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.

The thugs and monsters who claim to rule the world are demanding blood again.

Andromeda is funded by VCs best known for their appearance in the Epstein Files and yet has runway measured in hours because they burn all that cash on poaching principal engineers from other Andromedas. Thing Doer is built by one guy who retired from the compost logistics industry at 45.

B2B software is named either Andromeda or Thing Doer. Andromeda uses cutting edge AI, is endlessly configurable, has a huge sales team, and loses tons of money because at the end of the day it does fuck-all. Thing Doer makes Excel files regulation-compliant, and earns 300 million dollars per year.

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

"Subscribe for live analysis of the The State of the Union address" what do you expect me to pay so you can grunt at me and make the occasional fart noise?

I think if we’re going to defeat sexism and racism, we might have to do it without the support of sexists and racists. Don’t you think?

This is mildly horrifying. Someone at Microsoft...MICROSOFT...needed a Git flow diagram and instead of looking for one, asked an LLM trained on one to generate one, then published the result WITHOUT PROOFREADING.

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

somehow I get the feeling that if Mamdani had a nazi tattoo we'd have simply never heard of him again about 15 min after it was revealed instead of having to read a new piece every 5 days about how he's just a smol bean

If you had doubts about whether this was the most ridiculous timeline or not:

Bookmarking this to return to in a few years, because the tune sounds familiar here in 🇨🇦.

They always say this is to protect the privacy of the people who are fired. This is bullshit. They don't care about the people who they fired; that's why they fired them. They hide the names of the fired people to limit their own legal exposure. They fired these 'rebuked' employees for defiance.

Today I learned there's an officially-registered 'migraine' tartan. I like it.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Look at this beautiful cat

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

I think this a good time to remember that the only reason immigration laws exist in the first place is to suppress wages globally. If they can trap people in poorer countries, businesses can jump from place to place to bring down wages everywhere.

If Google stopped providing GMail for free tomorrow, there is nothing any Canadian government could do about it. And quite frankly, nor should they. If you want e-mail as a critical service, make Canada Post an e-mail provider. And make it accountable to the people through Government.

You don’t have to be the whole wall against fascism, but if you can be one brick, be a brick, and if you can be some mortar, be a little daub of mortar, and if you own a screen printing shop, bring people together in anger and art.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Americans please stop asking your Canadian workers to come to America for all staff meetings

This was a door for me. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...