That’s how you know it’s bad

No worries, everyone. Top men at Miskatonic are on it.

I've been trying to think who Altman reminds me of and he's the spitting image of Burke from Aliens

If every privacy expert in this country says that this legislation allows the government to mandate encryption backdoors and to turn mobile phones into tracking devices, maybe your legislation is flawed and not being "misinterpreted."

I would have an easier time accepting this argument (agree amendments needed) if it wasn’t being put forward by US tech companies that have done EVERYTHING they can to help ICE. These are not civil liberties advocates.

The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism. www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" said the prophet

The fact that Signal has threatened to pull out of Canada should be a five-alarm fire for the Carney people. This bill is illiberal.

As ever: fuck the traitor Danielle Smith

The court gave Danielle Smith an off-ramp for the referendum, and she is rejecting it. Of course she is. She is not fit for office. #PnPCBC

The only logical reason for Danielle Smith to react like this would be if she were a separatist. Therefore, either Danielle Smith is insane, or she is a separatist.

Slightly increase a band Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Happy Mother's Day (You don't need to be blood to be family)

Happy Mother's Day

While I'm sympathetic in a lot of ways, a) Canada Post is indeed kinda different (we should change that tho), and b) actually yes, there's a *lot* of discussion of keeping hospitals afloat, because their finances are stupidly complex and they do actually have constraints

The difference is that the Canada Post mandate explicitly says that it’s supposed to be financially self-sustaining. Maybe that’s unrealistic these days and should be changed? But for the moment it’s not like any other service.

Covid-fueled delusion, convoy redux, genuine mental illness, whatever it is: We really need to understand: when Jason kenney said in those leaked recordings that he was worried the lunatics would be running the asylum if he stepped down as premier, this is what he was talking about

I'm from Edmonton. My family's there. I hate these people with the fire of ten thousand suns.

I know this describes a lot of people on here.

"BYD is expected to bring the Atto 3, Seal, Dolphin, and Seagull to Canada, with industry estimates putting the Seagull as low as ~C$25,000 and the Dolphin around C$31,000." *Well* now...

Holy fucking shit

At this point I wonder if the absolute best thing to happen would actually be for them to limp *just* across the new lower threshold, forcing Smith to decide if she still wants to lash herself to this gang of loser asswipes

From the recent op-ed by the Pathways Alliance. Gee, folks, maybe there's some other factor here that caused upstream investment to drop starting in 2014?

I never know what to make about this counterargument - like, woohoo more planets! That's fun! (My objection to "dwarf" planets is specifically grounded in "orbit-clearing" and its highly arbitrary definition) ((Ceres was originally considered a planet, so y'all know))

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... If an election was held today, the UCP would win a bigger majority than in 2023 according to the latest Janet Brown poll

FFC review: MICHAEL (2026), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/04/mich...

Can you make it on the podium? 🏆 https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2014-porsche-911-gt3-cup-991-1/

I have now seen “loud noise”, “shooter is dead”, and “shooter is in custody”, love this age of instant news

So is it someone rushing the place and shot dead, or just dishes falling?

The anti-anti-data-centre counter-backlash often characterizes (often specifically AI-centric) DCs as "light industrial" -- there is nothing "light" about this scale of power usage As I keep saying, the water concerns might be overblown, but the power concerns absolutely are not

Speaking as a Canadian, I think this particular war of one particular man's choice does indeed need to end in a full and humiliating loss, so that said particular man's other ideas for wars of choice are much less likely to happen

Cannot get drivers to signal consistently, something so trivially easy it was literally a cartoonish bit of dialogue in the otherwise forgettable Clive Owens action film SHOOT 'EM UP (2007)

This pattern seems to repeat a lot, lately, where some technology *in theory* allows a policy which would (potentially) be a net social good, but then the actual efficacy and reliability of the technology is entirely elided in favor of arguing about the policy

one of the (many) problems with gaze direction approaches to detecting attention--which is what in-car systems use--is that over and above the failure mode described herein it is perfectly possible to be paying attention to something you aren't looking directly at

there are other problems: detecting actual eyegaze direction is hard (eyes are small, people wear sunglasses) so you have to use head direction, which is a REALLY crude measure; it's perfectly possible to be spaced out and not see something you're looking directly at. /

As noted in this thread, a problem with this technology is that it doesn't actually work. Example: because of a medical condition I have, I cannot use GM's SuperCruise highway self-driving system, which uses similar tech, because it thinks I'm not looking at the road and so it shuts itself off.

The Canadian left, post-Carney, needs to stop scribbling in the margins of corporate power, like their most recent mostly-fantasy about surveillance pricing, and start promising things like holding directors and officers of corporations jointly and severally liable for all kinds of malfeasance

jail

the companies that make these should be fined one million dollars per false match

It's amazing to me that Microsoft Research - a department of the documents and AI corp - has enough freedom to release this paper, which details how AI will mangle your documents over time (Interestingly, agent harnesses hurt instead of helping) arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

Interesting new agent benchmark from MSR, DELEGATE-52, that "simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains". Main finding is that even frontier models, for the modeled workflows, end up corrupting large parts of documents along the way.

There's a surprisingly common assumption that AVs will *inevitably* be safer than human drivers, and a few even claim this *today* - I wish it was more obvious that this is, as the kids say, *pure ideology*

one thing I wish I could talk people out of is responding "they can hardly be worse than people!" when talking about autonomous vehicles. Humans are often _impaired_ drivers in various ways but a skilled, attentive human driver is vastly more effective and flexible than AVs are ever likely to be

As ever, fuck Doug Ford

It’s kind of fun that the CBC’s position here is “Fine, if you think there’s a ‘double standard’ at play when it comes to scrutinizing premiers, then we’ll ask all the other premiers if they fly on private jets, but you’re not going to like the answers.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This whole thing still boggles my mind, at least in the "how has it gone on so long" way

Physician, heal thyself

People feel a lot of ways about the economy right now, but the Bank of Canada getting inflation under control without triggering a full-blown recession is actually pretty impressive and good. CPI in March 2.4% year-over-year. Right in the BoC target range. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

In the proud nerd dad department: my 6 year old is currently practicing typing by transcribing...his calculator manual

A good time to also tell the Canadian government to do something about bloated SUVs and pickups big as tanks, with deadly, blunt front ends, making life on the roads extremely dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists and passengers in small vehicles.