speaking of data centers,

Not only is this meant to be built in a small town, but there will be a gas power plant (with backup diesel) to support the data center, which will use as much power as the city of Edmonton. Don't use AI. It's contributing to a massive build-out of fossil power when we should be doing anything but!

i'm still playing marathon regularly and man. as an Only Okay bordering on Not That Good player, those rare big-time successes are such a great dragon to chase anyway play marathon with me if you're okay with middling success and losing a lot of gear

I have done the Grouse Grind every year so this year, we decided to switch it up and do the BCMC, the hipster's grouse grind. Took us just under 2 hours which is pretty good for me considering the BCMC is a longer trail!!

The clouds have been actin up lately

The clouds have been actin up lately

In the park eating a donut and drinking an iced brown-sugar espresso drink when I could have been smoking instead "It's toasted"

this is probably what woke 2 will actually be like. also shout-out to Lena

My latest newsletter is about why the fatal flaw at the heart of generative AI isn't just the economics, but the fact that it's deeply uncool and hated. www.whatwelo.st/p/generative...

This is what union labor gets you btw

LRT genuinely pathetic responses from those dudes. The idea that you don't have to verify every citation you make is completely unimaginable to me. If you haven't seen the document, don't cite it?? That's like the research equivalent of rage-posting about a headline on an article you haven't read.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

What good is it to allow transgender refugees to change their name upon entry if we’re not letting any transgender refugees successfully claim refugee status? The Safe Third Country Agreement is still on the books. Carney cut refugee acceptance by half. Fewer people than ever can move to Canada.

Listening to blackened crust as the subgenre was meant to be heard: through a shitty travel bluetooth speaker i got from work

Listening to blackened crust as the subgenre was meant to be heard: through a shitty travel bluetooth speaker i got from work

So the Canadian minister of AI and Digital Innovation is BASICALLY saying that it's not only that the government can't stop people from infringing copyright laws... they just don't wanna. COOL. Cool cool cool.

I know Vancouver's Websummit as a pretty corporate affair featuring big-name tech speakers. But this year they put Canadian far-right YouTuber Lauren Southern on a panel... along with the guy who promoted ivermectin for COVID. Earlier this week federal AI minister Evan Solomon spoke.

Speed Racer (2008) is such a goddamn amazing movie and I hope the Wachowskis know that we know it. It's a travesty it didn't do well at the box office, it was WAY ahead of its time. The reality where it succeeded is a much brighter one than ours. What a great flick!!

a friend, who is going to see Ben Schwartz twice in Toronto on his tour, was wondering if he was in Lower Decks and this is what google responded with. For what it's worth, Ben Schwartz was never on Lower Decks, and Rutherford is performed by Eugene Cordero.

If you’re also furious about AI data centres being built in the middle of Vancouver you can tell the City exactly what you think by writing an objection to the rezoning application here www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5

If you're in the Vancouver area, you can oppose the latest proposal for data centers in Mount Pleasant. It takes under a minute to let the city know you're against these projects. Spread the word :) www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5

Chanting "Strega Nona" like Hank and Dean Venture chanted "Mecha-Shiva"

crazy to try to build AI infrastructure in the province where the worst mass shooting in decades occurred because a kid was radicalized by chat gpt

DRINKABLE CHEESEBURGER DRINKABLE CHEESEBUEGER

Hey is it good when the federal government invests billions of dollars in a technology that doesn't work and is in an obvious bubble? Can someone help me with this?

Musashi Plain (Musashino), from the series Tales of Ise Kajita Hanko (Japanese, 1870–1917) 1903, Japan Color lithograph; ink on coated card stock Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards

Gonna start describing totally normal things, like sports or restaurants, as "cognitohazards"

Disney CEO: Lays off the thousands of workers, including the Oscar winning Visual Development team, but to media promises GenAi was not the reason. Disney CEO, once the uproar died down: We see opportunities for AI to play a role across 5 areas of our business: CONTENT CREATION and production, etc.

this is my ministry. make hobbies leftist again bsky.app/profile/noam...

Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!

Not ending homelessness is a choice. It's a policy position

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RTs appreciated, as are shares with local friends and colleagues in the industry. Note that while this event is being run by UVW-CWA you are NOT required to be a member of the union to attend! Also there will be Lee's Donuts.

Playing Bird Rules

This thread perfectly explains how liberals and conservatives both serve the interests of capital while pretending to be on opposite teams

Had the funniest marathon run. Me and a pal are lightly geared up and go to perimeter. Find ourselves with a rando on a goof pack who doesn't comm at all, and gets promptly downed when we see a runner. My friend is also downed, I'm a vandal so I run, but it's a vandal chasing me so.. I can't escape.

Me, enjoying the beautiful weather this weekend: 😎 Me trying not to think about the fact that the temperatures were record-breaking and there wasn't nearly enough snow or rain over the past 6 months: 🙈

looks so peaceful

Jokes on you, I can't remember enough of anything I love to populate a top ten list off the top of my head. The second you ask I will forget I ever even watched a tv show or listened to a song

was just reminded of a discussion about a japanese/thai-fusion onigiri where it's made with thai sticky-rice and stuffed with fresh mango and condensed milk. dessert onigiri. i should attempt to make it this summer.

There is a widespread belief in the English-speaking world (and in other places, I’m sure, but not everywhere) that intelligence is something you’re born with, like a Dungeons & Dragons stat you can’t change. The overlap with people who believe this score is predictable by race is huge.

"Jucika does a harsh noise performance on eurorack"

Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

For clarity I’m not recommending killing a buncha guys. I’m just saying that theoretically that’s the conclusion people draw wrt to the preventing the rot from returning. Like how it’s commonly accepted that the civil war never ended because the surviving traitors were granted reintegration.

This stuff is comics, man. This is Bushmiller. This is Chris Ware.

someone else is not more entitled to my home than I am just because they make more money than me and yet that’s an implicit belief of the upwardly mobile gentrifier set I wish they would openly admit instead of disguising it in maps and charts

To discourse a moment, I Don't Think We Should Start Smoking Again, but in its defense, many of the coolest people I know smoke. And also I enable it, by hanging out with them while they have a cig before going into the venue. Just keep it outside where the only person you're hurting is yourself 🤷