I haven’t seen television as riveting as Netflix’s Legends since the end of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal. Proper edge-of-your-seat stuff with excellent acting, scripting, and editing.

Have you heard the one about the football players in Santa Clara who think that their high-injury rate is due to EMF from the nearby power station? My day keeps getting interesting….

My article this week somehow has to do with this scene.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Je serai à la radio de Radio-Canada demain matin pour parler PEPTIDES en français! 7:30: Regina 7:45: Edmonton 8:00: Winnipeg 8:15: Ottawa 8:35: Matane 8:45: Vancouver

I was today years old when I found out about this.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h ago

Oh my god I think I found the video.

“If ChatGPT were a person,” he said, “it would be facing charges for murder.”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · yesterday

@markfollman.bsky.social investigated a mass shooter’s 6,600-plus conversations with ChatGPT—enough content to fill about 10 books—and uncovered shocking evidence.

This week, for @mcgilloss.bsky.social, I'm looking at the resurrection of an old and deeply problematic pseudoscience: Physiognomy.

Truly mind-boggling. A paper coming out of a Vietnamese university presented at a computer science conference on how AI can make physiognomy more accurate. Zero mention of how it’s a pseudoscience.

Ben McKenzie Says Major Streamers Were Scared to License His Anti-Crypto Documentary, So He Found a Different Way to Reach Audiences: Releasing the movie on Eventive, a digital platform that specializes in helping indie films reach an audience. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Ben McKenzie Says Major Streamers Were Scared to License His Anti-Crypto Documentary, So He Found a Different Way to Reach Audiences

Ben McKenzie, "The O.C." star turned documentarian, is releasing his film about cryptocurrency in a unique way.

variety.com

Requisite timeline cleanse.

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 2d ago

This is Brady. He gets excited to wake up his bunny every morning. Promised he would be a responsible pet owner, and we think he's doing an excellent job. 13/10 (IG: goodboyscann)

Where we've been headed for decades: putting the onus of health strictly at the foot of the individual. You died? Well, you had an underlying condition. Why? Because you didn't work out enough/ate poorly/didn't infrared-sauna enough. "Public health" is being turned into an oxymoron.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

They think they're being clever eugenicists by saying that people with "underlying health issues" don't matter, but >75% of U.S. adults have a chronic condition (including 60% of age 18–34). So what they're really saying is "nobody matters, it's okay if everybody dies from inadequate regulation."

www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...

A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year

Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.

niemanlab.org

2022 Slovakian paper on using AI to recognize "abnormal human activities" to "simplify the work of security service." One such behaviour? Begging. "Begging: The videos feature people who annoy or harass surrounding people by begging for asking for money." Tell me science is apolitical, I beg you.

Remember, folks: they died WITH diarrhea, not OF diarrhea! Déjà vu....

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Someone needs to draw up a graph of personal trust in a new commentator over time. - Discovery: oh wow, they're really good! - A few problematic takes: nobody's perfect! - One massive stupid take: OK, unsubscribing. This person's a moron.

Gotta love a paper the title of which includes this gem: "Real-Time Employee Emotion Detection system." To adapt Robin Williams' own words, it's not a dystopia but you can see it from here!

I'm finding this discussion about the potential rights of an artificial intelligence really interesting. Would an AI deserve welfare if it only had AGENCY? What about SENTIENCE? And then what about CONSCIOUSNESS? Where should we draw the line?

Embrace the Void@etvpod.bsky.social · last wk.

New ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by Jeff Sebo for another fun round of "who has moral status?". This time we're talking AI welfare, whether consciousnessness is required for moral status, and why this is a conversation worth having now. Enjoy!

I would be extremely nervous believing this without some pretty solid evidence. It strikes me as one of those takes that feels good if you’re anti-ai but is likely to promote overconfidence that could cause harm in various ways.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 2d ago

The truth about AI-generated content and writing is that, if you're actually paying attention and are actively engaged, you can tell the difference. AI only works in a society where people are dissociating and distracted and unengaged. That's the point of it. To just forward an unlived life.

I have a lot of tolerance for academic writing that, out of context, sounds callous, but when you write the following sentence in your paper, I'm gonna raise an eyebrow: "We need a dataset that is divided into 4 classes named Drug Addiction, Autism, Criminalism, and Normal."

Everyone is on high alert for AI contamination of their favourite artistic medium. I have to wonder how the arts will survive this looming crisis of confidence. (h/t @etvpod.bsky.social)

YouTube throttled down the massive sci ed channel @kurzgesagt.org because it thought it was… AI slop. This may affect other genuine faceless channels….

We are seeing more wildfires on Earth, right? Actually…. youtu.be/M9Hoy9Kn1u0?...

What everyone misses about wildfires

YouTube video by Simon Clark

youtu.be

Hank Green likely to "pause" his main channel as he reexamines his relationship with LLMs and the 5 billion projects he's juggling right now. kotaku.com/famous-scien...

Hank Green Admits To Using AI After Fan Backlash Over Recent Video

'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Hank Green

kotaku.com

Can I return my tub of protein powder if it’s open? 🤔

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 5d ago

⚠️ Oh no, wellness & longevity gurus! Ya gotta switch your grift! The new hype-y research? To live longer (read: optimize!), eat LESS PROTEIN! 💪 www.news-medical.net/news/2026073... cc @mackinprof.bsky.social (Of course, 1 study that doesn't really say much - but shouldn't stop da grift machine!).

Je serai aux ondes de Radio-Canada ce soir à 18:00 pour brièvement parler de peptides aux nouvelles.

Some good news for long COVID, but the studies' problem is how do we define long COVID. This seems to be a recurring, major point of disagreement and I don't know how it's going to get solved. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can long COVID be prevented? Two drugs finally show promise

Rigorous trials suggest the treatments reduce the risk of long-term disease after coronavirus infection.

nature.com

“Tobacco companies, almost entirely due to e-cigarettes and now pouches, have been able to increase nicotine sales for the first time in many decades." www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Young Canadians’ Nicotine Pouch Use Reaches New Heights

Are your patients Zyn-ing? Contraband nicotine patches are the latest wellness trend in Canada.

medscape.com

If prayers work for health, we don’t need to prove a god exists; we just need to document health improvements. Right? Unfortunately, when science studies prayer, strange questions surface. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Can Science Even Test Prayers?

Praying to heal from illness is possibly the oldest form of alternative medicine. When that prayer is made to a divine being on behalf of someone else—like asking a god to heal an ailing relative—it i...

mcgill.ca

Excellent point!

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 5d ago

I appreciate this thread, but I feel like you've missed an even more significant dynamic, which is that by using AI as a science communicator, you are risking your audience losing trust not just in you but in science communication more broadly. And that has devastating societal fallout.