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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1h
Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 1h
If you're needing a clear-cut example of US corruption:
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Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: It’s been three years since the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Premier Doug Ford’s Greenbelt land swap. A former Ontario attorney general says the Mounties should properly update the public on the status of the probe. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Three years later, RCMP says investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scandal is still ‘ongoing’
It has been more than 1,100 days since the Mounties launched their probe into Ford's $8.28-billion land swap on Oct. 10, 2023.
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Nigel Wallis @nwallis.bsky.social · 22h
Every once in a while, I’ll recite Sandra Boynton’s Going to Bed board book. The look of scorn from my teen daughter is wilting… But OTOH, she bought it herself as a gift to a new parent, so…
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Nigel Wallis @nwallis.bsky.social · 22h
And you’ll miss it so much when they grow up
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time.
There was the incident that became known as “the Lauren error”: One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight. 

She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of “defensive” programming, the practice of building software that could anticipate or fix errors on its own.
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Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Canada drops sponsorship of conference that talks of U.S. as foreign interference actor www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Canada drops sponsorship of conference that talks of U.S. as foreign interference actor
Global Affairs cites changes to several panel discussions, says officials will still take part in the conference
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fighting foreign interference should be a core Canadian national security priority. But if even being at a conference where the United States is named -- accurately -- as a foreign interference actor is a bridge too far for this government, then they've already conceded the game.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you want to prove you're not doing a foreign influence campaign campaigning to get a bunch of foreign nations to drop out of/defund a conference on foreign influence is certainly one way to go...
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Figure Falling on Endless Escher Stairs
ALT: Figure Falling on Endless Escher Stairs
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A big corporation like Loblaws should be fined for this stuff and pay to clean it up. Drone show ads should be illegal. So should "AI-powered health assistants" imo.
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 07/10/2026
You can do it without involving Canada at all. Just go back to abiding by CUSMA, a trade agreement that Donald Trump negotiated. The idea that Canada needs to do something to end this trade war is just part of the Americans' domineering strategy.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026
An underappreciated part of the two abortion pill cases filed last week: they target not just mifepristone, but also *misoprostol.* That's the second drug in a typical regimen, but it's effective on its own. Louisiana says the cases would prevent mailing "back-up drugs" @autonomynews.co
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Three States Try Express Lane to Supreme Court Over ‘Shield’ Laws: October 5 News Roundup
Complaints filed last week target access to both mifepristone and misoprostol, a back-up abortion pill method.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canadian public transit agencies should work more with the uitp (the international public transport association) and less with apta (the American public transport association), we just have so much to learn from the world and a lot of our mistakes are common with the US.
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Nigel Wallis @nwallis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For some of those business/org’s, the agents will effectively be a DDoS.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Nobody is prepared for the world of drone warfare that is coming, in fact is already here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Howdy! Alberta separatists + American Republicans. Read all about it. --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By Nathan VanderKlippe, Grant Robertson, and friend.
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Nigel Wallis @nwallis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s great seeing everyone out there - and this time of year? Could be any of a lot of groups running hills - Chelsea Nordiq, Skinouk, Nakkertok, Kanata Nordic all mix roller skiing with trail runs every Saturday AM until the snow flies (or the snow guns at Nak are firing).
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Nigel Wallis @nwallis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nordic skier & biathlon.
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Nigel Wallis @nwallis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kid had morning practise in the park. Leaving? The queue of cars was backed up from Chelsea to P8 stop sign…
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
"I will be speaking at a pace only seen in clinically diagnosed mania. Do not mistake this for enthusiasm—I will feel like I’m dying. Also, I will be actively trying to distract myself from the fact that I can feel my pulse in my teeth." buff.ly/B8S8Nas
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I’m Going to Have a Third Cup of Coffee, and I Need Everyone to Respect My Decision
“When I call you to say I feel like I’m going to pass out, you will ask if I’ve had anything to eat all day, and I will reply that yes, I have, but the forkf...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I tend to joke that a lot of bad decisions made both by the U.S. government and corporate America seem like leaders getting bad ideas from Claude. I was wrong. It’s bad ideas from Grok.
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Alex DeLuca @alexldeluca21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there. No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner
Officials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Which Toronto mayoral candidate will call for a line-by-line value for money audit of the police budget? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Is he dead yet? 🇨🇦 @maximummeh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Then enforce it. And stop letting these american's buy all of our companies. They are the shittiest of shitty employers.
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here is the email obtained by the ABC that was sent by OpenAI to the Australian government's Services Australia to disclose the incident
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Nigel Wallis @nwallis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The timing on Justine Henin’s was exquisite
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.
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Emma McIntosh @emmamci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Project South corruption probe began with an alleged plan to kill a Toronto jail official. But it also unearthed a web of other alleged schemes involving misuse of police powers. My latest is one of those tales, about an actress/private eye and a GPS tracker: www.thestar.com/news/crime/h...
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How a former actress turned private eye ended up in the crosshairs of the Project South police corruption probe
Newly released court records detail how a former actress turned private eye ended up in the crosshairs of the Project South corruption probe.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 28/09/2026
If I’m reading this correctly, Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford’s campaign is asking volunteers to give them full access to their contact lists on their *personal* cell phones? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/i...
'You don't need to freak out about this'
Introducing Bradford's supporters to the app on the Zoom call, Punia instructed them to give the app permission to access all of their contacts.

"Do not give it partial contact ability, give it full. And what I want to say to you guys here is, you don't need to freak out about this," said Punia. He reassured them that only contacts they marked as known or potential Bradford supporters would be given to the campaign.

One attendee hesitated as she had over 2,400 contacts on her phone. She was instructed to give the app access to all of them and mark them one by one according to their level of support for Bradford.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” said one.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Perhaps the best evidence for AI-driven arts job loss is that all digital arts industries are losing jobs while most live arts still chug along Sectors like graphic design, streaming, & movie recording have experienced historically unusual job loss since ChatGPT's launch
a graph showing job losses of between 20-5% in all digital arts and gains of 15% in most live arts
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Political parties should pick leaders the way Econ departments pick department heads: Anyone ambitious enough to want the job is disqualified and everyone else gets together and bullies the least objectionable person into agreeing to lead until someone better comes along or they burn out.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 25/09/2026
I'm convinced everyone gets COVID when kids go back to school (in mid August here!) and I'm curious why now-annual COVID boosters aren't available anywhere until October. 😓
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
if anyone asks I’m a lawyer and this is protected
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Nigel Wallis @nwallis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pep’s timing…
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