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ventybones is an inherently spooky name imo @ventybones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omg this is so wholesome. Toronto's holding a "youth vote" during early voting days this month. The kids vote for next year's tree of the year!
A flyer for Toronto's Growing Future Voters program (new in 2026!)

Kids can vote for Toronto's 2027 Tree of the Year and learn about the voting process.
Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11 From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
At all 50 advance voting places
Meet the Candidates
Basswood: My shade makes me the coolest tree at the park!
Paper Birch: My seeds fly far and wide to help me grow everywhere!
Red Oak: My acorns and leaves are tasty snacks for my animal friends!
Sugar Maple: My sweet sap and bright colours are world famous!
White Pine: My needles provide shelter for my animal friends all year long!

The winning tree will be named Toronto's 2027 Tree of the Year and celebrated with plantings, saplings offered to schools, and free saplings available at all public tree giveaway events.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 30/09/2026
“Spyware manufacturers that participate in the persecution of journalists shouldn’t be able to operate with impunity, and U.S. courts must ensure that they are held accountable for their actions where those actions violate U.S. law," @carriedecell.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/content/cour...
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Court Dismisses Journalists’ Case Against Spyware Manufacturer NSO Group
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026
Chris Van Hollen issues the first ever call by a Democratic member of Congress for US officials to be sanctioned by other countries
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uRi @usaba.ch · 15/09/2026
Head to Head סרט איראני על סרט שבו השחקנים הגברים צריכים ללבוש בגדי נשים (הבמאית בסרט שבסרט מנסה "להראות" להם איך זה להסתובב עם חג'אב כל היום). אהבתי מאוד, אבל מעניין שהוא מוצג כקומדיה, גם בראיון עם הבמאית "האמיתית". יש שם מחוות ברורות למחאות החג'אב ולנשים האמיצות ששילמו בחייהן ובחירותן. #TIFF26
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The real heroes of #tiff26 are the volunteers who take photos with your phone so everyone can be in the picture.
A couple passing in front of the tiff sign and volunteers taking their photo, during tiff festival street which ended last night.
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CottonEyeMiso @ilikemiso42.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
תגידו מאיפה הגיע הבחור הזה אני כבר פעם חמישית היום מקשיב לאלבום הזה כאילו שלוש שנים חיכיתי שמישהו יגיד את הדברים האלו
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
DHS is running a secretive 'predictive policing' unit, and we just revealed its name for the first time: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team. It is pulling people over not suspected of any specific crime Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0AG...
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You should all read the USPS whistleblower complaint, because it makes clear Trump intends to use the USPS to prevent us all from voting. It is as simple as that. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back to school. ❤️
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Incredible scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social who were able to recreate Flock's new AI-powered tool that lets police officers ID drivers and track vehicles—capabilities the company has repeatedly said it doesn't allow. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
An extraordinary, courageous and chilling article. Julia Curlee is a true patriot. THE WRONG KIND OF AMERICAN The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public. By Julia Curlee www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 14/08/2026
"US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal. DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
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uRi @usaba.ch · 12/08/2026
עכשיו עם הקובץ - נאך א גלעזל טיי One more cup of טיי
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uRi @usaba.ch · 03/08/2026
לידיעת @barzik.bsky.social הבוט של באבקום (רשות האוכלוסין) לא מאובטח בכלל. במקום לבקש מינימום של תאריך הנפקת ת"ז, או לשלוח 2FA לטלפון המעודכן במשרד הפנים, או להעלות משהו דרך gov.il - אפשר לקבל בסמס מיקום קלפי לכל צמד של מספר ת"ז + תאריך לידה.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/07/2026
Join Our Research Team! @SMLabTO is Hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow socialmedialab.ca/2026/07/14/p... #phdsky #academicsky #comsky #polsky #computationalsocialscience
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Jono Barel @jonobarel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
החלק שאני הכי אוהב בבחירות הקרובות זה שהחליפו את האתר המאובטח שבו היה ניתן לבדוק את פנקס הבוחרים, וישב תחת gov.il, במספר וואטסאפ שמופיע תחת השם "באבקום". אם הייתי רוצה לאסוף פרטים אישיים של ישראלים, אני מתקשה לחשוב על משהו שיהפוך אותם לפגיעים יותר מאשר לדעת *שיש* ערוץ רשמי כזה.
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העין השביעית @the7eye.org.il · 22/07/2026
כשסלאח שחאדה נהרג יחד עם משפחתו וחפים מפשע אחרים, היום לפני 24 שנים, "הארץ" לא היה לבד. www.the7eye.org.il/13146
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
NEW: The Iranian government abused well-known flaws in the global telecoms infrastructure — specifically SS7 — to locate U.S. military personnel in the Middle East at the beginning of the war. techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/i...
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Iran abused mobile networks' vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says | TechCrunch
The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war.
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Dan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
אז עכשיו כשיש תאריך לבחירות אפשר להגיד שב25-26.10 יערכו במקביל עשרות כנסים אקדמיים בכל תחום אקדמי שרק תעלו על הדעת. הרעיון הוא לנצל את העובדה שאקדמאים/ות ישראלים/ות רבים בחו"ל מגיעים להצביע, ולערוך חגיגה של מדע/מחקר ישראלי. אנחנו מארגנים את הכנס הסוציולוגי, אבל, כאמור, יש בכל תחום כמעט. >>
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Consistent with international law, FIFA determines that rules that apply to everyone else don’t apply to the US.
Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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uRi @usaba.ch · 03/07/2026
שערוריית NSO פגאסוס נוספת. הפעם: חבר פרלמנט אירופי שהיה חבר בוועדה שחקרה דיווחים על פגאסוס באירופה - היה קרבן בעצמו.
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uRi @usaba.ch · 30/06/2026
וואו! יש טיוטות בבלוסקיי!
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Muddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
On this date in 1976, the CN Tower officially opened. Happy 50th Birthday!
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Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This has happened with literally every database made available to law enforcement ever. No exceptions. (And yet every time it comes up they pretend it's a brand new thing no one could possibly have anticipated.)
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It’s interesting how readily the label of “secular, assimilated, and actively hostile to Jewish communal life” is even applied to, like, rabbis on the basis that they’re not Zionist enough.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.
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Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.
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Dubi is here :Dambo8: @dubikan.tooot.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026
אקדמאים ישראלים בחו"ל: קבוצה של אקדמאים בישראל ארגנה סדרה של כנסים במגוון תחומים כדי לאפשר לחוקרים ישראלים בחו"ל לשהות בישראל בתקופת הבחירות ולהשתתף בהן. Mind-IL www.mind-il.org
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Mind-IL
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🦋FightForDemocracy!🦋 @budahsbaker.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
TORONTO: tomorrow at 7 PM! I'll be in conversation with Dr. M. Murphy and discussing The AI Con at the Jackman Humanities Institute. RSVP at aiconto.eventbrite.ca.
Flyer for an event. 
Another Story Bookshop and the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability at UTSC present an evening with Dr. Alex Hanna, Co-Author of The AI CON.

