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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 29/09/2026

We have a full story from Dustin on the DULF decision coming up Subscribe to the De Facto newsletter to get it as soon as it's out: www.defactomedia.ca/newsletters/ bsky.app/profile/godf...

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"The 'rogue' frame ... offer[s] up fantasies of a machine getting smarter. "My worry is the intelligence that is retreating: the human intelligence that ... hides behind the results—then pins the blame on a system from nowhere." @eryk.bsky.social mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

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Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 31/08/2026

This week in the BetaKit Newsletter, @sarahcrgr.bsky.social discusses the AI companies’ call for somebody to do something about all the problems. Plus: 🍲Xanadu’s soup-er new digs 🚀 @uwaterloo.ca record-breaking rocket 🍁 Canada poaches top minds

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How did 1,200 OpenAI agents go rogue?

Plus: Xanadu turns a soup factory into a quantum hub.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:

Symbol for Amazon’s VGT3 operation which depicts a T rex with its mouth open over an open booky

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 05/08/2026

it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This

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How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor

“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Remember when we could go outside, that was nice

PurpleAir's air quality map shows heavy smoke over BC, Washington, Oregon, and Montana

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 20/07/2026

Some really impressive work here by a particularly impressive intern — Jamie Voyles, who is a rare breed of journalist with a PhD in public health.

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Next time people say lawmakers don't understand LLMs, remember they are paying significant sums to influence chatbots rather than regulate them.

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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 08/07/2026

A thing that made the old Internet good was all the world’s weirdos came together to offer their deep expertise on niche subjects. Now it’s so much harder to find that online, and we’ve destroyed the weirdos’ natural habitats. Netflix homepage could NEVER recommend a film like a video store weirdo.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Thinking of all of the media workers who lost their jobs today. We need local news more than ever.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Every newsroom that published biased, inaccurate stories about gender differences in sports and elevated critical voices above scientific accuracy and lived experiences should feel responsible for what this has led to.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the pope really said a computer can never be held accountable

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@madisonmcla.bsky.social is a tech reporter, and definitely not an MMA devotee ...which is exactly why we sent her to hang out w/ UFC fighters to hear all about how they're trying to biohack their way to a win: betakit.com/can-a-saliva...

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Can a saliva test make UFC athletes better fighters? This Canadian startup is betting on it | BetaKit

Ahead of the White House's UFC fight, Kintra is using AI-powered biomarkers to help fighters eke out an edge.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 05/06/2026

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Would like to complain because I was on a real hot streak here until it gave me a passage entirely in Russian: canyoupasstheturingtest.com

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Turing Test

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Norah Woodsey @norahwoodsey.com · 29/05/2026

ha ha what

Screenshot of a long post on x by shift.

“Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free.
Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing.
In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed.”

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"He compared the AI age to the industrial revolution, saying that there will be “losers” on the micro level, but that it will be broadly “fantastic” for society." betakit.com/ubers-presid...

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Uber’s president doesn’t know what the company’s 10.5 million drivers will be doing in 15 years | BetaKit

Andrew Macdonald tells Toronto Tech Week’s Homecoming that the gig app’s labour pool may soon start to shrink.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Not to be this person to bring us all down on National Bread Money Day, but bread prices remain elevated and this price fixing continues to cost billions and this compensation absolutely doesn't significantly ding oligopoly profits

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Asking for no particular reason but how many large bumblebees can you catch inside your house, while the windows have been closed, before you start to worry you have a problem

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13/05/2026

When a freelancer uses AI to invent quotes, they’re fired. When a bureau chief does it, it’s a quiet correction. Journalist Michelle Cyca argues that how publications respond to AI fabrication is the real policy in practice. ow.ly/xTPj50YYxTs

On the left: an image of newspaper crumpled into a ball on a red background. On the right: text that reads “The New York Times got caught using AI hallucinations in its reporting. Despite how the newspaper downplayed it, this is—in fact—a big deal”

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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 11/05/2026

Transit police are calling immigration on transit riders—and most of the time they aren't documenting it Freedom-of-info docs indicate Transit Police calls to CBSA have risen. But in available 2024 data, 91% of calls didn't go into daily duty reports as required www.defactomedia.ca/transit-poli...

