"So we end up with canned perfection—writing that can’t really be argued with, because it has no underlying deliberative reasoning process, no train of thought." Eve Fairbanks, you have captured this perfectly. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Ted Chiang is amazing, and this piece should serve as a sharp correction for a lot of people. Everything surrounding AI is unadulterated bullshit, marketing and nonsense propping up a product that is overhyped and unimpressive. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

What the fuck!

“Yes, the same sheet of music. One might even say it’s a white sheet of music. A white sheet of music that we drape over ourselves to display our strong belief in the whiteness of our sheet.”

Never thought I'd have a favourite pope but this thing ROCKS. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The main issue with recent Councils! They are 99% reactive. No one is bringing anything meaningful to the table. It's all notices of motions on the looming threat of overpass strikes and finger-wagging about letting city employees work from home once in a while.

"And if I have my way, we'll have neither!"

PEOPLE KNOW HOW THE BUS WORKS. It's the bus. It's not complicated. Knowledge of how the bus works isn't what prevents people from using the bus. Infrequency, poorly designed routes, and overcrowding at peak times stop people from using the bus.

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

Regina, please stop electing old dickheads who think condescension is cleverness. #YQRcc

What an absolute fucking dolt.

When I tell you I laughed at loud in the midst of the Cornwall Centre…

Year and a half in, still clueless about procedure? That's a good sign.

Legitimately don't know if I've ever heard someone use the archaic "deplenish" in real life before. I have been a Ryan Johnson fan for at least a decade, his esteem only continues to grow.

Plenty of time to get psyched up for inevitable disappointment.

For the love of everything, you need to read this article. My teenager needs to read this article. Your mom needs to read this article. You can't trust ANYTHING online. If you're paywalled, you can still do the "ctrl-a ctrl-c paste to a doc" trick on Vulture. www.vulture.com/article/soci....

STOP USING AI YA GODDAMN FOOLS www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

AI just continuing to make our lives better at every turn thank our wonderful AI overlords

What an absolute crotch stain. The people who evangelize and build this shit don’t even understand how it works. Their faith that it will simply because they want it to and they think they’re oh so smart is nothing more than hubris in action.

I’m the least fun part of this incredible show!

Fuck you Dan Rashovic, I’m very glad I did not vote for you! Dan came to my house while campaigning and gleefully admitted to numerous things I would consider disqualifying: never attended or watched a single council meeting, didn’t even really pay attention. ALSO…. leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

I love it when a hard-bitten detective is just an average fuckup who is pretty astute but also just pretty lucky if he manages to survive the whole endeavour. app.thestorygraph.com/books/e0a4ab...

Quick, tell them about Regina!! They can all build $200 million homes here and we won’t even tax them! Everybody wins! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Local news is the best news! Get involved everyone!

it is incredible to see folks complain that good people don't run for office, that lawmaking is a hobby for the rich, that our state legislators are run by car dealership freaks, and then insist that we shouldn't pay lawmakers any more than we do.

He and Mancinelli are right: I guess technically there’s no balance sheet that can quantify the risk of partnering with a mercurial billionaire with a penchant for taking legal action when he feels he’s been wronged. That’s where Council’s judgement comes into play, right?

Direct result of councillors failing to bring anything substantive forward to try anything. Delay delay delay until Regina’s rich stepdad bails us out.

Perpetual improvement! That's a very interesting and specific combination of words.

Wish I could have been there, but it was either shout into the void of inevitability or pick up my kid from school and see my other kid selected as a provincial finalist for the Heritage Fair. I’m happy with my choices, I spent enough time in chambers over the years when I could’ve been with them.

Has the definition of the words “real” and “dollars” changed in the last two weeks? They are in absolutely no way committing to spend $113 on the facilities and grounds and to say so is an abject lie and total misrepresentation.

tick tock, motherlover qwantz.com/index.php?co...

#yqrcc gonna be a time tomorrow. Come say goodbye to 65% of REAL or whatever.

Holy shit the author of ‘Whalefall’ (the book about the kid who gets swallowed by a whale and what it’s like inside of a whale when you and the whale are both alive) just won a Pulitzer Prize but it’s not for ‘Whalefall’ so I don’t know if it really even counts?

Saskatchewan politicians in the thrall of the wealthy elite? I’ll have to look into this…

But also, probably not necessarily growing so much as more frequently reported. My female colleagues were already putting up with so much more shit than I ever had to and I’ve been out of the game for over a decade.

Circumstance and strange fate slowed my pace this month, but it could be worse!

Bringing it back, after this week Lambrini Girls are once again my song of the summer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TD...

Can't wait to wear my blue jeans to the billionaire's "well designed" restaurant/club. I look forward to the spirits of the City's forefathers cheering me on as I pass the elegant and understated "walk of fame." He promised it will be full of young people because they will sometimes have a deejay.

In hindsight, maybe the strangest thing about today's #YQRcc exec meeting is the part where, for seemingly no reason, Semple was given literally 10 full minutes to ramble his way through his slideshow for a second time.

"'You've won the lottery here,' says man who plans to give you no actual money" would be a hell of an Onion headline.

Nonsense. I’ve lived here almost my entire life, we’re not that complicated. Lots of outsiders have figured us out pretty quick.

I am pitching a perfect game today.

Listening to this question was one of the weirdest experiences of my life.

I'm a pillar of the community? SICK.

Oh for Christ's sake

I got sleepy, and then I got some sleep, so here's the other side of the equation that makes me queasy about the Brandt deal: potential revenue the city is willingly forgoing in this offer. As mentioned at the end of that first thread, a lot of this hinges on the City/REAL operating differently. /1

Maybe you’ve seen the #yqrcc news stories about Brandt trying to buy half of the REAL district land and buildings from the city. They’d pay $6.5 million because the buildings are so busted it would take almost $80 million to bring them up to like new conditions. But there are a lot more costs. /1

When I moved last summer I followed my new #yqrcc councillor on social media. Glad I did! It affirmed my first impression of George Tsiklis as a feckless man who seems uninterested in anything but glad handling the public! He posted more this month about Easter and Artemis II than city business!

Kids are so dumb, if you can’t make up a story that’s entertaining enough with your glorious human brain then pick up a goddamn book. Every time you use your phone less is a positive for your brain.