As you watch this, a reminder that Carney is cutting: * Canadian Space Agency * Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada, DFO, Ag Canada * CBC * VIA rail * Canadian Heritage * Health Canada and PHAC * Indigenous and Northern Affairs * Indigenous Services

safety first!

‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

Basically "we thought we could just ingest data and design happens". If you ever wanted to know why AI will fundamentally fail at doing the things CEOs want it to do, it's because CEOs that haven't come up through the field somewhat recently are generally fucking clueless about work.

Sam putting on a beautiful aerial display for the last day of Pride Month! ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 June may be over, but the gayness NEVER STOPS! 🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #pridemonth #pride #lesbian #birds #birdart

Google: “enforcement focus should be on outputs.” In plain, non-legal language: We should be able to build whatever we want without accountability. Any enforcement actions should be addressed at our users, not us. It’s in Google’s DNA—they can harm systemically at scale w/o responsibility.

I always wondered why they were lockable 😂

UK anti smart glasses petition one to publicise https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769206

We used to call this mentality a "workaholic" mentality and not in a good way

One tactic ops use is to be “itching powder.” A persistent itch invisible to onlookers that doesn’t respond to any treatment (explanation), so your target appears more and more agitated at nothing and eventually you can accuse them of aberrant behavior (a “witch hunt”)

I'm going to the Jays game on Canada Day tomorrow and never have I prayed so hard for them to close the dome. It's gonna feel like 45C by 3pm tomorrow! Have mercy on the fans and players!!! 😱🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 #BlueJays

"i have 100 times the output i did before" somehow never seems to show up in actual profits or sales or anything, it's more a measurement of how people feel based on the number of emails they have a bot send

I‘m sorry, but this reads like somebody with an addiction that genuinely needs help. If a friend told me they were talking and acting like this I’d be really worried!

It's okay if you're sex-repulsed right now. It's okay if it's a phase or if you'll always feel that way. It's not okay for you to censor sex in art because many of us express ourselves through sexuality. It's a bodily conversation and communion that transcends the mundane at its best. Plus it's hot.

if you cringe at sex scenes in movies you should read about sex repulsion and see if it resonates before being Principal Skinner at the writers and directors. this has been a Pride PSA.

I'm looking forward to all these lawsuits bankrupting these thieves

Green Heron Sun Ray 🪶 9x12" Gouache on Watercolor Paper. A painting I finished earlier in the month and finally got around to scanning. This original will be shown in a local business in July. One of my favorite birds! They cleverly fish using bait like insects or bread to lure fish to the surface

We know Elon is able to post from his mom's account. So he generated AI pics of himself having a loving birthday with his family, and then posted it from his mother's account to make it look like she took photos. Amazing, he's the most unloved man on the planet.

It's always wild to find out that an author of transhuman sci-fi is an outspoken transmisogynist. Like, pump the brakes, buddy – you think personhood is mutable but gender is innate?

They KNOW. They KNOW we all hate them, that's why they have to LIE about what they are or hope we just never find out!

Can you even imagine having imposter syndrome when these freaks are out here shooting themselves in the dick with literally every single thing they try to do

Anthony Rapp was 14.

I don’t think there is any reason for this company to exist.

Just making sure nobody missed this, because it’s kind of significant in the AI company circlejerk contest

omg I KNEW IT!! I was having a hard time getting something to charge the other day and I was like "am I using this wrong? But it's meant to not have a right/wrong side??" lol

I had some used paint thinner from a home reno project that I wanted to dispose of but in Toronto they don't allow walk-in dropoffs at our Hazardous Waste centers and I have no car. So I asked my building, did they want a bit of paint thinner for their "shop" for repairs?

The three largest RAM manufacturers in the world are being sued for allegedly working together to fix the supply and price of memory, leading to the recent surge in price for consumers. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ram-man...

a summer sky

Had my first mansplainer replying to a post of mine on @gandersocial.ca - NOW it feels like a real social media app environment 😂

It's going to end up exactly like this but with people setting fires: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"People are betting on wildfires." Really feels like banning these betting markets is a minimum necessary condition for civilisation.

Me asking a large group of accessibility people for recommendations on a plugin/add-on for Google Slides or Powerpoint to visually highlight instances of low contrast text/background. One reply: There are lots of accessibility plugins for Slides/Powerpoint! Me: ok thanks, can you narrow it down? 😅

Somewhere in the Marshes

If you feel unwell in the heat: stop, find shade, drink water. Get help if you don't improve. If someone near you looks unwell, do not leave them alone. Move them to shade and call for help. Heatstroke is an emergency. Act fast. #BeatTheHeat

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.

Told you. "Worse but cheaper" only works until it categorically fucking doesn't. "AI" cannot do these things and the people selling you on the idea that they can cannot be trusted.

Question: Are Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure having a real impact, not only undermining Russia's war machine but also making regular Russians feel costs of war in unignorable ways? Answer: Picture of car line waiting to get fuel, so long that there are port-a-potties along the way.

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Probably my Bose folding headphones, they must be over 15 years old by now which is ancient for headphones. Made possible by the removable/replaceable connecting wire! I also regularly replace the ear can foams and put a headband cover over the original foam headband piece. Still sound great!

Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

There it is - the purpose of ramming AI Data Centres down our throats is to provide a market for LNG.

Physical media. I’m just sayin.

time to post my absolutely favorite meme

friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails

Whatever we do, we CANNOT let “predictors” gain traction as a term. He doesn’t get to sanitize this. Meta wants gamblers. 100 million regular, 18-34 year old gamblers.