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Transit Police are calling border enforcement more — but you wouldn't know that from their own records

In 2024, Metro Vancouver transit cops’ immigration calls reached their highest in a decade. But not even a tenth of them went into daily duty reports as required

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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter

The lawsuit claims that the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.

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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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Sean Hollister @seanhollister.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If you have, or know someone, with a Yarbo robot lawn mower... they might want to read this. www.theverge.com/tech/925696/...

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A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

I’m fine. Yarbo owners might not be.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

EXTREMELY excited to share that I got the long form this year.

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BetaKit @betakit.com · 06/05/2026

Are you tokenmaxxing, dabbling, or fully abstaining? BetaKit wants to know how Canadian tech workers are using AI at work. Take our survey and tell us:

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Are you tokenmaxxing? Tell us | BetaKit

BetaKit wants to know how much you’re using AI at work, and why.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Is your workplace encouraging you to use AI? Or is your office AI free? Fill out our survey to let us know: betakit.com/are-you-toke...

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Are you tokenmaxxing? Tell us | BetaKit

BetaKit wants to know how much you’re using AI at work, and why.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Is your workplace encouraging you to use AI? Or is your office AI free? Fill out our survey to let us know: betakit.com/are-you-toke...

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Are you tokenmaxxing? Tell us | BetaKit

BetaKit wants to know how much you’re using AI at work, and why.

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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 01/05/2026

This International Workers’ Day, we're putting media back in workers’ hands. De Facto Journalism Co-op is a new non-profit of 6 worker-owners producing in-depth journalism focused on justice issues and systems of power. To get our first investigations next week, subscribe here: defactomedia.ca

from left to right: Brishti Basu, Emma Arkell, Mike Graeme, Dustin Godfrey, David P. Ball and Cam Welch

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Shame on all the no-class, no integrity major media outlets, especially the CBC, for failing to credit @readtheorchard for breaking this story.

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Madison McLauchlan @madisonmcla.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"Stakeholders were divided between optimism for AI’s potential and skepticism about its risks." That's a line from the feds' summary report from its public consultations on its upcoming AI strategy. But we had no idea how many people felt one way or another. We set out to find out:

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Will take any excuse to share this short documentary on Manitoba's spaceship highway trash cans www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLi...

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Where Have All The Orbits Gone? [2013]

YouTube video by Manitoba Documentary Archive

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting. futurism.com/future-socie...

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In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control

In a story about a mass shooting that left eight children dead, Forbes is encouraging readers to bet on the news with fake money.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

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AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

“The coalition wants Meta to scrap the feature entirely. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, it argues that face recognition in inconspicuous consumer eyewear ‘cannot be resolved through product design changes, opt-out mechanisms, or incremental safeguards.’”

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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

There's a senior couple that walks by my house at the same time every day. Today, for the first time I've noticed, they have younger walking companions, and they are beaming and walking super slowly pointing out flowers and wildlife. I hope they're having the best day.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 07/04/2026

Wrote a little thing in my newsletter this morning about the way people talk about AI and writing, and the devaluation of labour www.anxietyshark.ca/solve-for-wo...

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Solve for work

There is no written word without a weary hand wielding the pen.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/04/2026

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

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Sarah Rieger @sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

April Hicke writes for @betakit.com that if employers can't demonstrate how AI systems perform across gender, race, disability, and immigration status, they should not be deploying it at scale: betakit.com/the-women-mo...

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Opinion: The women most at risk from AI aren't in the rooms designing it

April Hicke writes that Canada is building its AI economy on a foundation that excludes some of its workforce.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

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NASA's Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover listens to 'Whitey on the Moon' every Monday. This is why.

"It ain't about racism. It's about the human condition."

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