Bluebird of happiness

This stresses me out. I’m sure it’ll all be fine but my anxiety is triggered by this 😵‍💫

Feels hopeful for once

Mainstream media: Avi Lewis is a radical extremist who will try to implement his father's communist horror dystopia and destroy the nation. *24 hours later* Mainstream media: Stephen Lewis was a bold visionary who showed everyone the best of what Canada could be through social democracy.

Every. Goddamn. Company.

I’m glad he lived long enough to see his son win last weekend

I get that in my field there are ok uses of the huge catch-all of AI, but I also need a club of people who refuse to use GenAI

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TRUE COLOR! 🌟 My second dumb book is out in the wider world today! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... I hope everyone enjoys this winding tale of how this bananas color definition (and it's ~3,000 sibling definitions) came to be:

@korystamper.bsky.social ‘s book is out today! Happy bookday!

jesus fucking christ.

Editorial: Here’s why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP – by a centrist Liberal

I love that the two most culturally significant references to Avi Lewis are 1) He is Naomi Klein’s husband 2) He is the brother of the casting director of Heated Rivalry

I have no idea what she was yelling, but one Persian woman was clearly mad that people had No War in Iran and Stop Bombing Iran posters in the #NoTyrants protest. Like they were traitors for wanting the violence to stop

The sound of mourning doves always reminds me of Phoenix

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Apparently my books aren’t in the list, but maybe you have a book or two in this

The normalcy bias in this fucking country is just unbelievable. You can watch people get murdered, witness the constitution getting shredded by the day, hear the tech fascists say, in no uncertain terms, what kind of dystopian hellscape they’re working to create, and be like, oh, I’m sure it’s fine.

Also! We're still looking for a SPECIAL GUEST for City Square mall, so message if you have hot takes about everyone's favourite place to go for thai food during lunch break at vancouver council meetings

It was 1C this morning, so I wore a toque and puffer. Meanwhile, the guy who got the bus at the same stop was wearing a short sleeved shirt. I know I’m a wimp but

kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit

I don’t remember the author, but my very Christian grandma gave me a bodice ripper when I was ~ 13. I’m pretty sure there was a rape scene, although I may have misinterpreted what was happening

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

I love how we're litigating the badness of the Totenkopf when that is LITERALLY WHAT "ARE WE THE BADDIES" WAS ABOUT

I sometimes get to see wildlife in this metro

Relatable

"The core conceit remains that the American people are ultimately not responsible for the consequences of their own electoral decisions, nor are they really capable of enacting change in the face of corrupt and tyrannical elites." www.liberalcurrents.com/iran-slopuli...

It’s infuriating we’re being ruled by such dullards

Oh you mean the doctors and nurses we’re poaching?

That final line

🤷‍♀️ O clap your hands (Rutter) defeated Tomasz Szymkowiak! You: O clap your hands (Rutter) Win!! Enemy: Tomasz Szymkowiak Lose... Grade: C Result: Victory Finish: KO Turns: 11 Remaining HP: O clap your hands (Rutter) 2524/4385 | Tomasz Szymkowiak 0/3720 ATK/DEF: 1496/1385 vs 1244/720 wikigacha.com

The US invented the crisis in Cuba. We have been starving the island of resources for decades while pointing at the crumbling infrastructure saying “see this doesn’t work.” Meanwhile they can’t replace medical equipment because the US blocks manufacturers from sending parts. We are the problem.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Masterful gambit sir

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem

I don’t know dude. If James Baldwin was able to write all his work while his friends were being assassinated by the FBI, and while he was living in terror as a gay Black man … then maybe you can write without using A.I.

Finally saw Sinners (thought it might be too scary but I watched it anyway) and oh my god. Incredible.

Ew. This is the library my niblings go so I’m extra mad

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I loved this episode about audio descriptions for movies and tv. Linguistic discrimination comes in all forms overcast.fm/+ABKKVf7e8JU

PhD in Linguistics, subfield formal semantics and syntax, now a linguist for a First Nation and a podcaster @vocalfriespod.bsky.social

I'm Slop-Blocking you AiHoles

Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

You will never make me care about US soldiers more than I care about the life of any other human being on earth. Never.

Pro AI is an instant block. "I just use Claude to refine my drafts so-" Fuck off. Block. You don't use the plagiarism engine of fascism for anything and frankly, any writer who uses it isn't a writer and just a disappointment.