Jonathan Jarry

Jonathan Jarry

@jonathanjarry.bsky.social

Science communicator with McGill University's Office for Science and Society. Separating sense from nonsense. Not all studies are created equal. McGill.ca/OSS

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Jonathan Jarry
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I don't know if Joe Rogan has a share of the Fear Factor IP, but if he does he's set to earn even more money: it's getting turned, somehow, into a scripted "vertical" series. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

variety.comFox and Endemol Shine Team to Adapt ‘Fear Factor’ as a Scripted Microdrama Series for My Drama AppFox, Endemol Shine and Holywater Tech have teamed to adapt the enduring gross-out reality franchise 'Fear Factor' as a scripted microdrama series.

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The Bulwark
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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Jonathan Jarry
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I don't know if I can speak for the entire city of Montreal, but good riddance to Gad Saad. To the fine people of Mississippi... try to ignore him.

Eiynah 🇵🇸@nicemangos.bsky.social

How many different kinds of bigotry can u spot in this vile AI post that gad Saad is so pleased with, I count at least 3-4

Jonathan Jarry
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BTW, even though it's a gift link, NYT still forces you to "log in" with them and then makes it look like you still need to subscribe to read the article. You don't. Scroll to the bottom for "Continue without subscribing."

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Friction is good, but pseudoscientists don’t want it. Large language models (Claude, ChatGPT) give them the illusion of wisdom w/o any of the friction required to achieve it. The goal is not to be right but to earn respectability by cutting corners.

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The Canadian government started using an AI-based translation tool to cut costs. 🎶 What could possibly go wrong?? 🎶 “Cum.[ulative] growth” became “Sperme croissance” and “TB [Translation Bureau” became “Tuberculose.” ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/229...

ici.radio-canada.caL’outil de traduction avec IA du fédéral génère des erreursL’outil de traduction avec IA du fédéral génère des erreurs. Par exemple, « TB (Translation bureau) » a été traduit par « Tuberculose ».
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While rich people and nations try to save as much money so they can stuff it in their pockets, the quality of our world decreases. Skilled people get replaced by crappy digital tools that are seen as "good enough." This is not the future we were promised....

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Also, season 3 of the podcast is now called "The Reincarnation Records," which confirms that this entire thing is one journalist going "I used to be a skeptic" and turning the X-Files into her own gravy train.

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"I had several people ask me if I have second thoughts about my berry consumption in light of a swarm of news stories about some pesticide residues in Driscoll berries 'exceeding Canada’s safety standards.' "To cut to the chase, I’m not concerned." 👇 www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

mcgill.caYikes! There are Pesticides in my Berries!I had several people ask me if I have second thoughts about my berry consumption in light of a swarm of news stories about some pesticide residues in Driscoll berries “exceeding Canada’s safety standa...
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My article this week will briefly touch upon the use of AI to cut corners when pretending to be a reporter. Poll: does this sound like AI wrote it? “My own coordinates sit inside the same grammar.”

Jonathan Jarry
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These people aren't even hiding it anymore. You no longer need a decoder ring.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Marisa Kabas
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there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.

kffhealthnews.orgAI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health NewsA Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...
Jonathan Jarry
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Great piece on the dark side of *injecting yourself with experimental drugs you bought online*, with a very well observed conclusion. 👇

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social

"This wrecks some of our lives," Dylan told me about his experience w/the peptide BPC-157. He wasn't alone. There are entire chat rooms of people who say they've been harmed. Their voices are muffled in MAHA hype. My latest @kffhealthnews.org / @washingtonpost.com kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

kffhealthnews.orgPeople Say These Peptides Hurt Them. Their Stories Are Muffled in MAHA’s Push for Medical Freedom. - KFF Health NewsPeople who have taken experimental peptides, such as BPC-157, complain of migraines, eye pain, fatigue, and more. Learning whether these popular but unproven drugs are to blame may become harder if Ro...
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The fact that Andrew Huberman can simply point to the disclaimer on his website ("this is not medical advice!") and shrug off responsibility should worry all of us. These people are building parallel institutions with little oversight. They want to play doctor w/o regulations.

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"It’s just a tool" "It saves $ so you can create more projects & hire more people" "It makes the movie better" "Others are using it: I want to be competitive" I wonder if audiences will care enough to boycott or will just shrug and go along (my prediction). variety.com/2026/digital...

variety.comOpen to AI: Hollywood Is Embracing Artificial Intelligence Tools Despite Doomsday FearsDespite artificial intelligence sparking doomsday fears around the world, Hollywood is slowly embracing the technology. Here's why.
Jonathan Jarry
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Now that I've regained the ability to speak and type, there is an echo of this in the right-wing wellness movement: the rehabilitation of nicotine. It is natural, after all, and we've been lied to before, right? So... nicotine good??? Unbelievable.