Humanitarian assistance, as reported by Development Assistance Committee countries, fell by 35.8% compared to 2024.

A concrete step was taken to reduce international influence on local politics on X... And Musk intervienes to stop it.

This is criminal corruption at its simplest form. CGD estimated that 1.6 million people are dying because of those sudden and illegal cuts to promised (and signed) humanitarian aid. And that's per year. No accountability in USA. www.reuters.com/world/elon-m...

🤖 De nombreux Canadiens se tournent vers l’IA pour des questions de santé. Charles Dupras, professeur de bioéthique était interrogé par le Devoir.

Just attended an excellent talk by Benoît Dupont on AI & cybercrime. He analyzed 160+ threads from elite cybercriminal forums, sharing real excerpts that revealed a fascinating tension: hackers exploring how to exploit AI while worrying it might replace them. arxiv.org/abs/2602.14783

Luckily for him, Dave completed a Prompt Engineering class on YouTube before his mission.

One of the biggest ad agency in #israel doing their disinformation for the government. I don't think they care about what a VPN is or what a genocide means. Take a look at their ad on YouTube.

#GoodNews : #Wind and #solar generated a record 30% of EU electricity, higher than #fossil power for the first time on record. EU solar generation reached in 2025 was 20% higher than last year. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

While NGOs face global skepticism and budget cuts, it is tempting to feed donors the simple solutions they crave. This article challenges that impulse. It offers a sharp, accessible critique of slacktivism and virtue signalling, pushing us instead toward a much-needed root cause analysis.

This is a horrifying report on the consequences of gutting out the largest humanitarian fund in the world: #USAID. It is now estimate that the consequence of suddenly and illegally cutting all contracts / funding to be between 500 000 and 1 000 000 death annually. This is psychopath behaviour.

This is an excellent news. A standard to stop illegal web scraping by AI companies. "The RSL Collective says more than 1,500 media organizations and brands now support RSL." www.theverge.com/news/841222/...

A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.

The mysteries of the gut-brain relationship.

This is the most #paywall homepage that I can think of. Can the reader confirm if they have the same warm welcome when they go to www.meta.com

My latest research on LLM grooming, co-authored with @ninajankowicz.com and @garymarcus.bsky.social, found that OpenAI's so-called "reasoning" o3 model cited Pravda network content 26.8% of the time in response to specific prompts. This research got cited today in a column by the Financial Times:

Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now

The Trump administration has promised to distribute food aid before it spoils. But 500 tons of emergency food in a U.S. warehouse are about to expire and are slated for the incinerator, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.

“A patient came to me asking if he should wait to have his cancer that was diagnosed treated in a few years because he believes that AI will customize cancer treatments for patients…I had to convince him why he should have treatment now.”

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

I rarely share memes, but when I do:

Why is this level of misinformation allowed - to advertisers? A fake picture of the prime minister of Canada and a fake national news article. The ad makes an a link redirect to another site. For context, Google usually doesn't like it when a website redirects traffic to another domain.

Over 300,000 deaths — already. A model by health economist Dr. brookeenichols.bsky.social shows that the sudden termination of 83% of USAID’s global health programs has led to massive loss of life — especially among children. Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard 1/4

This is a important step to stop tech giants from taxing the web. "Gonzalez Rogers also says that Apple “willfully” chose not to comply with her previous injunction from her original 2021 ruling. “That [Apple] thought this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation"

This is one of the most passionate and inspiring interview I heard in a while. Thanks @lexfridman.bsky.social for this amazing insight into a true creator's mind. It reminded me everything I cherished from my years in video production. open.spotify.com/episode/3umq...

“In 2019 I called out the gods of Silicon Valley. Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk,” I said in my closing statement. “I was wrong. You are not gods. You are men and you are careless … You are collaborators. You are complicit in a regime of fear and cruelty.” www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Canadian Youtube ads during Trump's yesterday's speech were wild! It's getting worst.

US got an hostile business takeover and it is firing its employees, suing its critiques and extends its power at unprecedented levels - in the name of freedom. 1/3

I have a question for IT security / infosec folks in US: Would you qualify the current situation in US as one of the largest security breach in US?

A bit of good #AI news from #Europe. Unacceptable risks should be unacceptable! They have an example list: techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/a...

To American media: please stop inviting legal analysts to understand Trump's noise. This is a dictatorship playbook. You need another line up of experts. They are already covering other authoritarian regimes, they can help out.

Waw, we now have #ads that are saying plainly: it's OK to use #AI to cheat at #school. No subtext here, just as simply as possible and targeted to kids. This is a running a Grammarly ad on YouTube : youtu.be/c7BTS7QOEDM?... Share and discuss the disgust. #edtech

“a billionaire, backed by the world’s very richest man, comes to power” Oxfam America’s senior policy lead, Rebecca Riddell, tells Devex. “This is oligarchy in action, and we have to be prepared for it to fan the flames of inequality globally.”

It's a relief because I needed a simple way to send my money to Trump to buy bits and pieces of the US government. With $1 million per ticket to the inauguration of the throne, we couldn't do it quickly enough. Now, government corruption can go at the speed of Web 3.0. To live progress.

#Trump on #TikTok at his victory rally: "we’re not putting up any money. All we’re doing is giving them the approval without which they don’t have anything." "So, whether you like TikTok or not, we’re gonna make a lot of money." Don't mind any security concerns, you can simply pay up. #sellout

US will soon formalize its position as a "for-profit country". It's impressive what can be done when people are willing to sell their freedom. They will discover that they can't easily buy it back, as private companies are holding power without public accountability.

YouTube ads are toxic, mega thread. (Feel free to upload your worst ads in this thread, as those are not archived on YouTube)

Waw, Google: advertisement is literally your main job... Front page scam on YouTube. For those who are curious: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

"Some 48 developing countries spend more on interest [on loans] than they do on education or health, according to the UN’s trade and development arm, UNCTAD. That’s a quarter of the world’s countries, home to more than 40% of the global population." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

"In a video, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the decision was a matter of promoting free speech while also calling fact-checkers “too politically biased." “[Tech] companies need to own the problem of disinformation that their own algorithms are creating,” www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...

Zuck’s announcement is a full bending of the knee to Trump and an attempt to catch up to Musk in his race to the bottom. The implications are going to be widespread. Fact-checking was not a panacea to disinformation on FB but it was an important part of moderation. Bumpers are fully off the lane now

"Trudeau delivered the news outside Rideau Cottage, his official residence in Ottawa, on a cold and windy day that saw some of his speech notes fly from his wooden podium." (always a + when journalists add a bit of style) nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Resolution for 2025? More social media. I was virtually absent most of 2024, and beautiful - and worthy - things happened in the Fediverse over the last few years.