Mason Wright

Grammarly Pulls Down Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.

BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent

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Toronto’s snow mountains: towering peaks that refuse to melt and leave a toxic trail

Reaching up to 100ft, these massive piles contain tonnes of salt that keep roads clear but pose environmental and health risks

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

From Burnout to Renewal: Dr. Michael Antil’s Move from North Carolina to Toronto YouTube video by InterestingMD

There's quite a movement now of American docs who've moved to Canada who are trying to attract others here, because they are so all-in on our medical system after butting heads in the USA for so long.

Dr. Rob Beck's an internist in Victoria talking to a doc who related to Toronto:

Loving the cassette tape revival. This is at Red Cat Records in #Vancouver

One thing I truly don’t like about #GoldenGirls: They are really mean to Rose, even when the one-liners land

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

Figure out how South Korea convicted their leader who tried to declare martial law and do that

I turn 50 tomorrow. I don't feel great about it. Someone talk up being fiftysomething

Today in interesting local politics and local media news: @fabulavancouver.bsky.social seems to be making the leap to local politics and will join OneCity.

I phoned @fabulavancouver.bsky.social, and she officially declined comment until the “career transition” becomes public tomorrow.

Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab

“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974

Patagonia?

yikes

Especially when most of the combat now is computer systems bombing civilians

Giljegiljaw Kungkuan - Wikipedia

I'm guessing searches for the term ‘Giljegiljaw' have increased this week
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"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity."

Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

Thanks for your service here. Important context

Sad to hear misinfo is being spread on this topic

This started happening to me at least three years ago and never got fixed. You’re right, it improves the experience

Our New Iran Correspondent | The New York Times Company

This is the kind of journalist an editor yearns for at a time like this: A Persian-fluent reporter w/ deep experience covering Iranian politics and policies.

She used to work at the Washpost.

Then Bezos dismantled the international coverage.

Now she’s at the NYT

www.nytco.com/press/our-ne...

Mr. Mayor, where did you get your #salmonbellies hoodie?

Now I know!

CNBC page showing Asian markets—all are down, ones mentioned are down 3%, 4%, 4%, 11%, and 8% respectively

Major losses on many of the Asian exchanges, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, S. Korea, Thailand:

I wonder if it could have been this meteor that landed in the Pacific Northwest tonight? #meteor

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

This AI-generated podcast network publishes 11,000 episodes a day. It also ripped off media outlets Daily News Now tops search results for local news podcasts with AI content

NEW on @indicator.media:

I found an AI-generated podcast network that has published 350,000 episodes in the past month. That's 11,000 episodes a day, or about one year's worth of audio content.

You'll be shocked to find out it's not generating original material.

WHISTLEBLOWER: Kash’s personal use of the FBI jet delayed investigators after the Brown U Mass shooting

(H/T @atrupar.com )

Federal Prisons Bar Gender-Affirming Care for Trans People ‘People will die,’ an advocate warns, as standard treatments for gender dysphoria are replaced with therapy and antidepressants after Trump’s order.

BREAKING: The federal prison system will stop providing gender-affirming medical or social transition care to almost any transgender people, under a new policy released by the Bureau of Prisons Thursday. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/19/t...

Immigration activists barred from hearing on requiring ICE at polls Immigration activists were banned from the Arizona Senate building while waiting to speak against a bill mandating federal agents at election sites.

And so it begins - (AZ Central) It (the bill) would force all county recorders and each county board of supervisors to partner with an immigration agency to place FEDERAL AGENTS anywhere ballots were "cast or deposited."