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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

"...I cannot stress enough how much this story is not really about the role of AI in open source software. This is about our systems of reputation, identity, and trust breaking down." This whole epic makes me realize how far behind the curve our 'institutions' are theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Don’t Let The Machines Do The Living | Culture Study Get more from Culture Study on Patreon

"Obsession, craft, improvement, and learning are all inefficient parts of life. They are also the part of life where you are actually doing the living." Don't wholly agree with @annehelen.bsky.social's take on AI, but love this emphasis on the importance of friction www.patreon.com/posts/dont-l...

Wayfinding: Teenhood · Luma A panel of teens discussing what they wish technologists knew about being a teenager online. Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in…

Adults love to talk about the impact of technology on kids, but we so rarely listen to the kids themselves.

Next week's Wayfinding event is trying to change that: a panel of teenagers talking about their relationship with technology.

Join us on Wednesday

Very happy to see this lovely little thing out in the world. It was fun to watch it come together in the past few weeks, from idea to garden. Kudos to @charlebois.info and @lexa.fyi 💜

Understanding the Eglinton Crosstown in Seven Illustrations | The Local From Shohei Ohtani’s salary to the tunneling rate of a mole—an unorthodox guide to the numbers behind Toronto’s newest transit line.

Love this story in pictures by @thelocal.to about the infamous Eglinton Crosstown thelocal.to/understandin...

Wow.

3-ish weeks after the big snow here in Toronto, they finally plowed the counterflow bike lane on my street. At 11:30pm. Pro: safer biking for all! Con: 5-year-old woken up by crazy bobcat & backhoe combo and refusing to gtfbts 🥱

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

I wrote a thing last week. Check it oot

A FORMER BLACK ARTS CENTRE OFFERS LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT — West End Phoenix Legends like Isaac Hayes, Bob Marley, BB King and more came to the Harriet Tubman Centre at St. Clair and Oakwood in the ’70s – a thriving hub for Black Torontonians. Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls...

Legends like Isaac Hayes, Bob Marley, BB King and more came to the Harriet Tubman Centre at St. Clair and Oakwood in the ’70s – a thriving hub for Black Torontonians.

Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls its impact and finds in its undoing a familiar story.

www.westendphoenix.com/stories/form...

Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads AI companies are gearing up to follow the social media model of monetizing their platforms through advertising. The danger for consumers with AI goes beyond data privacy to covert manipulation.

"Paid advertising in AI search, and AI models generally, could look very different from traditional web search. It has the potential to influence your thinking, spending patterns and even personal beliefs in much more subtle ways." Are you paying attention yet? theconversation.com/could-chatgp...

Who took this photo? When? Where? You can answer these questions with cryptography. Read our new post to learn how: https://hypha.coop/dripline/who-took-this-photo/

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Add this to your must-reads this week, yes?

Interesting post and thread about the loooong awaited community centre in my hood. Agree that Canadians generally have a consultation problem but the characterization of public input as 'loud neighbours' seems dismissive. Ultimately, it would be nice to get the darn thing built tho

*Looks outside* sNooooooooo

Toronto!! This is next week! I'm really excited about this conversation, Parker is very smart and has lots of interesting things to say that you should come listen to.

The year of technoligarchy In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.

Speaking of a different kind of salt, Molly White's recap post is 🎯 www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-...

THIS. Toronto's wanton salting makes me crazy. My anti-salt stance is partly stemming from former dog ownership (salty paws are sad paws) and partly from the no-brainer that salt is bad for gardens, fresh water, basically anything living.

In the Bardo of Grief What happens when a culture lacks the public rituals needed to "metabolize" decades of shared suffering?

Grief has come up in a number of recent conversations, and then I came across this apt quote: "Without grief and praise, life is only hate and mediocrity.” - Martin Prechtel, via open.substack.com/pub/solidari...

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.

I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

Imagine if they put that money towards health care or education instead. What a crazy idea!!

Chain Reaction — West End Phoenix These stories and infographics are part of a larger story from the October issue, focused on independent grocers and how they're working to level the playing field between themselves and the Loblaws o...

"Your tastebuds are not deceiving you. Mangoes from independent grocers likely do taste better than those available at larger grocery chains."

We took a look indie grocers in the West End and how they measure up against the chain store giants.

www.westendphoenix.com/stories/chai...

Can the Finch West LRT Keep Up With Its Promises? | The Local After years of delay, Line 6 is now running across a historically isolated part of the city. At its launch, politicians posed, transit enthusiasts assembled, and some locals wondered if it was worth t...

I love everything about this post by @thelocal.to on the opening of the Finch West LRT - local reporting, talking to the people whose lives have been and are affected by this transit project, and their hopeful skepticism that just seems so Toronto thelocal.to/finch-west-l...

intimate practice I help justice-rooted leaders navigate rupture and build relational resilience.

Lots of appreciation for shivani mehta bhatia's thoughts on conflict. Relevant to all of us (unless you live a life of solitude, in which case congrats). She brings much needed nuance to thinking about conflict because things are never as clear-cut as they seem shivanimehtabhatia.kit.com

*Sheds a little tear of happiness*

Save Our Scruff Dog Rescue Toronto Canada Save Our Scruff is a non-profit dog rescue and rehome charity located in Toronto and Southern Ontario. We are different than many other rescues because we do not select dogs based on their size or age...

And Save Our Scruff www.saveourscruff.org

The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief Our name is inspired by Zaynab bint Jahsh (RA) — wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, renowned for her extraordinary compassion and generosity.She was called the shelter for orphans, widows, and the needy....

Giving Tuesday reminder. If you can, give. I donated to The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief chuffed.org/project/zayn...