Angela Misri
@karmicangel.bsky.social
Journalist, fiction author, assistant professor at TMU, nerdy Kashmiri Canadian. Formerly The Walrus & CBC Radio.
"A recent Stanford study found that employment for 22- to 25-year-old software engineers fell nearly 20% between late 2022 and July 2025, even as hiring for older engineers grew. " via Fast Company register.inc.com/index.php/em...
FAST COMPANY | AI DECODED
register.inc.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"A recent Stanford study found that employment for 22- to 25-year-old software engineers fell nearly 20% between late 2022 and July 2025, even as hiring for older engineers grew. " via Fast Company register.inc.com/index.php/em...
“A journalist’s job is to interrogate and find truth ... such as Trump being a felon, racist, and someone who seeks to willfully undermine the will of voters and the rule of law, we commit journalistic malfeasance if we cover him with a neutral framing.”
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
When Neutrality Is a Constraint
Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?
www.cjr.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“A journalist’s job is to interrogate and find truth ... such as Trump being a felon, racist, and someone who seeks to willfully undermine the will of voters and the rule of law, we commit journalistic malfeasance if we cover him with a neutral framing.”
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
"...some analysts are holding up Builder.ai as a potential case of 'AI washing,' in which companies falsely promote products or services as AI to attract attention and funding." restofworld.org/2025/builder...
Inside the collapse of Builder.ai: Was it even an AI company?
The implosion of a white-hot startup has employees asking how it all went wrong.
restofworld.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"...some analysts are holding up Builder.ai as a potential case of 'AI washing,' in which companies falsely promote products or services as AI to attract attention and funding." restofworld.org/2025/builder...
Going through some edits today, and this stood out as totally on brand: "Could Ganesh’s mouse play a bigger role in the plot?"
three mice are standing on a wooden bench with the word prime video on the bottom right corner
ALT: three mice are standing on a wooden bench with the word prime video on the bottom right corner
media.tenor.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Going through some edits today, and this stood out as totally on brand: "Could Ganesh’s mouse play a bigger role in the plot?"
"Pluralities of professors (close to half) in large public universities affirm that academic standards have declined in recent years and that grade inflation is a serious problem."
www.chronicle.com/article/meet...
www.chronicle.com/article/meet...
Opinion | Meet Students Where They Are? Maybe Not.
Lax standards will void the value of a college education.
www.chronicle.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Pluralities of professors (close to half) in large public universities affirm that academic standards have declined in recent years and that grade inflation is a serious problem."
www.chronicle.com/article/meet...
www.chronicle.com/article/meet...
I've been thinking about this a lot - is it possible to copyright yourself to protect your individuality being sucked into the LLMS? www.fastcompany.com/91360589/den...
Denmark wants you to copyright yourself. It might be the only way to stop deepfakes
Copyrighting our faces will be an effective way to effortlessly force platforms to take down deepfakes.
www.fastcompany.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I've been thinking about this a lot - is it possible to copyright yourself to protect your individuality being sucked into the LLMS? www.fastcompany.com/91360589/den...
Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/f... via @techcrunch.com
Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books | TechCrunch
A federal judge sided with Meta in a lawsuit that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on copyrighted works.
techcrunch.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/f... via @techcrunch.com
"By automating these decisions, we replace them with references to generalized, previously established, socially constructed imaginaries." mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-decision...
The Decision Not to Decide
Interfaces, and design of all kinds, exercise decision-making. Decision making is a form of power. What, then, is generative AI for design?
mail.cyberneticforests.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"By automating these decisions, we replace them with references to generalized, previously established, socially constructed imaginaries." mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-decision...
"People do not believe journalists try to be fair, balanced or impartial — or do not agree that what we are offering meets those standards. This is their experience, and our defensiveness will not change that." - trustingnews.org/heres-the-pu...
Here’s the public’s wish list for trust. Let’s get busy.
Reuters Digital News Report share insights into four things the public says they want from journalists.
trustingnews.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"People do not believe journalists try to be fair, balanced or impartial — or do not agree that what we are offering meets those standards. This is their experience, and our defensiveness will not change that." - trustingnews.org/heres-the-pu...
"Every year scores of Australians and thousands of others are denied entry to the United States. C.B.P. has full discretion, after all. What is new is the politically motivated deployment of that power to exclude speech that the government does not want to hear." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Every year scores of Australians and thousands of others are denied entry to the United States. C.B.P. has full discretion, after all. What is new is the politically motivated deployment of that power to exclude speech that the government does not want to hear." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
“I think many people assume there’s some baseline level of confidentiality there. There’s not. Everything you submit to an AI system at bare minimum goes to the company that’s hosting the AI.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Meta users don’t know their intimate AI chats are out there for all to see
Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“I think many people assume there’s some baseline level of confidentiality there. There’s not. Everything you submit to an AI system at bare minimum goes to the company that’s hosting the AI.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
“First is using AI for research and investigations,” Zach said. “Number two is internal workflows and processes those like knotty or just robotic parts of everybody’s job… And then the last area of focus is reader experiences.” substack.com/home/post/p-...
How a Five-Person AI Team Is Powering Innovation at The New York Times: In Conversation with Zach Seward
Plus: Join us at New York University for a Live Podcast Recording, June 3!
substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“First is using AI for research and investigations,” Zach said. “Number two is internal workflows and processes those like knotty or just robotic parts of everybody’s job… And then the last area of focus is reader experiences.” substack.com/home/post/p-...
