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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

AI, Uber, and the Great Digital Labor Convergence | Antonio A. Casilli On October 16, 2025, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that drivers can now perform data annotation and content uploading tasks during downtime. After testing in India, the app is launching a pilot...

Uber lance un programme où ses chauffeurs pourront annoter des données pour les IA pendant leurs pauses. L'ubérisation de l'ubérisation? «Is this good news? Will workers earn more? Don’t celebrate yet. Data work is performed globally, and no one has become wealthy from it.»

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social I hear you are talking to Laura Kuenssberg tomorrow morning?

Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder
Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe founder
Jared Leto, actor
Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson

Just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a firm called First Wap:

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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

An absolutely terrifying SCOOP from @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @agreenberg.bsky.social revealing that everything from inflight browsing data to military communications are being beamed unencrypted from satellites all the time

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Un autre article intéressant sur le sujet par le nouveau @thenerve.news fondé par d'anciennes journalists du observer.

Hegseth puts us all at risk Why put all the American commanders in one room?

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons.
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If it wasn’t already clear the direction AI policy was going under Mark Carney and Evan Solomon, this task force makes it clear.

The inclusion of the chair of Build Canada, whose members openly pushed for a Canadian DOGE and Poilievre government earlier this year, is just one of many examples.

This could be Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, they have exactly the same perspective and hope

So thrilled!

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Joyeux anniversaire !

Still too soon to say how it plays out, but at this moment there's a case to be made that Big Tech and GOP leaders overplayed their hand on the AI moratorium. The boldness of the 10-year ban mobilized a big and angry coalition against it, where a more modest proposal might just have slipped through.

Back from Tadoussac with this wonderful lady for the English translation of Seeker at the Glassco Residency. Thanks to PWM. The results will be shown at @centaurtheatre.bsky.social in coproduction with Talisman Theatre next spring!

L’homme de théâtre Claude Poissant est décédé

L’actuel directeur artistique du Théâtre Denise-Pelletier est décédé vendredi à l’âge de 69 ans

Une immense perte pour le théâtre. Quelle tristesse.

L’auteur et metteur en scène Claude Poissant est décédé L’auteur, comédien et metteur en scène Claude Poissant est décédé vendredi d’une complication cardiaque à l’âge de 69 ans.

Immense tristesse

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So excited to be part of Centaur's new season with my play Seeker!

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades.

How cool is this. Voyager 1 is coasting in interstellar space, more than 48 years & 25 billion miles from Earth. Its back-up manoeuvring thrusters failed more than 2 decades ago. But @NASAJPL have GOT THEM WORKING AGAIN!!!! www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...

NOW: A group of faith leaders have linked arms & are blocking the entrance to the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, NJ.

“We want to know who is in the building behind us. Americans believe in due process. This is not the country anyone asked for.” 👏

(🎥 Alexis McAdams, FOX)

Enshittification as profit-maximizing strategy, they really are geniuses conquering new frontiers of innovation

En déficit, le Théâtre Denise-Pelletier ne voit «pas d’issue» «Il y a un écart mathématique qui se creuse de plus en plus.»

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An Acclaimed Book About Digital Manipulation Was Actually Written by AI Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED "Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality" was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not...

Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED "Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality" was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist. www.wired.com/story/an-acc...

Subjectifying the Universe: Ursula K. Le Guin on Science and Poetry as Complementary Modes of Comprehending and Tending to the Natural World “Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.”

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe."

God, I love Ursula K. Le Guin www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/10/u...

There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now. Here’s How to Use It AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer.

AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer. www.wired.com/story/theres...

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

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@carolecadwalla.bsky.social explique quelque chose de fondamental et qui devrait être en première page de tous les médias.

#HandsOff protests are happening in every single US state, BUT probably won’t get much mainstream media coverage.

And footage will get surpressed on other platforms.

So share what you can here 👍

#Boston #FiftyFiftyOne

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

A.must read