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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · Nov 25

Are you curious about what #ai policy will look like in 2025? Join me and this awesome panel of speakers tomorrow to chat about the state of #AI & #genAI and what policies like the #AIAct and Executive Order will look like next year for organizations big and small

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Promotional poster: AI and Policy Landscape: A look ahead into 2025. Four panelist head shots are featured: Var Shankar, Chief AI and Privacy Officer at Enzai. Jason Green-Lowe, Executive Director at Center for AI Policy. Monika Viktorova, Product Manager in Logistics Industry. Jamaur Bronner, Founder at The Foregrounds

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Sep 24

That he feels he can say this, publicly, is 100% Doug Ford giving this behaviour his approval. This should be an embarrassing secret bro takes to his grave. The way these people drive & treat others will be related too. The sociopathic lid is off.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · Sep 24

Driver who racks up between $300 and $400 a month in speeding and parking tickets feels like he’s "being bullied.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Dasrath, who spends much of his time driving for work, said he regularly racks up $300 to $400 a month in parking and speeding tickets.

“When you get the ticket in the mail about four to six weeks later, the first thing I felt is anger and rage… you feel like you’re being bullied.”

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 24

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

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Emil A. Georgiev @emilageorgiev.eu · Sep 25

Политико са разговаряли по телефона с Благомир Коцев. (нишка)
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · Sep 24

One reason society is so broken is that suburban life requires elevated extroversion, executive function, and planning ability to fulfill basic needs, at a time when online is rapidly degrading all of these at a population level.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Sep 24

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · Sep 25

You don't say.

CTV News Ottawa @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social · Sep 25

Return-to-office throws wrench in federal government’s building offload plan

While the city and the province are requiring workers to return to the office full time, the federal hybrid work policy is throwing a wrench in the government’s plan to get rid of some of its real estate.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 23

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · Sep 24

Saw a post by an escape room employee saying they have to tell people ChatGPT won't solve the puzzles for them and... the point of an escape room is to use your brain to solve puzzles because it's fun. That is the whole point. What are you paying for

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · Sep 24

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 24

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

www.chronicle.com

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 24

This is very generous and a nice writeup of some of the tech critical media crowd, including yours truly

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · Sep 24

Got a new piece in @goodtape.com on some of the best journos & podcasters covering AI right now: like @bcmerchant.bsky.social @parismarx.com @404media.co @edzitron.com & more. Check it ouuuut....

Nobody Wants the Future Anymore

As AI comes for podcasting (and everything else), humans are equipping listeners with research, nuance, and ways to fight back.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Sep 24

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · Sep 24

I listened to 202 minutes of those AI-generated podcasts.

They were not good.

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I listened to 3 hours of AI-generated podcasts so you didn’t have to

Inception Point AI wants to commodify audio AI slop with “How to Earlobe Kiss” and 4,748 other shows

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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · Sep 23

Yes there is - it’s called writing assignments and tests in class.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 23

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN chief warns world leaders that humanity has entered 'an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering.'

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · Sep 23

According to data provided by Statscan to the OECD, Canada's tertiary education system is experiencing BY FAR the fastest public disinvestment of any country in the developed world. (I am not sure the specific figures are 100% accurate, but the conclusion is still irrefutable)

Education at a Glance 2025, Part 1 | HESA

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its annual stat fest, Education at a Glance (EAG), two weeks … Continued

higheredstrategy.com

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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · Sep 23

Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · Sep 23

Recommend this recent report on the export of a specific suite of technologies by a Chinese company to replicate Great Firewall capabilities in other countries: interseclab.org/research/the...

The Internet Coup: A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes | InterSecLab

This research reveals groundbreaking findings on how Geedge Networks is selling an extensive suite of next-generation digital repression tools to client governments around the world.

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · Sep 21

My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences.

And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it.

whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...

How many people will generative AI kill before we actually care?

Too many.

whatwelost.substack.com

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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · Sep 23

Loved this piece

Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · Sep 22

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Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 23

So Elon has known is father was sexually abusing children for decades and has done virtually nothing about it. Sounds about right.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Elon Musk has not been shy about putting much of his life on public display. The tech billionaire posts daily on his social network X, has cooperated with two biographies and often speaks on podcasts and at conferences.

But there is one part of his life that he has not revealed much about — his longtime estrangement from his father, Errol Musk, who has become increasingly outspoken about his family and business ventures tied to the Musk name.

A New York Times investigation found that a significant factor in Elon Musk’s rupture with his father stems from accusations against Errol Musk of child sex abuse. The allegations have repeatedly spilled over into Elon Musk’s life as relatives have contacted him for help and he has sometimes taken action to intercede, according to personal letters, emails and interviews with family members.

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Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social · Sep 23

It is naive to ask in 2025 what Russia's motives might be for sending fighter jets and drones into NATO territory. The motives are clear – gathering information and testing defensive capabilities and willingness to respond. It is no longer a matter of provocation—these are planned offensive actions.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · Sep 22

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities:

At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · Sep 22

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics

The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year

Ben Mulroney is Blurring the Lines Between Journalism, Business, Lobbying and Partisan Politics

New host of Global News’ politics show works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 23

As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.

Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · Sep 22

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

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No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children

In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Sep 23

These are depressing times, but I am so glad that we will get to host an incredible advocate and leader @mcgillghp.bsky.social this fall!

@zackieachmat.bsky.social will receive the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity!

www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Sep 23

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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