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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very much looking forward to the new 2D Metroid

Poster for Metroid: Ravenous where the title is replaced by Metroid: Hangry, with Samus sucking the life out of some poor creature.

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oof, this one makes me legitimately sad.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them.

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lazy and sloppy CBC. Trump renamed Lake Ontario? Did he? Does he have that authority? Are his executive orders omnipotent? Who decides the names of geographical features? Please do some journalism.

CBC article which says "Trump renames Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' in latest shot at Canada

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Samus would blow up the planet. And then maybe turn into a little ball.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not a single word about how these tariffs violate both our WTO & USCMA obligations. Every time Trump does this, the NYT & other outlets simply write as if we live in an international vacuum, where the US has no obligations under signed, ratified international treaties. It's journalistic malpractice.

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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Americans should take the president's anti-Canadian saber-rattling so much more seriously than we do. We should treat it not as a joke, not as a quirk . . . but as a genuine threat to our neighbors." @jamellebouie.net is exactly right www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPs9...

youtube.com

It is time to stop treating Donald Trump's anti-Canada rhetoric like a joke

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

data visualization is my passion.

fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Technically, they’re Remains now.

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 19/06/2026

US investigative journalism title The Lever has increased free subscribers by 66% since 2025 after slowing its output in response to the frenetic pace of news during the second Trump presidency

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How slow journalism is paying off for The Lever under Trump Two

The Lever is intentionally slowing down its output in response to the Trump-era news cycle having a higher bar for reader attention.

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is enraging! This technology is actually taking us backwards, making us more primitive!

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/06/2026

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

They fired Scott Pelley, because of course they did, the cowards.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 29/05/2026

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

A close up of captain kirk getting his eyes scanned. It is cut off above the eyebrows and below his mouth.

The same image in a thumbnail for Star Trek, the wrath of Khan. But AI has painted the rest of the image so that Kirk is a balding man in a business suit.

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yup. I started wearing a mask on planes well before COVID. I just wanted to stop having my vacations ruined by a cold I picked up on the plane. It's so annoying that masks got politicized and that I now get dirty looks!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/05/2026

pretty crazy how blatant the ending of the late show is just an act of government censorship lol

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19/05/2026

if someone does a coverup, that's consciousness of guilt and so Objective Journalists have an alibi for critical coverage. but if you just shoot someone in broad daylight, Peter Baker's hands are tied

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

So much of the AI-hyping LinkedIn fare is clearly written by AI. AI writing about itself, post after post. It's the world's first self-hyping technology, a perpetual motion machine of nonsense. (Potentially also a self-inflating economic bubble)

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is abhorrent. Trans students from the US are possibly being denied hormonal therapy in Canada because of a Trump executive order. Is Canada a sovereign country or not?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/05/2026

For years, Edith Eger kept quiet, refusing to speak about the atrocities she faced and saw in Auschwitz. But by the time she was in her early 50s working as a clinical psychologist, she knew she had to heal herself first to truly help her patients.

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Forced to dance for Mengele at Auschwitz, she was called to help others heal

Psychologist Edith Eger, who has died at 98, treated veterans and abuse victims. She had to heal herself first, she said, to truly help her patients.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

See the left of the graph, when monthly job creation was high? A terrible economy that should be described negatively. And on the right side, where the line has sloped down, and even a relatively high month is lower than the average under Biden? That’s good, and merits positive words like “solid.”

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm currently looking for a new journalism role. It's funny how bad LinkedIn is, especially when other languages like French are involved. It frequently sends me alerts for exciting "journalier" jobs. These are day laborer jobs like laying bricks or moving heavy equipment or yard work 👍

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apartment, for some reason. Or is it appartment? (This may be a Quebec-specific problem.)

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This should be the standard for all news orgs. Here’s a useful exercise to judge a news org’s bias Do they quote ppl from [insert population group] in stories all about [insert same population group]?

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14/04/2026

The French government opposes the ban on trans women in Olympic women’s events, saying enforced genetic testing is an invasion of privacy 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the…

Text reads: The International Olympic Committee’s recent decision to reintroduce ‘sex testing’ for athletes is more likely to exclude women identified as female at birth than trans women, experts have said, as opposition to the policy change grows.
Athletes, governments and experts have been objecting to the genetic sex testing that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) plans to reintroduce – including the scientist who originally identified the SRY gene that the tests check for.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/04/2026

Tech companies hate news and journalism, just like they hate climate action and renewable energy. Any impression otherwise has been a carefully curated con. futurism.com/future-socie...

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Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets

Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A society with deep rot, what else is there to say

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If a journalist published incorrect information one time out of ten, that journalist would be fired immediately (at least, in a functioning newsroom).

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Yes and thank you. People are already exhausted by too much low quality journalism; GenAI promises even more, and even lower quality. No! I refuse! We need to be strengthening the human-to-human relationship with our audience. That's the future.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 03/04/2026

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

actual nytimes headline

FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I'm sceptical of any new idea that advertises itself with the current buzzword, AI. If it was a good idea, you could just describe what it does and everyone would understand and want it. Spare me the implementation details. That you feel the need to hook into the marketing hype is a red flag.

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Ghostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Again this demand that gender be determined not at birth or by self definition or cultural upbringing but by genetic testing is a major and radical demand for a new standard never, ever practiced by any culture in the history of the planet Earth.

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The deal with Google was always “we let you scrape all our websites and in return you send people to them.” Every AI slop feature they add is a violation of that deal. Ultimately we, meaning website makers, will have to make a hard decision about whether the deal is worth it anymore.

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A reporter-free newsroom is just a room

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The gutting of the professional non-partisan press and its replacement by a right-wing partisan press should be concern #1 for anyone who wants to live in a democracy.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This cartoon by @bonejail made my day. I want you to have a laugh too!

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 21/02/2026

Community does not scale, programmatic advertising scales. Which business are you in?

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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'm sick of tech-bro types who want to reinvent journalism from first principles, but who've never talked to journalists or academics much less reported out a story. "Move fast and break things" is exactly what got us into this problem in the first place.

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