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“Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day.”
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day.”
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
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Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.
(Published July)
(Published July)
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.
(Published July)
(Published July)
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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1. The intense and all-encompassing institutional and societal pushback seen in some countries against any intervention to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19, whether that be vaccines, or air filtration / purification, or masks, is not simply as a result of mandates or lockdowns.
September 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
1. The intense and all-encompassing institutional and societal pushback seen in some countries against any intervention to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19, whether that be vaccines, or air filtration / purification, or masks, is not simply as a result of mandates or lockdowns.
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Disability: The Revolution!
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
September 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Disability: The Revolution!
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025
If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.
See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution
Excited to be included on this (long) shortlist! mastersreview.com/best-emergin...
Best Emerging Writers 2025 Shortlist! - The Masters Review
Andrew Porter, we don't envy you. That's right—the shortlist for Best Emerging Writers 2025 is now in the hands of Andrew Porter, our guest judge, who has the extremely difficult task of selecting onl...
mastersreview.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Excited to be included on this (long) shortlist! mastersreview.com/best-emergin...
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‘The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. … It operates on a simple premise: if you’re not vaccinating your kids, you need to protect them somehow, and here’s a bunch of things you can buy to do that.’
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social
Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca
I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.
macleans.ca
September 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
‘The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. … It operates on a simple premise: if you’re not vaccinating your kids, you need to protect them somehow, and here’s a bunch of things you can buy to do that.’
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social
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For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:
September 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:
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NEW: “Remigration” and “mass deportations” is the new rallying cry of white nationalists. Experts say it’s a call for ethnic cleansing. A new Canadian group is trying to "normalize" the concept and get the Conservative Party of Canada to talk more about immigration.
www.antihate.ca/remigration_...
www.antihate.ca/remigration_...
“Remigration”: How White Nationalists Are Repackaging Ethnic Cleansing
White nationalists in multiple countries, including Canada, are pushing for mass deportations of non-Europeans to be part of the political platforms of their right-wing parties.
www.antihate.ca
September 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
NEW: “Remigration” and “mass deportations” is the new rallying cry of white nationalists. Experts say it’s a call for ethnic cleansing. A new Canadian group is trying to "normalize" the concept and get the Conservative Party of Canada to talk more about immigration.
www.antihate.ca/remigration_...
www.antihate.ca/remigration_...
Similar survey underway now in Canada, for anyone who wants to weigh in:
openmedia.org/AI-survey-2025
openmedia.org/AI-survey-2025
August 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Similar survey underway now in Canada, for anyone who wants to weigh in:
openmedia.org/AI-survey-2025
openmedia.org/AI-survey-2025
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“It would take you 723 years to delete enough emails to save the same amount of water in data centers as you could if you fixed your toilet”
“If someone deleted all their photos, the water they would save could support 2 blades of grass on their lawn”
“If someone deleted all their photos, the water they would save could support 2 blades of grass on their lawn”
Really good analysis of the "delete old emails to save water" nonsense that's been going around lately.
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water
You'd need to delete hundreds of millions of emails to save as much water as fixing your toilet
andymasley.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“It would take you 723 years to delete enough emails to save the same amount of water in data centers as you could if you fixed your toilet”
“If someone deleted all their photos, the water they would save could support 2 blades of grass on their lawn”
“If someone deleted all their photos, the water they would save could support 2 blades of grass on their lawn”
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Air Canada offered the pilots a 26% wage increase in the 1st year of their newest contract.
The flight attendants got an offer of an 8% increase in the 1st year.
In the entire 4-year deal Air Canada offered them, their wages won't go up by as much as the pilots' did in just 1 year.
The flight attendants got an offer of an 8% increase in the 1st year.
In the entire 4-year deal Air Canada offered them, their wages won't go up by as much as the pilots' did in just 1 year.
