As youth unemployment rises, it is hard to find a decent job—unless you want to enlist. Gabriela Calugay-Casuga explores how the Carney government is making military jobs more attractive while it cuts the public sector and abandons a pledge to fund youth climate jobs breachmedia.ca/no-youth-job...

No youth jobs? Mark Carney says join the military ⋆ The Breach

The Carney government is making military careers more attractive even as public-sector jobs disappear and a promised youth climate jobs program remains unfunded

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#NovaScotia What's happening for Truth and Reconciliation Day in HRM and beyond for 2026 🧡 Wednesday marks the sixth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What's happening for Truth and Reconciliation Day in HRM and beyond for 2026 | CBC News

Wednesday marks the sixth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — an annual commemoration honouring the children who died while attending residential schools and the survivors, families and commun...

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NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.

A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

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Honestly Geddy Lee endorsing Brad Bradford is some serious BASIC BRO vibes

Wait- this Brad Bradford guy who looks like an ex-cop running to be Mayor of Toronto is a *real* person?

Did you know that, in addition to publishing rad books, we also periodically publish rad zines? The Zine Freak Bundle is a grab bag of 20 zines as far ranging in theme as "Tech Bro Terrors" and "Monstrous Dating Profiles." Check it out: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...

Zine Freak Bundle (Issues #1 through 20) | Cursed Morsels Press

The first twenty issues of our zine for $27, including Landlord Lair, Spooky Sexy Soapbox, Florida Man, Reviews of Films That Don't Exist, Nightmare Birds, All Cops Are B____, My Morbid Childhood,...

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Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 3d ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Montreal’s new ‘anti-insult’ bylaw gives police another weapon against the vulnerable. Concerns raised that vague rules will be disproportionately enforced against racialized people, unhoused Montrealers, and people in crisis. NEW from @mtltoula.bsky.social: ricochet.media/justice/poli...

Montreal’s ‘anti-insult’ bylaw gives police another weapon against the vulnerable

The new law threatens fines of up to $2,000, raising concerns that vague rules will be disproportionately enforced against racialized people, unhoused Montrealers, and people in a mental health crises

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I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

The awesomeness of museums

Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

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This is a great thread about what the real risks of AI actually are…

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 6d ago

"After leading US AI labs warned that recursively self-improving models could kill all humans, the risk of runaway AI began making headlines around the world." But not everyone has bought into this runaway AI theory... And rightly so. www.euractiv.com/news/what-is...

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In Saskatchewan, the EV tax is a yearly $300, purportedly to go towards road repairs. Considering the road miles of the typical EV are almost exclusively urban, I would love to know how much the provincial government is transferring to the cities where so many EVs have their registration postal code

I mean… Maybe we should chill on expanding data centers, forcing government staffers into to use AI to perform government functions and allowing it to ruin classrooms..?

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3d ago

The billionaire cofounder of Microsoft says, without restrictions, AI could 'cause a billion deaths' https://aje.news/fk9w3g

When your least favourite Tory MLA shows up at the dog wash station- letting their unleashed doodle run amok & causing chaos goe everyone else while they yell at a city councillor on their cell phone for twenty minutes (while throwing soap at their leashless dog)… it was satire-level douchebaggery.

Those same AI government ‘partners’ are stealing tax money out of public pockets & trying to influence our policies. They are almost all US companies. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Data-centre partner asked province to ‘fix’ carbon tax | CBC News

The company planning to power a proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of Saint John pushed the New Brunswick government earlier this year to “fix” the industrial carbon taxes it would be paying.

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The Australian government outsourced research labour to AI- and that tech hacked their website and accessed confidential health data of Australian citizens. Did you know that Tim Houston is forcing his staffers to use AI? We need to send a clear message that we DO NOT WANT ‘government by AI’

The Independent@the-independent.com · 7d ago

An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet

the tech industry builds wearable recording devices like this to shift the burden of privacy from a corporate / collective responsibility to an individual one. no meaningful definition of "consent" is possible under this model, and they know it. @hypervisible.blacksky.app

The Verge@theverge.com · 7d ago

In this new era of surveillance, tech companies want every single average person to be responsible for spotting the subtle signs that they’re being spied on — like a tiny, blinking red light on Meta smart glasses. www.theverge.com/tech/999889/...

