A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox. Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.

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Americans lecturing Australians on gun control and Canadians on healthcare is the ultimate in shut the fuckupness.

This is more than half the NSF's total annual budget.

Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

An ongoing pandemic that many are ignoring, a provincial government cutting public health funding, pushing private and discouraging vaccinations, all of these things are related for a collapsing healthcare system that healthcare workers have been warning us about for years.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

It's probably up to a trillion--but yes, the AGI they dream of is wise. It's not tech. It's a wise mind that understands humanities subjects. They will never build this thing but as they themselves don't read, they'll be unaware for some time they've made a thing that can't think and is not wise.

Humanities degrees aren't worthless, they are clearly worth trillions. That's the problem. They don't want to pay people. But don't worry, they don't want to pay STEM or Finance people, either.

They fail to realize that STEM is useless without the humanities. What good is hard science when society is so backwards and ignorant that they think vaccines are poison and chatbots are alive? What is the point of math if it's just used to measure peoples skulls?

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

Protip for academics: If someone like Jeffrey Epstein e-mails you, you don't have to reply. Or do anything with them at all!

Great cartoon. Know why it resonates? Alberta oil bros want to produce as much oil as Russia and Saudi Arabia (9.2MM b/d vs AB's 4MM b/d today)...and have the economic and political clout that goes with it. They are frustrated "masters of the universe." Separatism is about power. Nothing more.

The DoJ has now admitted that Trump's name is all over the Epstein files but are claiming that they are fake. The cover-up becomes more blatant by the day and now only morons would believe the excuses.

Dangerous (and Trumpy) nonsense. The courts exist to interpret and protect our rights — even, and maybe especially, the unpopular ones. The fact that they aren’t elected is a *good* thing. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Alberta, where the UCP government is excited about the prospect of getting coal in their Christmas stockings.

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

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“Only 53 per cent of students achieved an “acceptable” score on the Provincial Achievement Test, or PAT, down from 72 per cent who achieved acceptable in 2019, before the pandemic and new curriculum.”

Nearly half of Alberta’s Grade 6 students failed the provincewide math test in 2024, 3 years after the province started rolling out its new elementary school curriculum. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Agree completely. When it comes to research, AI is at best a guide to received wisdom (conventional ideas) and the whole point of actual research is to produce new knowledge.

I can't help but wonder if Brett Kavanaugh and Thomas are in the Epstein files. No way they missed the US Judiciary.

The miracle of Hanukkah (2025 edition): A 60 Minutes story on CECOT which would have only burned for 1 night if it had simply aired will now burn for 8 nights since it was spiked.

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Hi Pam. Just a quick reminder that Nixon didn’t go to prison - but his AG did. Happy holidays.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Agree! I think we should use more specific terms too like GenAI, Machine Learning, NLP, etc.

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing

Yeah, this is super useful work

So Danielle Smith wants to take over policing in Alberta because she needs the police to get to Albertans on time... But she can't even manage making sure that POLICE get an AMBULANCE on time with the EMS service she already runs?!? This is horrifying. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Tech bro: "You actually read all the relevant literature in your field?!?!?" A big part of domain expertise is knowing what to not waste your time on for a particular project, or to not waste your time on *at all.* We are connoisseurs of our respective fields, not all consuming preta.

I get why those with a particular strain of autodidacticism see AI summaries as useful. But the disciplined form of autodidacticism learned in grad school is not that strain.

truly amazing how many different professions there are where everyone’s newest persistent headache is “AI zealots high on their own supply”

AIMCO's "Volatility Trading Strategy" cost billions (reported estimates of loss range from ~US$2.1 billion up to ~$4 billion). AIMCO also made bad bets on Trident Exploration, Perpetual Energy, Razor/FutEra Power, Pieridae Energy, etc. Albertans have fared much better with the CPP.

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Unless I missed it somewhere, I don't see any details about the Alberta Next survey methodology. This leaves me with a lot of questions.

Welp, @trevortombe.bsky.social owns it. His credibility is entirely at stake on it. Ask him for the details. #abpoli #AlbertaNext

This is infuriating. This cost will be paid in blood.

“Selecting an answer from a multiple-choice array is a pale shadow of producing that answer from memory.” And other gems on how (not) to build an education app from @carlhendrick.substack.com

“The reality is that there are those outside our borders who appear determined to harm Canada by spreading disinformation about our country and sowing division among our citizens…” #ableg #cdnpoli www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025...

A journal editor stumbles across a paper attributed to him that he didn’t write. Then stumbles across a similar paper he also didn’t write that’s been cited 42 times!! Science will be killed by AI—all trust will be destroyed if authors don’t actually read the papers they cite—BE CERTAIN THEY EXIST