Lukas Neville
@lukasneville.com
Assoc prof, organizational behaviour, Asper School of Business, UManitoba. Personal butler to Tuna the Cat.
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I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
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Hi, I'm Kevin O'Leary, millionaire, Trump lover, Canadian, fraud, bad investor, and person who worships income disparity and believes people in poverty should admire the 1%. Here is why I am extremely angry and confused that I was not Zohran Mamdani's first priority and favourite special little boy
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Hi, I'm Kevin O'Leary, millionaire, Trump lover, Canadian, fraud, bad investor, and person who worships income disparity and believes people in poverty should admire the 1%. Here is why I am extremely angry and confused that I was not Zohran Mamdani's first priority and favourite special little boy
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
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virtue signalling is good actually
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
virtue signalling is good actually
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Meta itself estimates that it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the United States lol
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Meta itself estimates that it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the United States lol
"Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for"
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for"
Can Elon please, please speed up his Mars colonization project and bring Gad along with him?
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Can Elon please, please speed up his Mars colonization project and bring Gad along with him?
a little wellness trick i'd like to share
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
a little wellness trick i'd like to share
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If I had a nickel for every time the Bloc wound up leading the Opposition because the Tories fucked it up, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If I had a nickel for every time the Bloc wound up leading the Opposition because the Tories fucked it up, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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I'll tell you something. I have a private theory that this kind of division (which is clear as day to ppl in tech and like, baffling to ppl outside of it) is a version of the "I will help you survive but not thrive" phenomenon but worked out re: tech belonging
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I'll tell you something. I have a private theory that this kind of division (which is clear as day to ppl in tech and like, baffling to ppl outside of it) is a version of the "I will help you survive but not thrive" phenomenon but worked out re: tech belonging
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
say hello to my little friend
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
say hello to my little friend
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(rust cohle voice) la roche posay
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
(rust cohle voice) la roche posay
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turning a big dial taht says "Sexism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
turning a big dial taht says "Sexism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
Halving the number of international students from the current already-reduced number is going to put some very serious pressure on Canadian universities.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Plans to cut number of international students raises alarm bells at Manitoba universities | CBC News
University officials and students in Manitoba say they are disappointed after the federal government announced plans to significantly decrease the number of international students who will be permitte...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Halving the number of international students from the current already-reduced number is going to put some very serious pressure on Canadian universities.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Atul Gawande: USAID helped countries shift care from hospitals to nearer home. Health workers with a scale & tape measure detect bad cases earlier. A peanut-paste therapy reversed starvation. Deaths fell from 20% to as little as 1%. It saved 1.2M lives in 2023. But now the gains are being reversed.
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Atul Gawande: USAID helped countries shift care from hospitals to nearer home. Health workers with a scale & tape measure detect bad cases earlier. A peanut-paste therapy reversed starvation. Deaths fell from 20% to as little as 1%. It saved 1.2M lives in 2023. But now the gains are being reversed.
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...It really seems like everyone leading an organization of any size should be aware that there's legal risk in telling a class of interns to "go out and seek marriage," without a lawyer having to tell them
Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women.
Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.
Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.
Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
...It really seems like everyone leading an organization of any size should be aware that there's legal risk in telling a class of interns to "go out and seek marriage," without a lawyer having to tell them
The Musk pay package proposal would make his comp contingent on hitting 20M vehicles sold.
That's $50,000 in compensation for each Tesla ever sold (they make a gross profit of $8k per vehicle sold).
Or, if we just look forward (since they've already sold about 8M vehicles), that's $83k pay/car
That's $50,000 in compensation for each Tesla ever sold (they make a gross profit of $8k per vehicle sold).
Or, if we just look forward (since they've already sold about 8M vehicles), that's $83k pay/car
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Musk pay package proposal would make his comp contingent on hitting 20M vehicles sold.
That's $50,000 in compensation for each Tesla ever sold (they make a gross profit of $8k per vehicle sold).
Or, if we just look forward (since they've already sold about 8M vehicles), that's $83k pay/car
That's $50,000 in compensation for each Tesla ever sold (they make a gross profit of $8k per vehicle sold).
Or, if we just look forward (since they've already sold about 8M vehicles), that's $83k pay/car
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everywhere i look, i see his face
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
everywhere i look, i see his face
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An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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saw a bumper sticker on a volvo that said “my other volvo is a volvo”
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
saw a bumper sticker on a volvo that said “my other volvo is a volvo”
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I’m a gambling counselor and it’s out of control. The worst idea ever was online gambling. The suicide rate for gamblers is close to 17%. That’s insane. That’s problematic.
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’m a gambling counselor and it’s out of control. The worst idea ever was online gambling. The suicide rate for gamblers is close to 17%. That’s insane. That’s problematic.