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Sarah Rieger

@sarahcrgr.bsky.social

I write stuff. Opinions are my own. Managing Editor @ BetaKit, Canada's premiere tech news publication. linktr.ee/sarahcrgr | Bylines: TLDR, CBC, HuffPost, Macleans, Weather Network Based in Alberta, Canada | She/Her | 🌈

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evy kwong@evystadium.bsky.social · last wk.

amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:

Symbol for Amazon’s VGT3 operation which depicts a T rex with its mouth open over an open booky
404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

Jimmy Thomson@jameswsthomson.com · last mo.

Some really impressive work here by a particularly impressive intern — Jamie Voyles, who is a rare breed of journalist with a PhD in public health.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · last mo.

Since 2009, the per capita rate of Lyme disease has increased approximately 32-fold in Canada, according to calculations by Canada’s National Observer — making it one of Canada's clearest examples of a climate-related health problem. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/n...

Per-capita Lyme disease incidence for all of Canada since 2009. Based on data from the Public Health Agency of Canada. Image generated by Jamie Voyles in R Studio.
Tom Moffatt@solarab.bsky.social · last mo.

Alberta electricity industry expects power prices to triple because of provincial data centers #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/a...

Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres

In Capital Power's latest earnings call, the company's CEO, Avik Dey, told analysts that he couldn't rule out prices of "$80 or $90" per megawatt hour of electricity by early 2028. By 2029, rival comp...

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Jo Yurcaba@joyurcaba.bsky.social · last mo.

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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Sarah Rieger@sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Every newsroom that published biased, inaccurate stories about gender differences in sports and elevated critical voices above scientific accuracy and lived experiences should feel responsible for what this has led to.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

Sarah Rieger@sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@madisonmcla.bsky.social is a tech reporter, and definitely not an MMA devotee ...which is exactly why we sent her to hang out w/ UFC fighters to hear all about how they're trying to biohack their way to a win: betakit.com/can-a-saliva...

Can a saliva test make UFC athletes better fighters? This Canadian startup is betting on it | BetaKit

Ahead of the White House's UFC fight, Kintra is using AI-powered biomarkers to help fighters eke out an edge.

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Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 3mo ago

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

businessinsider.com

Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 3mo ago

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

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Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 3mo ago

I'm working on a column about the tech annoyances that drive us crazy, and I want it to be as universal as possible, so tell me yours! E.g. scanning a QR code to read a menu, never receiving the one-time passcode they supposedly texted you, "verify you're human" by IDing tiny motorcycles, etc.

Sarah Rieger@sarahcrgr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not to be this person to bring us all down on National Bread Money Day, but bread prices remain elevated and this price fixing continues to cost billions and this compensation absolutely doesn't significantly ding oligopoly profits

Canadian bread settlement
De Facto Journalism Co-op@defactomedia.ca · 4mo ago

Transit police are calling immigration on transit riders—and most of the time they aren't documenting it Freedom-of-info docs indicate Transit Police calls to CBSA have risen. But in available 2024 data, 91% of calls didn't go into daily duty reports as required www.defactomedia.ca/transit-poli...

Transit Police are calling border enforcement more — but you wouldn't know that from their own records

In 2024, Metro Vancouver transit cops’ immigration calls reached their highest in a decade. But not even a tenth of them went into daily duty reports as required

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Michelle Cyca@michellecyca.com · 4mo ago

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026 This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.