This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.
@maritstilesndp.bsky.social has produced a perfect video about Doug Ford's Greenbelt scandal and why he's trying to hide his phone records.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7esZ...
Way too important to paywall. Please share with reporters you know in the national media. Children's book authors now have to sign into hotels under assumed names. Two book imprints have gone under, partially from the hit they took from censorship.
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I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages!
If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is
pardonmewhileipanic: stunningpicture: nature is brutal A flock of lawn flamingos can pick a T-rex clean in under 90 seconds - it’s a picture of this very scenario
“RFK is a eugenicist who believes that people with chronic health conditions deserve to die preventable deaths” is a plain fact that the news media cannot or will not tell the public.
This is the kind of thing where, if you are a Democrat in charge, you haul Kash Patel's ass in front of a committee and give him one of the worst days of his miserable life. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
I really think that we should start thinking about holding election results until they are all counted, rather than releasing them minute by minute.
the gop was not "winning"; it's not a horse race. the election is over. you're just counting ballots. 1
Today Doug Ford called the people of Ontario dumb and embarrassing for being upset that he bought himself a $29M private jet.
Doug’s true colours come out when he gets mad. There is no one with more disdain for the people of Ontario than this shambles of a man.
Canada has already paid an "entry fee" in these negotiations — dropping counter-tariffs and scrapping the Digital Services Tax, a modest tax on the world's most profitable tech giants, at the behest of Donald Trump.
Those concessions got us nowhere.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
From journalist Gabrielle Bruney: "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"
Ladies and gentlemen, the boycott is working..
“alcohol remains one of Washington’s biggest pet peeves. The Trump administration is having a hard time accepting that most provinces across the country have removed American wine, beer and spirits from their shelves”
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
FFS
Air Canada jet forced into emergency climb after near‑miss with U.S. flight at JFK airport #Canada #AirCanada
halifax.citynews.ca/2026/04/22/a...
"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."
With Anthony Furey out of the mayoral race, a Chow vs. Bradford face-off could go to the candidate who finds a way to express hope in dark times, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social #TOpoli #ONpoli
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Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden.
This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years.
But he’s the one who is actually doing it.
Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.
70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.
30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.
7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job
A drawing of a frog holding a pond lily umbrella for a mouse. The caption reads, "your needs are not burdensome"
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Weird how Doug Ford just Keeps Showing Up in cases of random Ontario corruption and self-dealing elites, like in this story about a construction union head who got the union to buy him a 4-million dollar home.
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8363bd6...
(via @loanseyjonesy.bsky.social)
#IdeasAtWork
"In many cases, female leaders are spearheading change. Through their own experiences navigating the world as girls and women, as carers, and through decades of being invisible in the planning process, they often understand best that the status quo is not working." @modacitylife.com
If you knowingly use a piece of software that is fundamentally designed from the ground up to fabricate text, you are not doing "hallucinations", you are doing criminal fraud and it should be described as such in media coverage
‘They will need some sort of quality control and editorial function," [Wernick, former Privy Council clerk] said. "But it is not like the first drafts produced by human staff were perfect.”’
Perfection is the wrong standard for assessing the use of genAI to answer constituents’ correspondence.
“When a bill, budget or otherwise, rewrites how people, journalists & elected officials can access information, it deserves full scrutiny: public hearings, clause-by-clause review & the chance to amend it." Too bad that's not how Doug Ford's government sees it. #DeclineOfDemocracy
Fascinating interview with a French bookseller about the radical rightward shift being engineered in French publishing and book selling by billionaire ideologues. We have no counterparts to this type of merchant intellectual.
Un peu niche peut-être, mais quand même…
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
To shield people from spiralling energy costs in the wake of the Iran war, UK government pledges:
- Free plug-in solar + up to £12,000 worth of rooftop solar + battery for lower-income households
- breaking the link between gas prices + energy bills
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WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?
KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed
IGN is hiring! We're looking for a US-based news editor working West Coast hours. They will report into me (hello, I'm the director of news at IGN!), and get to do all sorts of cool stuff about video games and entertainment. Lots more at the link! www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs...
Today in AI is a tool of authoritarianism:
AI hype is meant to strike fear into the hearts of workers and students as a way to control, overwork, and underpay them.
In gerrymandered states like Ohio, where legislators are no longer under natural pressure to remain electable, it becomes easier for bills to become law that undermine the common good. trib.al/RyqgZhZ
