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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 8h
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Make Some Noise @makesomenoise.dropout.tv · 17h
This is every tech bro ever 🤣🤣
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 21h
surprise surprise he’s a climate change denier and doesn’t seem to understand basic reality futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind? These Strongly Appear to Be His Bizarre Old Tweets
Old tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions.
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Krissan Veerasingam @krissan4scarb.bsky.social · 20h
Yesterday, I went out and voted at an advanced polling site, and you can too! They'll be open until OCT 11th from 10AM to 7PM. Make sure your voice is heard by voting!
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

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social obligation
8:41 PM • 10/5/26 • 880 Views
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Barely any media reporting on this. Instead it's one big tech weirdo after another talking about how their god machines want to kill us all so they need all of earth's resources immediately
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 07/10/2026
Immigration minister appears unaware of court ruling that guarantees Charter rights for refugees www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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Immigration minister appears unaware of court ruling that guarantees Charter rights for refugees | CBC News
Refugee rights advocates say they are shocked to hear that the federal immigration minister appeared in an interview with Radio-Canada to be unfamiliar with the landmark Supreme Court decision widely ...
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 22h
Monday’s Québec election offered one of the most egregious examples of first-past-the-post failure in modern Canadian history. We must be rid of this broken system, which gives far too much power with far too little of the vote, writes @christoaivalis.bsky.social.
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Quebec election shows urgent need for electoral reform across Canada
The recent Québec election narrowly averted a crisis of democracy, but only partially and barely so. As the votes were being counted, the prospect of the Parti Québécois winning an outright majority w...
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Btw this is infinitely worse than saying “America deserved 9/11”
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Krissan Veerasingam @krissan4scarb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Early voting for the municipal elections start today! If you're in Ward 21 look for me LAST on the ballot. A better Scarborough starts today, and you can be a part of the change.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2026
only good news in quebec is that pspp doesn’t have an absolutely majority. but getting that close on 28% of the vote is insanity. first-past-the-post is not fit for purpose.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
gosh, I wonder why some criminal rich guy doesn't want a system where normal people might potentially be able to have a voice
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 05/10/2026
Yang wen-li, a character from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, saying in two panels "I believe that being ruled by the worst democracy is preferable to being ruled by the best autocracy"
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is in response to news that we’re never going to profit from TMX, despite the government regularly calling the project “wildly profitable.” Anyway, when the whole argument for the infrastructure to be built is PROFIT-BASED, (unlike Canada Post!) yes you do!!
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Krissan Veerasingam @krissan4scarb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Early voting starts Tuesday & I need your help to complete the work we started 6 months ago. After connecting with thousands of voters, we now have 3 weeks to reconnect and get folks out to the polls. Visit krissan.ca/ to help with: .volunteering .donations .signs
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Sunny Ella @sunnywillow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zionism is racism. The United Nations voted to declare it as such in 1975, half a century ago. This isn’t new, and this isn’t controversial.
A group marching down a street holding a banner that reads zionism is racism
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But no, we have to give tax breaks to the rich while we wallow for hours just to follow up on the medical advice we've been given. It is not lost on me that this election on Monday is going to change nothing, and probably make this all worse.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You'd think it would be bigger news that a US owned national newspaper in Canada is publishing violent threats towards the only Jewish leader of a major political party in the country
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you’re not familiar with the way industry insiders, political hacks, oddball volunteers and some of the world’s largest media outlets regularly combine on idiotic stunts intentionally constructed to fool the public into believing drivel and bullshit, then “Climategate” is a handy place to begin.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 02/10/2026
Wise words (as always) from Bruce Schneier: "Once we normalize a surveillance infrastructure, both friends and foes will take advantage of it." www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
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Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida - Schneier on Security
St. Lucie County in Florida discovered (alt link) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can’t identify, and that the county government had not permitted. I am reminded of the decade-old story of St...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great episode. I had no idea Canadaland had gotten so bad.
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328: Canadaland Platforms Antivax Grifter
Podcast Episode · Conspirituality · October 1 · 1h 13m
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Having a guest on your show who says, "I'm the world's most cited expert on COVID vaccines" and not immediately clocking the dude as a bullshitter should disqualify you from journalism forever. Rogan levels of 'inspect my wallet please.'
