Amber Labelle
@amberllab.bsky.social
Unceded Algonquin territory via the US. She/hers. Veterinary ophthalmologist (yes, it's a real thing). Determined to make it better for everyone. Opinions mine.
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AI cannot take accountability. AI cannot be “sorry.”
You have no control over the outputs of AI if you did not make it yourself, train it on very specific data sets, and create extremely rigorous control methods. Even then the safeguards are limited.
The creators must be held accountable
You have no control over the outputs of AI if you did not make it yourself, train it on very specific data sets, and create extremely rigorous control methods. Even then the safeguards are limited.
The creators must be held accountable
January 2, 2026 at 5:23 PM
AI cannot take accountability. AI cannot be “sorry.”
You have no control over the outputs of AI if you did not make it yourself, train it on very specific data sets, and create extremely rigorous control methods. Even then the safeguards are limited.
The creators must be held accountable
You have no control over the outputs of AI if you did not make it yourself, train it on very specific data sets, and create extremely rigorous control methods. Even then the safeguards are limited.
The creators must be held accountable
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I shouldn’t have to “Donate” to my local libraries. But with @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social austerity budgets and money badly directed to things like Lansdowne 2.0, I guess that’s where we’re at? No “Donate” button for the Police though?
December 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I shouldn’t have to “Donate” to my local libraries. But with @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social austerity budgets and money badly directed to things like Lansdowne 2.0, I guess that’s where we’re at? No “Donate” button for the Police though?
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"What happens to science when the whole world leans on one country’s library?"
PubMed has competition from Germany. That’s a very good thing www.statnews.com/2025/12/26/p...
PubMed has competition from Germany. That’s a very good thing www.statnews.com/2025/12/26/p...
PubMed has competition from Germany. That’s a very good thing
Germany’s new ZB MED is “about ensuring that a single fragile pipeline doesn’t bottleneck good science,” experts write.
www.statnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"What happens to science when the whole world leans on one country’s library?"
PubMed has competition from Germany. That’s a very good thing www.statnews.com/2025/12/26/p...
PubMed has competition from Germany. That’s a very good thing www.statnews.com/2025/12/26/p...
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New from me in the Ottawa Citizen: the five most annoying Ottawa stories of 2025. Yes of course the Night Mayor wins. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/most...
The most annoying stories in Ottawa from 2025 | Opinion
Read all about the sidewalk that made locals lawyer up, pointless work from our Night Mayor, and the 'debate' over hockey rinks. | Opinion
ottawacitizen.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New from me in the Ottawa Citizen: the five most annoying Ottawa stories of 2025. Yes of course the Night Mayor wins. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/most...
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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Solidarity fuck yeah! Bravo, Skate Canada!
BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta | CBC News
Skate Canada says it will no longer host major events in Alberta following a review of the province's legislation on the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport.
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Solidarity fuck yeah! Bravo, Skate Canada!
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🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Solidarity with our Girlguiding sisters and siblings! Sisters not cis-ters! Trans girls and women belong in Guiding.
We will be reporting on this protest today.
Watch this thread at 12 as that will be when the protest is scheduled to start.
Watch this thread at 12 as that will be when the protest is scheduled to start.
Gonna be going to the girl guiding protest in London to do some live reporting.
Should be interesting to see.
One thing I learnt from my scout leader parents is that guide leaders and scout leaders can organise really bloody well.
Should be interesting to see.
One thing I learnt from my scout leader parents is that guide leaders and scout leaders can organise really bloody well.
December 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Solidarity with our Girlguiding sisters and siblings! Sisters not cis-ters! Trans girls and women belong in Guiding.
If you haven’t read this aggressively adorable and sweet book, get thee to a bookstore toot suit!
#SantasHusband 🎅🏿💕🎅🏻 (on sale now) on Laura Ingraham last night.
I cannot stress enough to you that this book came out in 2017, is totally G-Rated, and neither @sassquachcomics.bsky.social or myself can find any evidence it was assigned in any school.
Anyway, enjoy.
www.foxnews.com/video/638635...
I cannot stress enough to you that this book came out in 2017, is totally G-Rated, and neither @sassquachcomics.bsky.social or myself can find any evidence it was assigned in any school.
Anyway, enjoy.
www.foxnews.com/video/638635...
