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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦

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⭐️ Observations on communication, rhetoric, propaganda ⭐️ Writer/brand strategist by trade: carolynpinto.com ⭐️ Montrealer/Québécoise/Canadian with Indian roots ⭐️ Curator of ideas, music, good times, lists ⭐️ Longtime em-dash user; no fan of AI hype

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 5h
Dealing with my med clinic’s AI = 0/10 experience. It spits out unneeded info, then transfers me back to.. itself. I follow a phone labyrinth until I land on a human who likely fields calls all day from frustrated patients all day. She seems relieved I don’t blame her for the snafu.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 8h
End of the world The Globe and Mail by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/end-of-the...
deadder.substack.com
End of the world
Globe and Mail
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 29/09/2026
I did, and it was a lovely experience.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 29/09/2026
I think Canadians are over the "please come back" tourism ads! Good summary by @maxfawcett.bsky.social (clever invoking PET's classic "just watch me", referring to decidedly more domestic matters..)
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 28/09/2026
Our ancestors weren’t “the nice guys”; they just had little ability or strategic need (at first) to subjugate their Indigenous allies back in the 1600s. Let’s look at relations between modern Quebec governments and Indigenous communities!
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
apnews.com
https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 25/09/2026
Marking my birthday by cancelling old subscriptions and accounts that may come back to haunt me. Festive!
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Sam Harper @sharper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And this has nothing to do with the AI industry propaganda about the technology being an "existential threat". The threat is the climate crisis, the authoritarianism, the mass surveillance, the tech fascism. The real threat is not the tech, but the billionaires.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 23/09/2026
This is not a good look, @liberalca.bsky.social
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This We Will Defend @thiswewilldefend.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When shipping costs are at an all-time high, Trump wants to import potash fertilizer from halfway around the world, rather than across the border from Saskatchewan to the Great Plains breadbasket of the world. Explain that to me like I’m not a former global supply chain manager.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 21/09/2026
Great idea!
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Jon Milton @whosestreets.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
US military nearly attacked a Chinese ship because of false, hallucinated AI claim that the ship had nuclear weapons components on it. Planes were "in the air" and the attacks was halted "only just before" they were set to begin.
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.
John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW by me: When I saw that the White House had stolen 'The Magic School Bus' to promote its racist ICE deportations, I could not be quiet. The books' publisher, Scholastic, has remained noticeably silent, while others like Hasbro and Tetris have clapped back. www.thequeenzone.com/trump-regime...
thequeenzone.com
Trump Regime Keeps Stealing Kids Entertainment for ICE Ad Campaign. Companies are Clapping Back.
The Trump regime keeps stealing kids entertainment properties to promote its racist ICE deportations scheme. Some companies are saying no.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 17/09/2026
I’ve been wary of the Scholastic Book Fair racket since becoming a parent. Their silence re Trump’s abhorrent appropriation of the Magic School Bus is very disappointing.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17/09/2026
What stage of capitalism is this?
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/09/2026
I'm just watching tiktok videos about how grocery shopping in NYC is so hard especially if you're hauling bottled water and I have never in my life hauled water. Babe, you're picking a hard life.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 09/09/2026
In cod we trust.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Big fan of harm reduction models on diet -- most of us won't go vegan but a lot of us will go [or have gone] more vegetarian/less red meat, and I'm an even bigger fan of removing all the subsidies and gifts to the beef industry.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 07/09/2026
Cheers to all workers on Labour Day in these uncertain times.
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wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In case anyone is wondering: Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI. I canceled my subscription when it became very apparent that editorial judgments on AI reporting where being influenced by this cozy relationship. The Guardian has done some very good reporting, not now.
theguardian.com
Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI
Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s globa...
