False information, misleading images rife in Manitoba-based AI-driven 'news' service In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the rise of Boring News, an AI-generated news outlet, highlights the growing tension between technology and journalism. While it aims to fill local news gaps acr...

Oof. Looks like I'm going to have to beef up my lessons on reliable news sources next year.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

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It's been a long time coming. Canadian independent bookstores have banded together to create an online book buying source so you can avoid the behemoth in the room. (Here are the titles published by CMU Press, which I run.)
Spread the word #booksky!

www.booksellers.ca/publisher/cmu-press-18021

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Canada not considering a ban on X over deepfake controversy, AI minister says The platform, which is owned by Elon Musk, has been embroiled in controversy over sexualized deepfakes of women and children created by X’s chatbot Grok.

I will accept no moral high ground from a government that refuses to ban a platform that is actively, in real time, right in front of our faces, creating child sexual abuse materials.

They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts.

Fuck Carney.

My books of 2025 post Hi my three readers! Here’s my annual roundup of books I read last year. Even if there are (generously) only three of you, I’ve decided to keep making this annual post so I have an ongo…

I made my annual blog post about books I read last year: kipress.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/m... I mean it, I usually only post on this blog once a year for this purpose...

Oh my goodness, that brought back memories! I had this album--my sister was living in northern Quebec at the time and gave it to me, otherwise I probably would never have heard it.

I'm 50 and I still have stress nightmares about absentmindedly walking off with a button featuring the words "Go Fly a Kite" from a toy store when I was about 5.

Anne Lived in Gables. They Were Green. by Ernest Hemingway Matthew Cuthbert was a silent man. He drove a buggy. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a loud, fat woman, watched him drive by. - - -Matthew saw an ugly girl with...

“Carrots,” the handsome boy called Gilbert Blythe said. “Your hair is red, and therefore it is like carrots.”

Anne shot Gilbert in the leg.

The Alberta minister in the Globe this morning responding to whether or not he's read the four books that prompted the wide school book banning: "“I am struggling to find the time to read a quarter of any book, let alone four books." They're graphic novels.

It's really toeing! Expression has something to do with racer's foot and the starting line.

Rode in an elevator with Shane MacGowan.

Shawn Micallef: Vehicles have become weapons by design — and public space is in their crosshairs A culture like ours weaponizes vehicles — from the way they are designed to the way the roads they run on are designed.

“…beyond intentional attacks, drivers in cars, SUVs and trucks threaten the safety of our public spaces everyday but we treat the damage they do like the weather: something inevitable that just happens.”

The seasonal market near my house just announced it's opening on Wednesday and I had to come somewhere to post this because the change that makes to my life for 5 months of the year is too big to not comment on.

Well if we get the AI to do the reading too, problem solved I guess!

One of the saddest things about all this is how it’s revealed what an incredibly low bar many people have for anything that resembles thinking.

It’s also boring.

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Duncan Storozuk looks at the phenomenon of AI translation in the world of manga: workingdraftmagazine.com/lost-in-tran...

Brielle Campbell examines the multiple barriers facing women and girls with disabilities in sports: workingdraftmagazine.com/breaking-the...

Matthew Frank writes about what happens to wildfire evacuees from First Nations after the news cycle has moved on: workingdraftmagazine.com/after-the-sm...

Scott Maier interviews a man who has seen spirits for most of his life: workingdraftmagazine.com/when-they-ca...

Lots of great student writing posted recently at Working Draft magazine! Here are few

- Georgia Dyck on her first season as a wildland firefighter: workingdraftmagazine.com/chasing-fire/

I just got the first for Adam; he reads Norwegian

screenshot of search for 'Emma Donoghue' in LibGen

91 results. That's every book I've published since 1993, in multiple languages, scraped without permission to train AI. They're robbing us in hopes of replacing us.

Noah van den Berg tells his personal story of being a GameStop investor: workingdraftmagazine.com/this-is-not-...

Jenna Dyck reflects on her not-too-distant experience of losing parts of her childhood to her phone: workingdraftmagazine.com/the-price-of...

Jana Giguere explains how the wind works: workingdraftmagazine.com/connected-by...

I’m involved with a student magazine, Working Draft (out of Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg), and it’s in the middle of publishing its annual edition: workingdraftmagazine.com

A sampling:

If you can see the difference between New York-based and New York–based, you may be a copy editor.