Matt Kavanagh

Three people sat at a table smiling. Above them, it reads 'What book feels like your brain?'

What book feels like your brain? 🧠

We’re preparing a new theme for the Weston Library’s Space for Reading: Neurodiversity.

Do you have a book that helps others understand different ways of thinking?

Share your recommendation here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY

I’m still owed the settlement money for the book of mine Open AI plagiarized — the book I wrote while raising two babies

This is far beyond 'NATO as we've known it is done.'

"The Trump administration had “a clear and consistent vision for Europe: one that prioritises US-Russia ties and seeks to divide and conquer the continent, with much of the dirty work carried out by nationalist, far-right European forces.”

Renewed free to read link. as.ft.com/r/2706dddc-f...

Had the exact same experience today. I ended the call by asking if they were a human or an AI -- I was genuinely not sure. They confirmed they were an AI. The last time I called the same company, I had spoken to humans in a call center in the Philippines. We've reached the tipping point on this one.

'Shakedown Street' You should look at Trump’s pardons - from Ross Ulbricht to the former president of Honduras to Kushner’s disreputable and ex-con pops as what it is - Donald assembling his ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ gang.

“It’s not just about bribes and campaign contributions, or getting back at Biden; it’s about building a consortium of criminals that will do his bidding.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

I feel like there's something kind of interesting that some of the highest profile Silicon Valley firms (Tesla, OpenAI, Palantir, Anduril) have outrageous valuations given their current revenue that seem in no small part predicated in them taking control of the United States government

Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.

UPDATE from Pentagon's "bespoke AI platform" rollout.

“We are pushing all of our chips in on artificial intelligence as a fighting force. The Department is tapping into America's commercial genius, and we’re embedding generative AI into our daily battle rhythm" -- Hegseth

pointing out that LLMs make shit up makes the people who use them feel stupid, and some of them would prefer to be lied to by an app that tells them they’re smart

A clear, infuriating breakdown of Instacart's AI-driven price manipulation:

Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative

In May, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how gig platforms use opaque algorithms to erode workers' wages.

Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.

Read this:

There are a lot of practical and material answers to these questions, but underlying all of them is an atrophying of our civic identity that predates Trump and reaches far beyond America.

I agree with you, but the question remains. Why the inertia? And when we do see widespread political activism like No Kings, why doesn’t it seem to register?

Interesting thread.

I suspect the fracturing of the media landscape has a lot to do with this inability to channel political energies into decisive action. The People needs a mirror to see itself in. It’s hard to do that with scattered shards, an increasing number of which are purposely warped.

15 years ago, America allowed SCOTUS to declare corporations unparalleled power in the Citizens United decision. 15 years ago, Obama was busy drone striking civilians and building up Tom Homan's ICE. This country has been losing the long game by refusing to acknowledge it exists.

Strong Green Zone vibes from 2003.

Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.

A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.

There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.

This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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I just read a clearly AI-fueled or AI-written book in my academic niche, and while I stumble to finish it, I predict that future historiography will have literature categories and markers like *published post 2024* or *published ante 2024*. Our days will be seen as the barrier between these worlds.

Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers — Toronto Star Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.

It’s naked corruption and a decimation of the rule of law:

“Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years. “ #cdnpoli

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as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'

A good point people are bringing up — if they need to pretend that making this commercial was hard work to avoid getting yelled at, they are also undercutting the propaganda that A.I. will give you a ton more free time. Which fake story are you sticking to. bsky.app/profile/cult...

“Hypernormalisation”, (2016, Adam Curtis)

Dark McLovin in 2025

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Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...

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Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.

Your AI companion thinks this is a balanced diet.

hmmm