my god he is serious oh joshua, joshua, joshua .... sweetie. No. Just ... no. I mean, no. Joshua, I need you to sit down and listen to your Elders. I am here to tell you, with my full chest, that you are ignorant and wrong, you should be embarrassed that you said this crap out loud.

Just a thought: If the Nazi types have been getting a lot of their policy objectives fulfilled by a party that they’ve infiltrated, and that party is likely to lose the next election as a result, they might consider infiltrating the opposition party as well as a hedge.

"i hope this site doesn't end up like the last one :(" Hope has nothing to do with it--DO YOUR PART! Twitter & Truth Social are dying. Their users are used to farming outrage for engagement. Don't give them any! 🚫 Don't argue with them! 🚫 Don't quote them! ✅ #BlockAndMoveOn

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

This is the “women don’t like the vehicle” guy, BTW,

We’ve lost Drew Struzan. A modern master, who by all accounts was a humble, sweet, loving, dedicated man. His work influenced culture itself, & we’ll be seeing that influence until the end of the modern world. What a legacy. What a body of work. May he rest well, & may his memory be a blessing.

Of course the AI goons go straight to Marilyn Monroe. She was always treated like a symbol instead of a human. Inserting Hatsune Miku into Game of Thrones just wouldn’t give them that same thrill of manipulation and control, would it?

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations. She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly! Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

Just went through the self checkout at T&T Supermarket and they have a slight change to the language selection. Default is English, with buttons for two kinds of Chinese (presumably Traditional and Simplified) and Québecois. Not Français. Québecois. Hmm 🤔

Why not “resolution” him an Olympic gold medal and an Oscar while you’re at it?

So the ONE BC party apparently thinks that little kids undergoing precocious puberty shouldn’t get medical treatment for their condition. They so badly want trans youth to be legislated out of existence, that some kindergartener starting her period is just collateral damage

Reading a Questionable Content strip featuring a trans character, while being offered what appears to be grossly transphobic t-shirts for small children from Temu

I think that part of the reason I find these so fresh-looking and cute is that they’re the antithesis of the ubiquitous suburban showboat pickup trucks. Big windows, unobstructive nose cone, low step, lots of storage space, practical.

So… Trump just declared war on anime, I guess? That’ll impress the young voters.

Ah yes, Jesus never broke any Roman imperial laws, he was publicly executed for unrelated voluntary execution reasons

Everyone reposting this going OMG YES MOAR PLZ while movie executives are like “but the kind of animation I’m really looking for is Smirking Comedian But Animal Franchise, Part IV”

(Petty peeve time) I went to the grocery store yesterday to pick up some lactose free Pumpkin Spice creamer. They had already switched the seasonal creamer to Candy Cane Mocha. It’s still September! What the hell!

Seems obvious in hindsight that GenAI tools would be programmed to insert unsolicited GenAI promotion into their outputs

The latest culture war bullshit is to demand Starbucks baristas write your name as “Charlie Kirk” on your cup and then complain if they don’t (it’s a firing offence for them to write anything political on cups) Conversely some people are claiming that they got their coffee free for making the ask.

Heads up for Canadians who might be surprised to see half masted flags today: It’s for Firefighters’ National Memorial Day. (Phew. I really need to step away from reading about American politics today.)

Someone in my neighborhood is posting flyers saying “JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE KIRK / BRING BACK PUBLIC EXECUTION” My dude, we are in Canada, and Utah already has legalized execution by firing squad. All you’re really asking for now is another Internet gore video.

There seems to be a siloed, sanitized right-wing online media bubble (meant for women maybe?) where Kirk was nothing more than a wholesome Christian motivational speaker, and I’m starting to think the vicious reaction against posting the truth about him is anger at popping the bubble.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

A lot of “conservative” politics outright deny verifiable facts in evolution, geology, economics and climate science, which would make it hard to defend a Ph.D. thesis.

Happy Saturday everyone! I have some new things in the shop as of yesterday. nora.jewelry Shares appreciated!! #bsnm

“anti-fascist in the sense that the Night of the Long Knives was anti-fascist” Ha. I always thought school doesn’t emphasize the point of the Night of the Long Knives enough. Murderous extremists don’t make exceptions for their “allies.” They’ll kill their own, at their own convenience.

They weren’t saying it was a leftist trans activist bla bla bla whatever because they thought it actually would be. They were saying it because they’re Neo Nazis hoping to ignite that Race War they’ve been fantasizing about.

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

Just found some folks on The Other Place debating whether BTS should be protesting ICE… while working as Korean nationals in California on their next album As if Trump and his goons wouldn’t LOVE to have an excuse

Turns out that generative AI is bad at most useful tasks, but it’s getting real good at manipulating people

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Just deleted something because it might have referred to unpublished academic work still in progress. Don’t want to cause problems for someone doing some very difficult research. Sorry.

I’d consider jumping on the Sexy Watto bandwagon, except 1) I’ve never seen the prequels (yay) and 2) I’m sorry but there’s no way those dinky little wings could support a body that large.

I’m not saying that today’s footage is fake, but the thing about wearing the same clothes all the time is that it makes it very challenging to date photos and videos.

The QAnons are going to insist he’s not dead, he’s just in permanent suspended animation in a MedBed like the God-Emperor in Warhammer 40k.

Unsurprisingly, Gender Queer is on this list. I'm so frustrated that Canadian teachers, students, and librarians are having to deal with this same shit we're dealing with here in the US. Canadian authors you can join @authorsabb.bsky.social !

The thing I find funniest about this picture is that the girl is essentially wearing a 1920s flapper dress with a 1930s dropped waist and a 1960s bouffant.

Mexico and Canada both regularly send wildfire crews to the US. I hope both our nations refuse to do so now, without at LEAST some sort of enforceable guarantee that those crews cannot be harassed or detained by ICE. Our lifesaving fire crews cannot be expected to work under those conditions.

Wow! www.bbc.com/news/article... This is a good example of "AI scam you hadn't even imagined." It'd be very interesting to know how many people instantly recognized what was going on. Seems at least a decent number of people bought it completely.

Sleep is your mind’s way of penciling tomorrow’s ideas. Trust the process. ✏️💭

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I think he’s most likely going to latch onto one of those churches that preach that publicly declaring JC is your saviour is a permanent all-access VIP pass to heaven, regardless of your actual behaviour before or after.

I'm kinda fascinated by Ruby Liu's attempt to build a new department store company on the old leases of Hudson's Bay. I like the idea of a new Canadian department store, in theory, but it's increasingly looking like she's just making things up as she goes. And the malls involved are Not Amused.

Why are ICE agents carrying a sex toy around while they’re on the job? Most working people would get fired from their job for even having something like this on their person at work. Where did they get it, who paid for it, how were they expecting to use it in the course of their duties?

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

I learned something today! Hairless Guinea pigs look like house hippos from the old PSA.

Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, thinks that if science isn’t popular it should be abandoned. “No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission”. He is unfit for his job in every imaginable way.

It's amazing how many people are out there bragging publicly about how they now use ChatGPT to perform pretty much all of their tasks at their well-paid corporate job, and have yet to connect the dots on "if you're making your utility value identical to ChatGPT, why would they keep paying you?"