Leah Piltz
@leahpiltz.bsky.social
Digital marketing professional in Toronto. Celiac. Interested in Covid, healthcare, science, technology, the climate crisis, and politics these days. (she/her)
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I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
The holiday ad from @sickkidsvs.bsky.social is so perfect this year! Donations until Dec. 24 will be matched at: www.sickkidsfoundation.com/pages/bm/rya...
Freddie Freeman Knocks It Out Of The Park for SickKids
YouTube video by Ryan Reynolds
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The holiday ad from @sickkidsvs.bsky.social is so perfect this year! Donations until Dec. 24 will be matched at: www.sickkidsfoundation.com/pages/bm/rya...
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Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on
A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path.
“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path ... They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela
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Turns out Amazon's "groundbreaking" AI video recaps are struggling to recap Amazon's own TV shows.
But who could have predicted that AI might struggle to get facts and dates correct?
But who could have predicted that AI might struggle to get facts and dates correct?
Amazon pulls error-filled 'Fallout' AI video recaps from Prime Video
Who could have predicted that AI might struggle to get facts and dates correct?
bit.ly
December 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Turns out Amazon's "groundbreaking" AI video recaps are struggling to recap Amazon's own TV shows.
But who could have predicted that AI might struggle to get facts and dates correct?
But who could have predicted that AI might struggle to get facts and dates correct?
AI is reaching new milestones! This lawsuit "is the first case alleging that ChatGPT led to a murder" (gift article; free account required).
A former tech executive killed his mother. Her family says ChatGPT made her a target.
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.
wapo.st
December 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
AI is reaching new milestones! This lawsuit "is the first case alleging that ChatGPT led to a murder" (gift article; free account required).
"A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea"—surprise, they wanted to build an AI data centre. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
a cartoon of homer simpson standing in front of a crowd of people with monorail written on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in front of a crowd of people with monorail written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea"—surprise, they wanted to build an AI data centre. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
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Ukraine has accused Russia of deliberately targeting the disaster site with a drone strike, which left a 160-square-foot hole in the shield.
Chernobyl reactor's protective shield was so damaged by a drone strike that it's not confining radiation anymore: IAEA
Ukraine has accused Russia of deliberately targeting the disaster site with a drone strike, which left a 160-square-foot hole in the shield.
www.businessinsider.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Ukraine has accused Russia of deliberately targeting the disaster site with a drone strike, which left a 160-square-foot hole in the shield.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Flu season is taking off as shown by this Public Health Ontario Hospital Admissions chart up to Nov 29th. We're already at a high level of lab test positivity (18.3%). It's not too late to get vaccinated and reduce your chances of a hospital visit. #flu
www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Flu season is taking off as shown by this Public Health Ontario Hospital Admissions chart up to Nov 29th. We're already at a high level of lab test positivity (18.3%). It's not too late to get vaccinated and reduce your chances of a hospital visit. #flu
www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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Australia's Heart Foundation just launched an info campaign on the harms of COVID to cardiovascular health - good to see!
But current vaccines only reduce risk of heart damage, they do not eliminate it. We need masking, clean indoor air, better prevention & next gen vaccines
But current vaccines only reduce risk of heart damage, they do not eliminate it. We need masking, clean indoor air, better prevention & next gen vaccines
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Australia's Heart Foundation just launched an info campaign on the harms of COVID to cardiovascular health - good to see!
But current vaccines only reduce risk of heart damage, they do not eliminate it. We need masking, clean indoor air, better prevention & next gen vaccines
But current vaccines only reduce risk of heart damage, they do not eliminate it. We need masking, clean indoor air, better prevention & next gen vaccines
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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"My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress...
He felt fine until he didn’t.
That’s exactly what’s happening with #COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it."
whn.global/covid-isnt-a...
He felt fine until he didn’t.
That’s exactly what’s happening with #COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it."
whn.global/covid-isnt-a...
COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again - WHN
This is the first of a series of posts on Long COVID by David Brasure. See parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. I would like to thank, Dr Alice, @calirunnerdoc on X for many of the concepts in this article. Th...
whn.global
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress...
He felt fine until he didn’t.
That’s exactly what’s happening with #COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it."
whn.global/covid-isnt-a...
He felt fine until he didn’t.
That’s exactly what’s happening with #COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it."
whn.global/covid-isnt-a...
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Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
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Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canada: If you’re going to cut foreign aid, at least be honest about it
It is a moral failure dressed up as fiscal responsibility. If we take away the abstract language and political doublespeak, Canadians may find the human cost of these cuts too
www.thestar.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous activists storm COP30 climate summit in Brazil, demanding action
Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
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Public healthcare is not going to survive without public oversight.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Public healthcare is not going to survive without public oversight.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
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Last Tuesday, as the strongest Atlantic storm in 90 years slammed the western coast of Jamaica with 185-mph winds, Bill Gates was downplaying climate change.
Respectfully, Bill Gates needs to shut up
The tech billionaire's climate pivot is cowardly—and profoundly unhelpful.
www.motherjones.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Last Tuesday, as the strongest Atlantic storm in 90 years slammed the western coast of Jamaica with 185-mph winds, Bill Gates was downplaying climate change.
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as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
The corporate blueprint behind the eviction of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhood ⋆ The Breach
Behind Heron Gate’s destruction lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system—financial firms, pension funds, and private equity investors have transformed rental housing into a speculative asset cl...
breachmedia.ca
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Behind a 2018 mass eviction in Ottawa lies a broader shift in Canada’s housing system.
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
Neal Rockwell investigates how rental housing has been transformed into a speculative asset class, driving up rents and displacing racialized tenants. breachmedia.ca/how-the-dism...
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A Toronto-area doctor spent 10 days caring for a dying baby without pay. Here’s why she’s speaking up
Provincial government, Ontario Medical Association directed to find solutions to billing woes
Provincial government, Ontario Medical Association directed to find solutions to billing woes
A Toronto-area doctor spent 10 days caring for a dying baby without pay. Here’s why she’s speaking up | CBC News
OHIP billing issues have become a sticking point for physicians as they work to finalize a new compensation deal with the province. Last month, an arbitrator directed the two sides to come up with sol...
www.cbc.ca
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A Toronto-area doctor spent 10 days caring for a dying baby without pay. Here’s why she’s speaking up
Provincial government, Ontario Medical Association directed to find solutions to billing woes
Provincial government, Ontario Medical Association directed to find solutions to billing woes
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Thank you, Toronto Blue Jays.
You united #Toronto and the whole country with your passion and plays. Even without a World Series title, we #GotItAll.
#WantItAll
You united #Toronto and the whole country with your passion and plays. Even without a World Series title, we #GotItAll.
#WantItAll
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Thank you, Toronto Blue Jays.
You united #Toronto and the whole country with your passion and plays. Even without a World Series title, we #GotItAll.
#WantItAll
You united #Toronto and the whole country with your passion and plays. Even without a World Series title, we #GotItAll.
#WantItAll