Reminds me of articles about "officer-involved shootings" that seem to suggest that the gun happened to go off, or articles describing a cyclist that was "struck by a vehicle" rather than, say, an intoxicated driver hitting a cyclist. Using active language and identifying who was involved matters.

OTTAWA – Canada’s spy watchdog is examining the use and governance of artificial intelligence in national security activities.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

Wait. It's only *then* that you realized the importance of correcting them? Again I believe that AI tools are quite useful but only if users know from the start their limitations

"Our digital lives are now gated in a way that makes it harder or more expensive for us to reach the information we’re looking for... The internet no longer feels like a single, heterogeneous place. Instead, we spend our time bouncing between decaying platforms." Via @sarahcrgr.bsky.social:

So many tech platforms have decayed beyond usability. Can we reverse the process? BetaKit is ending the year with a look back at the biggest #CDNtech stories of 2025. Here's @sarahcrgr.bsky.social on the year enshittification became undeniable: bit.ly/4pg0kJq

2025 was the year enshittification became undeniable. For @betakit.com, as part of our series on the biggest tech stories of the year, I wrote about the opportunity we have to build less-shit digital lives: betakit.com/the-year-ens...

RCMP in Alberta advising motorists to stay off ALL roads in many parts of the province today because of treacherous conditions with zero visibility. QEII currently closed in both directions near Calgary due to reported 80-to-100-car pileup.

Finally @mmitchell.bsky.social explains why generative AI hype can blind us to the AI breakthroughs that we should really celebrate. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

There's alot swirling around this week about DEI—what 'unfair' hiring might look like. Read Jason Parham's powerful story about what DEI has meant to his career—and many others— and what the erasure might mean in the future www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have yet to find a way to make money from AI — but the startups selling them training data and hiring data annotators have. Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social and @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

NEW FROM ME: GPTZero, a start-up behind a model that checks for LLM-generated content, found that 50 peer-reviewed submissions to the leading academic conference on deep-learning AI contained at least one obviously hallucinated citation. @betakit.com

Experts are missing AI-hallucinated citations—including fake authors and fake journal entries—in their peer review of academic papers. From @youcaughtscott.com for @betakit.com:

👀👀 DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools. The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”

Very cool feature on food sovereignty and tribal communities taking control of meat processing; Offrange is a really fantastic publication with really unique food and agriculture coverage and I cannot recommend them highly enough!

WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

I pictured the face my grandma would have made if I was able to tell her about this, and it made me laugh, so I suppose this AI did kind of bring her back to life

Canadians: Do you plan on signing up for @gandersocial.bsky.social when it launches? Do you care if your social network is built and hosted here?

Here's an inside look at how Rest of World gathered and visualized data for our recent feature about Oman’s attempt to become a space powerhouse: restofworld.org/inside/datav...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

“The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) strongly condemns the Alberta government’s introduction of legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to shield three laws that directly threaten the rights of trans and gender-diverse people in the province.” ccla.org/press-releas...

Good gig (Canada edition)

Wealthsimple Media is hiring for my previous role. Are you a fantastic Canadian business journalist? Want to work for a great editor and write for TLDR? This is your chance! jobs.lever.co/wealthsimple...

NEW: We traced out a devastating outbreak of bird flu to its source: an egg farm in Ohio. Where the wind blew, the virus followed. Within weeks, the farms downwind were about 20 times as likely to see outbreaks as those that weren’t.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Using IE to download Netscape

If you own an electric snowblower / snow thrower / snow shovel -- what kind do you have? And do you like it?

The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.

Remember when Shopify quietly shut down its Indigenous entrepreneurship program? The program's original cofounder is making it happen anyway. "Shopify closed the program earlier this year. I chose not to let that be the end of our story." Reporting from @betakit.com's @madisonmcla.bsky.social:

NEW from me: Shopify's shuttered Indigenous entrepreneurship program Build Native will relaunch in a new form led by the Centre for Native Nation Builders and Tracy Ridler: betakit.com/shopifys-shu...

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures My latest for @sentientmedia.org

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This was nice to wake up to!

... oh I think I've heard of her

Look at the elder Millennials here vs Boomers and Zoomers:

It's green-sky-pic time again

don't know why I feel so glad to know the pope is also a Donald Sutherland fan feels important

This is a big win for #Cdntech and a bigger win for @betakit.com. Welcome aboard, Sarah!

As they say: some personal news. I'm excited to share that I'm joining @betakit.com's newsroom as their new managing editor. I can't think of a better time to be telling the stories of what's happening in tech — these journalists are Canada's best on that beat.

For years, I’ve been obsessed with a number. What’s the #? It’s the amount Meta earns per year from scam ads. Thanks to @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, we know it: $16 billion. Our free @indicator.media Briefing looks at what needs to happen now that we know the number: indicator.media/p/briefing-m...

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem. www.wired.com/story/scam-a...

Its ABV is actually 5% crude oil Tasting notes include beef and mini donuts Bret Hart personally inspects every bottle

congratulations bisexuals

shout out to the girl livestreaming this game on her tiktok who is a) providing commentary despite seemingly never having watched a game before and b) frequently cutting away to show her cat, premiere viewing experience

“We were told that there are no beds in inpatient and that Ben is actually number four on the list waiting for a bed." Boy with cancer’s chemo appointment cancelled amid Stollery space shortage globalnews.ca/news/1150372...

Yikes. www.environicsinstitute.org/docs/default...

This story -- by Alex Mar -- blew my mind. It's about two people who try AI, immediately get pulled into the strange and hypnotic power of LLM as therapist and then -- try to get out www.wired.com/story/ai-the...

the perfect encapsulation of my inability to Log Off