@quintonreviews.bsky.social oh man i just saw your twitch vod from a few days ago and, wow, fuck, dude, holy moly. you have no idea how badly i wish i could reach through the screen and pluck you out of time and give you some chicken soup and a boost and brainstorm and help out, like, wow. my guy.

@michaelburns.bsky.social do you have a favourite note? mine is Gb

even if llms weren't theft machines lighting the planet on fire they would still be existentially dangerous for their sycophancy one of the reasons they persist despite loud opposition is that most people don't see the problem with sycophancy because "sycophant for brands" defines their identity

what does a person gotta do to get some fuckin apostles these days? i can understand no one listening to me, im (apparently) very annoying and awful, but its not like the shit i say is wrong, i just say it in ways that make people hate me. would be nice to have some translators or something. idk.

@pw3n.bsky.social 🚨bus talk starts ~12m 🚌

a "formal investigation"? by the government? or the police? about the collusion between the government and the police? DEMAND RESIGNATIONS FFS

i think zoomers adoption of deftones is probably one of the most unexpected and neatest things theyve done, because sometimes truly nothing hits like i mean i think they might be more into the later shoegazey stuff but my teen soul burned on adrenaline so

often you want to scream "how is everyone so stupid" but you don't need a rigorous application of theory to know the answer, and it's that and not their fault that most people are made intentionally ignorant and simultaneously boosted for things that ultimately don't matter but do keep them content

not to mention all the favours & deferential gladhanding they get from other billionaires who want to profit off the association. do we think that anyone that epstein flew to his island invoiced them for the airfare, accommodations, food? the staff get paid, because money is only real to the poor.

"I didn't come to these politics through college, I came to them through life." as someone who didn't go to college at all because i came from a life of poverty, chronic illness, neurodiversity and mental health struggles, even though I am white & 🍁, @fdsignifier.bsky.social is still my fuckin 🐐 ✊🏽

i always feel stupid sharing fd here, as if i can in some way signal boost him or whatever, that's ludicrous. it is patently absurd that someone might be aware of me and not him. but he still remains basically the best at doing this so how can i not?

lolllll just got a sternly worded work email from the people running my supervising course that basically amounts to "you're asking questions we don't like because you are critical of us. stop it."

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Everyone should read this article, especially the part where it says Israel wants a focus on "pro-Palestinian" protests and that Canada should curtail certain freedoms of Canadians. THIS. IS. FOREIGN. INFLUENCE. AND INTERFERENCE by Israel. Carney is a stooge. www.readthemaple.com/global-affai...

The Carney government is speeding up approvals for mines, pipelines, ports, and other major projects. Yet reforms to strengthen workers' rights continue to move at a glacial pace. Fred Wilson examines what that says about who Canada is really building for.

hey everyone? i think we need to revoke australia's pizza privileges. this menu includes more than 0 pizzas topped with mayonnaise now look, i am a white boy, i will take mayo on a sandwich. maybe i will dip a french fry in it. but hot mayo on top of a pizza is just too much.

hey here's an idea i suggest we, as humans, try out for the next generation or two: maybe we *don't* just default to assuming whoever has the most money is correct or should be in charge of anything let alone everything

are we talking about the same dragon age that was beloved for being deep and ahead of its time but then the last one got retooled by exec a million times in development hell and then finally released like a sloppy, shockingly bland turd and was instantly forgotten? huh. shocker.

What if universities don't want to transform into economic powerhouses? What if they just want to be places that foster curiosity & discovery & critical thinking and support diverse scholarship to advance human knowledge and understanding? What if profit isn't the only goal of everything on earth?

Happy birthday gay people 🎉 🥳 🌈

Eugenics, prohibition, and internment camps were all liberal or progressive policy ideas in the early-mid 1900s.

I'd really rather universities were just places people went to learn stuff, to be honest

brb starting a disingenuous steely dan cover band called irony dan

this is one of the most insane fucking things i have ever read www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

by which i mean not the nihilistic "it doesn't matter who cares" sort of fuck it, it's more the "fuck it we ball" spirit of, hey, if infrastructure and human dignity are all equal and shared, what do i care if some subregion of a megastate wants to assert its own art and ideas, go nuts, it's cool

@canadiandimension.bsky.social yknow i think it's kinda obvious upon consideration how the internet basically destroyed any chance at maintaining a broad Canadian identity, which i don't necessarily grieve because it's not like our foundational colonial history is anything to be proud of

and yet #yyj wants to start putting pigs in schools despite the fact that everyone that isn't a pig or a pig-lover or an idiot hates it and knows it's a bad idea

I think and hope that metaphor refantazio is actually rekindling my ability to sit down and play really long narrative games

hey #yyj this fucking sucks. I don't want visual platforms that can be controlled from afar by algorithms in the streets of my community, thanks. @susankimyyj.bsky.social please tell me that if this came before you you raised concerns and can point to them because the concerns are flatly obvious.

hey neat shout out to @actualmontaigne.bsky.social www.subvert.fm

this is why basically everyone you talk to in real life hates genai, chatbots, and other llms, and yet everyone in private AND public management absolutely loves them and since they are the ones in charge of all the money this is why we have them still. because the management class loves it.

i think the main reason why the thing being marketed as ai is perplexingly taking over modern life is because society built itself in a way where being incurious about everything other than how that society tells you to be in charge of others means no one in charge knows anything useful at all

better yet, complete police abolition. but this is also a tremendous start.

hell in bc cities can't even set their own police budgets because the pigs just go cry to the province that uses the police act to force us to give them what they want regardless #yyj #yyjpoli #bcpoli #6forvic

what they said

basically just the all time queen of good fucking ideas vis a vis how to get a goddamn message across, george

humans gonna hume man oh well

it might even be positive to make a public show of praising dummies who decide to opt out of the democratic process. this is the smartest decision of your life ma'am, and we're all grateful

voting isn't a moral good if you don't know shit about fuck and are just picking a name based on a vague desire to burn things down.

we need to normalize the idea that while we should always seek to make voting easier and more accessible, that DOES NOT mean we should encourage absolutely everyone to vote

@afivegantenna.bsky.social lollll deez nuts

do people running for city council normally say this? asking for a me. #6forvic

im that kind of woke loser who is mildly pissed of that the late 80s and early 90s instilled the word 'dude' in my language as a sort of general placeholder for 'person' in my natural speech patterns because basically everyone I know is queer and I don't want to accidentally disregulate my friends

i'm gonna stamp it. the eternal millennial cross to bear is how many of us were absolutely willing to take the bag without thinking fucking *anything* about where it came from or what taking it would mean, and the fruits of our labours were turned into piss soup blasted into the faces of babies.

i do appreciate the growing, effervescent swell of young people with skills and new ideas looking at everyone influential in basically every role in society & saying "aren't you supposed to know what you're doing?" being told "we do? they gave me money for it at least" & sharpening their knives

I cannot believe that we have gone so long without base level journalism that this feels somehow radical, and the guy being interviewed literally cannot conceive of being asked basic questions

today i learned that buzzfeed still exists and is just as dogshit and evil as it always was except now no one cares so all they can afford to do is steal

I don't think I have ever seen a lifelabs that had enough people working at it. these poor people. what a dogshit company to do something so important and valuable for public health. the staff are always great, and always very obviously incredibly stressed and overworked