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“Using generative AI to create original, public-facing content (text, video, audio or images) can be fraught and in our view poses the greatest risk to public trust if not managed carefully. We will be extremely conservative when using it.”
Better than I expected, but how about not using it at all?
Better than I expected, but how about not using it at all?
How CBC News will use AI responsibly to benefit our journalism — and keep your trust | CBC News
CBC is launching a new campaign aimed at reminding Canadians how our journalism can provide a safe harbour from the fake news and AI-generated content roiling through our feeds. As the campaign begins...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Using generative AI to create original, public-facing content (text, video, audio or images) can be fraught and in our view poses the greatest risk to public trust if not managed carefully. We will be extremely conservative when using it.”
Better than I expected, but how about not using it at all?
Better than I expected, but how about not using it at all?
Do we really need a SCRUBS revival? Sounds somewhat pathetic…. And I loved the show back in the day!
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Do we really need a SCRUBS revival? Sounds somewhat pathetic…. And I loved the show back in the day!
USA has pretty much operated this way for decades - now they just have an unrestricted social license to say it on national TV
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
USA has pretty much operated this way for decades - now they just have an unrestricted social license to say it on national TV
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Reposted by Paola Cubillos
The U.S. relies on immigrant physicians. What if they no longer want to come? : Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The U.S. relies on immigrant physicians. What if they no longer want to come? : Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...
You know the answer is NO
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
You know the answer is NO
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Emmanuel walked away from his mom’s fruit stand to find a bathroom. She looked for him all over Houston, and after several hours, she filed a missing person’s report with Houston PD. Houston firefighters found him within 24 hours. But police turned him over to ICE, who held him captive for 48 days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Emmanuel walked away from his mom’s fruit stand to find a bathroom. She looked for him all over Houston, and after several hours, she filed a missing person’s report with Houston PD. Houston firefighters found him within 24 hours. But police turned him over to ICE, who held him captive for 48 days.
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The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org
The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof
More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are high...
www.gavi.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org
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“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page, which was not put up by CDC and did not go through regulary vetting. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @motherjones.com @kieraevebutler.bsky.social
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page, which was not put up by CDC and did not go through regulary vetting. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @motherjones.com @kieraevebutler.bsky.social
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ICYMI: “In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike-lanes aren’t fit for office.”— @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com
Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, pollution, city noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.
Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, pollution, city noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.
In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office
Amid the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes — as in Montreal municipal election campaign — aren’t fit for office.
cultmtl.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICYMI: “In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike-lanes aren’t fit for office.”— @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com
Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, pollution, city noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.
Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, pollution, city noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, & not nearly enough space in cities.
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“This is how the wellness influencer industry works. It’s not enough to push the snake oil. You have to discredit mainstream science & portray scientists as public enemies or cartoon villains, and that's what Kennedy’s seeking to do.” @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
After unprecedented autism-vaccine messaging change, scientists, advocates say CDC no longer trustworthy
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“This is how the wellness influencer industry works. It’s not enough to push the snake oil. You have to discredit mainstream science & portray scientists as public enemies or cartoon villains, and that's what Kennedy’s seeking to do.” @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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An Israeli airstrike has struck Beirut for the first time since June. n.pr/4ojozGl
Israel says it targeted Hezbollah militant in its first attack in Beirut in months
An Israeli airstrike has struck Beirut for the first time since June.
n.pr
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An Israeli airstrike has struck Beirut for the first time since June. n.pr/4ojozGl
"The... summit featured remarks by officials in Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services. Among them were Bhattacharya, who said that the “MAHA movement is an absolutely incredible thing to me”... “I have waited my entire life to see this movement come” 🤡
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"The... summit featured remarks by officials in Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services. Among them were Bhattacharya, who said that the “MAHA movement is an absolutely incredible thing to me”... “I have waited my entire life to see this movement come” 🤡
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“Bolsonaro's government ignored repeated pleas to sign additional vaccine contracts. He publicly questioned the reliability of shots and mocked contract terms, once suggesting Pfizer recipients would have no legal recourse if they "turned into alligators."
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro received a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt. Relatives of the 700,000 COVID-19 dead say his conviction, though separate to the pandemic, offers vindication. n.pr/4pmyAU4
Bolsonaro's conviction brings vindication for some Brazilians who lost loved ones to COVID-19
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro received a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt. Relatives of the 700,000 COVID-19 dead say his conviction, though separate to the pandemic, offers vindication.
n.pr
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“Bolsonaro's government ignored repeated pleas to sign additional vaccine contracts. He publicly questioned the reliability of shots and mocked contract terms, once suggesting Pfizer recipients would have no legal recourse if they "turned into alligators."
Well. Bugonia was cray. But by god can Jesse Plemons act!
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Well. Bugonia was cray. But by god can Jesse Plemons act!
LOL what?!
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
LOL what?!
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AI: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
"...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing.
What's lost: "the resilience & diversity of knowledge itself."
"...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing.
What's lost: "the resilience & diversity of knowledge itself."
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
AI: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
"...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing.
What's lost: "the resilience & diversity of knowledge itself."
"...disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insight and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential, human ways of knowing.
What's lost: "the resilience & diversity of knowledge itself."
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It astounds me that after over two years of recognized genocide, large media outlets are still publishing headlines like this. I don't know what else to say except I hope one day there is a reckoning for it.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It astounds me that after over two years of recognized genocide, large media outlets are still publishing headlines like this. I don't know what else to say except I hope one day there is a reckoning for it.
Highly recommend! I have gifted couple of these bad - good!- boys and the recipients happily report being even better equipped to defend democracy!
The ways of cats are the wise ways 🐈⬛
The ways of cats are the wise ways 🐈⬛
Help get LESSONS FROM CATS FOR SURVIVING FASCISM on to the New York Times Bestseller List
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Highly recommend! I have gifted couple of these bad - good!- boys and the recipients happily report being even better equipped to defend democracy!
The ways of cats are the wise ways 🐈⬛
The ways of cats are the wise ways 🐈⬛
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
Much of the anger over school closures wasn't about children, example #122225
Durham public school attendance drops to COVID levels amid North Carolina immigration crackdown
Federal officials say they arrested around 370 people in North Carolina this week in immigration crackdowns around Charlotte and the Research Triangle.
www.wbur.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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Reposted by Paola Cubillos
Kennedy Says He Told CDC to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines. In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Kennedy Says He Told CDC to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines. In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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As America declines, how far is Canada willing to watch, remain silent, and profit from its markets?
thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...
thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...
Carney Promised Defiance. All We’re Getting Is Deference | The Walrus
How far are we willing to go to preserve our relationship with the US?
thewalrus.ca
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
As America declines, how far is Canada willing to watch, remain silent, and profit from its markets?
thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...
thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”