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

While we’re all watching baseball Janet is watching the Alberta legislature as the suspension of teachers’ Charter rights is pushed through in the wee hours of the morning

it's never felt nicer to be on Mountain Time

My Trade Secrets today. Imagine the AWS data outage, but weaponised by Donald Trump to hold countries hostage. Like internet satellites, the cloud is a global economic chokepoint whose impact other governments need to protect against. China’s doing a pretty good job. The EU not so much.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country. 🔗 www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

This is a really lovely story about how a mummy (who the writer takes care to remind us was once a person) ended up in Edmonton

$100 USD for a paper to-do list, revolutionary

“Influencers on social media are weighing in. Their message: Don’t stretch to buy a house at today’s prices. Rent and invest your cash instead.” www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

In an era when Canada is touting critical minerals as a way to lessen it's dependence on the United States, the U.S. government is taking direct ownership in Canadian critical minerals companies... And Canada isn't stopping it www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Canadians pay a lot of attention to ICE in the U.S., but meanwhile, in local immigration enforcement: "We’ve been seeing this more and more ... CBSA has been newly enhanced and newly empowered."

Fascinating thread on the "protein maxxing" obsession:

The push to maximize productivity is at the heart of the current rush to adopt AI, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful. “On a social scale, productivity gains that don’t lead to pay raises, or lead to layoffs, are not productivity gains at all.”

my colleague @sarahcrgr.bsky.social wrote a fun piece about how Canada could perhaps become an economic superpower www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...

Denmark aims to lead a legal shift in the EU with proposed Copyright Act amendments, granting individuals rights over their likenesses and tackling deepfake misuse, reports Giovana Fleck.

Redwood Materials, Pairwise, Kairos, Cemvision & @fervoenergy.bsky.social all made this year's @technologyreview.com list of the 2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch. Learn why and check out our full list here:

A few months ago, I approached CBC News with a pitch about crypto ATMs, which are a preferred way for fraudsters to extract money from victims. Canada has the most crypto kiosks per capita, but it lags on regulation. Our first story, with more to come: www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

There's a reason why informational materials are exempt from tariffs in most places — it doesn't make sense to tax knowledge

Stock market rallies have added trillions to the fortunes of the wealthiest people in the US. https://sherwood.news/markets/americas-top-1-now-holds-nearly-a-third-of-household-wealth/

This realization hit me like a ton of bricks a few years ago and it's legitimately why I moved out to the woods

Which EU countries are building the most housing? Besides the tiny tourism-heavy islands of Cyprus & Malta, all the fastest builders are in the EU's east: Bulgaria (6.3/1k ppl), Poland (6.1), & Croatia (5.7) The 3 slowest builders are Italy (0.8), Slovenia (1.5), & Germany (2)

Someone was quick on the wikipedia edit for this one

It was the political equivalent of a drive-by shooting: during a parliamentary meeting on public safety and national security, former cabinet minister Chris Alexander accused journalist David Pugliese of being a Russian spy. @taylornoakes.com investigates: thewalrus.ca/a-veteran-report...

In a polarized and divided world, where many may feel lonely and isolated, Paul Jenkinson has a message: “You are not alone. I will listen.”

Jane Goodall on how to not give up:

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

It was very special to work with six brilliant, thoughtful Indigenous writers — Michelle Good, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Eva Jewell, Janelle Lapointe, Anna McKenzie and Riley Yesno — on this series about truth and reconciliation, in print & online for @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

Worth reading today: thewalrus.ca/truth-and-re...

stop it

Did you know the 1981 Canada Post worker strike is why access to longer parental leave became standard across Canada? definingmomentscanada.ca/all-for-9/hi...

It’s me, hi 👋, I’m one of the 81,848 ppl on a waiting list for surgery in AB.

Once again asking why a public service is expected to behave like a corporation and earn profits? Shouldn't every Canadian, including those in rural areas, have the right to receive essential mail, such as ID cards, benefit cheques, and medication? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

The wrong kind of maths on.ft.com/46EnDFM | opinion

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A guy in Winnipeg made a 45-minute fully produced feature-film version of "Steamed Hams" modelled after Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre, so don't you go saying Canada is broken www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...

This made me realize my reporting is cited more than 1,200 times on Wikipedia, including on the page for "Turpentine" and its use in folk medicine from a feature story I did on the Spanish flu