Maggie K

This might be one of the greatest shots that I have ever seen.

At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media | CBC Radio It's been 25 years since Wikipedia first launched, but what does its future look like in a world where traditional media is on the decline and AI is on the rise?

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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Cracked, but still there: the glass ceiling persists for senior women in science To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Mangala Srinivas reminds junior colleagues that career success won’t protect you from gender-based bias.

Leading in science as a woman doesn't mean smooth sailing through gender bias, unfortunately, writes @mangalasrinivas.bsky.social @nature.com. She gives practical advice for navigating the shards of the cracked glass ceiling (hint: there's no magic bullet).

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Vibe Coding for Beginners. A Library 2.0 masterclass with Nicole Hennig

VIBE CODING FOR BEGINNERS www.library20.com/ai-sessions/vi… (here’s my upcoming workshop for librarians, join us on Mach 20th) #AI #webinars #librarians

Kinda important👇

Recommend to educators: FREE Contact North webinars
FREE Contact North webinars exploring how higher education is shifting in an age of rapid disruption and AI and what educators and institutions can do next, with practical, human-centred strategies.
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Indeed - this is more than a geopolitical power play, and it won't go away even if Trump loses in 2028.

It's the billionaire's effect vs the Brussels effect: an attempted fundamental power shift away from (democratic) state actors to tech oligarchs.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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#QuitGPT

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

Nice people. 🙄 Nothing but grifters.

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News

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Forget white sand beaches. These snowbirds prefer to prowl for owls on the frozen Canadian prairie | CBC News Southern Manitoba is a winter hot spot for tourists who prefer seeking out elusive owls on the frozen prairie over beachside getaways.

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Scientists: "Food gives you energy"

Me after eating:

Luxury Surveillance — Real Life People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others

This really real dystopia is here. Mobile networked perpetual ambient recording is luxury surveillance. My colleague @hypervisible.blacksky.app is finishing a book on such contradictions between privacy, power, and public space.

Read about this core concept here: reallifemag.com/luxury-surve...

Six planets due to parade across night sky in rare celestial spectacle Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at same time in curved line across sky

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I’m Canadian. Apparently my life is bad. In reality, I have:

- Vaccines.
- Clean tap water.
- Public transport.
- Enforceable rights.
- Food safety as a baseline.
- Healthcare that doesn’t lead to bankruptcy.

And I don’t need to carry a concealed weapon to walk my dogs.

I LOVE CANADA 🇨🇦

DAMN SON YOU GOT SMOKED YO!!!
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

If I was PP, I would submit my resignation and quit right there and then!!!!! 😆🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦

If provincial healthcare providers are charging the federal interim health programme five times the amount for refugee claimants, that seems like a provincial problem or fraud, not a refugee problem.
FFS #QP

#yesyesyesyesyesyes....
Thank you my PM Carney!🇨🇦
#Miigwech 🪶

This is how turtles flirt. Let me flutter my hands in your face!

Danielle Smith Is No Separatist. She’s Much Worse | The Tyee The premier’s referendum plan is destructive, divisive and ultimately evil.

“She is the most dangerous politician in Canada, launching not only an agenda of fear and greed, but one that seeks to undermine the country, its federal structure and its spirit of tolerance and compassion.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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This one hits hard.

I am so sorry, Team Canada.
But be sure, you are the Team of the hearts.
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🏒🏒

The new leader of the free world.
American cable news saying that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos is one of the greatest speeches of the 21st century.
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👇🏽🍁🇨🇦🍁💪🏽LET’S GO👍🏽🍁🇨🇦🍁👇🏽

Guys being Dudes

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...

Brilliant!!

Ghost in the Machine Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026

Starting to hear buzz about Valerie Veatch's @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social and want to where you can see it? They've got a form on their website to bring Ghost in the Machine to your university, club, festival, institution, or any other place with a screen + humans, virtual or IRL.

notaidoc.com

Congratulations to the Canadian Men's hockey team.

What a come back!!

Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as chief mouser for the British prime minister Larry the cat recently celebrated 15 years of working as chief mouser for the U.K. government. He has become a popular figure in U.K. politics.

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