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 05/09/2026
La plateforme de Guy Diotte est pas mal idiote… #qcpoli
Election poster for Conservative candidate Guy Diotte on a stressing in downtown montreal.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
No matter what else you think of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (I have both applauded and criticized his various choices since he took office), his climate change-related decisions have allowed Avi Lewis and the NDP to successfully stake a firm, clear leadership position on the critical issue.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026
This *can't* go on forever, and despite Dr King's phrasing, I know he understood that the arc doesn't just "bend" - it *is bent* - by people like us, hauling on it with all our might.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/09/2026
Every tenth of a degree of global warming matters. Every fraction of temperature rise we avoid saves lives, reduces disease, food and water shortages, disasters.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
keeping up with the news gives me a constant sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, like, a thing you would maybe experience a few times a year but instead it's just always there and I do not like it
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We need to get smarter in Canada about linking affordability and climate action. Make EVs, heat pumps and solar more accessible and reduce Canadians reliance on expensive oil and gas to power their cars and heat & cool their homes. Save Cdns money, tackle climate, foster choice, promote innovation!
corporateknights.com
Catherine McKenna wants Canada to get smarter about climate and affordability | Corporate Knights
INTERVIEW | It's time to look beyond the United States and catch up to the rest of the world, the former environment minister says
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 03/09/2026
Thank you Ms. Steinem.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 03/09/2026
He should get our province's name out of his mouth. Also, everyone in Québec should see this nonsense.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 02/09/2026
Notes from public school: 2026-27 lunch supervision fee for a grade 5 student in Montreal: $390 There's also the interestingly named 'resale fee' to cover the agenda, worksheets, and 'reprographic work': $100
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The commonality in nostalgia-driven far right politics is the idea of a golden era where the deserving (smart, hard-working men) got their rewards, and everyone else knew their place in the hierarchy
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No, I will not willingly embrace the thing that is making my life and the life of most people I know measurably worse.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 28/08/2026
The agony and the irony of going out of one’s way to support a small business that has pivoted to #AIslop!
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 27/08/2026
So much Dolly swirling around... I'm partial to this performance from 1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rg...
youtube.com
Dolly Parton_Video "Mule Skinner Blues"
YouTube video by Bill Gibbs, sr
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton saved many, many people’s lives with her contributions to the Moderna vaccine and that is what I will remember about her more than anything. We should all hope to do this much good. www.knoxnews.com/story/entert...
knoxnews.com
Dolly Parton gave the world the gift of reading and a COVID-19 vaccine
Dolly Parton's philanthropy extended to any cause anywhere she felt she could make a difference, big or small. That’s just who she was.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 10/08/2026
Here is a Canadian elected official obliviously reading AI prompts he failed to remove from his heartfelt speech.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Periodic reminder that approximately 2/3 of the equity in Postmedia is owned by the American hedge fund Chatham Asset Management.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i understand the impulse to react to a terrible story by saying that you’re not surprised, but i hope i’ll always be surprised by terrible stories.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 17/07/2026
Yuck
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 17/07/2026
Talk about climate solutions as much as possible.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 12/07/2026
The Kahnawake Powwow (aka Echoes of a Proud Nation) is amazing. Drummers, singers, dancers, vendors and artisans come from all over NA. We feasted on smoked sturgeon, fried walleye, fry bread, corn soup, pemmican, and cedar berry tea. An exuberant celebration of cultures.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In conclusion, don't let anyone tell you a boycott won't work. Yeah, sometimes boycotts don't work. But sometimes they do. The only time they definitely, 100% don't work is if people never do them in the first place because some jackass told them not to bother.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 10/07/2026
The emotional intensity of Bonnie Tyler inspired greatness such as this: youtu.be/ysUjYAi0WcQ
youtu.be
Hurra Torpedo - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (live)
YouTube video by frozentoast
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Very funny to hear an entire sports bar in Canada boo the mere sight of Wayne Gretzky
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 04/07/2026
"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...
reuters.com
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 04/07/2026
The Angine de Poitrine phenomenon through 11yo eyes, late last night in Trois-Rivières, after he correctly convinced me it would be worth the wait.
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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 03/07/2026
Cheers to all those who don’t feel the need to use an umbrella in the middle of a crowd at an outdoor show during a light drizzle.
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