Wait, a sitcom with both @realsambee.bsky.social AND @allanaharkin.bsky.social on the CBC, no less? Yowza! #CanadianContent

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

There's a situation unfolding in the land of online bookselling that I haven't discussed primarily because I have little information to share. An unknown company is making multi-volume purchases, and when I say multi-, I mean some of us have been getting 500 orders a week. For REALLY random books.

I guess my only real problem with AI is that it doesn't work, uses all the water, makes the worst people who ever slime-trailed across this green earth richer, gives monsters cover to crater organizations, destroys lives in both obvious & subtle ways & also isn't even AI. Besides that, I'm for it.

I've started a West Wing re-watch. It's incredibly affecting to watch this group of smart, talented, and funny public servants (played by smart, talented, and funny actors) working furiously to try to improve the common good, all the more so given the current climate. What a counterpoint.

Since today is a day about death and remembrance, my best life advice related to death: go to the funeral. You’re thinking that you don’t know the family well enough, you’re not that close, you’ll be in the way. You won’t. Go to the funeral.

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

Mission accomplished. No duck left behind.

So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

And the voyages continue.

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

It's movie night. Which one are you going to see? The Devil Wears Prada 2: Mando & Grogu or Mando & Grogu, Sheep Detectives

A CBC radio piece this aft talked about dating apps ditching swiping in favour of requiring access to people's photo and music libraries as fodder for AI-driven matchmaking, to which I could only exclaim "fuck no" loudly enough to startle the driver in the lane beside me even w/ both windows closed.

Nope, the novelty hasn't worn off yet.

More cowbell! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWF...

Colbert knows how to live. Trump knows how to be dead inside. Yes, he said the comedian was "like a dead person." As usual, he was projecting. Here's Colbert a day after his show ended. Still funny, joyful. Guests: Jeff Daniels, Eminem, Jack White. My THREAD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTX...

Chef's kiss.

Great job, @bean525.bsky.social !

Literally weeping this basic shit is what governance was always supposed to be and we have become so used to corporate corruption and theft that the most basic concept of "making people do the things they are legally obligated to do" seems revolutionary

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

"Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda. The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

They deleted that account and started a new one as @microdose1.bsky.social. I blocked that one, too!

"They're mad at Canada for not being sufficiently bullied."

The real reason for the post war baby boom was less bc of people having a ton of sex when the men came back from overseas but bc we had a shit ton of vaccines for things that usually killed children, antibiotics now existed & most women gave birth in sterile hospitals

Now THIS is a good opening hook for a horror story.

Figuratively rebranding to "Blarney & Ignoble" is a choice, I guess.

Words you never want to hear from judges regarding your claims: "This is a relatively rare appeal in which sanctions appear to be appropriate." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

There was a great Reddit thread on this a few months ago, with people chiming in with their recs. Special kudos to the user who suggested Killing Eve. www.reddit.com/r/television...

Loudon Wainwright III's 'Times Is Hard' song holds up pretty well lyrically some 15+ years later. Except for the "the only silver lining is the price is gas" line. That seems really nostalgic now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oK9...

1979 was the year I learned that movies could be very, very bad indeed.

Stop using generative AI for *all* the things.

We've reached the point in Ottawa where, on some roads, it's difficult to tell whether someone is swerving recklessly because they might be intoxicated or because they're trying to dodge potholes.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice & Grogu

Now *this* is how the sharks in the Sharknado films should have looked.

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Becoming important at work:

I realize that working as an Amazon driver delivering packages is no one's idea of a dream job, but choosing to toss packages at front doors isn't going to win any sympathy points.

BEN: Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope. LUKE: Yoda spoke of another. BEN: Oh yeah he must’ve meant Ahsoka Tano, a fully trained warrior badass who’s alive just offscreen. She’s got two lightsabers LUKE: That’s badass. BEN: You only have one and you lost it

"If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means that we can't trust anything in the paper. The penalty is a 1-year ban..." More of this, please.

HUGE: Alberta judge quashes the separatists' referendum petition, in major victory for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Blackfoot confederation. Justice Shaina Leonard: "the Crown failed to meet its duty to consult"

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The shingles vaccine is free in N.L. for those over 50, and people are sprinting to get jabbed #Newfoundland #Labrador More than 76K people have have received at least one dose of publicly funded shingles vaccine www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I really need to dig through my boxes of kids' books (still have 'em all) to see what treasures are lurking in there.

"Local kid makes good" is one hell of an understatement. :)

FFS. "The province did not put much weight on accuracy in its testing. “Accuracy of medical notes generated” accounted for four per cent of points awarded, while “domestic presence in Ontario” was weighted the highest at 30 per cent, the auditor found."

Thanks to @comixace.bsky.social for a lovely account of a very good day in comics history, comics legend Jack Kirby having part of a street named for him in the NYC Lower East Side neighbourhood he grew up in. www.comicsbeat.com/the-jack-kir...

slightly increase a band XTCI

Still one of my all-time favourite time travel movies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXhn...