I would like to read some longform reporting that tries to understand the massive gap between people enthusiastically using AI tools in the field of their expertise, and people who are finding massive issues.

Still deeply annoyed that CBC radio had a superintendent on to talk about public drug use near schools, and let him pontificate AT LENGTH about what the policy solutions should be when they are absolutely not going to result in more safety.

I started reading Yesteryear tonight, and, babes, this is the shit I was craving.

No one ever says “homeowners are never satisfied” or “police officers are never satisfied.” This rhetoric is reserved for groups of people constantly being infantilized.

Speaking of podcast episodes I can't stop thinking about, one of the reasons this example came to mind is because of this episode of Weird Little Guys about the history of targeted vehicular violence and what violence, historically, is legible as terrorism www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Anyway, @dearsplenda.bsky.social had a very thoughtful AI thread last night that I'm going to be thinking about for a while. bsky.app/profile/dear...

I just read yet another AI thread that leaned on "well someone was going to figure out how to do this" as a justification for developing a nebulously useful and definitely disruptive AI process and it's so goddamn facile.

I would like to know about your local holidays, bad and good, official and un. Love a local holiday

It is my favourite local holiday, giveaway weekend! Time to chuck a bunch of dresses and old books on the boulevard

I took the day off to do some spring cleaning, and accidentally opened up a portal to 2012

i want a tech world where i can be reliant on others, actually (in an interdependent, not extractive sense), not have to do everything myself; but also not have the "trade" of not doing it myself be surveillance, extraction, &c. doing it yourself is sometimes not great, actually!

if library and archives professional orgs would like to become serious, they should advocate for the creation of a ministry of culture and a national library

Myopic obsession of some in the left with Nordic countries ignores how these welfare states are built on intense nationalism & growing anti migrant racism. Sweden's new legislation includes longer residency period, higher income thresholds, and mandatory language and civic knowledge tests.

I can HEAR this flower going ~TADA~ through the screen

Happy 9th anniversary to Tom Holland's performance of Umbrella on Lip Sync Battle, a pivotal pop culture moment in history! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

"More people need to be outraged about this" is in a very different part of the map than "Come do something about this with me on Tuesday at 7"

Honey, how about a hill of bluebells 💜💜

Banning phones in schools might improve the classroom environment, but it isn't going to be a silver bullet for mental health or test scores. tom-dee.github.io/files/w35132...

Pink wine and juice boxes in the sun

like seriously do you ever sit back and think about how goddamn much we’re stealing from our future by simply making life unaffordable for young people in urban areas?

Lesbian pride flag by Mark Rothko www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

It's 13° and I spent all day in a work training and I simply must drink cold white wine in the sunshine or I will perish

It takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up. It takes an extra dash of something loathsome when that take is just "smoke if you got 'em" stretched across a 1700-word New York magazine essay.

No blooms yet (we're still around freezing at night), but I saw many green things poking their little heads up on my little walk today

Look at this beautiful thing! The peak of a dome with white panels spraying out in rays. A black circle is filled with colourful Indigenous beadwork-inspired paintings of flowers and plants all intertwined and spreading out in branches and vines and flower clusters from a large pink rose at center.

I think the thing to note about this is that a lot of people in all level of politics know so little about technology that they will just buy whatever from any salesman. It’s like if your community were run by the attendees of a travelling medicine show.

Anyway, this did indeed end up being a great op ed! Consistent with the researchers @michaelhobbes.bsky.social talked to for @ifbookspod.bsky.social responding to the holes and unexamined complexities in The Anxious Generation's research

All I want is library access to newspapers and popular periodicals to not be such a miserable, inscrutable experience.

Folks are not asking for enough on any level. To me, we should be demanding 2500 NEW well-funded public libraries across the country by 2050. We need to be making ACTUAL demands for MORE.

Something that more people need to embrace about the importance of public library organizing is that it's a good foundation to organize for other public goods. We need to explicitly connect library organizing with parks organizing as just one example and so on and so forth...

One thing about the proposed youth social media ban that I haven't seen discussed is what it could mean if future right-wing governments can subpoena platforms for the identities of anonymous accounts of queer activists, environmentalists, Indigenous organizers, whoever future state enemies might be

It's honestly wild that pedestrians - people mostly travelling entirely under their own steam - are almost always expected to travel significantly out of their way to accommodate the caprices of people using machines the whole purpose of which is to make it trivially easy to travel further.

A letter from me in today's Winnipeg Free Press. As a teacher friend said: What are kids going to do, go outside and get hit by cars?

So @cdnpress.bsky.social has written THREE separate stories today on potential social media bans for minors, and not one of them has mentioned that this would require whole-of-internet surveillance. This is a fundamental part of this story, and they are flat-out ignoring it.

Anyway, maybe tomorrow will be the day bsky.app/profile/mari...

A nice thing tonight was bedtime during some pinch-hit babysitting when I lay down and sang my friends' toddler all the lowkey songs I could remember all the words to until she fell asleep.

Genuine Q: Are Google Alerts broken now? I'm missing a lot of stuff it didn't (seem to) use to miss

The more optimistic post script to this is that my dad is currently reading Enshittification, so it was a good moment for some strategic nudging on the perils of what "making the tech platforms responsible for it" is gonna get us

Hey, here's some cool news!

I had dinner with my parents tonight, and asked if in any of the local coverage of Manitoba's proposed social media youth ban, they'd seen an explanation for how that would be enforced. They said no.

Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!

Tentative signs of spring at the bakery

I would recommend everyone take the time to email the Premier, Ministers, and your MLA to defend your digital rights and privacy, and ask your government(s) to push for laws that take online harms seriously and protect everyone’s rights. Alt text so you can copy and paste, but modify as you wish.

"In speaking with Natalie I have seen a genuine love for our corner of Winnipeg and a genuine and sincere drive to make it better for everyone who calls it home. Mynarski deserves a Councillor who loves living here, isn’t afraid to put in the work, and cares about their neighbours." - Ben Linnick

Wab Kinew’s push for age verification software is a privacy nightmare and will feed Carney’s surveillance state:

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Using what age verification tools, exactly? This is going to end so very badly. This is just more internet surveillance, and politicians cannot get that through their heads.

Everybody really wants to require submitting your government ID to use the internet, huh

On consecutive days, the National Post and Washington Examiner published separate op-eds praising a 53-year-old book beloved by white nationalists.