This article is great in highlighting the professional and personal costs of using generative AI and the alter of efficiency that we're sacrificing it all on.

having to publicly clarify “this is not a golden calf” means events have already gone tremendously wrong

so every palestinian banned was banned by a human, who looked at someone desperately trying to survive a genocide, and decided to cut them off from any access to support

Just finished completing my third census bc I am friends with multiple low income seniors. What a lousy decision to make it so internet-focused this year. Yes, I know there is a phone option, but a lot of these folks are very confused and anxious about it.

There's nowhere you can go to "escape" anti blackness because anti blackness is global. The South is full of fighters, they ain't running.

1/ PM Carney seems ready to suspend environmental regulation in Canada under the illusion that he can buy political peace with Danielle Smith (ie the oil industry). www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

World mask week is May 25 to 31! Mask 25% of the time in three really important places 1) appointments 2) transit 3) stores. We could significantly reduce covid trasmission AND demonstrate community care! #mask 😷 www.celebrate845.com/uploads/4/2/...

Mitch Silvestre on Alberta separation: "Our constitution, it says that you're going to have to be born in Alberta to become a citizen...so we're going to have to get those girls making more babies."

It's time for the Immigrant Survey. This survey is for everyone 19+ years born outside Canada and now lives, works or studies in Waterloo Region (permanent residents, Canadian citizens, refugees, temporary residents, refugee claimants, and international students). Open until May 31st. Please share!

This looks like such a cool exhibition! Check it out, Sask folks

Has anyone done a preaching series on Revelation? How did you organize the weeks? And how many weeks did you go?

Anyone who thinks that you can adjust your behavior so that it won't be demonised fundamentally lacks respect for the intelligent and hardworking professionals whose job it is to demonize you.

Best alternatives are Vivaldi (works with all your existing Chrome plugins), Firefox, or Waterfox if you don't trust the devs working on Firefox right now. Watching Google flush away decades of goodwill overnight is just fucking spectacular, especially after seeing Firefox touch this exact stove.

Hey photo and design types, there's a Canadian class action against Adobe re: early cancellation fees for annual billed monthly subscriptions. Including those who paid for a full year either bc they refused to pay the early fee or faced "prohibitive obstacles" canceling. clg.org/Class-Action...

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

Which is to say, it should come as literally no surprise that Atheist Bros are so prone to "AI" Ensorcellment.

A limerick. Based on a true story.

In November, Canada “announced a $2.7-billion cut to foreign aid over the next four years. The spring economic update, released last week, offered no hint of restoring any of this.” Canada is not the moral actor in the world that many think it is. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Aligning with the political left means that the odds are against you because you choose to side with those historically deprived of power. By definition, that means that defeatism is never an option. The fight continues as it must, across generations. It is good to be part of the fight.

"If a human spokesperson made these false allegations on Google's behalf, a significant award of punitive damages would be warranted. Google should not have lesser liability because the defamatory statements were published by software that Google created and controls."

You should be angry that it hasn’t been updated. You should be outraged that people you love go through this stuff, and you should be offering, if they want, to come with them and advocate for them receiving pain management, because doctors—this is well-documented—listen to men.

"The morel is the Last Incorruptible Thing. You cannot plant them. You cannot buy them in stores. You can only spot them in the wild. Morels demand complete surrender to nature’s whims. They grow for 3-4 wks each spring, & o one knows when or where ... like middle fingers to corporate control."

When people say 'farmers' they mostly think 'farm workers'. They are very much not the same thing.

This is unconscionable. I’ll put my phone in airplane mode to beat this Saw it at No Frills- price on a digital display changed before my eyes. Thought I was hallucinating. Apparently not! I’ll be avoiding stores w digital pricing. Looking at you #Loblaws theconversation.com/your-browsin...

I keep banging on about supply chains because that's my background but man, people really don't understand how complex and delicate our systems are- and how increasing shocks from weather, grid strain and fossil disruption will compound to overwhelm things. Decarbonisation is stability

It is the year 2006 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boomer downsizing to close the housing gap It is the year 2016 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boomer downsizing to close the housing gap It is the year 2026 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boom www.ctvnews.ca/business/rea...

It seems Carney read Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine as a how-to manual.

Aella Choir invites you to IN GOOD COMPANY, their tenth anniversary concert! The second of two performances is tomorrow: Sunday 03 May, 1.30pm at First Unitarian, 30 Cleary, #Ottawa | Tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket... | Admission: by donation/pay what you can

Happy May Day

People had to die for us to get an 8 hour work day

@indiedivattv.bsky.social, the most heartbreaking thing about your story is how common it is. People living with disabilities are not being supported by our governments: they're being attacked, denied basic dignity and fundamental human rights, day in day out.

On weekdays (only) you can take transit from Barrie to Collingwood if you feel like a one way trip or trying out the Georgian Trail to Meaford; Simcoe Linx buses have bike racks.

At best, Google’s AI is a white boomer mom letting us know whether someone is part of a marginalized group regardless of whether it’s relevant to the story.

Vision Eleventy Jillion in Autowa

Parasauralophus or GTFO *sets my elderly millennial ass down to look for my reading glasses and back pain meds so I can review my fave parasauralophus facts

In all of this, don't miss the term "asset-recycling". Canadians might also be manipulated to feel like they're supporting a, um, war effort by potentially watching Canada sell off crown corporations. Hard questions need to be asked about this. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/carney-... #CdnPoli

Like traffic violence, workplace ‘accidents’ are “a form of structural violence built into the very organization of work under capitalism.” www.readthemaple.com/on-april-28-...

Proverbs: shut up be generous only fuck your wife seriously, ONLY FUCK YOUR OWN WIFE shut up be generous do your work NEVER COSIGN A LOAN DID YOU HEAR ME THOUGH NEVER COSIGN A LOAN

Ideally, the Canada Strong Fund should learn from those successes. Instead, PM Carney's references to 'asset recycling', and accelerating private infrastructure projects, make me worry this venture could be used to de-risk dubious petroleum projects & privatize public assets. /7

The Palestinian Authority held the first municipal-level elections in years in occupied territory and in response the Israeli army kidnapped one of the victors and held him hostage and released him only on the condition that he step down from his seat.

I very much take issue with Mo Sihota on CBC Early Edition this morning characterizing calls to maintain DRIPA "extremist." The rights set out in UNDRIP (DRIPA) are minimum human rights standards. In no other context would it be acceptable to repeal human rights. Cc: @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

To be fair, Urban played the role so well from having studied Kelly's portrayal deeply. Which goes to prove the old adage: Deforestation leads to Urbanization

In an interview, Campbell explained, "about reconciliation, there is no such thing. We can’t go back to a good time to begin again because there never was a 'good' time. But conciliation – kwaysk astaswin – to put things right. I can do that if someone is willing to work with me."

Year. Long. State. Of. Emergency. In Canada’s wealthiest province 😡

"What if we told you that postal workers have a plan to fight climate change and deliver vital new services to every corner of the country?" from @cupwsttp.bsky.social #canpoli www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com