"They’re designed to be invisible to those being recorded, outside of a small indicator light when they’re recording..Our expectations of privacy shift when we’re in public, but [it's not] suddenly okay to catalog and identify everyone..Meta hopes to add face recognition" www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But in the past year, produ...

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How did we go from "don't trust everything on Wikipedia" to "just ask an AI"?

A better boner with a side effect of glaucoma. Cialis (tadalafil) is the drug studied. But all such drugs can increase intraocular pressure (pressure inside eyes) which is what causes glaucoma, which can lead to blindness. www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

Erectile dysfunction drug may heighten risk of eye disease, study shows

Men who take a widely-used erectile dysfunction drug to treat an enlarged prostate are "significantly more likely" to develop glaucoma, a new study has found.

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If they're forcing workers back to work in person, MPs must force themselves to work in person too. But don't think forcing anyone who's been doing their job fine to work in person. Esp those with kids. & it's gendered: harder on women in our sexist society- fix that first www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

MPs split on whether to end hybrid Parliament rules | CBC News

During the pandemic, members of Parliament began voting and attending committee meetings from home. Six years later, parliamentarians are divided over whether those hybrid rules should remain in place...

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A constitution saying "all men are created equal" written by slave owners. Internet is full of ridiculous explanations as to how it could have ever meant anything. The view from outside is America is a culture of make believe.

Humans aren't computers, computers ain't human. An AI chatbot that statistically predicts what words come next in human speech & writing is not the save thing as understanding what humans think, feel or might do in response to something. AI is stuck in the "statistical word guessing game" forever.

Biblical, mildly mistranlated: 'And they shall be afraid of those in high places, and their fears shall be in the way, and the tree of death shall flourish. The drones will bomb heavily, and desire to stop war shall fail: because people go to their long home in hell when no one does anything'

Ask yourself if you're an idiot occasionally: Anyone driving faster than you is a maniac, everyone slower is an idiot. Anyone more conservative than you is heartless, more liberal is a naïve. Each of us believes we see things correctly. We can't all be perceiving right- yet we all believe we do.

Trump sues bank, says it's political, but it's not says bank, it's bc he's crooked: "Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering..." apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump bank accounts were closed due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says

Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering.

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Advertising of prescription drugs- when patients ask their doctor for a drug they've sent advertised, they are much more likely to leave with a prescription- docs succumb to pressure & prescribe, even when the patient doesn't have the condition the drug is for. Ozempic & Weygovy are prime offenders.

The info from AI chat bots is frequently wrong when it's not just incomplete. The enshittification of the internet is coming for your brain. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | The web is being redesigned for AI. What does that mean for human readers? | CBC News

AI now answers our questions, and increasingly carries out tasks for us, from planning itineraries to preparing research. The web is increasingly becoming a place where machines – rather than humans –...

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"Just fix your shit" "you do not need AI for anything - or rather, you do not need to do anything to reap the benefits. Artificial intelligence, as it exists and is useful now, is probably already baked into your businesses" ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

Certified chocolate you buy probably is from child labour. "an $8 block of Cadbury Dairy Milk sold at supermarkets..the farmer who grew the cocoa receives just 72 cents. Most of the value is captured further up the supply chain by Cadbury and the supermarkets." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Child workers are the chocolate industry’s 'dirty secret'

For decades, major chocolate companies have pledged to eradicate child labour. Four Corners discovered that in Ghana, the promises don't always match the reality.

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"What unites Islamists and right-wing extremists? Both ideologies overlap in numerous attitudes: contempt for Western liberal society, the propensity toward conspiracy ideas, mistrust of government institutions, anti-feminist attitudes, and hate of the LGBTQ+ community." www.dw.com/en/germany-i...

What unites Islamists and right-wing extremists

Following the attack on a Berlin Pride festival, the focus in Germany is turning to Islamist terrorism. An expert warns: Looking only at Islamists overlooks the parallels with right-wing extremism.

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So common, especially in prior generations where ridicule and fitting into the English-speaking monoculture was so important. We lost Frisian completely. www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday...

