Jessica Theodor

Social media ban for kids under consideration in online harms bill: Carney While there should be “debate” in Canada about a social media ban for children, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has not made up his own mind on the issue yet.

Canada can start by making all politicians and government offices stop using X.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

When overdose deaths drop, politicians are quick to claim their policies are working.

Another explanation: the population at risk can shrink after years of mass fatalities. When thousands of people die during a toxic drug crisis, fewer people remain in the statistics.

You can’t die twice 🗣️

this part I also didn't get but then I saw an NBC anchor goggling open mouthed like a 12 year who just saw boobs for the first time because the Iranian foreign minister was like"yes we will fight if you invade" and they really don't think of other people as having any sort of agency, it's wild

Very cool! I’ve regularly used (and still use) Liskov’s Substitution Principle many times without knowing anything about who introduced it.

Come yell with us around the nation at Stand Up for Science.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Tech bro oligarch: The AI is... real... sentient.... it's feeling real feelings... we must do everything we can to protect it and give it rights
Also tech bro oligarch: Human females are basically cattle made to push out as many babies as possible, all of which I will neglect

In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.

Maybe people will wake up to the fact that the AI push has been about paying workers even less and taking away job security.

Less "prompt engineering" and more labor organizing.

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

Every time an AI CEO hints their system might be conscious, it helps sell the AGI myth. This piece explains why that narrative exists and who benefits from it (no paywall or ads): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl... (ETA: direct link)

Spoiler from an expert in the field (me): Claude is not conscious.

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter" The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset. BY GABBY BIRENBAUM MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL REPUBLISH SHARE

"Fire hurts," complains arsonist

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...

For people asking if going to university or college is worth it, of course it is for most people.

AI hasn’t changed the benefits.

You go to learn to think, network, and grow up.

For those of you who regard higher education as transactional, AI’s introduction doesn’t fundamentally change anything.

move slow and repair things

The feature, which launched in August, claims to help you “sharpen your message through the lens of industry-relevant perspectives.” When users select the “expert review” button in the Grammarly sidebar, it analyzes their writing and surfaces AI-generated suggestions “inspired by” related experts. Those “industry-relevant perspectives” include the likes of Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan, among many others. The Verge found numerous other tech journalists named in the feature, as well, including former Verge editors Casey Newton and Joanna Stern, former Verge writer Monica Chin, Wired’s Lauren Goode, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon, Gizmodo’s Raymond Wong, Digital Foundry founder Richard Leadbetter, Tom’s Guide editor-in-chief Mark Spoonauer, former Rock Paper Shotgun editor-in-chief Katharine Castle, and former IGN news director Kat Bailey. The descriptions for some experts contain inaccuracies, such as outdated job titles, which could have been accurately updated had Superhuman asked those people for permission to reference their work.

The endpoint of journalism is that an AI startup turns you into a fake "editor" without telling you and against your will www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

hey look! we won something
That was fast.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

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COVID infection in babies is associated with worse illness and a 7 fold higher death rate than RSV infection.
COVID vaccine is recommended for babies 6 months of age and older.
COVID is very bad for small children and babies.
Get them vaccinated.
Clean the air we all breathe.

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

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By Michael de Adder:

Just a reminder to men writing about anything that they should read lots of women

just a reminder to white people writing about anything that they should read lots of Black and Brown people

just a reminder to cis people writing about anything that they should read lots of trans people

just a r

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Notwithstanding that the extractivist class in the Canadian west will see the war in Iran as an excuse to demand more pipeline infrastructure, we continue to ignore the crisis of global warming.

Look, it's just purely a coincidence that Donald Trump started a war just days before the release of FBI 302s of interviews of a victims claiming he raped her when she was 13 years old.

The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.

How a White Nationalist Club Thought It Found Safe Haven in a Montreal Gym | The Tyee The owners say they were unaware Frontenac Active Club met at their facility.

This is very brave journalism. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

A Triceratops skull mounted on a red plinth in a display case. It has a large frill. At the Royal Ontario Museum.

Skull of Triceratops horridus!! The not so horrible Triceratops genera was one of the last ceratopsians and went extinct during the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪🦖

“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."

A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.

Today’s Canadian painting is early Spring, Canoe Lake” painted by Tom Thomson in 1917.

Rooftops, Toronto, 1927

Artist: Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945)
Medium: Watercolour & black chalk over graphite on wove paper
National Gallery of Canada

#1920s #torontoart #art #torontohistory #jeremyhopkin