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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bacteriological chemist & refrigeration engineer Dr. Mary Engle Pennington, the "Ice Woman," revolutionized food safety by inventing the "cold chain." Her groundbreaking work on continuous refrigeration kept perishable food fresh from harvest to consumer. She was born #OTD in 1872. 🧵 #WomenInSTEM

A black-and-white photograph of Dr. Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), the pioneering American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer known as the "Ice Woman." Shown from the chest up, she poses at a three-quarter angle, facing left while turning her gaze calmly toward the camera. Her expression is serene, intellectual, and confident, marked by a slight, knowing smile. Her wavy, light-colored hair is parted down the middle and neatly pinned back, framing her face and her thin, round wire-rimmed spectacles. She is elegantly dressed in a textured, small-checked pattern blazer over a collared blouse with a delicate, ornate pendant hanging from her neckline. Pinched to her left lapel is a prominent corsage featuring two light-colored, lifelike fabric flower blossoms complete with subtle leaves. The overall composition uses classic soft studio lighting that creates a gentle gradient across her face against a dark, featureless backdrop, capturing a dignified and scholarly mood that honors her monumental contributions to global food safety.

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Swimming in a Great Lake is an incomparable experience and a great privilege. Let’s keep advocating to make that privilege available to everyone in a waterfront city or town.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: The big new Aaron Sorkin film The Social Reckoning opens tomorrow with a plot centred on Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen....but we need to talk about *another* Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. And why Zuck is gunning for her.. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?is=NP3...

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THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD)

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

apple.news/AWnuhKaDtTRm... “Claude has never been in that specific area, has never been on that route, and has never been in the outdoors—do your own research and gain your own knowledge of the area and supplement it with training and navigation.”

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Teenager rescued from B.C.’s ‘Widowmaker’ after getting stranded using AI instructions — CTV News

A 16-year-old boy was rescued from steep mountainous terrain in the B.C. backcountry on Sunday after Claude AI guided him to the wrong location, according to North Shore Rescue.

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Sedition” would be a good word

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m reading this arxiv.org/pdf/2607.143... which I discovered from a thread on @mmitchell.bsky.social X feed. Ties in w & amplifies David Robinson’s issues w OpenAI’s cultural unawareness/disregard of safety & the field of safety science. (Speaking of too many things to read!)

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tempting though it would be to slap one of these on a car, I really don’t recommend it. Too dangerous. Aggressive drivers can spin quickly into road rage.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This place was beautiful, even its “ruined” state, and Francesca‘s attention is beautiful too

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‘Saatchi believes AI shouldn’t remain merely a tool serving human imagination. "What I want my work to do in AI is to create an AI that can make original and interesting works of art from its artistic perspective because being non-human is a legitimate artistic perspective."’ No it's not! (1/2)

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How film producer Edward Saatchi is using AI to recreate the lost ending of an Orson Welles masterpiece

Fascinated by Orson Welles's 'The Magnificent Ambersons,' whose ending was altered by the studio, the British entrepreneur wants to resurrect the lost version using artificial intelligence. It is both...

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There’d be plenty of material for it. Disgusting term, anyway. Who’d want someone else leading their thoughts?

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting in its analysis under UK law that BC would need to prove that warning police would have prevented the shooting. “Should have” is more likely. Could anyone prove that RCMP would have taken a warning seriously and acted on it to prevent violence?

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, sure. I remain only half-jokingly convinced that these men (always men, these god”fathers”) are subliminally motivated by birth envy. “See—we men made something even more powerful than a mere human!!”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm afraid the Doomer discourse has persisted for another week (UN "AI" briefing, etc) so in case you missed this when we first put it out earlier in this bananas news cycle, I'm reposting it: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am skeptical of the most florid claims being made about AI's destructive potential, but I do think we need to heavily regulate AI for the sole reason that I would like to hear less about all of these people.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let me fix that for you OpenAI ̶a̶g̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶ hacked Australia government portal: PM Albanese The hack of Australian health data marks the world's first known AI-led breach of a government website. www.dw.com/en/openai-ag... #AIEthics

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OpenAI agent hacked Australia government portal: PM Albanese

The hack of Australian health data marks the world's first known AI-led breach of a government website.

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wonderful! I saw a splendid Magic Flute while living in Cardiff (last time I could really afford opera, I think).

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the elitists are those who believe those they perceive as lower orders won’t enjoy high art.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As I told NBC this past weekend: "We have not seen AI go rogue. We've seen people be sloppy with their software and make mistakes." m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBAH... Via @timcrane.bsky.social

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Iran Government-Led Rally Sends Defiant Message to U.S.; How to Reset the AI Doomsday Clock

YouTube video by NBC News

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Mark Mattson @waterkeepermark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ottawa spends millions on D.C. networking trips while a 200 year old cross-border crossing between Cape Vincent & Wolfe Island hangs by a thread despite U.S. efforts to save it. The Horne’s Ferry, a chance for Canada to step up. waterkeepermark.substack.com/p/an-opportu...

