World’s first mushroom-powered toilet debuts at UBC www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

What’s the weirdest song that’s popped into your head? Four Hugs A Day just popped into mine, and I can’t have heard that song in decades

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Huh. Never knew the antlered buses could reverse while attached to the wires

I was nervous at first

"sloptimization" on my woty candidates to watch list

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Did an llm write this

"As the last generation to come of age at a time when both neurodivergence and menopause were considered shameful secrets, Gen X includes a lot of women who arrive at middle age feeling like their brains are broken and not knowing why."

GFY www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I’m bad at song names so even I would fail this shit (Courage and Bobcaygeon are the only two I can think of)

I have never done this before — maybe I’m just tired — but I saw the eye of Sauron in this

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What are we doing here? I feel insane

This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍

Posting to my feed because it's scary out there

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Uh at least one of these witches must have the juice

The price of liberty

Yay I can save posts finally

so much is bad right now but the AI stuff in particular is making me insane. a desperate attempt to smother all human creative labor at an absurd cost to the planet by some of the most short-sighted, rapacious, and pathetic people who have ever lived

“Universal”

Genuine question: How does one get a large image (screen?)-printed on a bedsheet like that? (Without spending conference-booth-commercial $thousands.) Who offers that service in Vancouver?

I wasn’t scared enough of trumps buffoonery (And I was terrified)

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. I'll be taking action in Vancouver on Sept. 20, 2025. Will you join me? drawtheline.world?event_id=262...

hot dog guy dot jpeg

Fml

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Old enough to remember the outrage in the United States when Serb forces killed Bosnian civilians fetching water during the siege of Sarajevo.

"the International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)"

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

The US Holocaust Museum is planning to "upgrade" its exhibit on the US response to Nazi Germany, and staff are concerned the Trump administration wants to downplay the extent to which the Immigration Act of 1924 doomed more European Jews to die. abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...

I almost posted earlier today I would drink the day it happens (I no longer drink). So sure: I live in hope too

This week’s Hyperfixed episode hit me hard, and makes me finally understand why people are better able to watch gore than I am. It sticks in my head. I don’t think I realized how much of a visualizer I am. Makes sense in retrospect (anxiety, PTSD, ugh)

"Start fully using the Dutch Tulips!" the investors screamed. "If you don't, what did I waste all that money on??!?"

Useful thread from Courtney Milan about the pirated-books lawsuit against Anthropic, and about who can be part of it, and more.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Seen on the Drive

I refuse to understand what “vibe thinking” could even mean. My brain is never gonna be this cooked

Had a rando ask me for audio of AI translation of Squamish. The translation was completely wrong because the AI machine doesn’t have enough Squamish to work with. Told him he had to go through our process to get real translations and I’m pretty sure he didn’t bother

Yeah, that's right... an MIT study shows 95 percent of generative AI products fail to provide any real value. No shit. Sloppers live in vain. Stop the slop.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

“Some difficulty”

The neighbours upstairs are playing the corn kid meme song

The endless abyss of need is bewildering to me