Josh Visser

Cannot recommend highly enough reading older non-fiction.

Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

Meta fired its fact-checkers, citing concerns of liberal bias, and replaced them with a version of X's "Community Notes." How's that going?

Well, my coworker @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social proposed 65 fact-checks debunking false posts... and only 3 got approved. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Who knew what, when? www.thestar.com/life/sophie-...

Why more fentanyl production could be moving to Canada — National Post There’s no evidence of significant flows of fentanyl from Canada, but that could change quickly if the U.S. is able to better seal its Mexican border

This article’s main source literally says cartels are not moving fentanyl production to Canada but they ‘sure could’ if they wanted. apple.news/ALzIWJXZqQMq...

I’d do this tonight if I was home in Toronto and not at the PEI tractor pulls.

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

AI is bloatware, pass it on.

Amazon Prime plays a key role in this movie. This might be the most over the top product placement I’ve ever seen.

In amazons very silly War of the Worlds remake, the aliens attack a park north of Winnipeg, and leave all of eastern Canada and the UK alone. 🤷

We won 🚲

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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
- A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
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May I suggest, roughly zero?

So, everyone is watching South Park again, eh?

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

AI search is rotting your brain.

Awww makes total sense now, nothing afoot

What am I even looking at

I thought you’d have at least 4 stories assigned about it by now

Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.

Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs: CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence

I was living sans internet in rural Canada in the 90s.

Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters that Supercharged the World Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters that Supercharged the World: Hertz, Barry: 9781538771037: Books - Amazon.ca

NEW & NOS: After year and a half of reporting and writing, I'm thrilled to announce that WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BEHIND FAST & FURIOUS, THE BLOCKBUSTERS THAT SUPERCHARGED THE WORLD is available to pre-order. Coming Nov. 25 @grandcentralpub.bsky.social www.amazon.ca/Welcome-Fami...

Best show in TV doesn’t get a single nom…

Insane

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

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You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are There’s nothing like a common enemy to make a country come together.

The best thing I’ve read on this mess from an American publication.

Here’s the real truth about Toronto and its speed cameras What we can learn from the brazen vandalism of the speed cameras on Parkside Drive.

Can’t help but think if these cameras were meant to catch cyclists, Toronto police would have caught the culprits.

The Ontario Place spa: new drawings, still a disaster Newly released visuals of the planned site show a malignant growth on the city

The Ontario Place waterpark is a catastrophe. Diamond Schmitt @diamondschmitt.bsky.social want to tell you it is great. It is not.

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#topoli #onpoli #ontarioplace

I’m sorry…an $80 renewal increase??? Rogers recouping that NHL deal I guess.

Ridiculous and infuriating that this city is run for and by people with cars and single dwelling homes.

Can you imagine if their names were Muhammad.

"Searches led to the seizure of 16 explosive devices, 83 firearms and accessories, approximately 11,000 rounds of ammunition of various calibres, nearly 130 magazines, four pairs of night vision goggles and military equipment."

Superman, famously, born in the US.