Let’s talk about Doug Ford’s (for sale) gravy plane and the limits of what politicians need while the rest of us struggle to make it through the day.
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Today is the 42nd Anniversary of the Canada Health Act, the perfect time for the Liberals to enforce the act and protect public healthcare.
But will they?
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Today, the Liberals rejected our NDP motion to ban surveillance pricing - a dystopian practice that will drive up costs for Canadians if we allow it to take root.
The NDP is the only party fighting to protect you from getting ripped off at the checkout.
Exactly 💯
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
This is exactly it. You are welcome to use AI, you are well within your rights, and I am also equally welcome NOT to use it and to actively fight against it. Also well within my rights. The right you do NOT have is the right to force me or anyone else to use a tool, even if “it is everywhere”
This is so, so well-articulated.
I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /
This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you
I’ve been an editor for 15 years now. Recognizing a bad idea beneath good writing — even in myself — is part of my job. But what would it mean to grow up with that kind of companion? What would it mean to have your every adolescent intuition turned into persuasive prose? What is lost in not having to do the work to build out our intuitions ourselves?
As someone who works with 18-year-olds, this is what worries me most about AI. Decisions about AI output made by people who developed their intuitions, their understanding of writing, their ability to question pre-AI are different from those made by current students. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...
Talked with a fellow barrister ther night abt other barristers using AI to do first draft of judicial review grounds. And we were like…. “Why?” It’s our job (privilege, pleasure) to analyse that problem, formulate that argument. Why would you want a machine to attempt that first?
A brick wall with a tree to the right. A sign on the wall says Book Stage. The caption describes booksellers.ca which is a website created by Quebec company Les Librairies that sells books from indie bookstores in Canada
Love, love, love this! I am looking forward to my next book purchase.
(From Instagram ReadThePeak)
This is not an isolated issue but normally it is much harder to detect because most rejections do not include reasons at all, nor is there usually any kind of appeal.
NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:
The framing on men and academic achievement was always sus.
It was never “yay! Girls are succeeding!”
It was always “oh no! Boys are falling behind!”
Even when girls/women are showing agency, the framing strips it from them and poses their success not as success but as men’s failure.
Before-and-after green street transformation in Paris
Transformation of urban Square into forest in front of Paris City Hall
Street transformation of “School Street“ in central Paris, including greening
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted, and 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Keep going with this, Paris.
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
@TheChiefNerd SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price
electricity water clean air knowledge
you name it
they should be treated like the common thieves they are
For up and coming academics: develop your scholarship such that there's no way a goofball AI program could do your research and write your papers for you. Make it original and unique to you, be curious and authentic, and be willing to do the hard work to learn and think for yourself.
A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university. It's not even your advisor's connections. It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data. I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis. Here are the 9 prompts they used:”
fuck this so much
we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere
There is such an easy route that Uni's are failing to take. Lead with culture change. Stop spamming us about the new software and partnerships. Stop the endless workshops in the teaching and learning centers. Start talking about what learning is and when these products help or hurt this process.
It’s clear to me that the argument is actually about what you think the point of doing research is. If it’s papers, AI will be faster. But I don’t think it’s papers I think it’s the process and I want to do that process
Required to attend a 2026 meeting of health behavior change scientists:
“Exposure or infection may result in… permanent disability and/or death.”
“I hereby release, covenant not to sue… arising from or relating to illness, disability, or death…”
Risk acknowledged. Liability transferred.
John is tongue in cheek, but there's a statistic in Laura Bates new book that 90% of deep fakes made are of women, and if you don't process the implications of that and come out demanding regulation I'm not sure you're reachable.
"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.
This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."
"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"
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