Very important to never write a book laying out the things you believe in, in case they become politically inconvenient five years later and you look like a massive hypocrite as they disappear under the bus

Aucune chance qu'un des leurs soit coupable. Ils vont sacrifier des enfants alors qu'ils en ont tué un sans aucune raison. La police tue et pour montrer qu'ils ont raison de le faire, ils vont accuser des enfants.

« La mobilité ne devrait pas être un enjeu de polarisation ou de popularité. C’est un enjeu de sécurité publique. » Merci mille fois à Jeanne Corriveau, journaliste au Devoir, de m’avoir donné cette citation. Je ne pourrais pas être plus reconnaissant.

La hiérarchie selon Quino, dessinateur argentin (1932-2020).

Je me demande quand et comment ça va péter. J'ai du mal croire que cette pression tient toujours. Ça va être laid. Et j'espère que les responsables en paieront lourdement le prix.

Bisbille autour d’une consultation sur la place du vélo à Montréal #polMtl #véloMtl www.ledevoir.com/politique/mo...

two decades ago, there was an economy that allowed your small town to have six local reporters who would keep government accountable and give the community a shared understanding of reality now, there's an economy that allows 600 people to post reels about your cafe "that nobody is talking about"

"The report calls for hood height caps of 85 cm (33.5 inches), width limits of 192 cm (75.6 inches), taxes tied to vehicle dimensions, parking fees based on size, and regulatory incentives reserved for smaller EVs measuring less than 4.2 meters (165.4 inches) long."

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both."

Suite sur le sondage vélo d'hier: on confirme qu'Ensemble Montréal ne dirige pas pour le Montréalais.es. SMF n'aime pas sa ville ni ses habitants.

de kessé?? Ils aimaient pas les réponses?

But don't worry—they promise to only use the even more sensitive information that Lawful Access laws would grant them responsibly. They totally won't use the ability to turn cellphones into tracking devices to stalk women they think are hot. Really! The minister promises!

La privatisation des espaces publics à grands coups de subventions (comme le parc Jean-Drapeau pour le Grand-Prix) est un scandale dont on ne parle pas assez. Le parc Jarry est un des rares espaces verts disponibles pour la population de Parc-Extension, le 2e quartier le plus pauvre de Mtl

I wasn't waiting for a discount, but the discount reminded me that this it on my reading list!

McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

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It is wildly frustrating how unusable Google has become. Just looking for jello mold recipes. I tried duckduckgo and holy cow it was nice to have the search just work. All I want is the search to do is, you know, search the interwebs? Silly. I know. 🤷‍♀️

Moi aussi, je l'aime, notre système public. Bonne suite à tous les finissants! www.lapresse.ca/contexte/202...

I don't know if #archaeologists are following what happened in Nfld today, but it is colonialism in action. After 2 years of prep, right before #IndigenousPeoplesDay, the NL Gov told the Innu that they cannot open their exhibit b/c it doesn't align with the gov's interp of their history. Yeah. 🏺

If lawmakers are serious about protecting children, they should roll back age-verification policies and start targeting the systems that incentivise mass surveillance. Read my latest print piece for The Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Experiments on the effects of ai are the exact inverse of experiments on UBI. They keep proving it’s utterly awful and everyone still insists on it being pushed onto us

to be read later, and see what it means for public service and VPN users.

J'avais bcp de choses à dire dans cette consultation! Mais surtout sur la piste Rachel. Par contre l'axe à l'étude ne se rend pas au bout de Rachel et c'est décevant, parce que dans l'Est de la piste il y a aussi bcp de problèmes. Je l'ai mis en commentaires.

Thomas Fersen c'était alternace de musique et de poésie - délicieux. La foule était à l'écoute, et dans ses applaudissements plus bruyante que l'orchestre. Les éclairagistes avait un truc infaillible pour nous faire taire: ils nous éblouissaient.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Groovy Ardvark pis les Breastfeeders aux Francos ce soir - je vais aller faire un tour. Thomas Fersen demain, Coeur de Pirate vendredi avec ma plus vieille. Pis on verra au fur et à mesure cette semaine, la programmation est vraiment intéressante et j'ai en masse le temps!

To anyone reading this - we are ACTIVELY SEEKING someone to cover indie comics as a regular beat...but everyone is making 15 minute videos now and it's hard to get them to put down the camera. I get that we need both platforms. Anyway who wants to write about comics, DM me.

Facts.

Friendly reminder:

In the meantime, go have a look at some good art in my little shop! Everything is original, hand made, locally printed and will ship everywhere. There’s even digital art books in there. I think it’s neat :) shop.cabfolio.com

I am SO sick of headlines like this. The public sees "AI" as being LLMs/ChatGPT, not an ML algorithm - and articles like this mislead the public into thinking that LLMs are discovering novel things. It's a cool thing! I'm excited! But it is lazy reporting to suddenly use "AI" as such a broad term

For Canadians: This well-written petition re the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement closes soon! It very notably emphasizes the STCA's impact on those seeking refuge in the US, but who are facing the CBP/ICE ramp-up. I encourage you to read, sign, and share! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I just got an ad for copilot whose premise is "after growing all these tulips, they're worthless without buyers. Use copilot to find a market." Are you fucking kidding me??? Why would marketing for AI products draw a straight line to Tulip Mania on purpose?? What???

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social nous a toustes averti·es des menaces que posent les «active clubs». Maintenant, ils osent s'afficher en public. C'est une menace existentielle à toutes les Québécois·es racisé·es, qui sont également aussi Québ que les autres. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/r...

I have this core belief that debate is inherently antithetical to a progressive society. It’s a critical tool of colonialism & control. No coincidence we are in a hyper debate-me-bro era as we tumble further into oblivion

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Demande de réduction de la consommation d’eau - travaux majeurs sur le réseau d’eau potable en cours. Pour plus d’information : montreal.ca/communiques-...

We're very close to an important milestone for this month's Tapas' Creators Bonus Program, so if you have been considering starting or doing a re-read, now is the PERFECT time to do so! tapas.io/series/SideQ... In this program, we get paid by *views*, so it costs you ZERO money to support us!

Je vais tellement être raquée demain. Ya pas moyen de s'étirer assez pour éviter ce genre de raquage.

This pretty much sums it up: 1/2

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

Combien de bateaux sont coincés dans le Golfe persique depuis bientôt 3 mois? Combien de marins en otage pour l'égo d'un narciciste sénile manipulé par des escrocs? Des fois je pense à eux.

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...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Comedia

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

I was summarizing the Alberta sub-plot to an American friend and he summarized it perfectly: "So they're like dramatically threatening to THINK about leaving?"

The Word on Milton needs a bit of help to maintain their historical building. The small print will be perfect on my wall of prints - I doubled the amount for good measure. fnd.us/e2iI3b?ref=s...