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KrystynT
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Montreal-based. Nonprofits. Tech. Writing. CEO and co-founder of @entremission.com. Also #CFMTL and #LaVictoire.
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Also, traditionally women dominated care roles in health and education are being eliminated because neoliberalism, and marketing/ tech/ creative class layoffs are rising; it masks the problem if you make it sound like those jobs aren’t desirable. Push the misogyny button and hope no one notices.
MacKinnon wrote one of my favourite books of all time. I'm very glad to see his name on this lawsuit and love the eloquence of this article. Godspeed.
Last year, author J. B. MacKinnon found out that tech companies had fed his books into their generative AI models. Now, he's the face of several lawsuits against big tech. https://macleans.ca/longforms/big-tech-v-me/
Big Tech v. Me - Macleans.ca
The world’s most powerful companies used my books, and millions more, without permission to train their AI models. I’m suing to stop them.
macleans.ca
Your regular reminder that :

1 - much of the “engagement” you see online is not real
2 - people are getting richer by making the internet faker
3 - these platforms and their owners do not care about your best interests
This is disturbing
Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
This is the most Toronto story ever. "I paid a bazillion dollars for a waterfront condo and g'damn real life is interfering with my TV watching experience." I lived on Queen's Quay for years. The boat horn sound from the Skydome is one of the great joys of big city living.
‘Home games are going to be spoiled’: Why Blue Jays and Leafs fans living near the teams’ venues face a maddening problem
Sports fans living near the homes of the Jays, Leafs and Raptors often get tipped off to what’s happened before they can see it on TV or on a livestream.
www.thestar.com
Communications workflows are different now than a decade ago. Technical requirements have changed what and how orgs communicate.

Most of the nonprofit folks I know are subject matter experts, not digital marketers. This guide was written for them and other non-technical managers. Enjoy -
Publishing information online isn't as simple as "just post it to the website".

Your work matters, and search engines help you create impact. Search Engine Optimization should influence how you write, edit, and collaborate.

Unsure where to start? Try this guide for #nonprofit managers:
Writing for robots | The Organizer #27
To make sure people see your work online, use Search Engine Optimization.
www.entremission.com
This is one of the best articles I've seen illustrating why AI (LLMs) shouldn't be used to get yer news. (Around 83% of news summaries were unsourced and/or unreliable.)

This finding really stands out: AI news summaries invent debate where none exists.

Love the methodology and clarity.
L’IA m’a informé pendant un mois. Elle ne s’en est pas toujours tenue aux faits
Dans un cas sur six, seulement, les nouvelles produites par des systèmes d’IA générative étaient fiables et accompagnées de sources vérifiables.
theconversation.com
Your daily reminder not to get your news with the AI sprinkles on it.

"Overall, 45% of the AI responses studied contained at least one significant issue, with 81% having some form of problem, the research showed."

www.reuters.com/business/med...
Why yes, I did crash our development site tonight during testing. But then we fixed the issue and promptly beat our competitor's benchmark by 10x (<2 minutes compared to >20 minutes). Testing is fun.
I am very sad to report that fewer and fewer people know how to use a search engine. Of those who "do", the top searches are for things like website [dot] com. (Says someone who abandoned the bird long ago and will never give up my RSS reader.)
It’s still pretty nice out there, so cram in as much fall as you can. It’s the crunchy blue sky time of year.
It's Friday almost evening, and I know what you REALLY want to be thinking about right now is project management :P

But truly, the understanding that work unfolds in predictable waves is super helpful. It's probably the number 1 skill that I hear managers and executives wishing for on their teams.
Project management is gamechanging skill, but it's not taught widely.

This article covers the basics like:
- What is a project?
- What are the six phases of a nonprofit project?

If you feel like there's a firehose of tasks pointed at your face, project management skills can help.

Read more:
Project management should be taught everywhere | The Organizer #28
Make hard work easier with these project management basics.
www.entremission.com
Sometimes I wonder if Ensemble / Martinez Ferrada actually like Montreal.

I say this not as snark, but as a genuine reaction to their messaging. I can’t tell if it’s intentional strategy or just accidental.
Oh man, this place was a landmark in my early adult years. So many evenings here, readings, and long conversations with friends. (Perhaps most notably the place where I realized I wasn’t witchy enough to pursue a life in theatre.)

The closure of the Imperial Pub is another sad Toronto tale
Toronto is losing another landmark. It’s a broader tale of how we keep erasing our history
Is downtown only now going to be high rises and chain stores?
www.thestar.com
Goodreads for cool people :) It’s an ”I wanna read this list” for people to keep track of books. It also does recommendations based on your reading history, so it’s good for discovery: thestorygraph.com I don’t know how books get listed there (or Goodreads, for that matter).
The StoryGraph
We'll help you track your reading and choose your next book.
thestorygraph.com
How does one make that appear on The StoryGraph?
Reposted by KrystynT
« Le cri du cœur du sous-ministre de l’Environnement est un appel qui doit être entendu », réagit la co-porte-parole de Québec solidaire, Ruba Ghazal. « J’invite tous les hauts-fonctionnaires à tenir tête au gouvernement de François Legault. »
Le sous-ministre de l'Environnement du Québec n’a pas digéré de devoir mettre à pied plus d’une centaine de fonctionnaires de son ministère et il l’a fait savoir à ses employés, révèle un enregistrement d'une rencontre interne, obtenu par Radio-Canada. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/219...
Coupes à l’Environnement: « Terrible », dit le sous-ministre
Le sous-ministre à l'Environnement n’a pas digéré de devoir mettre à pied plus d’une centaine de fonctionnaires et il l’a fait savoir à ses employés.
ici.radio-canada.ca
This is how you comeback against a team from Seattle. Oui, c’est possible.

#gohabsgo
Doing something socially, environmentally, and personally beneficial shouldn't be dangerous.

Yet 100% of the cyclists I knew (in Toronto) had been hit or pushed off/ into the road by a car.

To me, the #MTL bike system means we're a city where people care about each other and about well-being.
Every time I hear someone ranting against bike lanes, what I actually hear is someone proudly declaring they do not care if:
- their neighbours get hurt
- municipal infrastructure is affordable
- people can be physically active and healthier
- air & water are protected

It makes me sad.
Reposted by KrystynT
“Postmedia is the nation’s leading supplier of climate change denial and pro-oil industry propaganda, so it’s not surprising that they would dismiss academic research and rail against bike lanes when they provide an inexpensive solution to interrelated emission, pollution and congestion problems.”
Latest bit of Montreal 'bikelash' sidesteps the facts to please bike-lane haters
The findings of a study about bike lanes vs car infrastructure have been twisted by a Montreal publication in a cheap bit of bikelash.
cultmtl.com
The thing I love about science is how people in the same field build on past knowledge.

They push against a common barrier, and when one breaks through all break through.