Sean Murray

homeleness had fallen for 11 years, then...

A drone image of the the Microsoft data centre under construction in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke.

AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business

Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will ...

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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.

Did worsening material conditions cause the decline in confidence in democracy?

Empirically, it looks like the answer is no, at least not the main factor. Confidence in democracy has declined for decades, even as crime was decreasing, and the economy was up or down at various points.

US Marine’s Parents Detained by ICE While Visiting Military Base The parents were initially taken into custody on base and later released with ankle monitors, before being detained again.

Parents of a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton went to visit her and were arrested by ICE on the militarybase. The father who was a resident of Oceanside, California was then deported.

Neither of the parents have a criminal record, both have pending green card applications, and valid work permits

Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds

Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.
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When Trump's personal business and government role intersect, it's called "corruption." bsky.app/profile/wsj....

No, I’m sorry. I can’t do another round of “No, the Nazis weren’t socialists.” You’re just going to have to read a book or Wikipedia article or ask your AI butler to explain it to you or wait for the sun to burn out.

Could We End Corporate Money In Politics? Backers of a referendum before Montana voters next year believe they’ve found a vulnerability on Citizen United

We’ve lived 15 years under Citizens United, watching billionaires and corporations shape democracy with their wallets. Reform once seemed impossible. But now, a group in Montana is asking a radical question: What if states simply stopped granting corporations the power to spend in politics?

Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.

Me too!

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

Great to see news outlets almost uniformly reject Hegseth’s ridiculous Pentagon prior restraint policy.

Hopefully they’ll show the same unity next time the administration targets one of them as they’re showing now that it’s targeting all of them.

New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won’t sign new Pentagon rules News organizations including The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a U.S. Defense Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon.

New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won’t sign new Pentagon rules

ChatGPT, not satisfied with being an app, wants to become your life’s operating system All things equal, you'd rather not be intermediated. It's just not a nice way to spend an afternoon! Picture it: You've got a perfectly nice little business going. You make widgets, and you sell them…

"Just as Facebook and Google use oceans of user data to personalize their every pitch to you, OpenAI is going to use all you’ve typed into its chatbot to target you with a media product" www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/chat...

This is the way.

YouTube video by TEDx Talks How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | TEDxPorto

Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics

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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

CBS News now presses baseless hysteria from Bari Weiss Free Press as if it were news. It isn’t. It’s baseless hysteria.

How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.

How the Kremlin kept Trump's businesses afloat whenever they teetered or failed. Everyone knows Trump hit a rough patch during the 2008 crash. Fewer know how Russians stepped in with cash to keep his projects going. This investigation maps out just how crucial those deals were for the Trump brand.

"What is at stake is more than your privacy. It is your mind, what is inside of it, and your agency to form your own authentic decisions and actions."

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

How microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds.

“The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.”

Microplastics like those from car tires. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more microplastics shed.

Powerful

Transparent, villainous corruption.

How Trump’s message to ‘Pam’ got exactly the results he wanted Donald Trump has long called for imprisoning his opponents. For the first time, he has a Justice Department willing to do his bidding.

Trump demanded prosecutions of his enemies in a public message to “Pam.” His DOJ, which resisted similar entreaties in his first term, obeyed — shattering an already corroded guardrail against political prosecutions. Politico reports the straight-up facts here.