AI drinks your water, eats your brain, and makes everything worse and more expensive. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...

Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher

The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.

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Miranda Shanahan introduces a novel concept: the way social media amplifies a discussion about something nobody is actually doing. We think we're talking about a trend: when all that's happening is the discussion is going viral - rather than the action becoming popular itself.

In 2015, every country in the United Nations agreed on the same 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 — among them, ending extreme poverty everywhere, getting every girl and boy through primary and secondary school, and bringing safe drinking water to every household.

Seniors will ‘risk arrest’ to deliver climate-impact photos to MPs and Mark Carney by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Seniors will 'risk arrest' to deliver climate-impact photos to MPs and Mark Carney - Halifax Examiner

"We will be persistent, we will not be violent, but we aren't going to turn around and go home easily."

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Hey everyone, you should read Tara Mastrelli's excellent piece of feminist philosophy about identity formation and epistemic resistance for breast cancer survivors. It's written from a deeply personal perspective and draws richly from Audre Lorde's cancer narratives.

Hermeneutical Rebellion as Lordean Self-Care: Resisting Identity Harm Through and Against Breast Cancer Survivor Narratives | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

Hermeneutical Rebellion as Lordean Self-Care: Resisting Identity Harm Through and Against Breast Cancer Survivor Narratives

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The people who keep us safe never register as heroes- because they stop danger before it creeps into our daily lives. Public health work saves more lives than policing - but they aren’t getting billion $ cash infusions from Carney…

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · last wk.

An important read for the American public. Public health service is a thankless job, and works behind the scenes to keep us safe. We are starting to see the effects of gutting the govt workforce. Cyclosporiasis outbreaks. Ebola in Africa. Measles. 🧪 ourpublicservice.org/resource/the... #pinks

This is also happening here.

Inside Climate News@insideclimatenews.org · last wk.

Florida lawmakers are increasingly using state preemption laws to limit what cities and counties can regulate—from environmental protections to worker protections.

As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science calls ChatGPT and Copilot’s harvesting of data the “largest theft of labor in human history” and says that Microsoft’s defense makes a “complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.

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“Algorithmic censorship doesn’t need to erase testimony. It can leave it online while gradually stripping it of reach, discoverability and an audience,” EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @aljazeera.com.

Echoicide: Who decides which truths survive in Gaza?

From Gaza to the digital age, visibility has become one of the central political struggles of modern conflicts.

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I recently heard someone describe NIN as inverse Rick Astley. I will give you up I will let you down I will run around and desert you I will make you cry I will say goodbye I will tell a lie and hurt you

4/ In April 2025, EU DisinfoLab hosted Sophia Freuden on “LLM grooming”: attempts to shape AI by flooding the web with propaganda for future models to retrieve or learn from. www.disinfo.eu/outreach/our...

10 April: LLM grooming: a new strategy to weaponise AI for FIMI purposes - EU DisinfoLab

Join us for this session to unpack the emerging concept of LLM grooming – a novel strategy to manipulate large language models (LLMs) for foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) purpo...

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2/ A Sept. 17 EU DisinfoLab webinar examined 9 frontier AI models on extremist narratives around the 2011 Norway terror attack. Researchers found a failure they call “reject then launder.” www.disinfo.eu/17-september...

“Reject Then Launder”: Auditing AI & Disinformation in Crises

Discover how AI models validate extremist narratives during crises. Join EU DisinfoLab & Factiverse to explore LLM audits, social media dynamics, and solutions.

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Privatizing airports is a terrible idea. In other places, airport privatization led to lower safety standards and higher fees for passengers. Why would we do this?

National Newswatch@nationalnewswatch.com · 2w ago

Transport minister won’t guarantee prices won’t go up after airport privatization, promises fees will be ‘partially regulated’ www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com