I taught myself html in 8th grade and was building whole websites but now im apparently afraid of the future because I dont want to be poisoned by a data center.

I'm sick to death of having climate deniers lie to me that Canada's carbon footprint is small or that Canadians' carbon footprints are small or that the emissions from our oil industry are small, because literally none of that is true on any level. 1/

A single box in the 49-page document is dedicated to the environmental impacts of AI. It acknowledges that AI data centres require a lot of energy and increase water usage, but does not propose any new actions to curtail this.

Anytime someone tells you we need "AI literacy" ask yourself why, if these LLM's are the imminent singularity, why do WE need to be trained to understand THEM?

I will always be grateful that we have Carney instead of PP as Prime Minister. That being said, we deserve so much better than Carney as Prime Minister.

I have to get it off my chest somewhere and this place is public: Fuck canon. Canon is a straightjacket. Canon doesn't make good art. Good art evokes emotion or spurs thought; canon can only evoke nostalgia.

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

The attack on competence | deadSimpleTech deadsimpletech.com/blog/attack-...

The Canadian Airports Council: airports across Canada contributed $19B combined to GDP in 2019: canadasairports.ca/wp-content/u... Ford's government: expanding Billy Bishop airport will bring in $8.5B annually! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The sudden realization (probably obvious to others) that we're seeing Carney pushing disaster capitalism in Canada with Trump as the disaster.

@mcsweeneys.net's never misses, but this hits <so close> to home that it's barely satire.

Apropos of nothing: advice given, without empathy for the person you're giving it to, will be nowhere near as helpful as you want it to be. Logos, ethos, pathos <- you need all three.

Ask your local Liberal why Canada's Federal gov't gave Montreal's waterfront a huge riverside park ("le Vieux‑Port de Montréal") but wants Toronto to have a noisy polluting airport. This letter to the Globe has the exactly right idea: turn Billy Bishop Airport into a federal park. Like Montreal has.

I should be working, and yet...

We need to accept that universities are a social good and realise that funding them well is one of the best possible uses of public money. Any time we allow “great business minds” to suggest that they should be run along business lines we are sunk - everything becomes chasing $.

All the "free speech" folks from the last fifteen years have taken the position: "This is bad, but it's the fault of the left for going too far."

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

we all know I have no life, so:

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

AMOC collapse more likely than thought. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lol, and indeed, lmao en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn...

this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness. which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!

HORATIO: Look, my lord, it comes. HAMLET’S DAD’S GHOST: (rockets past at inconceivable speed) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So my more Tolkien-minded friends how do we feel about this theory? Because I mean it makes a lot of sense…

We have a golden opportunity right now to gradually get off oil. If there was ever a reason to, it's now. Look. They're driving everyone to the poor house. (no pun). We have the alternatives. We just need the will. Demand the change we need. #cdnpoli

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Every time any of #LinkedIn’s one billion users visits Linkedin[.]com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects data, and transmits it to #Microsoft ’s servers and to third-party companies, including an American-Israeli #cybersecurity firm. #privacy #cyber #security

A Brief History of People Have Lost Their Sense of Humour 🧵

AI boosters and fence-sitters think viscerally negative reactions to AI are "irrational" but mass deployment of LLMs is actively destroying everything I care about (the open internet, the planet, creative industries, art, my ability to buy RAM). Total rejection is the most logical response.

I made a papercraft just for this

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

The war explained. Too good not to quote.

Didn’t I say the wording of Carney were carefully chosen for this to happen? These people choose their language carefully for an out

“We’re not going to wage an illegal war against Iran” became critical support for that war really fast, didn’t it?

Even if the war stopped today, supplies will be disrupted for months. If it continues on a few more weeks, supplies will be disrupted for years. If it lasts for months, we can mark this as the end of fossil fuel hegemony in energy markets. In the meantime, millions will starve.

stand up to them and they'll say you are deviant homosexual marxists trying to poison society. comply in advance & throw yourself at their feet, and they'll still say you are deviant homosexual marxists trying to poison society, because they need you to be that

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Transport Canada survey on vehicle headlights and glare at night tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

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.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

This post is nearly fifteen years old and could have been written today with a few minor substitutions. As a society we've learned nothing. fafblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/huma...

Today's horrifying realization: supposed leaders of the modern world actually believed there would be no messy consequences to starting a war.

If nothing else, it is no longer February. 🎉

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack" - Mark Carney

When I worked in tech, I would be woken up in the middle of the night if an automated system decided our cloud service was running too slow. 🍊 is going to war without the US Congress' approval and civilians are dying, little girls buried under smoking rubble, but Congress is like "eh, Monday."

"Surely the US military will refuse illegal orders!" No, the evidence does not support this hypothesis.

The first reported casualties were 40 girls between seven and twelve. “Protecting civilians” is a rhetorical flourish, nothing more.