Sarah Rieger

This is fucked up and also an interesting question about right of publicity.

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

Does anyone know if Bluesky has a card validator for updating news story image previews? Noticing that old headlines are being pulled on articles, well after they've been changed.

Evan Solomon issued a statement noting that he will be meeting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to ask for concrete action following the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.

Canada's AI minister will meet with OpenAI's CEO after the company admitted that in hindsight, it would have reported the Tumbler Ridge shooter's account to law enforcement.

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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”

🎂 Today, BetaKit turns 10 🎂

On February 26, 2016, BetaKit spun out on our own and officially became BetaKit Incorporated. That was the moment we became like so many of the companies we cover: a Canadian startup 🧵

Can Canada find digital sovereignty in the Fediverse? | BetaKit At FediMTL, advocates say growing the social web is vital to combating Big Tech.

Talking about the Fediverse often feels like it merits a "stop trying to make fetch happen" response.

But at a recent conference in Montréal, advocates said figuring out how to build a decentralized web people will actually use is a must.

betakit.com/can-canada-f... by @madisonmcla.bsky.social

Business leaders urge Ottawa to extend employee ownership tax incentive | BetaKit A short-lived tax break that encourages founders to sell to their employees is set to expire this year.

Employee-owned companies are more economically productive AND pay staff more. Yet Canada is set to let the tax incentives for creating this type of business ownership expire at the end of this year. Why?

betakit.com/business-lea... from @alexriehl.com

Blue Owl is spoiling private credit’s sales pitch US fund manager has become a warning of what happens when exotic products do not go to plan

"There are asset managers working in droves to cultivate the image of private credit as an attractive product for retail investors. Then there is Blue Owl."

Gotta love when an FT chart is showing such a mess that its labelled, simply, "skid marks" www.ft.com/content/4205...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Fact-checking Radio-Canada's 'Trans Express' documentary | Xtra Magazine ANALYSIS: A recent French-language piece is another example of poor reporting on trans issues from Canada's mainstream media

It would be one thing for this to be a standalone error, but as a pattern... xtramagazine.com/video/fact-c...

For one, it notes "other media" also aired the photo. ("Cette photo avait déjà été diffusée par d’autres médias canadiens et circulait en ligne.")

I'd love to know — which other media were they following?

Correction sur la couverture de la fusillade à Tumbler Ridge La direction de l'information s'excuse de la publication d'une photo présentant à tort une personne comme étant responsable de la fusillade.

Radio-Canada apologizes after it aired a photo circulated by anti-trans hate groups online, falsely claiming it was a photo of the Tumbler Ridge shooter. Damaging and irresponsible, and this apology raises more questions about journalistic process imho.

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/222...

Inside the Edmonton facility building quantum’s hidden infrastructure | BetaKit Zero Point Cryogenics is manufacturing the extreme-cold systems behind quantum computing.

Nestled between a flooring company and a children’s NERF gun arena in Edmonton is one of only six companies in the world building the tech to cool quantum computers to near zero temperatures.

From @betakit.com's Alberta reporter Jesse Cole:

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According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

The Pleb: "A few hours ago, I posted an image of someone I believed to be the Tumbler Ridge school shooter before that identification had been verified. The post was removed within minutes. I have also been proactively reaching out to accounts sharing the same unverified image to encourage its removal so others do not repeat the mistake. Speed is never an excuse for inaccuracy, and I will exercise greater caution moving forward. Sincere apologies for contributing to any confusion."

And here's The Pleb acknowledging he posted photos all over the Internet accusing a completely random innocent person of being a school shooter:

FYI, to do a one-time donation on a patreon like this you can subscribe for the dollar amount you'd wish to give and then cancel.

Headline reads: my heart can't bear

The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here:
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...

Thanks again for writing for us!

Canada’s new AI strategy is off to a bad start | BetaKit Canadians already have low trust in AI. Exclusionary and unclear public engagement methods aren’t helping.

My new article on Canada's recent AI strategy consultation. Lightning-fast engagement, dubious data protection measures, black box analysis, & AI-generated summaries from made-in-USA LLMs are not a winning strategy for building public trust

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Saving Rhea Seegobin | The Local For the growing number of Canadians who will get cancer in their lifetimes, the financial stress can be profound. But despite her terminal diagnosis, with the support of her community, Rhea is determi...

"The grief can come visit, 'but don’t let the grief, like, unpack its bags and move in.'" Beautiful story.

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We read every submission from Canada’s AI task force: here’s what they said | BetaKit Nearly 350 pages of recommendations sketch a fractured but urgent road map for Canada’s AI future.

Ottawa used AI to analyze the submissions informing its AI strategy.

We assigned human reporter Josh Scott to review all 348 pages and collect the highlights, instead.

betakit.com/we-read-ever...

There’s no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”.

(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Honoured to be asked to speak alongside this accomplished group, and for a good cause: collecting professional clothing donations for women.

If you're in Calgary, please attend: www.eventbrite.ca/e/women-lead...

Ottawa releases findings from AI task force and public consultation | BetaKit The government used AI to parse more than 11,000 submissions that will inform Canada’s new AI strategy.

"The government says that it used multiple AI tools to interpret the data ... However, the results appear as sweeping takeaways and do not cite any weighting of the data nor specific sources."

from @alexriehl.com

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

if i win the lottery, there will be signs:

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