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A Defector Explains the Remote-Work Scam Helping North Korea Pay for Nukes — The Wall Street Journal Kim Jong Un’s cyber operatives have faked their way into IT jobs at American firms and elsewhere, pocketing big revenue for regime

Remote work for the win apple.news/A2J-XuiDlSVC...

COVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortium COVID-19 vaccination with a booster reduces the odds of PE by 30% approaching 60% reduction among women with pre-existing morbidities.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy?

Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia.

And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

Ghislaine Maxwell fights release of more Epstein documents, calling disclosure law unconstitutional Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to Jeffrey Epstein, saying a law used to force the recent public release of millio...

This is encouraging apnews.com/article/jeff...

Hilariously insignificant fine for lying to consumers. Start at 10M

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

I am deeply honoured to be appointed Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer.

It is a privilege to serve Canadians at a time when trusted, evidence-based public health leadership is more important than ever.

In saying he’s a ‘true Canadian,’ Gretzky shows he’s still a wonderful deflector It’s not too late for the hockey legend to redeem himself. But one canned answer about winning a gold medal won’t do the trick

On the money. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

Huge story by Georgia. Flagged by an automated review system, debated by "about a dozen staffers," and OpenAI did nothing.

Def a concern. Might wanna mention Apple too. US control over corporate platforms has a different taste these days for sure given the disappearance of rule of law and the inability of companies to rely on courts to protect them from governmental threats. Sad on so many fronts. 🇨🇦

Prime Minister Carney's message to Team Canada Prime Minister of Canada - Video - Prime Minister Carney's message to Team Canada

Canadian PM being Canadian. Reminder as Olympics winds up. 🇨🇦 www.pm.gc.ca/en/videos/20...

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

“They tell him they call because they care about documentation, but “that’s not why you’re doing it,” he said. “That’s just the thing you’re telling yourself to make you feel better.”

Everyone everyday re-discovering the truth in the USA about the ubiquity of the banality of evil - archive.is/2026.02.20-1...

Nailed it.

Trump says he will direct U.S. government agencies to release files related to extraterrestrial life Donald Trump on Thursday said he would direct the Pentagon and other government agencies to release government records related to extraterrestrial life and UFOs.

This is unrelated to Epstein. Trump says he will direct U.S. government agencies to release files related to extraterrestrial life www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Photo of Prime Minister Carney at a production and manufacturing assembly facility in Montréal, Québec.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney at a production and manufacturing assembly facility in Montréal, Québec.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney at a production and manufacturing assembly facility in Montréal, Québec.

Canada’s new Defence Industrial Strategy will transform our military and defence supply chains — creating good careers at home, opening new markets for our businesses, and equipping the Canadian Armed Forces with the world-class equipment they need to protect Canada and our Allies.

You can see it in this archive. archive.today/7g403

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models | TechCrunch Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges

Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges

AI Digital Twins Are Helping People Manage Diabetes and Obesity As patients and employers look for alternatives to pricey GLP-1 drugs, Silicon Valley startup Twin Health is using AI and wearable sensors to help people make healthier choices.

As patients and employers look for alternatives to pricey GLP-1 drugs, Silicon Valley startup Twin Health is using AI and wearable sensors to help people make healthier choices. www.wired.com/story/ai-dig...

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

Just when you were pretty sure Galileo was on to something … www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Worth noting Claude Cowork is quite different from Claude Code (and even more so from agents like OpenClaw) from a security perspective. It runs in a VM with default-deny networking & hard isolation baked in

A sign of a path forward for agents that will not terrify IT.

Globe editorial: Pay attention to what’s behind the AI curtain As with many technologies, the gains and dangers of artificial intelligence are shrouded by exaggeration

so … www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Of course aliens are real. There are 100 billion planets in our galaxy and 2 trillion galaxies in the universe. How could it be possible we live on the only habitable rock

90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry Posted on Friday 6 Feb 2026. 803 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Lovely thought for a lazy Sunday, 90% of everything is sanding h/t Matt Webb.

Wow, I had been running out of patience with Yegge’s uncritical #GenAI boosterism, but this is epic: “The AI Vampire.”

As usual with Yegge, it could have been edited down to half its size, but go read it anyhow. I’m going to adopt that “AI Vampire” phrase and start using it, a lot […]

Innovation is an instrumental good, a mechanism. It has value only insofar as it helps generate things we value. It has negative value when it generates things we want to avoid.

The more fundamental question, that often gets ignored or discounted, is “what do we want from innovation”?

Olympic facts: Matthew Tkachuck is without a doubt the most annoying, ignorant, dirty and repulsive player in hockey today.

As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)

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Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of the his powerful friends AI-generated dossiers from the Jmail team.

Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of the his powerful friends