A person who sometimes posts. I mostly reskeet.
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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies RemainAI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.futurism.com
We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.
Sacrifice! At the Harvest FestivalWhy is everything so transparently evil now?
They contest the fines. They completely ignore licensing and regulation (see below). They are not good members of our shared community, and make no effort to show they can change, or even want to. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communitiesExploding electricity demand from AI data centers is driving companies to build off-grid power plants at a pace outstripping environmental oversight, with potentially big risks to public health.www.reuters.com
Trump has extensive stock holdings in tobacco companies: kffhealthnews.org/courts/fda-t...
Trump Bought Tobacco Stocks and Raked In Industry Donations as FDA Eased Standards - KFF Health NewsThe Trump administration has pursued an extensive pro-tobacco agenda as the president and his political movement have been buoyed by a flood of tobacco industry money, federal records show.kffhealthnews.orgMatt NovakThere was an era not too long ago when the White House publicly promoting tobacco products would've been seen as a faux pas
I have my doubts CBC News would have run this story had it not been for the attention @rachelgilmore.bsky.social brought to the issue Predictably CBC doesn’t mention the fact that an independent journalist got there first or even the journalist’s name #cdnmedia #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC NewsThe billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...www.cbc.ca
Carney caved again. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...
BREAKING: Ottawa to scrap all contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire ReportIn a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...www.thewirereport.ca
As a Lebanese Christian who also happens to be a historian of Lebanon, I can promise you that Brigitte Gabriel makes shit up about Lebanese Muslims. Her peak was in the post-9/11 era in the US during which she made a lot of money with a “I am a Christian who fled Muslims” discourse, entirely made up
NEW: Mark Carney is looking to cash in under the new right-wing presidency of Keiko Fujimori in Peru. Carney dispatched parliamentary secretary Rob Oliphant to attend Fujimori's inauguration in Lima today with instructions to “unlock new opportunities.” www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-...
Mark Carney Wants To Cash In Under Peru’s New Right-Wing PresidentFor Canada’s Liberal government, Keiko Fujimori’s election victory is being seen as an opportunity to open new business ventures.www.readthemaple.com
The multi-billionaire CEO of Shopify thinks a “good system” is one where the poor don’t get to vote in elections and the rich get to vote several times over. I wish I was kidding. Oh, and guess what? This guy and his pals are trying to influence our politics -- and they're arguably succeeding:
New: Hugging Face has a widespread problem with nonconsensual deepfakes, including multiple AI models that undress or create sexual images. Researchers even created their own tool on the platform and tracked 1,000 prompts over a week. 73% of the prompts they received were sexual in nature.
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes ProblemResearchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.www.wired.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o... new from Chrystia Freeland. Reminds me why I wanted her to replace Trudeau as PM, but maybe it's even better for her to be free to speak her mind like this.
Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?www.nytimes.com
Chief Sheri Taylor of Ginoogaming First Nation is smoke covered right now but she wants to be clear: Her First Nation of about 1,030 people had already been under a local state of emergency since this past May because of “the cyclical issues” connected with missing and murdered women and girls.
Online sex ads reveal routes used to traffic Indigenous women and girls across CanadaA Thomson Reuters analysis of online sex ads from the last 10 years reveals new patterns in the movement of trafficked victims across Canada and the U.S.www.theglobeandmail.com
"The finding appears to be a setback to Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, which has typically focused on overhauling nutrition guidance while neglecting food safety and infectious diseases." drag him Beth Mole
Jennifer OuelletteEpic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
The safeguard for making sure cops don’t rubber stamp the chatbot version of the report is to insert random nonsense phrases. I wish this was satire.
Hypervisible“By introducing chatbots that are known to hallucinate, confuse jokes for facts, or randomly add incorrect information, police tech like Draft One could be used to legitimize wrongful arrests, reinforce police suspicions, mislead courts, or even cover up police abuse, experts have cautioned.”