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first
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Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law
Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we've seen how important student journalism can be with the reporting by the Cornell Daily Sun. but schools around the country regularly censor student journalists. (often illegally!) we have public records that show how this happens: www.404media.co/how-schools-...
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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We sent @joshdzieza.bsky.social to Utah to figure out what's going on with Kevin O'Leary's giant data center project, which has stalled out due to furious opposition from locals. After promising to talk to us, O'Leary's company sent us legal threats instead. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Over the past five months, I spoke with more than two dozen local officials, residents, and others involved with the project, including the CEO and cofounder of O’Leary Digital, Paul Palandjian, who, after describing himself as “an open kimono” of transparency, responded to emailed questions and requests to speak with O’Leary with a message from a lawyer threatening legal action over any false statements. These interviews, along with thousands of pages of emails and text messages obtained through public records requests, show a project that moved with the urgency of an emergency. Everyone was racing — the developers against other speculators, O’Leary against rival projects chasing the same few tenants, Utah against other states, the United States against China — right up until they slammed into the residents of Box Elder County they had neglected to tell.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It was AFTER Confederation, took 10 years of stop-and-start planning first, and the 1881-1885 construction phase went HALFWAY across Canada—just Ontario to B.C.—without labour standards or consideration of Indigenous people. This mythologizing of the CPR is in itself a mark of unseriousness.
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Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In many local elections in BC & Ontario, some politicians don’t aren’t running against others on the ballot. They are running against us. Trying to stampede voters with fear-mongering about the contagion of drug users & harm reduction. On the next @crackdownpod.bsky.social
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/09/2026
Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, people across Canada are gathering in remembrance and renewed determination to ensure ours is a country where every child matters.
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Sophie @sophiefrommars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The problem is AI is variably hideous and is being oversold to people & forcibly added to their workflows to the point that people hate it and don't want to see it as having any use cases at all. This isn't true, but there can't be common ground unless AI bros can admit AI isn't good at most things.
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Krissan Veerasingam @krissan4scarb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'll be joined by Veronica Javier for a joint canvass next week, and we'd love for you to join us! Use the QR code or this link to RSVP so we'll know you're joining us! krissan.ca/joint_canvas... We'll also have chai at the campaign office afterwards!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's also, slightly more bleakly, the UK Cass Report. An audit of medical records showed trans kids waiting years for appointments and having an average of 7 assessments before receiving any care. Anti-trans activists said it was proof kids were being rushed into transition.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 30/09/2026
There’s been a tendency for some media to run with “the race is tightening” headlines after every recent poll release, but our model has actually shown Chow’s chances going up slightly with the last few polls. projection.cityhallwatcher.com/polls/
Line chart showing how three candidates' winning probabilities changed over time based on poll releases from August 22 to September 30, 2026, with Olivia Chow trending upward around 75%, Brad Bradford declining to about 20%, and Chris Alexander remaining near 0%.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's not a hypothesis, and never has been. It's simply a description of what language models, run as synthetic text extruding machines, do: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>
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Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions
It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
& 5 minutes later when the next shipment of weapons arrived as scheduled, netanyahu concluded that biden was a weak bluffing fool who he could completely ignore to zero consequence
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 30/09/2026
Protecting our oceans from environmental regulations so they can more efficiently transport oil & gas offshore.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app, a PhD in computer vision; Altman, a dropout funded by Musk and Thiel. One explains how llms/chatbots work; the other is part of a cult that blathers on about 'reasoning,' 'rogue AI, 'digital immortality,' and other nonsense. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ragebaiting myself by watching Carney announce “ocean protections” while he’s massively escalating tanker traffic for oil and gas exports
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
“Does it make sense to be giving that electricity over to data centres when there might be better ways that it can be used?” I spoke to CBC News to explain why data centres likely won’t be a good fit for Newfoundland and Labrador.
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AI data centres in N.L.? The door is ‘open for business,’ says energy minister | CBC News
The provincial government has been approached by companies looking to develop AI data centres. Energy Minister Lloyd Parrott says the province is open for business, though some experts urge caution.
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