Air Canada is reinforcing the gender wage gap – and they want the government to help them do it
Air Canada wants to reinforce the gender wage gap by forcing Air Canada flight attendants – 70% of whom identify as women – to accept a wage offer less than one third of what Air Canada offered its pi...
cupe.ca
August 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Air Canada offered the pilots a 26% wage increase in the 1st year of their newest contract.
The flight attendants got an offer of an 8% increase in the 1st year.
In the entire 4-year deal Air Canada offered them, their wages won't go up by as much as the pilots' did in just 1 year.
The flight attendants got an offer of an 8% increase in the 1st year.
In the entire 4-year deal Air Canada offered them, their wages won't go up by as much as the pilots' did in just 1 year.
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can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
August 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
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Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
July 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
I don’t often make blanket book recs, but I’ve run out of friends to randomly text with fascinating insights from this one, so here we are.
Take your ears and imagination on a journey with me into the sonic riches and brokenness of our world. Music, nature, listening. A Pulitzer and PEN finalist. Now out in paperback.
🦜💚🎵🐸🎻🏙️⚖️
🦜💚🎵🐸🎻🏙️⚖️
July 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I don’t often make blanket book recs, but I’ve run out of friends to randomly text with fascinating insights from this one, so here we are.
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The Ontario Science Centre 1 year later:
The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli
By the superb Canadian Press team
globalnews.ca/news/1125207...
The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli
By the superb Canadian Press team
globalnews.ca/news/1125207...
‘The biggest betrayal’: A year on, staff grieve Ontario Science Centre’s snap closure | Globalnews.ca
One year after closing the Ontario Science Centre, plans for a new site face delay, the roof remains intact, and staff call the shutdown a “manufactured crisis.”
globalnews.ca
June 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Ontario Science Centre 1 year later:
The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli
By the superb Canadian Press team
globalnews.ca/news/1125207...
The cost of a new site has escalated, its opening date has been pushed back, there is no sign of a temporary location, and the old building’s roof appears intact. #OnPoli
By the superb Canadian Press team
globalnews.ca/news/1125207...
if you haven’t tried Shyra’s teas and coffees yet, this is the perfect time to treat yourself!
A campaign to support language and culture in the Mohawk community of Tyendinaga is underway – one cup at a time.
The goal is to raise $10,000 over June, which is National Indigenous History Month.
The goal is to raise $10,000 over June, which is National Indigenous History Month.
Campaign to support Mohawk language and culture one cup of tea or coffee at a time | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
youtu.be
June 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
if you haven’t tried Shyra’s teas and coffees yet, this is the perfect time to treat yourself!
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'Ontario’s Bill 5 wilfully ignores this obligation and now threatens our lands, waters, and our ability to protect them for future generations.'
Bearskin First Nation joins chorus calling for Rickford's resignation
Bearskin First Nation in northern Ontario is joining a chorus of nations calling on Ontario's Greg Rickford to resign over Bill 5.
www.aptnnews.ca
June 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
'Ontario’s Bill 5 wilfully ignores this obligation and now threatens our lands, waters, and our ability to protect them for future generations.'
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Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.
May 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.
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For any disabled artists interested in applying to grants, I'm presenting a very introductory workshop for the New Brunswick Disability Arts Collective next Wednesday at 7pm AT/6pm ET. There will be a recording on YouTube afterward if you can't make it live. FREE!
www.facebook.com/events/61575...
www.facebook.com/events/61575...
Getting Started with Disability Arts Grants
Networking event by Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund on Wednesday, June 4 2025
www.facebook.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
For any disabled artists interested in applying to grants, I'm presenting a very introductory workshop for the New Brunswick Disability Arts Collective next Wednesday at 7pm AT/6pm ET. There will be a recording on YouTube afterward if you can't make it live. FREE!
www.facebook.com/events/61575...
www.facebook.com/events/61575...
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"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way"
"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:
"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:
A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...
www.nationalobserver.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way"
"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:
"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:
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May 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM