For the millionth time: generative video is not a technology that should be available to the public. Certainly not as a SAAS service, and definitely not OSS models without any guardrails. We’re about to be inundated with propaganda and CSAM.

That's a reason to not release the product, to not even make the product. If your lawyers advised it was okay to release the product, fire them. If you did not have lawyers to say this, fire the person who said you didn't need lawyers, hire some, then fire your whole team and pull the product.

This is incredible camera work

VLADDY SLAM!!!!!!!! #ALDS

I'd be more worried about generative AI destroying my career but its going to destroy the very notion of thinking you can trust what you see on a screen ever again well before that

Nova Scotia - a province known for endless rainy days & many bountiful rivers & lakes - is into its 4th month of extreme drought. This is the French River, that provides Tatamagouche with water (or not). Climate crisis kicking in. But: let’s frack and clearcut anyway, says NS Premier Tim Houston.

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups. Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat. www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

For more than a decade, the economists have led the design of Canadian climate policies. It's time for the political scientists to take over -- and the debate over rooftop solar offers a perfect example of why. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/02/o...

The end game of the entire far-right project is the Evangelical Protestants, Conservative Catholics, and Mormons in a Mexican standoff, each insisting that they are the one true faith and the other two groups are next in line for the camps.

There has got to be a serious national conversation about the runaway belligerence of provincial governments. The conventional wisdom has always placed the blame squarely on Ottawa for this dynamic and it’s exactly wrong.

Read theory

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

It sucks when a tool you've had for a decade breaks on you in the middle of a project, but now you can justify replacing a tool you've disliked for over a decade with a nicer, better version The new-tool dopamine hit is real, folks

“The Canadian Medical Association calls on the Alberta government to refrain from invoking the notwithstanding clause to enact legislation that directly interferes in the clinical care of patients.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cma.ca/about-us/wha...

Yes, The Sting and Butch Cassidy and All The President’s Men and The Natural, but if I’m picking one, it’s Sneakers every day and twice on Sundays. Farewell, Marty. Too many secrets.

For me the biggest candidate is Space: Above and Beyond

Better Off Ted really was before its time

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

Without robust transmission, electrification of transport and heating stalls. Canada’s grid needs tens of billions in new transmission capacity. Leaving it at $5 billion is the single biggest misallocation in the entire slate of projects. 💡🔌 cleantechnica.com/2025/09/05/c...

This is basically what I get whenever I do any (admittedly small and trivial-ish) C: - Switch to using timerfd instead of crude usleep(), no prob Bob Ross, worked first time like a charm - Have to go put fflush() after all my fprintf()s so that systemd actually picks up log statements

A bit of pedantry I inflict on my lefty friends is insisting that we don't live in "late capitalism" so much as "late financialist corporatism" But also I (and Sharon, yes) live in Canada, where the running joke is that we're 6-10 corporations in a trenchcoat, so...

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

the short of it is that him and his fellow travelers are incapable of evaluating something on its own, without worrying whether it is tied to people on the internet you don't like

If I had a rocket launcher, I'd make some Chevy pay

We need many more of these. The provinces & the feds should invest big time in manufacturing more water bombers, training more pilots and firefighters. Half of our country is on fire. @mark-carney.bsky.social

You don't normally get to see two of them back to back

Raven Steals the Sun a glass collaboration sculpture by Tlingit artist Preston Singletary and David Franklin.

Okay this is not only a really cool piece of software, this is also an *incredible* intro video youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0

I know this sentiment isn't new, but I used to be in favor of deregulating gambling - now I'm convinced it absolutely needs the friction of getting glared at by a large guy at the door of a sketchy coffee joint

Proof of cat:

Yeah I suppose I shouldn't *only* lurk