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Mark Medley

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Deputy Opinion Editor, @theglobeandmail.com. Former Globe and Mail/National Post Books Editor. Author of Live to See the Day, a national bestseller. https://linktr.ee/mark.medley

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Mark Medley@markmedley.bsky.social · 3w ago

"My years of experience as a rapper have somehow turned me into an attractive potential political candidate today." @cadenceweapon.bsky.social on the wave of rappers-turned- politicians, and what it says about hip hop: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: How did electing former rappers become politics as usual?

As hip-hop becomes more enmeshed in mainstream culture, rappers are becoming viable political candidates. What does that say about the state of hip-hop, and us?

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Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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Barry Petchesky@barryp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or pitches@defector.com

Richie Assaly@rdassaly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: The Giller Prize boycott has ended. The embattled literary prize confirmed that it is no longer sponsored by groups with ties to Israeli occupation and genocide. I spoke to previous Giller winners and nominees about the news for @thegrindto.bsky.social. www.thegrindmag.ca/organizers-e...

Organizers End Giller Prize Boycott, Say Demands Have Been Met

The embattled literary organization is no longer sponsored by Scotiabank, Indigo or the Azrieli Foundation, organizers confirmed. The Grind spoke to several authors about what this means for the…

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Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review

Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

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Mark Medley@markmedley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Live to See the Day, at its core, is a meditation on mortality. Human life is limited by time, yet people are oddly reluctant to restrict their ambitions within its bounds. We build, restore, protect, write, teach and imagine toward futures we may never see" www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/live-to-se...

Live to See the Day: Impossible Goals, Unimaginable Futures, and the Pursuit of Things That May Never Be by Mark Medley

Reviewed by Chris Reed

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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5mo ago

Free newsletter: Why're we still doing this? Despite $1tr+ in investment, every AI company is unprofitable, LLMs have yet to provide tangible productivity benefits, and private credit-backed data center debt may be the next great financial crisis. www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/

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