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Derek Y 🇨🇦✊🏽 @derekyerex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mildly amusing. But again, I have to ask: who’s letting this crew near kids anymore?

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 16/08/2026

Dumb. Basically a commitment to making the same mistakes as Biden. Leaving ICE in place so it can be quickly weaponized again by any future president who wants to is a horrible policy. Protecting the voters from murder and imprisonment by secret police should be priority #1.

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Fasten your seat belts... @lesjfrie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Your friendly reminder, Carney's Minister of Artificial Intelligence Evan Solomon is a huge fan of AI in health care. Whenever he's challenged about AI, he brings up the example of health care being improved by AI.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I have free advice: read this report from @amnesty.org instead www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Unlawful by design: exposing the human rights cost of generative AI.

image description: A blue robot hand puppeteers workers at their computers

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

With Stephen Guilbeault's departure from the LPC, cult-of-Carney supporters have chosen a climate narrative to gaslight us with: "You don't get it: we need to make the money to transition away from oil before we can start to do it. This is a vital first step!" Here's why that's total bullshit. 🧵1/

The top half of this image is a picture of an oil pipeline, with text: "Saying that we need to sell more fossil fuel so that we can afford to finally start moving away from fossil fuels"

The bottom half of this image is a picture of a toddler smoking a cigarette, with text: "Is like saying that your plan to fund construction of a new cancer hospital relies on profits made by selling cigarettes to children."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Management wants 2 things: • Predictable costs, timelines, and outcomes • For you to use AI, which is structurally incapable of accomplishing this because token costs per task can VARY UP TO 30X from run to run

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How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting Token Consumption in Agentic Coding Tasks

The wide adoption of AI agents in complex human workflows is driving rapid growth in LLM token consumption. When agents are deployed on tasks that require a significant amount of tokens, three questio...

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Randi, many of us have called you out repeatedly for partnering with open AI and encouraging educators to use "ai" given the cognitive, environmental, social and political effects that have been well documented. It's ok to admit you were incorrect in your early, hasty thrall.

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We don’t need to keep a human-in-the-loop, we need to get AI out of the loop altogether! The whole point of AI is to remove the frictions of individual conscience and collective refusal.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Remember, his skill is in manipulation and being an ad man.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

so happy for my emotional support astronauts

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Great news: your future doctor is currently using AI to cheat on his homework so he can spend more time watching Mr Beast videos

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A beam struggle between a dragon ball z warrior labeled "the economy is bad and we need to trim the budget" and another warrior labeled "AI is turbocharging workflows and we are 10x as productive as before".

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/03/2026

Premium Newsletter: How much of the AI bubble is real? In an analysis of every major AI data center project, the majority are theoretical or behind schedule. Their customers (AI startups) burn $3+ per dollar of revenue, with no possible path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

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Premium: How Much Of The AI Bubble Is Real?

I’m turning 40 in a month or so, and at 40 years young, I’m old enough to remember as far back as December 11 2025, when Disney and OpenAI “reached an agreement” to “bring beloved characters from acro...

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

Status Scoop | ProPublica's Walkout Warning: The possibility of ProPublica staffers walking off the job just got far more serious. Unionized staffers at the nonprofit newsroom voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, Natalie Korach has learned. The ProPublica Guild represents about 150 journalists, videographers, and other newsroom employees. A major sticking point in the negotiations with management has centered on the use of artificial intelligence in reporting, with the union demanding protections from having jobs replaced by the rapidly advancing technology. “We are ready to walk off the job to show management that their refusal to agree to basic protections will not be tolerated and that we will not accept anything less than a fair contract,” said Agnel Philip, unit chair of ProPublica Guild.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Have Vance and Trump said thank you?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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Derek Y 🇨🇦✊🏽 @derekyerex.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“…would have consumed as much power as Edmonton…” My god.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

AI is marketed to people who can't get their way out of a jam in an '80s sitcom

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/01/2026

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gangs of masked white supremacists roam our streets indiscriminately killing civilians. But at least I don't have to hear Kamala Harris's cackle.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

What does his union say?

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Five years ago.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

For @nationalobserver.com, I spoke with U of T’s Laura Tozer. Last year, she was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students.

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This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students

Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2025

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/11/2025

As America declines, how far is Canada willing to watch, remain silent, and profit from its markets? thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...

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Carney Promised Defiance. All We’re Getting Is Deference | The Walrus

How far are we willing to go to preserve our relationship with the US?

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression

The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

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Derek Y 🇨🇦✊🏽 @derekyerex.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

To search the database for your own work and file a claim, see: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Derek Y 🇨🇦✊🏽 @derekyerex.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I think you could replace "democrats" with "governing Liberal Party of Canada" in this message and it would convey perfectly how I feel most times I get challenged on my criticism of Mr. Carney's Liberals.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The Supreme Court is starving children

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

In due time, there will be private first responders and public first responders.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/10/2025

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science 🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg... 📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... 🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

YouTube video by Iris van Rooij

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Max Weiss @maxthegirl.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

One year ago

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 27/10/2025

while you were studying the blade, me and my mutuals were doing this

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 24/10/2025

Elbows up if necessary but not necessarily elbows up, I guess. Each of these episodes demonstrates Canada's compliance and invite further unreasonable demands. It also validates the outrageous position that this administration can regulate even the speech of other governments.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

If you are a service member or civil servant ordered to perform an operation in spite of concerns you raised about their legality, you have lawful options to blow the whistle. They do not involve leaking to the press. Consult with qualified counsel. You can honor your Oath without breaking the law.

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Derek Y 🇨🇦✊🏽 @derekyerex.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It's not like the stopped *all* foreign aid during Trump 2.0.

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