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Tim Ellis 🍁

He/him. Fighter, writer, work-all-nighter. Ace. Sewer Socialist. Raver. ADHD. Toronto. Organizer, not organized. #HappyHardcore keeps me going. Democracy first and always. Canada strong. Skeets are my own and do not reflect my employer's views.

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I highly recommend reading “Ordinary Men” by Christopher Browning if you want to understand how truly ordinary men function

Asha Rangappa

🧵 This piece is really important, because it gets to something that is a prerequisite for and recurring feature of atrocities worldwide: selective empathy. Most people assume that when atrocities happen, it’s bc everyone involved is a sociopath. Some are. But not all. 1/

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excellent article I encourage people to click through for details just a few screenshots - TLDR books before 2022 are the last text we know for sure wasn't ruined by AI slop... so they're systemically destroying the books to cheaply cut corners while converting them into poisonous AI slop to resell

Emanuel Maiberg

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

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whenever you see people saying stuff "well there's a way to make data centers that aren't loud" or "there's a way to build data centers that aren't constantly running hyper polluting generators" it's also possible to scan books without destroying them BUT that's slightly more expensive so they won't

Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games

excellent article I encourage people to click through for details just a few screenshots - TLDR books before 2022 are the last text we know for sure wasn't ruined by AI slop... so they're systemically destroying the books to cheaply cut corners while converting them into poisonous AI slop to resell

We're calling on the House of Commons to conduct an inquiry into human rights violations in Alberta - use the tool below to quickly send an email to members of the standing committee on human rights. The notwithstanding clause my allow a law to pass, but human rights are non-negotiable.

Queer Momentum

📣💥We’re launching a new campaign! Join us in pressuring the House of Commons to conduct an inquiry to cast a spotlight on Premier Smith’s callous anti-trans policies, and uplift the voices of trans youth and families. Visit queermomentum.ca/inquiry to join the movement.

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Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals? cen.acs.org/policy/publi... "...the only lasting solution is changing how scientists are evaluated: away from volume and toward quality." Yes! This ☝️ a major conclusion in my last book. 🚨 Quality > Quantity 🚨

Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?AI detectors may never beat fraud. Changing how science rewards its researchers might be the only fix that doescen.acs.org
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deepfake nudes are, of course, integral to the future of space exploration

Lora Kolodny

SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...

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Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop BooksParents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.www.wired.com
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