"...we are heading towards a place where not only are image and video [AI] generations likely to be good enough to fool most people, but that those capabilities will be widely available and, thanks to open models, very hard to regulate or control." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...
The recent history of AI in 32 otters
Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
www.oneusefulthing.org
June 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"...we are heading towards a place where not only are image and video [AI] generations likely to be good enough to fool most people, but that those capabilities will be widely available and, thanks to open models, very hard to regulate or control." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...
As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind indiginews.com/first-person... via @indiginews.bsky.social
Why you won’t see IndigiNews among those sharing in the $100M Google news fund
As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind
indiginews.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind indiginews.com/first-person... via @indiginews.bsky.social
"To come up with a good AI policy for a university ... one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee
What I learned serving on a university AI committee.
www.chronicle.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"To come up with a good AI policy for a university ... one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
This is why our student newsroom at OTR is filled with plant life! “According to a 2020 study, researchers found that 27% of participants saw a significant reduction of pulse rate when staring at a small plant on their desk" www.fastcompany.com/91334123/wha...
How bringing nature into your workspace can jump-start productivity
On average, people spend 90% of their time indoors. Adding nature-inspired touches to your work environment can do wonders for your health.
www.fastcompany.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This is why our student newsroom at OTR is filled with plant life! “According to a 2020 study, researchers found that 27% of participants saw a significant reduction of pulse rate when staring at a small plant on their desk" www.fastcompany.com/91334123/wha...
"These fraudsters — sometimes called ghost students, Pell runners, or straw students — are hitting the system’s central application portal at an alarming rate."
Is Your Online Student a Bot?
As AI gets better, online education becomes more vulnerable to fraud. Just ask instructors in California.
www.chronicle.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"These fraudsters — sometimes called ghost students, Pell runners, or straw students — are hitting the system’s central application portal at an alarming rate."
via @thestar.com & @andytakagi.bsky.social #TTC track diversions for streetcars comin' in slow just in time for summer www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-s...
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
via @thestar.com & @andytakagi.bsky.social #TTC track diversions for streetcars comin' in slow just in time for summer www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-s...
Reposted by Angela Misri
Check out my latest with lead author @karmicangel.bsky.social — and see how discussions on AI ethics in newsrooms may not be keeping up with practice
ONLINE FIRST! This article by Angela Misri, @nicoleblanchett.bsky.social & April Lindgren examines how Canadian #newsrooms are using #ArtificialIntelligence, and whether ethical frameworks are adequately evolving alongside #technology. Available with OPEN ACCESS. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom
The burgeoning use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create journalistic products is challenging the ethical standards in Canadian newsrooms and calling into question the efficacy of existing no...
www.tandfonline.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Check out my latest with lead author @karmicangel.bsky.social — and see how discussions on AI ethics in newsrooms may not be keeping up with practice
Reposted by Angela Misri
New and open access from @karmicangel.bsky.social me and April Lindgren - re. how AI is being used & how AI ethics guidelines are being developed (or not) in Canadian newsrooms #journalsim #AI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom
The burgeoning use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create journalistic products is challenging the ethical standards in Canadian newsrooms and calling into question the efficacy of existing no...
www.tandfonline.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New and open access from @karmicangel.bsky.social me and April Lindgren - re. how AI is being used & how AI ethics guidelines are being developed (or not) in Canadian newsrooms #journalsim #AI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A public inquiry cleared former MP Han Dong’s name, but the cloud of foreign meddling still looms over candidates of Chinese descent. thelocal.to/don-valley-n...
“Everybody is Terrified of Getting the Label”—Why the Spectre of Chinese Interference Hangs Over Don Valley North | The Local
A public inquiry cleared former MP Han Dong’s name, but the cloud of foreign meddling still looms over candidates of Chinese descent.
thelocal.to
April 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A public inquiry cleared former MP Han Dong’s name, but the cloud of foreign meddling still looms over candidates of Chinese descent. thelocal.to/don-valley-n...
23andMe has declared bankruptcy - delete all your data ASAP: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
Column | Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now
The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.”
wapo.st
March 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
23andMe has declared bankruptcy - delete all your data ASAP: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
"...if Singh can’t convince Canadians his party represents more than a protest vote, it never will." via @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/with-the-ndp...
With the NDP Dropping in the Polls, What’s Left for the Left? | The Walrus
Jagmeet Singh is running out of time—and so is his party
thewalrus.ca
March 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"...if Singh can’t convince Canadians his party represents more than a protest vote, it never will." via @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/with-the-ndp...
#APPLY The ‘Friends of Canadian Media’ Scholarship will be awarded annually to a student who demonstrates a strong enthusiasm for politics and a solid comprehension of journalism’s role in a thriving democracy. rtdnacanada.com/rtdnf-launch...
The First :10 Seconds – RTDNA Canada
rtdnacanada.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
#APPLY The ‘Friends of Canadian Media’ Scholarship will be awarded annually to a student who demonstrates a strong enthusiasm for politics and a solid comprehension of journalism’s role in a thriving democracy. rtdnacanada.com/rtdnf-launch...