Canadian universities. Includes grad students too!

Just remember, the Liberals supported this too. If they think this will attract more researchers to Canada, they are smoking the dope they legalized. And once again, just like animal research, why is it @picardonhealth.bsky.social who needs to raise this publicly and not @u15ca.bsky.social

On the 20th anniversary of that debate, I wrote about that line from the debate for @publicseminar.bsky.social. publicseminar.org/essays/why-b...

One thing i always remember about betting markets is that there used to be international spreads on teams (people betting on the home team) and that this is still a feature of the current markets

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

And if you reckon banks have moderated their behaviour post-financial crisis, get this: US loans to private equity and credit funds have jumped by 60 per cent between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of this year. To almost half a trillion dollars.

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Ghoulish, evil, intentional malice

I don’t care if a lot of recruits can’t run a mile but I do care that we don’t seem to have much for young people to dream of and work towards but enactor of state violence or grifter, and even the idea of putting in effort to achieve an outcome feels sour

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Beef is just crazy expensive rn, especially compared to other commodities

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

It's simply ending the partnership between government and academia that drove the most successful era of science anywhere ever. There's no eternal rule that required this system, it was a just a specific, creative innovation that worked. It seems wr will learn its value the hard way now.

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

American media has been manufacturing parasocial reactionaries for decades. Limbaugh, Beck, Shapiro, Jones, Carlson, Hannity, etc. The importance of these figures is not ideological purity, consistency, inventiveness, etc. It’s that they keep you company in your cab, your cubicle, on your commute.

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

New pub: @culturalstudies.bsky.social has just posted the interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm re: Fossil Capital, the development of his thought, and plenty more. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

Whoopsie. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

One of Australia’s worst exports: consultants Nous are wrecking Canadian universities nationalpost.com/feature/how-...

70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

Being a hater is delightfully human too. The chatbot will only ever flatter the user!

Hard to overstate how badly this’ll screw over international doctoral students across the US.

DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci). 🐋🌱

Can I recommend a book by @drewmckevitt.bsky.social because “gun capitalism” is key to understanding all of this uncpress.org/978146967724...

Can’t say enough about how people just want to live, and everything about our society is aimed at making that impossible

Remember: LLM-based chatbots are tuned deliberately to produce outputs like this, in the service of keeping users' attention and encouraging them to pay real money

🎯 "...the same groups advising on how to disarm the intergenerational economic bombs that have started to explode are the same groups that helped set them... productivity is determined by owners and managers, yet workers are always expected to pay the price." Sound familiar Canada?

“Think of Gloo as something like Salesforce but for churches: a behavioral analytics platform, powered by church-­generated insights, psychographic information, and third-party consumer data.”

In an almost unthinkable display of conflict-of-interest, a former Air Canada legal counsel, Maryse Tremblay, will rule on whether to end job action by striking Air Canada flight attendants at the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

“Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage”

The union called a decision by the CIRB chair Maryse Tremblay to not recuse herself from handling the case a “staggering conflict of interest,” since she had worked as a senior counsel for Air Canada in the past. Tremblay’s LinkedIn says she served as Air Canada’s counsel from 1998 to 2004.

This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

The girl's principal penned a letter seeking her release: “She is a kind, respectful, and dedicated young lady. Her unexpected removal will cause significant disruption to her learning and will likely have a deep emotional impact on her classmates and our entire school community."

I've been hearing rumous of parents being detained with young kids at ICE checks for weeks now, but this is the first example I've been able to confirm thanks to the bravery of Martha's partner and 21-year-old son who spoke with me.

ICE detained a 7-year-old, her mother and 19-year-old brother at a check in at 26 Federal Plaza this week. The Queens mother and daughter have already been shipped to Texas while the 19-year-old is on is how at a detention center in NJ. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/f...

As universities like OSU pile onto the AI bandwagon, they’d do well to heed Cliff Ando’s warning.

New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.

Our dept @iccit-utm.bsky.social is hiring an associate or full prof of organizational studies! ICCIT is a great place to teach and research. I adore my colleagues and our brilliant, ambitious students. More details here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa... @utoronto.ca @uoftmississauga.bsky.social

Touch screens on cars worsen response time significantly worse than drink driving or being high: www.wired.com/story/why-ca...

What I'm seeing more and more is that AI is somehow worse for the people who use it frequently than I could have anticipated earlier this year, and one of the strongest arguments I can think of against it is what it does to them

if you're reporting on the UCLA shakedown, you should ask the gov. what the legal basis for the $1 billion demand is. if they point to title VI, ask how a billion dollar demand squares with the limited remedies available by law. if they say the False Claims Act, ask which specific contracts.

Again, you cannot unplug 1/4-1/5 of an R1 university's budget & expect the same quantity or quality of "things" on campus. The math simply doesn't work. And pretending it does & we can uphold our "core values," & not talking loudly & publicly about how it doesn't, is not a strategy. It's madness.

When you say "AI is absolute shit" people will say "that shows you don't understand AI and how it's supposed to be used" and I will say "I'm not talking about AI in some imaginary rainbow world where it's used right and not fecklessly monetized, I'm talking about our world, fucknuts."

truer words have never been written: "A very large percentage of the many troubles encountered in duplicating work result from lack of practical knowledge, inexperience and improper application." #zines #spiritduplicator #othernetworks munk.org/projects/dup...