MAD magazine knew the Truth in 1991

This is a future disaster.

Today, while reviewing submissions to the AbSciCon 2026 Creative Writing Contest, I discovered a new tell for gen AI. Now, I had assume that gen AI, when asked to write fiction, would at least come up with unique character names. Turns out, I was wrong. Let me tell you about Eva Rostova

“This is an assault on artists everywhere”: 'Good Advice Cupcake' creator Loryn Brantz has condemned BuzzFeed and Amazon MGM Studios after learning her character is being adapted into an AI-assisted animated series without her involvement or approval. www.cartoonbrew.com/artificial-i...

I am a working writer today who sits in front of a computer, either doing longform or on deadline, and whatever the cadence of my work, I don't use AI one way or another at least in part because it is not only unreliable as hell, but I think doing my job myself is really incredibly valuable.

When one of the Liberals’ biggest climate champions feels he must leave the Liberal caucus in order to fight climate change, it says everything you need to know about the government’s sense of urgency on this file. There is none. PM Carney has abandoned climate action at our collective expense.

Al is one of the wierdest things on the Internet. Weird Al, that is. #WeirdAl And now he has a banana keyboard made with actual bananas. youtu.be/U2D2LHJxhNw?... @alyankovic.bsky.social

what could be more terrifying than the thought that the body in the next toilet stall might be organising to produce small gametes

DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN

Danielle Smith is angling to be Canada's Nigel Farage. I break down years of her absurd fantasies about an independent Alberta, and the role she played in whipping up separatist fever. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

STOP TELLING ME AI IS THE FUTURE OH MY GOD

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

"Grievance junkies." Max has coined a new term here, which I find to be completely apt. Max's conclusion that the effort to dismantle the AB separatist movement and "cure" the grievance junkies of their ills must be led by the Conservatives, who created these junkies, leaves me in despair.

As drought conditions worsen across the province, the BC NDP are telling British Columbians to conserve water, while selling water off to corporations. We're calling on the Province to be more transparent with how it’s safeguarding its most precious resource. #bcpoli

Okay AI is making me dumber. But it's making me more efficient right? No? Oh ok. But it produces better quality work than me right? No? Ok but it's saving my employer money right? No? Uhm ok but it's creating water shortages, increasing greenhouse gas emissions & spreading disinformation, right?

It’s really frightening.

Alberta’s grievances with Ottawa are mostly manufactured, always exaggerated and, often, completely illusory. Now it's time for the people who spent the last decade amplifying and weaponizing them to put out the fire they helped create. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/26/o...

Danielle Smith - There can be no foreign interference! Alberta Prosperity Project - That's cute. We're doing it anyways. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

"Canadians take care of each other." Says the man who kneecapped national pharmacare and is starving childcare. Pay attention to this man's actions, not his words. #CdnPoli

Cuba has spent years sending the world doctors and nurses while we starve them to death

1/11 🇨🇦 WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG -- CANADA DISBANDS WEATHER RADAR RESEARCH TEAM 🇨🇦 ECCC dissolved its radar unit, pivoting to AI. Experts warn this halts life-saving tech updates as severe storm season begins. Source: CBC News #ClimateSky #CdnPoli #SkPoli #WeatherRadar #PublicSafety

Oh, hey—a proper story that talks about severe droughts and quotes an actual food economist and not the Food Charlatan. Amazing how rare that is these days.

But let's start building water guzzling data centres. 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For anyone who needs a list of reasons why people like Dr. Bonnie Henry are uniquely unsuited and ill-equipped to stop the spread of another deadly virus, here she is in her own words: youtu.be/nlNp0la57vE

I’m also perplexed - I threatened to bankrupt my neighbour to take over his home, make him and his wife work and hand over his money to me, and now he’s frustrated with me and won’t even pay me to eat at my home. What’s with people? #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Danielle Smith secured a massive commitment from the federal government for a pipeline that has no business case. Now she is moving ahead to push the MAGA agenda to break up our country. This is very serious stuff. We break down the latest play by the MAGA far right. youtu.be/1t-_m8tNZVk?...

Can we please, stop allowing the USA to be considered a "safe third country"? Most Canadians wont travel there nor buy their wares. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Canadians love Canada. They show that every day in so many ways. For a provincial political party in Alberta in an effort to “unite the right” to play double or nothing with our country is wrong. bsky.app/profile/saro...

We are in for a bad, bad time. I must stress, this is not some little gotcha game I was playing, this happened when I was actually trying to Find Something Out.

The Pentagon is buying “unprecedented” ownership stakes in Canadian mining companies. Nessie Nankivell tracks how Canada’s critical minerals are being extracted to build weapons for the U.S. military—all while the Canadian government is helping fund these projects. breachmedia.ca/elbows-up-ca...

I resent Mark Carney for confirming all the lefty doubts I had during the #ElbowsUp stuff. I *wanted* to believe he’d find that "middle way" of Liberal dreams but it’s still just the same corporatism, oil profits, militarization, austerity and trickle-down economics that we’ve endured since Mulroney

“We’ve been doing it for decades, and it’s been shown to be safe, and the consequences of not getting it is far greater.” It's a tough one. Which is better? This shot or your infant with possible severe bleeding in the brain, intestines or other organs? Antivax grifters are merchants of death.

The best solution for high emissions from gass-burning heaters is to stop gathering data. The problem just goes away! 🤦‍♂️

So we all understand that the Alberta referendum is going to dramatically escalate the amount of foreign money and interference we've already seen in Canadian unity politics, right?

He'd parked his 1800cc Harley Davidson across all 3 #motorcycle parking spots. He idled the engine for 5 mins while putting on his leather vest and walnutshell helmet. Then, in an explosion of tasteless music from his deafening bass-boosted stereo, roared off. I bet his friends secretly hate him.

I actually woke up this morning thinking the same thing. Let the free flow disinformation begin. Lies that not only divide but enrage. Gee, who has an interest in Canada coming apart?

They wrote, “climate change remains the greatest threat of our time.” Despite wanting to remain publicly unidentified, the MP's letter was leaked to Radio-Canada. That is a shot across this climate-destroying prime minister's bow. The call is coming from inside the house. #CdnPoli

Did y'all know PM Carney is ending Pharmacare? Send a letter to your MP: Protect Pharmacare for all!. You can use the template or modify and write your own. via @leadnowca.bsky.social leadnow.ca/campaigns/ph...

(1/4) By now it’s unsurprising that Carney’s Liberals are openly anti-worker, repeatedly caving to corporate interests and violating the right to strike through Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

The BC NDP are renaming the Site C dam after John Horgan. You mean this John Horgan? #bcpoli

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Memo to the global community: Canada has officially abandoned climate action. PM Carney has systematically dismantled all the insufficient policy we had in place. A clear-eyed and devastating piece by my brother, @sethdklein.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How about we put a cap on how many times a person can repost the same post?

So ... Carney bends over backwards for oil and gas in Alberta then threatens BC to take all the environmental risk or else. Nice. In the meantime, the rest of the world is undergoing a transformational change to wind and solar. This is short-sighted beyond belief. Embarassing even.

Privatizing Canada's assets. Accelerating climate breakdown. Slashing social programs. Firing thousands & thousands of civil servants. Eliminating regulations protecting people & animals. Weakening unions. Funneling taxpayer money to corporations. Disaster capitalism. Barbarians at the gate.

A first for me today. Glad to have this piece in The Guardian. Figured it was time more of our international friends heard some hard truths about how things are going here in 🇨🇦: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...