Last Friday of each month, I organized some of the observations and ideas shared on social networks. I call it Friday finds.
“Q. What do you know is the best AI?
A. Propaganda “
–@Georgesnorwell
“I saw an article that asked: why is the disinvestment political but the investment is not?” And I can't stop thinking about it. “ –@Jackiegardina
“When you invent the ship, you also invent the sinking; –Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999) Politics of the worst
“Slack – The available work capacity – is crucial for scaling and organizational health in general.
People with Slack have the head space and time to improve things, think in advance, sweep the corners, prepare for what will follow. And they will see these needs before management.
“Running Lean” eliminates Slack. This only works for a while, and only if you have a flat organization of very self-auto-activated people that you give autonomy. And you always turn off people.
If you remove both Slack and autonomy, (for example, “lean run” but with a stratified organization), you get the worst of the two worlds.
The workers should spend every invorable moment working on a defined work and prioritized by someone else. They are unable to use their intimate knowledge of work to improve the operation of things, to prepare for the next step, to keep things tidy and safe, because none of this has “value” for management.
It is an organization that will be powder before it succeeds. »» – Chris Ammerman
Slate: we are all roadkill now
In a sense, roads are the ultimate expression of health, the concept that our own well-being is intimately linked to the planet. The roads simultaneously degrade nature and endangering human well-being: the same dirt highways that have sculpted the Amazon also facilitate the spread of malaria; The same motorways of Los Angeles spraying mountain lions are also responsible for the quality of the city's lamentable air. Scientists call for the study of how roads influence the “road ecology” of nature, the subject of my recent book, crossings – and nature includes American humans. Whether you are a pedestrian or a porcupine, you live in the boom in the roads.
How three major conspiracy theories took root in Canada
It is generally assumed that education inoculates against conspiracy thought. However, schooling is not an infallible safeguard against paranoid thought. Although Canada has one of the most educated populations in the world, a survey published in December 2025 by Leger noted that 79% of Canadians believe at least one conspiracy theory, including hallucinations on murdered Princess Diana and the world's cabals secretly pulling the strings. However, conspiratorial derivation reflection is neither new nor an imported phenomenon. The forms of marginal thought which are increasingly relevant today, in particular the pseudo-constitutionalism, the conspiracy of conspiracy and the conspiracy of the new world order, have historically appeared in Canada, including among the well-connected and highly educated.
Open AI is built on a culture of deception, that which obscures the real capacities of their technology, and all other successful obfuscations enrich a company that lacks morality, clarity and respect for its users or the technological industry as a whole.
The same goes for Sundar Pichai from Google, Satya Nadella from Microsoft, and, of course, Mark Zuckeberg and anyone associated with Meta … because IA can, by definition, know nothing.
“Why yes, I absolutely wear this tshirt cut with an image of Judith of Artemisia Gentiles Dépacpée des Holofrenes which says” girl dinner “to the conversation that I give this afternoon of abuse of technology.” –@Evacid
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