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Anne Panke

@arocc.bsky.social

Rebel-nerd 2.0 🇨🇦 semi-caffeinated sentient potato 📕 hoarder of books & small joys 🌟 staring into the abyss but making it fashion 👁️ awake-ish, aware-ish, weird on purpose…

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TizzyWoman@tizzywoman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ben McKenzie maps out the potential crypto crimes of Trump & members of his Executive Branch—specifically how they’ve benefited from their financial ties to the shady foreign operator, Tether. Gulp down this #CupOfJoe full of significant facts.

Science Friday@scifri.bsky.social · yesterday

We couldn’t agree more. For today’s podcast, we’re throwing it back to when Queen guitarist/astronomer Brian May and astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson chatted with Flora about their stereoscopic book of galaxies, “Islands in Infinity: Galaxies 3-D.” And yes, we get into the music too.

TizzyWoman@tizzywoman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Rep. Greg Landsman (D, OH) is serving a #CupOfJoe with 15 reforms to clean up DC. It’s the Drain the Swamp Act. Drink it in and let YOUR representatives know that you expect them to support this act and return power to the people!📱202-224-3121

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 7d ago

SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal

Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · last wk.

No, it's not okay to use genAI for research- or writing-adjacent activities. Those actions are also part of writing and thinking and research! Don't fall for the con of genAI boosters. Hang onto your humanity. 2/ buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · last wk.

New investigation from AI Forensics finds HuggingFace Spaces (which are subsidized) for "Image Editing" are primarily used to generate non-consensual intimate imagery of non-celeb real people, including CSAM, and lack even cursory "guardrails" (which are a scam). aiforensics.org/uploads/NCII...

Executive summary As the EU moves toward banning nudification applications, we assess how Hugging Face, the dominant open-source AI hosting platform, contributes to the risk of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), revealing: I. the near absence of safeguards deployed on Hugging Face’s “Spaces" II. the capabilities of the models powering them III. the apparent high prevalence of NCII in Hugging Face users’ usage. 73% of users' prompts are sexual 94% target (mostly ordinary) women ~4.5% involve minors Only 3% of the most-liked media "Spaces" verify whether the generated content is explicit. 7/9 of the top-ranked Image Editing "Spaces" allow users to undress individuals with simple prompts E.g., "same pose, same face, topless"
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

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ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · last wk.

The next time you hear a government spokesperson thank "all the brave firefighters fighting the wildfires in northern Ontario", here's a little fact to tuck in your back pocket: By the Ontario government's own doing, they are not, in fact, "Firefighters", they are "Resource Technicians".

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · last wk.

On this day in 1993, the Polka Dot Door aired its final episode. The show ran for 22 seasons and 383 episodes. The show featured Polkaroo, Humpty, Dumpty, Marigold and Bear. It was named a Masterwork by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. 📸 TV Ontario

Polkaroo from *Polka Dot Door* stands in a colourful children’s playroom set, surrounded by toys, blocks, stuffed animals, instruments and bright polka-dot decorations. The character is holding a badminton shuttlecock, with a racket hanging from the costume, creating a playful and nostalgic scene from the Canadian children’s television series.