Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Did you see this??? An entire 50 PERCENT of Democratic voters under 30 want the party to MOVE TO THE LEFT on transgender issues. Comparing with other issues polled, it's second only to healthcare as an issue younger voters want to see the party move left on.

Apparently late to the pine-cones-as-food party but I’m making mugolio and it’s bringing me a great deal of joy. I don’t even know what it’ll taste like! But I’m looking at every pine tree like hmmmmmm

I’m on Amtrak and the conductor just made the best quiet car announcement I’ve heard yet: “This is the quiet car. If you’re going to feel some kind of way when people shush you, then you should not sit in the quiet car.”

NEWS: In what is possibly the most looney-tunes injury to date, today I kicked a literal anvil. I was not wearing shoes. I can confidently report that anvil-kicking is Bad. (I am fine)

Worth paying attention to the evolution of climate denial Carney is innovating here. First wave: deny climate change is real Second wave: admit it’s real, but downplay its significance or ability to address it Third wave: reframe fossil fuels as a climate solution

I’ve been a lying-on-the-floor advocate for decades. Nice to see it gaining some traction.

As a queer who grew up in the 90s, when it was completely normal to call everything you didn't like "gay," I'm begging y'all to push back on the use of homosexuality as an insult, even when it's leveled at people you hate. No, it's not more fitting because they're homophobic bigots. It's never cute.

Carney fans, we're begging you. See him for who he is. Start pushing back. Please. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Roe V. Wade

Having spent the last 30 minutes trying to make sense of a completely nonsensical audition scene, it occurs to me that it was written by AI Absolute feces. Time for actors unions to start requiring AI disclosures on audition breakdowns.

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

There are many stereotypes abt Black ppl. Most of them negative. But the ultimate truth about our legacy is simple. The legacy of the African American is that we won rights for every demographic. Every domino that fell, it began with Black liberation struggles. Freedom of movement? We gave you that.

This is art.

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

Welp, just deleted Google Chrome from all my devices. Which took some doing on the Macs because of the hidden 5Gb LLM model it had sneakily installed without permission, which is *why* I'm yeeting this malware browser for good.

You can order pills from overseas clinics and mutual aid groups. *Possessing* mifepristone is not a crime (except in Louisiana). I'm not saying I have some but I am saying if you are someone who can get pregnant or knows people who can, order some now. www.plancpills.org

Harper would say he was going to do something awful and conservative and then he would do it. Trudeau was performative in saying he was going to do something progressive and then not doing it. Carney says he will do progressive things, but then he does things that are awful and conservative.

A brutal indictment of Carney - gutting the social policy initiatives of his predecessor. I wasn't even aware of some of this. Vanishing differences between Carney and Poilievre. Liberal partisans, you support THIS? www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

I’m seeing potentially/probably vibe-coded tools that advertise “we don’t use AI, we use LLMs” and it’s giving gross reputation-washing

This is one of the enhance photos of his eyebrows, right? …right?

🎉 Today is my birthday! 🥳 If you'd like to help me celebrate, here's a list of charities working to make the world better that could use some more support. 🫶 www.astrokatie.com/birthday

Canadians, Albanese's all in on fossil fuels and is promising deregulation at scale. Sound familiar?

What's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up. For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all.

A thing that genAI destroys is the absolute, sure knowledge that the person you want to play guitar like, was once in your exact shoes. They once sounded exactly like you. They once found hard, what you find hard. They once complained about the same things you are.

If AI is a tool it's a shit tool. If my handyman used a hammer that exploded 1% of the time I'd hate the tool but I'd hate the guy who knowingly used it more

This is literally what happens when you spend like three generations incorrectly explaining to children what racism is, so that they become adults who think it means "discrimination based on skin color" as opposed to what it is - a means by which the powerful can oppress the powerless.

restaurants fought the smoking bans tooth and nail for a decade and then when smoking was finally banned, restaurant profits soared to all time highs.

This is wonderful

Keep your 👀 on references to asset recycling. As I keep writing, do not ignore Mark Carney's past as an investment banker. It's influencing a lot. Economist Jim Stanford touches on it here. #CdnPoli

It turns out that “hey man, you shouldn’t jerk off in front of people who don’t want you to, I don’t want to work with you anymore” and “we will use the power and implied violence of the State to censor free speech” were *not* in fact, equivalent problems!

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

I have considered Moleskine to be outrageously overpriced for quite some time but using AI to generate a sketchbook cover betrays a level of hubris that is wild even for them. Those high prices and they couldn't be bothered to pay a human? Dump 'em. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

I have to go to a party with President Kill the Media :( I have to go. I'm very torn about it though. :/ Brb again in a couple days with some brave truth-telling though. Again, I have to go. If that wasn't clear. To the dinner. But I don't like it!

You know how everyone is (rightfully) mad at Elon Musk for DOGE cuts resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in African countries? Mark Carney did the same thing without any negative press. Cut $2.7 billion from international foreign AID which will result in thousands of deaths

"Babies love food almost as much as they love breaking and entering. Keep your home and property free of scraps. At night, when the threat of a baby invasion is highest, throw all remaining food into garbage bags."

Hey Ontario, we’ve got our own No Kings on Saturday. Time to show up!

Hey Ontario, let’s show up big time on Saturday, k? protestdougford.com/about/

I hate it here

This is a great program:

My kid gets the hiccups a lot She has come up with a solution She simply reminds herself that she is not a fish

Hi, I'm a rich actor with an incredible career, guaranteed financial security, and worldwide fame, and I'll literally never have to worry about not working ever again. And now time for a speech about how we all need to start using AI

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Once you've already repeatedly and loudly bragged about using Claude, which creates code like this: bsky.app/profile/pook... You lose the ability to be taken seriously if an attacker discovers you've replaced your door lock with a stale cheeto.

Indeed: omg Liz you are PERFECT for this job. EVERY skill you have would be IDEAL for this role. you should apply! Me: (clicks link) Indeed: this job has expired

NEW: Chicago Progressive Partnership super PAC, which launched ads attacking Kat Abughazaleh and then eventually in favor of Bushra Amiwala as an apparent attempt to split the vote, has filed its FEC report, which reveals it was another shell group for AIPAC and its allies