This picture seems impossible

Definitely not. I am still asked to review papers now and then and I only take them if they are short. Because I’m not being paid (no longer an academic). But I’m still gonna do the thing - read and review it. The details are important!

This entire weekend

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time. The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.

Attention northern word nerds: The very first Canadian Word of the Year is MAPLEWASHING!

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

I hope these lawsuits destroy this company entirely.

CP NewsAlert: Drenching rains sever routes on B.C.'s Lower Mainland from Interior

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Hey Canadians! It's not a Commons petition but it still would be helpful to Heather for you to sign this so as she pushes it in the House, she has numbers behind her. She is calling on the government to use the disallowance clauses in the Constitution to block the legislations Sharing is allyship

Even by the standards of this regime, this is bizarre

Sometimes the options on a website to activate AI companions are like "Get Started!" and "Remind Me Later" and I think they should include a third option which is "Fuck No, Fuck Off Forever"

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Full post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

Me: "Hey, this information you shared is inaccurate." Them: "I used ChatGPT to--" Me:

Happy caturday

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Day 1, Obscure Etymology Advent Calendar: dog Origin unknown.

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

I’m glad I’m on an anti-AI list on here. Imagine defending this shit

Elbows up. Hammers up. 💪🔨🤖

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

Big news in British Columbia! The all party Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee has recommended a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform after months of hearings. 1/10

2025 has been an eventful year for Canada's identity. To commemorate the year, The Society for Canadian English is choosing a 2025 word of the year (CWOTY), based on the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Have your say: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Gretz brought the loonie in the room and everybody went nuts. It was a gong show in there.” Me in @defector.com on the hockey-related rise of "gong show"

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

It’s not just about tariffs It’s the threats of annexation It’s the detentions at the border It’s the feeling we’ve been discarded as an ally

Canada is named as an attendee at an "international seminar" hosted by the Israeli military to discuss the lessons learned from Israel's two-year campaign of genocide against Palestinians. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

AI doesn’t qualify as Can-con. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

A damning new report exposing how US weapons bound to Israel are being manufactured with parts made in Canadian factories and arriving at Canadian ports. #cdnpoli armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...

“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.” Obit:

Aside from every other repulsive thing about these Epstein emails, they offer direct confirmation of Michael Wolff as one of the sketchiest creeps in a teeming universe of gross behavior

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

If yall don’t do nothing else, I want you to let those AI videos go. Please. People are still being funny and cute in real life. Please join the rest of us back in reality.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Now that we know that in several instances, ChatGPT has actively urged users to die by suicide/induced psychotic breaks in people, I’m also really curious to see what professional orgs in my field have to say about using gAI, thoughts, feelings, prayers, @historians.org?

With 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving being 3 weeks away and SNAP being a shit show—but with some retailers and nonprofits offering turkeys for low or no cost—I'd love to get my free cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many folks as possible. Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

We’re welcoming new volunteers. If you want to plug into pro-democracy organizing and help build a movement rooted in community and clarity - join us. 📅 Wed, Nov 12 🕖 7PM PT 🌐 Online Sign up link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-...

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

my fear of flying is “irrational”

I would vote for Lablabubu or Labubu labubu but I’m obsessed with reduplication

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa

In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

Finally got the Covid and flu shots. Now to see if I feel like trash in 8-12 hours