THIS!!

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

Read this. Right now.

Because while a zero debt to GDP ratio isn't a particular goal in itself*, and although I accept line graphs don't need to start at zero, I do think that plus a bit of history is helpful in some cases. * Given which I don't see why a constantly declining debt to GDP ratio should be a policy goal.

You know what, I'll admit I didn't listen to this close enough during the #Debate2025 #CDNpoli #MarkCarney @MarkJCarney

I truly enjoyed this interview. Thank you @mark-carney.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com youtu.be/V11qNDDElZw?...

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

“The EU, Britain and other rule-of-law democracies need to work together rather than pursue their ‘national interest.’ The democracies must find a common front as an exercise in damage limitation, & then go beyond that to fashion a new trade order from the ruins of the old – but without the U.S.”

The main effect of tariff insanity: Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once. That scar tissue will linger for a long time. 1/

Pairs well with:

Interesting development. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Wow, amazing discovery by my colleague @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social and team published in Nature!

Discovery of a new class of natural antibiotics with a new mode of action to address antimicrobial resistance, a major unmet need @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The collapse of local news is fuelling a disinformation crisis. By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social "The solution is more local news, not less. Without it, Canadians are left in the dark and disinformation steps in to light the way." @policyalternatives.ca #localnews theclarion.ca/viewpoint/th...

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory and UConn Health have successfully discovered a molecular switch that can actually SHUT DOWN cancer growth signals and STOP tumor growth at the RNA LEVEL. The discovery could pave the way for a groundbreaking RNA-based multi-cancer treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️

Please watch and rewatch this movie, in the U.S. Archives from the @usarmy.bsky.social #DontBeASucker a reminder of how the Nazis conned their country into becoming the cause of mass murder and all the other horrors that Nazis unleash. The lessons are true for the USA🇺🇸 , in 2025 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

The Kremlin and other autocracies have long ached to see Voice of America and Radio Liberty destroyed, but even in their most fevered dreams, they could never have imagined that the Americans would do the dirty work themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

For someone who has only been a politician for 2 months and PM for less than a week, Carney isn't wasting time on making some key strategic moves to strengthen our position internationally.

New NBER paper finds that income growth—not housing supply elasticity—is the best predictor of housing prices & quantity: "Our results imply that housing supply constraints are quantitatively unimportant in explaining rising housing costs." www.nber.org/system/files... [Don't shoot the messenger.]

Want to know why this chart is dominated by red? Because conservatives fund podcasts and influencers and liberals do not. Let's change that huh?

Great post, but I think it's worth making the distinction between "aggregate" and "population" health approaches. I hadn't thought of it quite this way until now. This (below) describes aggregate effects, IMHO. Population health, I have argued, can be thought of like Durkheim's "social facts" 1/

The left sees gov't as a way to solve problems. The right sees gov't as THE problem. So left coalition-building is MUCH harder. Sociologist @jessicacalarco.bsky.social unpacks the difficulties involved & points to story-telling's power to help overcome them: 1/18 www.salon.com/2025/03/15/h...

JD Vance attacks elderly retired Americans at his event who are asking him to stop trying to cut Social Security: “Don’t you all have jobs?”

It is pretty remarkable that the Right, and really the Extreme Right specifically, constantly claims they’re being silenced despite controlling almost all the media and social media platforms. It’s truly another level of shameless gaslighting. We don’t have to accept it or let it work, though.

Let’s be clear about the impact of this DOT memo: Pedestrians and cyclists are going to die. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/12/b...

On the plus side, as a Canadian, this reassures me that America will attack itself first before anyone else.

From the good news department: Thanks to the support of thousands of Poles, Slawek Sierakowski and I have reached the goal of funding one armored ambulance for Ukrainian medics — in one day. Today starting the drive for a second. Please help. donorbox.org/armored-mede...

www.kelowna.ca/our-communit... City of Kelowna has published their brand new BI Housing Dashboard. Just saw it for the first time now.

CBC hiring new correspondents in (takes deep breath): -Banff -Red Deer -Lethbridge -Medicine Hat -Fort McMurray -Lloydminster -Hinton/Jasper Plus a slew of other cities outside Alberta. Apply. cbcrc.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CBC_Radio-Ca...

If these people are willing to disrupt a trading relationship as economically valuable as that with Canada, with a close ally, over a completely made up problem, and in violation of a treaty they themselves negotiated and signed, there is no move so stupid you can rule out their doing it.

Nobody in his/her right mind would consider buying US weapons right now, if there is a viable alternative, and I say this as long-time military blogger. For defense and technology companies in Europe, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Australia and elsewhere, gold rush times have begun.

The demand for the measles vaccine is so high in Texas that they are now RUNNING OUT of them. I have always said it would come to this. Science will always exist. Politics will never usurp it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Authoritarianism thrives in information vacuums, and activists must fill in the gaps to challenge those narratives. 3/4

Something Americans must understand is that oligarchy does not get rich on the free market, it get rich off of government contracts So don't expect a decrease of overall government spending - expect more corruption in it Musk will continue abusing his power to direct tax dollars to his own pockets

It's easy for many of us to miss this important point about the indoctrination of boys and young men.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

Breathtaking hypocrisy now the new normal.

*Potential* Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu scitechdaily.com/game-changin...

The conference will feature a great lineup of speakers and discussants, including a keynote presentation by @imarinescu.bsky.social. Preliminary program and registration info here: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/clef2025/

Sloan Foundation announced a program to support postdocs in philosophy, sociology, and metascience who want to understand how AI will affect science. Pass it along to anyone who might be interested, the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics might be interested in hosting sloan.org/programs/dig...

Amidst the tumult, Congressional Rs are working on a budget bill to deliver huge tax cuts to the wealthy & corporations, cut benefits from people who need them, & massively increase deficits & debt. One of the proposed cuts is to low-income disabled kids: www.cbpp.org/blog/propose...

My best recommendation to huge legacy media companies right now is to hire a reporter who understands crypto, the law, and politics - and how they are currently intersecting in an incredibly corrupt way that almost everyone is ignoring.

Breaking: Trump to impose 50% tariffs on all EU goods for 90 minutes

This is true. But also lots pf rich people who own houses do all kinds of drugs. The housing crisis is the criminalization of poverty. And the poverty is being induced and inflicted on us by the rich classes.

Newt Gingrich says the "McKinley Model" requires high tariffs over a three-year transition period. Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳

“We must be prepared to defend our sovereignty-not just with military spending, but with a population that is engaged, trained and ready.” Great piece by @petermacleod.bsky.social about how Canada needs a Civil Defence Force where every Canadian has a role to play. 🇨🇦💪 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

The US built the post war global order. We are now this uncanny paradox, historically inexplicable, angry rebels against our own hegemony.

“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.“ Seems relevant.

This is some very good reporting.