also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd

“astrology for men” was too generous

a mundane curse #comic

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

Governments need to realize the AI productivity boost is not coming, and the investment they’re eager to win will dry up once the bubble bursts. They need to protect their citizens, not sell them out to tech companies that care so little for the social good. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Companies like OpenAI need to be held to account for the social harms caused by their products, especially when they’re run by executives who are so open about placing such little value on the wellbeing of humanity. But that also requires governments to wake up. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

OpenAI talks a lot about safety, but the safety it means it not for its users or for society — it’s about a foolish sci-fi scenario of aligning AI with humanity so AGI doesn’t kill us or something. Refusing to report a mass shooter shows how negligent it is. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Altman’s comments were bad enough. But the following day to read about how OpenAI had neglected its duty when it banned a user in Canada who was using ChatGPT to play out gun violence scenarios put his comments in an even worse light. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Altman’s denigration of humanity is part of a wider anti-human worldview the tech industry has adopted to justify doing whatever they want, regardless of the wider impacts on the public. If communities suffer to realize Altman’s AI ambitions, that’s fine by him. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

Sitting on stage in India, Altman was asked about the energy impacts of AI. Instead of addressing them, he did a bit of whataboutism and brought up the energy use of humans. But in the process, he further revealed his thinking that humans and computers are equivalent disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

There’s already plenty of reason to want action against generative AI companies: the creation of explicit deepfakes, the effects on mental health, and the breakdown of the information environment. It’s a social disaster that Altman does not seem to mind one bit. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

yeah i'm going to be real with you, if the response that one gets from Americans talking about Canada is to argue that Canadians deserve it because one isn't capable of reading about reconciliation, that gets a block

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

the AI evangelists are not okay

These thieves keep stealing blueprints from my theft empire!

tell me you're absolutely clueless about Crown-Indigenous ties without telling me www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Do people in the US understand that the cartels don’t just run drugs? They run agriculture. Those Mexican avocados that you enjoy likely have cartel blood on them. Those papayas that you enjoy likely have cartel blood on them. Even the logging industry has cartel blood on it.

Still no update regarding The Savant, which was one of the few shows I was looking forward to last year, about "a woman who ... infiltrates online hate groups in order to prevent large-scale public attacks." www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

We provide healthcare services to asylum seekers because we're not assholes.

“A majority of Canadians agree that Danielle Smith has betrayed Canada.”

This guy gets it.

i always find myself shocked when reading this stuff; i am sure you could go through my entire email history and find plenty of things i would not be proud of having said at various points, but you would never find something like this, i’ve never talked about women like this in my life

and part two:

watch this excellent explainer

Criterion releasing K Pop Demon Hunters is a net benefit for everyone - those who like the movie will get a really good home release of it, those who don’t care about the movie will benefit from Criterion having a certified money maker that they can use to help fund more obscure/niche releases

I touched on this here... People who viewed life and death matters only as topics for "debate" and theatrics.

There was a coordinated campaign to convince people that scientists were liars. Americans were fed a deluge of this 👇 for years from all over, every angle. Today, these actors claim they merely want to restore trust in science, as if we can't see that they taking a wrecking ball to it.

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This explains so much of the visceral discomfort I feel reading AI responses and interacting with AI devices, with their default feminine voices responding in stereotypically feminine ways.

Really glad to see Criterion continuing its history of bringing streaming-only films to physical media. They've done a bunch of Netflix movies at this point, but I was particularly thrilled to see that they convinced Apple to let them do a U.S. release of Killers of the Flower Moon this spring!

Flirting ?!? Whitewashing ?!? AfD IS THE NAZI PARTIE

The AfD is flirting with Nazi history – but moral outrage alone won’t stop the far right | Katja Hoyer

Ukrainian veterans facing Amsterdam crowds with mirrors saying THIS IS WHO WE PROTECT #СлаваЗСУ

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

"There's always going to be debate in city planning. Always. But there's good faith debate, based on disagreements, and then there's deliberate lies and misinformation." Print article ICYMI of @brenttoderian.bsky.social’s ABC News interview on the truth and lies about “15-Minute Cities. #UrbanTruth

And sadly, many public sector pension fund managers in 🇨🇦 believe in those outdated, misleading models - investing BILLION$ in climate arson and basing their long-term solvency on the assumption that climate change will have a MILD(!) economic impact. And as if we‘ll have a normal 🌏 to retire on.

“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.” Should be the top story everyday.

"Mexican drug cartels use hundreds of thousands of guns bought from licensed US gun shops ... Since the lapse of the United States’ assault weapons ban, cartels have armed themselves with high-powered, military-grade weapons"

"Mexican cartels overpower police with ammunition made for the US military Drug syndicates have used .50-caliber ammunition produced at a plant owned by the U.S. Army and smuggled across the border in attacks on Mexican civilians and police"

Posting several links, this is madness: "An estimated 200,000 to half million U.S. firearms are smuggled into Mexico every year ... 'We have confiscated, in the time that I've been in government, 50,000 guns of high power, of high caliber ... Fifty thousand guns. And 75% of them from the U.S."

Hey @cbcnews.ca how about interviewing local Mexicans for news stories? Mexico is a huge, diverse country - not just a resort for Canadians.

Not one interviewee so far has mentioned any concern for the wonderful, kind Mexicans whose culture they allegedly cherish.

If you’re having a hard time understanding my criticism, think how you’d feel if the following headline were real: Mexicans react to forest fires in Canada, disappointed vacation plans halted

It’s definitely being covered as a “Canadian tourists experience disruptions to vacation” type story… …whereas the “heavily militarized units clash in streets of North American cities” angle also seems, uh, significant?

Would Canadians care if their nationals weren’t being inconvenienced by the violence in Mexico? We’ll never know.