In conversation with Dr. M. Murphy

Doors 7PM, event 7:15 PM / June 18, 2026
Jackman Humanities Institute (JH100B). 170 St. George St.

RSVP at AICONTO.EVENTBRITE.CA. Along with a picture of the book title, Dr. Alex Hanna, the IECS and Another Story logos.
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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
elect socialist mayors and your team will win a championship! see the following data points: Seattle; NYC.
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Ronnie Caspi 🔥🐕☕🔥 רוני כספי @ronniecaspi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
שמעו זה לא איזה סקופ והוא עדיין יהיה מת ועדיין יהיה אייקון אמנות עוד עשר דקות. יש מספיק זמן לערוך את התרגום מכונה המזוויע
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 11/06/2026
AI systems don’t work consistently across languages, and the gaps can have real consequences for users. In a new two-year project, CDT Research is studying multilingual AI safety to better understand how chatbots serve users in low- and medium-resource languages.
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Assessing the Polyglot Chatbot: Multilingual Safety in AI Systems
AI systems do not work consistently and reliably across languages, as CDT has previously documented. Although companies, researchers, and civil society are working toward filling necessary technical and procedural gaps for improving systems, advancements in AI capabilities remain “jagged”, particularly in languages other than English according to the International AI Safety Report.  As users from […]
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
AI data centres in Europe, 1437
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Good god this is a crazy interview. Listen as Scott Pelley describes how Bari Weiss wanted journalists at CBS to cover the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota. This is why we can’t have oligarchs running our news outlets, this is absolutely devastating.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 06/06/2026
📰 As some publishers & news organizations block the Wayback Machine from archiving journalism. ✏️ Help keep journalism accessible—sign the open letter asking them to stop blocking archiving ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders #SaveTheArchive #WaybackMachine #PreserveTheWeb @fightforthefuture.org
Close-up photo of Internet Archive server racks, showing rows of hard drives with red pull tabs and the Internet Archive logo and name on a black panel.
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uRi @usaba.ch · 07/06/2026
עדיף מאשר להמשיך לשתות כשהכל מסביב בוער. Everything is fine!
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything. We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...
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We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything
Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
On AI legal slop: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...
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Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
The gorgeous AI Resist List homepage
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Dr. Exmaahal @exmaahal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
בבקשה. ואנצל את ההזדמנות לפרסומת חינם לתוכניות הרדיו בהתאמה אישית של רייווי, אולי יהיה רלבנטי למישהו'י פה. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Register @theregister.com · 15/05/2026
Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
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Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say
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uRi @usaba.ch · 12/05/2026
יש אישור ממקורות ישראליים? הבנתי שמנהל מיקרוסופט בישראל עזב בהפתעה. האם אכן בגלל שיקולי תדמית / AI / HR human rights / בגלל שיתוף הפעולה עם צה"ל בעזה ובעקבות הכתבות של יובל אברהם ב @mekomit.bsky.social
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