I've got a conference to run that day, but I'll try and swing by!

“Man found drowned in human washing machine as AI control module goes rogue.”

Somehow this gets turned into an attack ad by ABC Toronto. “Matlow loves trees so much he wants to KILL YOU so he can walk in the shade by your graves!”

It's a great documentary. Not just because of how clearly it traces the original of AGI to the eugenics/race science movement. My favourite part was the interview with Altman saying (paraphrased) "Well, hopefully AGI will tell us how to pay back our investors...."

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Again, did not have the Pope on my anti-'AI' ally 2026 bingo card.

I hear @lisalevesque.bsky.social has a great presentation on data brokers and their involvement in the library space.

I used to think tech and lax regulations were the way to a better future. I thought the hyperloop was going to be SO cool, and not, you know, a distraction from established reliable HSR.

Fun fact, using purple carrots will make your matzoh ball soup look very spooky, and fancy.

I use a version of this when talking to lawyers about gen 'AI'. You should want more than vague marketing hype or anecdotal stories about "efficiencies" or improved practice. Instead I'm the one showing up with the studies and examples of why it's going to make you a bad lawyer if you're uncritical.

If only there was some form of document that demonstrated that the bike lanes on University were specifically supported by healthcare workers...oh wait, there is.

Apropos of nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yMM...

Love this. I literally just came from a meeting where someone said, "Well maybe it's because I wasn't prompting it well enough..." and, BAM, look what's in the executive summary:

And that’s why my upcoming article is titled “Breaking the AI Hype Machine: The Competent Advocate as the Modern Luddite.”

"It's a cookbook!"

"You see, THAT was the ACTUAL lesson I was trying to teach you all along."

Oh hell yes.

I have never heard of someone being booed at a commencement speech before, and now we have two in a week, and Joe Clark spoke at mine!

Never met a bandwagon I won’t jump on.

Reading “The Right to Repair” and learning the full details of Apple‘s shitty policies makes me want to throw my iPhone across the room. But then, you know, I wouldn’t be able to get it repaired….

Because of course…

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A skunk has decided to start making regular visits to our house, and I am THRILLED. Until the day I'm not....

Pray for @adambecker.bsky.social and the aneurysm he’s about to have. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

On my very first deputation at EIC, Cole was zooming in from Spain (or maybe Italy) and left halfway through the session. Everyone needs a vacation, but....

This interview drove me kind of nuts. Once you recognize the anthropomorphizing and "inevitability" in the language, it's so distracting. I don't "collaborate" with the table saw in my basement. We don't teach the dangers of smoking by making students roll and smoke cigarettes.

I swear I thought this was an Onion article at first. CoCoBench?!?

I know @avilewis.ca said he'd take his time finding a seat, but if the Liberals don't show some action on the Billy Bishop issue, Beaches-East York doesn't seem so crazy and probably seen as sending a real message if they pulled it off....

The response I got from @juliedabrusin.bsky.social's office when I asked, "what are you planning to do about this?" and "doesn't this undermine your HSR plan?" and "wont this undermine planned affordable housing development and environmental efforts?" was incredibly disappointing.

Yes. A rom com. That's totally what this would be used for. Definitely not any other genre.

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Truly something I struggle with.

Oh hey that was me I’m that crowd!

People need to remember this anger, and remind people in their lives about it. It's so frustrating that we're a long way from an election, so to fight against feeling powerless in all this is keep these things alive.

Okay, but who gets that data, and what will it be used for? Because I'm very much in my, "less constant harvesting of my data" era.

Oh look, another relevant slide from my "AI and the law" presentation:

Just absolutely disgraceful.

"Interesting taste" is a diplomatic way of saying, "oh hey is that a thin blue line sticker?!"

Ebikes are the great equalizer.

I just wish that the gravy plane scandal hit a little closer to election time. While there's been no shortage of public uproar/scandals, this one seems to have stuck, and feels the most "tone deaf" that might actually get through to the broader public and make a difference in votes.

They're all just the biggest dweebs, and this is coming from someone who was on a university varsity fencing team...

I still dont know who or what Geese is and at this point Im too afraid to ask.

"Duuuuude, what if your vape was a bitcoin miner?"

Never thought I’d say this but maybe Pope Leo should come on the podcast @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social

”Hey ChatGPT, produce fanfiction of LOTR, Robocop, and The Prince, but make it weird and dweeby.” To quote @adambecker.bsky.social, “these fucking people….”

The problem with posting about 'AI' on LinkedIn, is that LinkedIn thinks I like 'AI' and I get gibberish like this "suggested" post. Sloppy metaphor aside, I can only imagine the client's response being, "Cool, is it going to lower my bill?"