Languages can disappear through migration. Here's how immigrant families hope to save them | CBC Radio

For many immigrants, building a new life in Canada can come with an unexpected loss: the gradual fading of their heritage language. Linguists say families should carefully consider whether or not to p...

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Jail gun manufacturers too? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Courts jailing parents of US school shooters marks legal turning point

For the third time in US history, a parent has been held criminally responsible for the murderous actions of their child. Legal experts have suggested it marks a turning point for American prosecutors...

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"You must not so readily tolerate the injustice that does not affect you personally" Arnulf Øverland, 1936. lyricstranslate.com/en/arnulf-ov...

This is bad: Looks like "the US is siphoning some of these funds, retaining them.. "revenue from oil sales has been going into an American bank account, controlled by the US..ransferring a fraction of the proceeds of those oil revenues to the government of Venezuela" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

How the Trump administration runs Venezuela and takes its money

Amid the fallout of devastating twin earthquakes Donald Trump says the US has been taking "billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela". So who is running the country and what is happening with th...

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The Don of Dung. "‘Seemed appropriate’: Vancouver Island artist uses horse manure to paint Trump portrait" www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

‘Seemed appropriate’: Vancouver Island artist uses horse manure to paint Trump portrait

When Vancouver Island artist Wendy Chartrand decided to paint a portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, she used a new medium she thought “seemed appropriate” for the subject—horse manure.

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In the category of really bad ideas. 5km (3 miles) wide swath of sunlight at night. They want to do 50,000 of them. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

ANALYSIS | U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand,' but what are the legal implications? | CBC News

Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. W...

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Everything about this is corrupt. Infantino has got to go. www.cbc.ca/sports/socce...

European nations vow FIFA World Cup boycott over Infantino private equity plan, CONCACAF joins in opposition | CBC Sports

UEFA member federations agreed Thursday to boycott all FIFA competitions in protest at Gianni Infantino's plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private equity investors.

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Why data privacy is important: "E-commerce sites charge parents of newborns extra when they order thermometers in the middle of the night. Instacart was recently caught marking up some shoppers' items by as much as a third" (quote is Corey Doctorow on it) www.ftc.gov/system/files...

“vegetative electron microscopy” "The term has now appeared in at least 22 different papers" "the nonsense term may now be permanently embedded in AI knowledge bases" 1/2 www.zmescience.com/science/news...

AI Made Up a Science Term — Now It’s in Dozens of Papers

A scanning mistake and a translation error created scientific nonsense that AI models learned to repeat.

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It's not "trickle down" economics. It's a rich white elephant taking a dump on you. Why aren't you more grateful?

history doesn't repeat it rhymes can you say Vietnam? (haiku)

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NEW | The Iranian regime likely launched a “surprise attack” on US forces in Jordan on July 28 to erode the United States’ willingness to undermine the regime’s efforts to achieve its war aims, including securing Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Rich people can afford their own security. Canada should not pay for foreign "internationally protected people" security unless on official & invited business. Rules out Trump’s children, Tony Blair (who might better be arrested re war crimes), ex-politicians & families. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Security for Prince Harry's visits to Canada topped all internationally protected persons | CBC News

Canadian taxpayers spent more to protect Prince Harry during his visits to Canada over a five-year period than for any other internationally protected person who visited Canada during that time. An RC...

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Very bad writing: "J.K. Rowling.. espoused what many believe to be anti-trans views" She *is* anti-trans, her words: "Trans women aren’t women". She funds legal costs for people "discriminated against because of their expressed beliefs on biological sex being unchangeable" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Critics slam Tim Hortons Harry Potter promotion as anti-2SLGBTQ+ | CBC News

Tim Hortons has announced a new Harry Potter promotion, but the reaction online has been anything but magical.

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Welfare for billion dollar oil companies. Stinks. Canadian taxpayers are throwing more money at the extremely profitable oil and gas industry for a pipeline that industry won't fund itself. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

The great mystery of the Pathways carbon capture project: Who's going to pay for it? | CBC News

Four years after the oilsands' Pathways carbon capture project was first announced, the initiative has become increasingly nebulous in both environmental impact and who is even paying for it.

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What's the vision of how Canada would be better after electing a Conservative government? Ah yes, thought so.

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