Ery 🍒 🇨🇦

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched.

One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words.

Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of the content is basically people interacting with creators.”

You used to open your phone to see what your friends were doing.

Now you open it to watch strangers.

You did not choose this. The algorithm chose it for you.

It tested your friends against optimized strangers.

Your friends lost. Every time.

A stranger with better lighting, better timing, and a better hook held your attention three seconds longer than someone who loves you.

So the algorithm buried your best friend’s wedding photos under a cooking video from someone in Dubai you have never met.

And you watched the cooking video.

That was the first replacement. Friends for strangers. You barely noticed.

The second one is already underway.

If the algorithm already proved strangers outperform your real relationships, and AI can now build a stranger more engaging than any human alive, the math finishes itself.

The AI does not have a bad week. It does not post something careless and lose the algorithm’s favor. It does not burn out.

Every word calibrated.

Every frame tuned.

Every pause placed at the exact interval that keeps your thumb from moving.

A human creator competing against that is carving stone tablets in a world that just built the printing press.

The economics are not even close.

A person needs rent, sleep, and motivation.

The machine needs electricity.

When the cost of generating perfect content hits zero, the feed fills with faces that do not exist.

Voices that feel familiar.

Opinions that mirror yours just enough to feel like trust.

Personalities built from scratch to feel like someone you have known for years.

You will not know when the switch happens.

That is the point.

The feed does not care whether the thing holding your attention has a pulse. It cares whether you stay.

And a machine that knows your patterns better than you know yourself will always keep you longer than a person ever could.

This is not a warning. Half of it already happened.

You lost your friends to strangers and did not notice.

You will lose the strangers to machines and call them friends.

Somewhere in a different app, in a different tab, in a room you are sitting in right now, someone who actually knows you is living a moment you will never see.

Not because they stopped sharing it.

Because you stopped being where it was.

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

This pissed off MAGA America so much.

I fucking loved it.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

In a world where you can be anything, be a number 50

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

The internet gave everyone a microphone but took away the pause that used to come before speaking.

When decades of research from PhDs is treated as just another “opinion,” expertise collapses into nothingness. A society that can’t tell the difference between knowledge and confidence eventually makes decisions based on the loudest voice, not the smartest one.

That’s not a progress problem, it’s a survival problem.

[Pascal Bornet @pascal_bornet]

This made me stop for a second.

In Japan, every step can generate electricity.

Piezoelectric floor tiles convert pressure from footsteps into energy. One step is tiny. Almost nothing.

But thousands of commuters?

Now the crowd becomes infrastructure.

What fascinates me is not the wattage.
It’s the mindset shift.

Instead of building bigger power plants, we embed energy into everyday movement.

It won’t replace the grid.

But it changes how we think about systems.

So here’s my question:

What other “wasted” human activity could we redesign into value?

#Innovation #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #Technology #FutureOfWork

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Finland's underground data centers heat entire city blocks using server waste heat

In Finland, several data-centres now feed their waste heat into municipal district-heating networks instead of simply dumping it into the air. For example, waste heat generated by data-centre cooling is captured and transferred into the district-heating grid, providing carbon-neutral heat to thousands of homes and public buildings. This reuse of thermal energy helps reduce reliance on fossil-fuel heating, cuts emissions, and turns the by-product heat from digital infrastructure into a genuine resource rather than waste.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

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

Public transit.
Public education.
School Food programs.
Vaccines.
Clean water.
Social programs.
Food safety.
Universal healthcare that doesn't lead to bankruptcy.

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

Grateful to live in 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

🥰🇨🇦❤️

[Ery 🍒 🇨🇦 @eRyJaCks]

https://t.co/Cy69klAZxU

[Smokahontas @Smokahontas2024]

This morning, I got a text from my boss that said, “Hey, I need to talk to you.” Instantly, my stomach dropped. A few minutes later, he sent me screenshots Facebook had flagged one of my posts about Dr. Moore and COVID… and their AI system actually reached out to him to ask if my post aligned with his morals and values.

Yes, an algorithm tried to drag my boss into a “moral review” of my personal Facebook post.

Let that sink in: AI not a real person, not a human moderator decided my content was controversial enough to alert my employer and spark a values check. That’s how far it’s gone.

Luckily, I have an incredible boss who immediately shut it down with two sharp responses defending my right to speak. But the fact that an AI is now programmed to involve your workplace in content disputes? That should terrify everyone.

[Science News @ScienceNews]

A team used generative AI to enhance T cells’ ability to fight melanoma. The immunotherapy approach needs more testing before use in cancer patients.

https://t.co/Bsn3oAQhT4

[Andrea Dekeseredy @AndieWinnipeg]

We actually debunked Danielle Smith’s claim higher education lacks diverse viewpoints/funding using public data.

We did it again a few weeks ago, but here is our original analysis.

I’ll think of what data set we can use for the journalism.

https://t.co/a8BLJiRD1K

[Theresa 🇨🇦 @TheresaLubowitz]

If you're noticing an authoritarian trend in the Ford Government's recent moves, you're not mistaken. They are consolidating power within their team so that no one can check their power or curb their corruption.

[Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER @bennettpeer]

The fact that no one cares about this will forever be a mystery to me. Stupidity? Cognitive dissonance? Evil? IDK. But it really pisses me off that the people doing nothing are taking all of us - and all species - with them. 🤬

https://t.co/TAvolUEkJw

[Fact @Fact]

"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority." - Booker T. Washington

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Mommy carrying her babies..

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

If you're having a bad day, watch this

[OMGFacts @OMGFacts]

𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦!
𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘴: @𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘒𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘺 & 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

“The Ford government broke post-secondary funding, and now it wants to scapegoat students and school. They’re trying to regulate their way out of the crisis that they caused.”

MPP Ted Hsu calls out the Ford government's disastrous handling of post-secondary education in Ontario. Ford's government still ranks DEAD LAST in per student funding for post-secondary education. This isn't only a disaster for students, but for the whole province as we try to compete globally amidst a trade war.

Learn more at the Gananoque Reporter: https://t.co/AdIA9m2fPk

#OSSTF #OnPoli #OntEd

[Ery 🍒 🇨🇦 @eRyJaCks]

This isn't meant to be racist or discriminative, simply cultural norms you would adhere to when you enter any country.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Public service announcement to new immigrants to Canada (and more than a few old ones).

We don't just drive on the right, we also walk on the right. That goes for sidewalks, escalators, trails, running paths, crosswalks, you name it.

And wait until we get out of the elevator before getting in.