It’s a short list this week, as my web reading has been truncated by scheduling, but there are two stories I think everyone needs to read.

The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada. Rachel Gilmore has been reporting on “Active Clubs” in Canada, which are a front for recruiting white nationalists and Nazis. After her most recent work, members of these clubs stalked her and confronted her in public. This is her account of what happened in The Tyee. Its well worth noting that no major Canadian news outlet is covering this story, which is disturbing and incomprehensible given that Gilmore is one of their own.

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants. Mo Ryan responds, emphatically, to the news that Grammarly added her persona to their editing software without asking her permission, or even informing her. They did it to dozens of other prominent writers and editors, too. The ensuing uproar saw the feature eliminated, but it’s worth remembering that no one in the LLM or machine generated content business cares about consent or legality.