Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI
Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI
Too bad he lets the founders off easy.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI
Email Security: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
Email Security: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
Email is ubiquitous. If you want to function in modern society, you pretty much have to have an email address, but what was originally just a simple protocol to send messages between machines has…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Email Security: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
The First Taste of Liberal Promises onthetrailmtl.ca/p/preliminar...
The First Taste of Liberal Promises
I'm only half done, but so far, 91% of promises go unfulfilled or failed
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November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The First Taste of Liberal Promises onthetrailmtl.ca/p/preliminar...
The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South
An interview with newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond
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November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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When the right people hate you is that good or bad? - Yves Engler yvesengler.com/2025/11/15/w...
When the right people hate you is that good or bad? - Yves Engler
Ben Mulroney doesn’t like me. Should the NDP like that? On Wednesday the son of the former Conservative party leader ripped into me on his radio program. He began the four-and-a-half-minute…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
When the right people hate you is that good or bad? - Yves Engler yvesengler.com/2025/11/15/w...
Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
MEPs call for new rules on the use of algorithmic management at work | News | European Parliament
MEPs call for new rules on the use of algorithmic management at work | News | European Parliament
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs is calling on the Commission to introduce a law to regulate the use of algorithmic technologies, including AI, within European workplaces.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
MEPs call for new rules on the use of algorithmic management at work | News | European Parliament
The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World - Schneier on Security
The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World - Schneier on Security
As AI capabilities grow, we must delineate the roles that should remain exclusively human. The line seems to be between fact-based decisions and judgment-based decisions. For example, in a medical…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World - Schneier on Security
Forthcoming Digital Omnibus would mark point of no return - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Forthcoming Digital Omnibus would mark point of no return - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
127 civil society organisations and unions are urging the European Commission to halt its planned Digital Omnibus.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Forthcoming Digital Omnibus would mark point of no return - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
The AI Act isn't enough - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
The AI Act isn't enough - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Danes je nov dan has published recommendations for Slovenia to adopt stricter national safeguards and transparent oversight mechanisms.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The AI Act isn't enough - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Risk, fear, and deflection: Some thoughts about antisemitism
Risk, fear, and deflection: Some thoughts about antisemitism
Dave Meslin discusses views around antisemitism in Canada.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Risk, fear, and deflection: Some thoughts about antisemitism
While Carney hails his budget as “generational,” it’s actually a glossy repackaging of the “trickle-down” economics popularized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
Left-wing populist Avi Lewis might be the answer to the banker Mark Carney
Mark Carney has shown himself to be a politician that protects the interests of the wealthy. Avi Lewis could position himself as the left-wing populist answer to his corporatist policies.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
While Carney hails his budget as “generational,” it’s actually a glossy repackaging of the “trickle-down” economics popularized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
Although you may not have noticed, last week’s federal budget did away with the luxury tax on yachts and private jets.
Left-wing populist Avi Lewis might be the answer to the banker Mark Carney
Mark Carney has shown himself to be a politician that protects the interests of the wealthy. Avi Lewis could position himself as the left-wing populist answer to his corporatist policies.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Although you may not have noticed, last week’s federal budget did away with the luxury tax on yachts and private jets.
Google is hosting a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Google is hosting a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials.
How Do You “Accidentally” Delete Privacy? The Liberal Government’s Online Streaming Blunder - The Canada Times
How Do You “Accidentally” Delete Privacy? The Liberal Government’s Online Streaming Blunder - The Canada Times
When a government claims it accidentally deleted Canadians’ right to privacy from a major piece of legislation, it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow. Yet that’s exactly what happened with the Liberal…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How Do You “Accidentally” Delete Privacy? The Liberal Government’s Online Streaming Blunder - The Canada Times
This, in my view, highlights why the top two items for progressive electoral politics are systemic: proportional representation and digital rights for all Canadians. buff.ly/KEvqK6s
How the Liberal and Conservative Parties Have Quietly Colluded to Undermine the Privacy Rights of Canadians - Michael Geist
It hasn’t received much attention, but the government and official opposition - ie. the Liberals and Conservatives - have been quietly working to pass legislation that undermine the privacy rights of…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This, in my view, highlights why the top two items for progressive electoral politics are systemic: proportional representation and digital rights for all Canadians. buff.ly/KEvqK6s
Data centers now attract more investment than finding new oil supplies | TechCrunch
Data centers now attract more investment than finding new oil supplies | TechCrunch
In a shift, the world will spend $40 billion more on new data centers this year than it will on finding new sources of oil.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Data centers now attract more investment than finding new oil supplies | TechCrunch
Employment Inequalities Will Persist Until More Industries Unionize
Employment Inequalities Will Persist Until More Industries Unionize
Fundamentally, addressing poor employment quality requires that more workers gain greater access to collective bargaining.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Employment Inequalities Will Persist Until More Industries Unionize
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
“We've been fighting for a very long time, and we're at the point now where we're done—and workers will go on strike by Thursday if this company does not come back with some new proposals and resolve…
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November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/s...
Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/s...
DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games
DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games
Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
DHS Is Deploying a Powerful Surveillance Tool at College Football Games
The Regina Manifesto’s unfinished business: the case for public banking
The Regina Manifesto’s unfinished business: the case for public banking
Canada’s banks no longer serve the real economy. Decades of private lending have fuelled housing bubbles, record household debt, and economic instability. Revisiting the CCF’s Regina Manifesto, James…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Regina Manifesto’s unfinished business: the case for public banking
This is why AIs are not ready to be personal assistants
Prompt Injection in AI Browsers - Schneier on Security
This is why AIs are not ready to be personal assistants: A new attack called ‘CometJacking’ exploits URL parameters to pass to Perplexity’s Comet AI browser hidden instructions that allow access to…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is why AIs are not ready to be personal assistants
A better way of thinking about the AI bubble | TechCrunch
A better way of thinking about the AI bubble | TechCrunch
AI isn't all or nothing, and even good bets can turn sour if you aren't careful about how you make them.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A better way of thinking about the AI bubble | TechCrunch
Chris Hedges: America Is a Banana Republic
Chris Hedges: America Is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Chris Hedges: America Is a Banana Republic