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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A successful regulatory strategy would recognize these companies as bad actors whose business model almost compels them to act against the public interest, as in this story. They require hard, punitive regulations and enforcement, as @ntusikov.bsky.social and I explain here.

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Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

Bill C-34 puts too much faith in Big Tech. Canada should regulate the algorithms, data practices and business models that drive online harm.

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 30/09/2026

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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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 30/09/2026

Bravo Backpack! Our household has a split vote… we knew we’d be behind a winner either way!

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

End of the world The Globe and Mail by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/end-of-the...

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 · 29/09/2026

Well that’s disappointing. I guess he didn’t elaborate on the nature of the fear.

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 29/09/2026

Je vous comprends. Nous on vient de voter par anticipation... j'adore l'énergie du bureau de scrutin. Le processus était si simple; mes enfants étaient si excités et curieux (ils ont fait le vote des jeunes).. en tout cas pour moi l'expérience elle-même était pas mal agréable.

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 29/09/2026

I read "ruining" - also works. So sorry Ontario!! This sucks!!!

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 28/09/2026

I get it!! it’s hard feeling like the only one who knows how great it is here.

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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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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 28/09/2026

I’m usually wary of sharing images but I let my guard down assuming @charlieangus104.bsky.social would never use fascist AI tools to denounce fascism!

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 28/09/2026

I reposted this on my own feed, assuming you, a champion of anti-fascism, would never share AI slop!!

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 28/09/2026

A behemoth!! I wonder how many web conferences they held in order to decide to tacitly endorse fascism!

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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.

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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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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 25/09/2026

The most unsettling image I’ve seen in some time.

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 25/09/2026

AI = I think that's even worse Employer's silence = Cowardly Thanks for asking!

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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

Raison # 869502 pour éviter Claude et ses méchants amis !

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 23/09/2026

The person in the picture is doing better than most!

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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

When I volunteered at book fairs I'd steer kids away from blowing their entire book fair budget on tchotchkiss. Never appreciated the vaguely extortionary vibe. Now, radio silence from Scholastic re Trump using the Magic School Bus to promote ICE... Scholastic, what is up?!

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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.

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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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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 18/09/2026

I remember when you tweeted this last year! Lightbulb moment.

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 18/09/2026

They will go as far as they possibly can, and haven't already gone further only because people pushed back!! Go, people!!

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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...

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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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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 12/09/2026

a study would be great… would love to hear your pop theory too.

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Carolyn Pinto 🇨🇦 @carolynpinto.com · 12/09/2026

Icky that the Guardian engages in this kind of chatbot-normalizing given its partnership with OpenAI.

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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

just just watched this with my kids, sadly explaining the fate of the cod and how wrong Cabotto was… can’t wait to tell them the good news in the morning!

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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.

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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.

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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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