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

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.

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.

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

"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."

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.

“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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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.

I'm sorry ❤️

"Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour. Calling it an 'AI problem' gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide."

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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."

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...

Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.

Rafael Concepcion built an app to help immigrants avoid ICE raids.

Then came death threats. Hacks. An app store ban. He even lost his job.

Read @brendankoerner.bsky.social on one man's obsessive mission to resist ICE -- and the incredible personal toll it's taken.

Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you’ll accept Surveillance pricing came for your wallet — now it’s coming for your paycheck, too.

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

TLDR is up for best business podcast alongside Vox's Pivot and the Harvard Business Review, among others.

TLDR is nominated for two webby awards, for best business podcasg and best business website.

Throw me a vote, so me and my former colleagues have a chance at unseating Kara Swisher for the best business podcast Webby: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting... 🤞

An excerpt from the TLDR newsletter suggesting scheduling regular "money dates" with your partner to talk about financial short and long term goals.

I'm back in Wealthsimple's TLDR today for an interview I banked last fall with the lovely @averagejoelle.bsky.social and @dougboneparth.bsky.social, where we chatted joint finances: tldr-archive.wealthsimple.com/archive/33-%...

the solution to "not wanting to write" is the same as the solution to roughly 90% of problems writers face: you knuckle the fuck down and write. there is no short-cut that will make you better at your job. just do it.

I think some of the purchase these AI writing tools have on us is, ironically, due to the mythos writers have created around "writer's block" which is not and has never been a real thing. It's just procrastination, a thing everyone has to confront at some level.

call me old-fashioned, but i think that the name at the top of an article should signify the person who actually wrote the article

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-winning author who turned unlikely subjects into bestsellers, dies aged 80 Writer looked to topics such as computer engineering and life in a nursing home to produce richly researched books

We had only written the pilot of Halt and Catch Fire when we read Soul of the New Machine. That book had a huge impact not only on the content of our show, but the tone. The humanity at the center of the work. The book is still on my desk and will be forever. We owe Tracy a lot.

The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc.

But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

The Shadow War on Libraries The library in Valleyview, Alta. is caught in the crosshairs of an international movement. Books stolen, its funding cut. At its heart: a group of queer teens and a movement that would see 2SLGBTQ+ id...

If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Rachel Ward nominated for research award for the fifth estate documentary.

My incredible friend, tv producer and journalist @wardrachel.bsky.social is nominated for multiple Canadian Screen Awards for her documentary on the war on libraries. 👏

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Obituary information for Shelly Gaye Pynoo View Shelly Gaye Pynoo's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

She died two days ago. Thanks for everything, mom. www.mhfh.com/obituaries/S...

One week ago, I had the chance to give a speech on women in leadership. I nearly cancelled, because I was caring for my mom who had just been diagnosed with cancer. Instead, I took it as a chance to share her story and thank her publicly while she could still hear it. She loved it.

This is fucked up and also an interesting question about right of publicity.

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

Does anyone know if Bluesky has a card validator for updating news story image previews? Noticing that old headlines are being pulled on articles, well after they've been changed.