The Left’s war on Christmas shows their ‘genuine distaste’ with American history: Clay Travis | Fox News Video
OutKick founder Clay Travis discusses the Left’s war on Christmas, including North Carolina schools assigning the book ‘Santa’s Husband’ to children on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
www.foxnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
If you haven’t read this aggressively adorable and sweet book, get thee to a bookstore toot suit!
***Pounding fists on table***
DE-A-MALGAMATE
DE-A-MALGAMATE
DE-A-MALGAMATE
Does shot.
DE-A-MALGAMATE
DE-A-MALGAMATE
DE-A-MALGAMATE
Does shot.
*slaps roof of car*
You could easily fit 10 million people here
You could easily fit 10 million people here
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
***Pounding fists on table***
DE-A-MALGAMATE
DE-A-MALGAMATE
DE-A-MALGAMATE
Does shot.
DE-A-MALGAMATE
DE-A-MALGAMATE
DE-A-MALGAMATE
Does shot.
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McSweeney's living legend, @mikelacher.bsky.social, returns to the site today with his first font-themed satire since "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tim...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tim...
Times New Roman Turns Right
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to [Calibri] ‘wasteful,’ casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
McSweeney's living legend, @mikelacher.bsky.social, returns to the site today with his first font-themed satire since "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tim...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tim...
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Join the Cdn packaged bread class action lawsuit. The deadline is today- Dec 11! Just takes 2 mins. If you have bought packaged bread btwn 2001-21, ie tortilla, bagel, sliced bread etc. All those over age 18 can apply. www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca
Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement
This website has been established to provide general information related to the proposed settlement of the case referred to as Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement.
www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Join the Cdn packaged bread class action lawsuit. The deadline is today- Dec 11! Just takes 2 mins. If you have bought packaged bread btwn 2001-21, ie tortilla, bagel, sliced bread etc. All those over age 18 can apply. www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca
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A new study has found that Black women face up to 70 per cent higher death rates from breast cancer compared to white women, prompting medical experts and advocates to call for increased risk-based screening in #Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Black women face up to 70 per cent higher breast cancer mortality, study finds
A new study found that Black women face up to 70 per cent higher death rates from breast cancer compared to white women, prompting medical experts and advocates to urge for increased risk-based screen...
www.ctvnews.ca
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A new study has found that Black women face up to 70 per cent higher death rates from breast cancer compared to white women, prompting medical experts and advocates to call for increased risk-based screening in #Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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Absolutely fucking dying here www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Absolutely fucking dying here www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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A premium example of what the United States does in the light Canada does in the dark
CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE
CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A premium example of what the United States does in the light Canada does in the dark
CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE
CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE
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Thanks to the Treasury Board of Canada for inviting me to serve as a panelist on yesterday's CCO Day of Learning, which was broadcast to thousands of government communicators across the country. Here are 12 of my comments, which I will attempt to weave into a paper at a later date:
Thread [1/13]
Thread [1/13]
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Thanks to the Treasury Board of Canada for inviting me to serve as a panelist on yesterday's CCO Day of Learning, which was broadcast to thousands of government communicators across the country. Here are 12 of my comments, which I will attempt to weave into a paper at a later date:
Thread [1/13]
Thread [1/13]
Oh, come on. This is like 2025 is getting written by Chat GPT, them metaphors are so dull!
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Oh, come on. This is like 2025 is getting written by Chat GPT, them metaphors are so dull!
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
The inimitable @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social is hosting the annual Trans Day of Pizza!
gofund.me/d2fcbddb2
Feed trans people! Fight for the rights of trans people! Shovel the ramp! (See next post for context)
#TransPizzaDay #TDOR #TransRightsAreHumanRights
gofund.me/d2fcbddb2
Feed trans people! Fight for the rights of trans people! Shovel the ramp! (See next post for context)
#TransPizzaDay #TDOR #TransRightsAreHumanRights
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The inimitable @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social is hosting the annual Trans Day of Pizza!
gofund.me/d2fcbddb2
Feed trans people! Fight for the rights of trans people! Shovel the ramp! (See next post for context)
#TransPizzaDay #TDOR #TransRightsAreHumanRights
gofund.me/d2fcbddb2
Feed trans people! Fight for the rights of trans people! Shovel the ramp! (See next post for context)
#TransPizzaDay #TDOR #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Keep saying the truth and calling out the lies.
Vaccines do not cause autism, full stop!
Vaccines do not cause autism, full stop!
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Keep saying the truth and calling out the lies.
Vaccines do not cause autism, full stop!
Vaccines do not cause autism, full stop!