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An Opportunity on Wolfe Island for Canada to Support Our New York Neighbours

The Horne’s Ferry Is About More Than A Border Crossing

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1 of the unconscionable things about the Boeing Max crashes is that the eerily similar Airbus near-miss happened 10+ years before. I’d been using the QF72 example for a while to talk about sw & human agency when the 1st Max crashed. Boeing engineers didn’t know?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've used slides like this dozens of times, this one is from like 2019 (IDK whose picture of Chicago it is...but I don't have time to find the slide of Vienna I took myself!)

AI Systems Are Designed, and Have Architecture
Architects learn laws, policy, & how to work with governments & legislatures at university, & get licensed; buildings get inspected.
Because society decided buildings falling on people was unacceptable, and noticed city plans affect everyone.
AI products are now falling on people, and affecting everyone. We need to grow up.

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, AI is a thing you write. It’s an artifact, not something with its own actual mind or life. When your company develops it, you are responsible for ensuring it doesn’t harm humans. You are responsible for instilling sound software development practices & adequate/appropriate testing. SB obvious.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When a man has expertise, he is asked to lead. When a woman has expertise, she is seen as biased.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There is no rogue AI. There's only slopiliy developed products and weak cybersecurity. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/07/ai-a... Been writing about this since 2000! (and yes, nothing's changed. And both EU legislation & UNESCO recommendations endorse this perspective.)

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AI "Agents" extend their deployers: digital legal accountability references

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“We would never tell motorists they cannot drive to the places they need to go: their workplace, their child’s school, their favourite restaurant, their bank…Yet cyclists are routinely told that their destinations are somehow less legitimate, that their mobility should be relegated to the margins.”

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

H/t @j2bryson.bsky.social Let’s talk about the real safety risks posed by AI, not the existential doom nonsense.

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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 10/09/2026

In a similar vein, I’m freaked out at how little outrage the Moneris sale is generating. Canadians get all nationalist about a map name change (right so) but not about all our financial transaction data being sold off to American tech firms?

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Exploration of the ethical issues, I should have said.

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If it were me, I think I’d be inclined to use the keynote to discuss issues of agency (pun intended) & consent wrt AI. Not in a way hostile to the organisers’ act, but as an exploration.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The REAL war in cities has been a WAR ON WALKING. Pass it on. #WarOnWalking #UrbanTruth

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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So the world's richest man is calling for American women to be disenfranchised and ... crickets? This can't be dismissed as the trolling of a sad lunatic. It's part of a much larger movement to steal political and economic power from women, as a means of control.

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Like Facebook or not, it provides a tremendous facility for ppl in many countries to come together & share enthusiasm for harmless & sometimes quite arcane interests. Ppl condemning social media toxicity rarely acknowledge this particular boon.

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I agree in principle, but where else can I participate in forums like Lichens Mosses Ferns & Fungi (international amateur pics), Field Botanists Ont, Reptile & Amphibian Conservation, Standard Poodles in Need (Canada-wide rescue), as well as neighbourhood groups, local history, local photography…

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

No, Eh. Canadian Political Button – Reissue of 1988 Free Trade Design - Etsy Canada I still have mine—just dug it out Zero point in saying we told you so, but dammit… www.etsy.com/listing/4561...

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No, Eh. Canadian Political Button – Reissue of 1988 Free Trade Design - Etsy

This Pins & Pinback Buttons item is sold by CavanaughArtStudios. Ships from Canada. Listed on Aug 28, 2026

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Resonates with many Canadians. Why wouldn’t it?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

the most striking aspect of meta's proposed changes is that they are all about restricting teens and not about making these platforms more healthier/better for all

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maybe US trade “negotiators” need to learn the basics of negotiating. Reading “Getting to Yes” (William Ury et al) would be a good start—if they actually wanted to negotiate, that is. Could also benefit from Ury’s “The Power of a Positive No”, whose content our ppl apparently understood, tho late.

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Notably, most (tho not all) prominent AI ethicists are women. 2 I find interesting & sensible: @dorotheabaur.bsky.social @j2bryson.bsky.social. Also recommended book “Taming Silicon Valley” by @garymarcus.bsky.social

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hype masking real societal dangers. Somewhat tongue-in-cheek I call the hype birth envy. “Us men have made something much more powerful than the mere humans women can produce.”

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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Apparently a red letter day for good news: cockroach powder AND beer now available at this neighbourhood shop! Always fun to visit Toronto.

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