No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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It's called The Humanities and it's being systematically dismantled due to HE cuts. 😡

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w ago

Universities should arm students with AI ‘eval’ powers ft.trib.al/KP8p07e | opinion

oh good. Ross Douthat now going FULL affirmative action for men with no qualities that actually attract women.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last mo.

Wow. And no. “I am not completely opposed to contraception. I think, though, that women in particular should behave as if contraception doesn’t exist… Maybe that’s my concrete proposal: that you should use contraception within marriage rather than as a means of seeming to have consequence-free sex.”

in the local paper today (paywalled, apologies) talking about tech policy & how at a societal level it's key that we recognize what tools are doing TO us as well as what we’re doing WITH them. (lol yes my local PostMedia outlet misspelled our city's name) windsorstar.com/news/local-n...

Winsdor experts warn social media ban could push teens into riskier behaviour

A new bill seeks to restrict youth’s access to social media and AI chatbots unless tech companies comply with safety regulations

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Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

As media opinion increasingly tries to discredit data centre opposition for being reactionary populism, it's important for campaigns to squash any possible far right infiltration by explicitly declaring themselves as anti-racist and anti-fascist.

“It is time to break decisively with the perverse logic in which retirees, the poor or immigrants are expected to balance the budget, while the rich are to be allowed to live tax-free in their own parallel society.” - @gabrielzucman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman

There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

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guys, these are just ingredients.

"This is a stunning abrogation of good policy development and a poorly conceived vision of the breadth and importance of privacy." do we assume KPMG is behind this move too, like last week's 'low AI trust = low AI literacy' false equivalence?

Michael Geist@mgeist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My first post on Bill C-36 and the seismic shift in Canadian privacy. The bill marks the end of the Privacy Commissioner's role in private-sector privacy law and the arrival of a super-regulator with astonishing powers to regulate online speech and privacy. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/cana...

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

talked to AM800 live, yesterday, about the new Canada Digital Safety Act, the under-16 temporary ban, & what problem it's trying to solve. there is definitely a problem: we live in an algorithmic misinformation swamp. www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

Digital Safety Act and Proposed Social Media Restrictions for Youth - The Shift with Patty Handysides - Sound Bites | iHeart

<p>Patty Handysides welcomed Dr. Bonnie Stewart, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor on to discuss the digital safety act and proposed social media restrictions for ...

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Canada has already inked at least one deal with Palantir. We must not let this heinous AI and surveillance company into our healthcare, friends. I encourage you to email your concerns to your local MP.

Richard Burgon MP@richardburgon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick" Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform. There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record. The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.

"So much of what is said never needs to be written down. Making people sift through transcripts or rely on the accuracy of computer-synthesis is a place where power is lost"

bianca wylie@biancawylie.com · 2mo ago

In a time of hyper-convenience, individualization, and near ubiquitous surveillance, often through self-surveillance, etiquette offers a framework of thinking that reinforces the reality of our interconnectedness time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/solidarity-a...

scholarship in 2026: an open journal i published in a decade back no longer has a website...the link's 403. my version of the article was lost in a 2022 computer crash. there's a researchgate version but i gave up my account in like, 2017? i can find it deep on the web, i'm sure. or search AI 😭

what problem are we trying to solve? yes, algorithmic platforms feed increasingly extreme reels & misinfo & AI slop to everyone anytime we turn on a phone – but banning kids rather than regulating platforms just amplifies privacy issues w/out fixing the problem nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Carney government to ban social media for kids younger than 16, but will allow exemptions

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is expected to table its long-awaited legislation aimed at online safety this week.

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anthropic: we have no way of controlling our fully autonomous, "recursively self-improving" model hidden gig workers, RLHF annotators, and seemingly invisible coders & academics that are *actually* improving the model: hold my beer africa.businessinsider.com/news/inside-...

NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

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The "AI" industry's mediocre results compared to their absurd valuation is often handwaved by apologists with claims that "AGI will cure cancer"... somehow. Meanwhile, mRNA technology delivers exactly that, but it's not a Technology(tm) so no techbros are fighting to save it from RFK Jr's sabotage.

could we stop with the Icarus shit? maybe instead of 'AI literacy' we need 'classics literacy' so ppl SEE what is technically possible but catastrophically dumb. like we've been warned about for...checks notes...oh. MILLENNIA.

Cynthia Brumfield@metacurity.com · 2mo ago

What a lede "Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have found a way to use artificial intelligence to create a dangerous computer 'worm' capable of targeting any known flaw in the world’s computers and quickly spreading mayhem throughout the internet." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/t...

consultant-class capture of the Canadian gov't. "Canada ranked very low among 47 countries on AI training & literacy as well as trust in AI systems." MY DUDES. a KPMG study that ranks Canada low in AI trust may well be a measure of HIGH AI literacy...what are we doing? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News

A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...

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"For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries, demonstrates a significant retreat from that commitment to truth and knowledge, to engaging students and faculty with voices, works and researches across time and the present."

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

David Anderson, who played a major role in getting Canada’s Species at Risk Act passed in 2002, is the third former Liberal environment minister to criticize Mark Carney’s proposed changes. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Even Harper ‘Did Not Put Extinction on the Table’ | The Tyee

Carney’s proposal to allow major projects that threaten species at risk is ‘morally wrong,’ former environment minister says.

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An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat.

In the simplest terms, some came to the internet and saw a playground, others saw a goldmine. The miners won.

FWIW, I’ve got an archive of self-created, self-hosted, open-source, non-extractive, non-surveillant class websites going back 22 years! wordsinspace.net/classes/

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

interested in our 'AI for all' government's response to this, since digital sovereignty has been big on their agenda. the fundamental fact is BigAI operates in violation of sovereignty, privacy, & plagiarism laws. also borders. we need regulation as first principle.

CHEK News@cheknews.ca · 3mo ago

OpenAI failed to respect Canadian privacy laws when training its artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT chatbot, federal and provincial watchdogs have found.

I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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Students need to learn critical thinking, full stop. Not just to "critically interpret outputs." We are narrowing and tailoring what an education means to the asinine greedy demands of the tech industry, who just want us to keep using their products, ffs.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

this bill would give the incoming director of the NSF power to award funding that would advance "AI literacy" for kids. guess how they define literacy? using it:

NEW: The leaderless Ontario Liberals have nudged in front of the Progressive Conservatives, according to a new poll released in the aftermath of the premier’s private jet reversal and changes to freedom-of-information laws. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1182219...

New poll puts leaderless Ontario Liberals ahead of Ford’s Progressive Conservatives | Globalnews.ca

The leaderless Ontario Liberals have nudged ahead of the PCs, according to a new poll released after the premier's private jet reversal and changes to freedom-of-information laws.

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