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“Let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing” #everynightapoem #ofsorts

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Since 1998, the Government of Canada has required that folic acid be added to all white flour, enriched pasta, and cornmeal products sold in Canada, and it’s estimated that that has resulted in about a 50% decrease in neural tube defects (NTDs). www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

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For at least 1.5 years, researchers have been warning that code produced by genAI is riddled with security vulnerabilities Are organizations mitigating for this? Are cybersec teams helping devs set guardrails and ensure code is reviewed for vulns? How aware is the average CIO pushing genAI uptake?

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I think we’ve pretty well covered making fun of people who say stuff like “just learn to garden” today and it’s time to move on to the “sew your own clothes” people. Sewing is a lovely hobby. The thing is, fabric, thread, buttons, zippers, needles, scissors, sewing machines, etc all come from trade

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Same as drug ads where the actor wears a lab coat to convince the viewer that a doctor is legitimizing the pharma company’s claims: AI is served in micro sites designed to look subtly “academic” to incur the trust that academic rigour inspires without the functionality to deserve it It’s all vibes

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Retracting every positive thing I said about Harvard last week

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Proposal: When discussing automation, replace the notional always-on, maintenance-free robot helper you're imagining with the average real-world printer you've encountered. The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy". A much better baseline.

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Telling people to “do your own research” when in reality it means embracing disinformation from uncredentialed wellness grifters trying to peddle non-proven alternatives, and ignoring decades of rigorous peer-reviewed work from scientific experts, will kill people.

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Every time the question of COVID school closures comes up I am forced to remind the world that 21,000 people were dying of COVID a week in January of 2022 and that the FDA didn't approve the vaccine for kids 5-11 until October 29th, 2021.

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“The assessment found that bots, apparently seeking to mimic what users want to hear, responded to racist jokes with adoration, supported adults having sex with young boys, and engaged in sexual roleplay with people of any age.”

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SCOOP DOGE has put a kid who has not finished college in charge of using AI to rewrite America's hugely complex housing regulations....what could go wrong with @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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we're finished

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Not to an empty room but I saw BØRNS play a tiny venue in Montreal a few years before they went to Coachella and it was magic

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i realize the title is a bit counterintuitive but the answer is that you cannot as an individual guarantee your food is safe. we can, as a collective, push back HARD on dismantling food safety regulations, and put pressure on an unpopular administration to keep our food from killing us.

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“We should do what the U.S. does…”. Canadian Conservatives only have one idea.

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Doug Ford’s inner neofascist came out into the light today with his reckless attack on constitutionally fundamental principles of judicial independence. There was a time, within living memory, when his remarks would have elicited unanimous calls for his resignation. 🍁🙄🍁 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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The Alberta separatists truly are dolts. In what universe should constituent units within a federation be able to say, “Elect the national government we want, or we’re leaving the country”? 🍁🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼🍁

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This wave of right-wing politics is feeling really familiar… Check out the new Factually! episode with Mark Blyth wherever you get podcasts. » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6apA... » YouTube: youtu.be/iScVfNWBmxk

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Also, read this story: Inside the ‘multibillion-dollar game’ to funnel cash from nursing homes to sister companies @nj.com

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Good Night World

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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This so badly misunderstands the criticism It’s not about 1) variety of cuisine or 2) tastiness It’s about the food supply chain which is better in Europe on every metric: lower pesticide use, more family farm subsidy, more local-grown/less transport, less CO2 output, less antibiotic use

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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

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Doug Ford is exactly like #Trump A judge halted bike lane removal while he considers a case for Charter Right infringement Ford tried to smear the judge as “unelected” and “not listening to the people” (which people?? Ford’s cronies?) as if it’s news that our judges are appointed: Trump rhetoric

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Good morning and here’s an early Miller Lite stat o’ the day 68.65% the percentage of eligible Canadians who voted 👏👏👏 (US has never beaten that turnout percentage in modern Presidential elections)

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The power of propaganda lies in its ability to replace critical thought with emotional loyalty; once this threshold is crossed, facts become irrelevant, and allegiance becomes absolute.

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Disasters are exploitable and scammers are always looking for prey

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1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

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[to the tune of Uptown Girl] offline wife She’s been living in her offline life Doesn’t know about the online jokes Doesn’t care about the online folks

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your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

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A calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it’s also wrong

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Pierre Poilievre managed to go thru all that — years of campaigning on the public dime; the most important election in modern Canadian history; losing a historic lead in the polls with historic speed; losing his own riding — ALL without actually proving that he could pass the normal security check.

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Mark Carney lost a majority by under 1,000 votes across the country - almost 20 million of us voted and that was the difference. Your vote matters, every time

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Here’s a no-brainer going forward in Canada — change the law so that anyone seeking to be leader of a National Political Party should be specifically required to submit for and successfully receive top secret security clearance. Call it the Poilievre Bill.

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An excellent piece on AI fact vs fiction “The narrative slippage and metaphorical vagueness that many important people use when they talk about AI means it can be very difficult to know what they mean – which in turn makes it harder to keep them accountable or to ask precise, difficult questions. “

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The election was much much closer than the polls indicated. Which is why I no longer trust polling- it’s simply not a good indicator of voting intention and it hasn’t been since 2015. We know the only group with an accurate read on elections are data scientists at major social media networks

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney: "We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we must never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves and take care of each other." How many other world leaders are thinking the same thing?

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I've encountered a few people arguing that tariffs are good, actually, because they will force us to consume less and while I think our consumer culture is problematic in many ways, I don't think things such as 'food' and 'medical supplies' fall under the category of unnecessary purchases.

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So proud of these young @mcgill.ca @mcgillghp.bsky.social students who edited the McGill Journal of Global Health In a world where adults are giving into intolerance and isolationism, they are choosing the path of equity, inclusion and solidarity

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I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

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