This 'Shieldwall' magazine for pillage is quite good. A bit like a mini-White Dwarf. A bit of advertisement for Victrix minis, a mini campaign, FAQ and more. Great pictures and illustrations. The downside is that it's free to download: www.victrixlimited.com

"“I want them to tell us how they are going to protect children and Canadians,” Mr. Solomon told reporters in Ottawa." YOU REPRESENT THE GOVERNMENT, YOU SIMPERING TECHNO-STAN, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TELL THEM! Man, this guy sucks. Absolutely useless when it comes to rising to the needs of the moment.

"I stole your work to make shitty facsimilies of it that I am gloating will impoverish you and your friends, why don't you like my stuff?" --Every TechBro ever.

COOKING TIP: “Oh SHIT, my (beans/curry/whatever) has started to burn — I better stir it!” WRONG. If the bottom of the pot has actually begun to burn, just take everything off the top WITHOUT DISTURBING THE BOTTOM. You might avoid mixing the scorched flavour throughout the whole dish. Cont…

CBC airing the State of the Union address pisses me off and is also so embarrassing. I wish Canadians understood that "Everything the US does, impacts us" has become a self-fulfilling prophecy where we rely on them for everything and are therefore, constantly being impacted by their BS.

"At the end of Chen’s LogiVote presentation, the entire room of elected officials and digital strategists broke out in applause."

10 year old me sternly warning these guys that it's not a good idea to develop an emotional attachment to your tamagotchi

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

there are too many discourses right now put some back

@emmettmacfarlane.com: Albert Premier Danielle Smith’s vision is one that would create a nightmarish, dystopian underclass. It is a cruel, inherently racist agenda, straight from the far-right populist playbook we have seen play out in the United States. It is anti-Canadian. #abpoli

Tired of living in a country run by politicians and tech oligarchs who are constantly painting tunnels on rock faces and going “this is the cool tunnel everyone in the future will use, if you don’t run straight into it right now you’ll be left in the dust.”

This is so important. Anytime savings from AI are not going to accrue to the worker. And because many overestimate time savings, some workers are likely going to end up working more than they did before.

"Pay your taxes and we'll take care of your health!" "Including my mouth?" "No. Oh no. God no. No no no. No."

You're scrolling the internet. You see people discussing something you're not interested in and/or actively dislike*. You: A) Burst in like Kool-Aid Man to tell them this thing is terrible B) Mock them for liking it C) Keep scrolling C! C!! C!!! *Your regular reminder that shutting up is free

In other news, the Carney government’s travel advisory to the United States remains unchanged: “Take normal security precautions.” Appeasement by any other name, and an abdication of the government’s basic responsibilities to Canadians.

Ford warns OSAP students not to pick 'basket-weaving courses’, pick ‘inherit trust fund’ courses instead

One of the frustrating things about “mainstream” reporting on these right-wing alt-media outlets is they describe them as “partisan” or assume they’re trying to get Poilievre elected If you actually listen to them, they tell you exactly what they’re trying to do – namely normalize extremist ideas:

I might not have that fancy STEM-related book learnin' that Doug got from *checks notes* inheriting his dad's sticker factory, but at least people don't want to cry when they look at me

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

Matt Jeneroux leaves Conservative party after being too intimidated by Poilievre's workout regime

If you made a rum & coke jello shot, it'd be a Gelatinous Cuba Libre. #TTRPG

Pretty incredible that the left, concerned as it is with workers, has not wholly and uncritically embraced generative AI, the tool promoted by its billionaire owners as replacing all workers

is there a way of tearing down society and enriching billionaires that the left *is* excited about

using your actual brain to learn skills and come up with original ideas

I see you out here making excuses for the fucking ecology-wrecking slopaganda plagiarism machines, it's a block. Especially if you're trying to say we "need" them. We don't fucking need that theftvomit shite, go bleat elsewhere.

This "why does the left hate AI?" thing is like when the right believes protests are paid for by George Soros; they need a SECRET CONSPIRATORIAL AGENT because they refuse to believe that, actually, a lot of people are independently looking at what AI is being made to be and saying "ok that sucks?"

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

Reposting with ALT because this kind of phenomenal disdain and disrespect from within the industry literally against two of their own titles and the designer who made them is important to recognize.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Absolutely. If a robot wrote your paper, please don’t waste my time and ask a robot to review it.

It's very simple. Carney is cutting public sector jobs that contribute to public services and instead pushing private sector jobs in destructive industries like weapons and fossil fuels for the benefit of corporate profits. That is straight up conservative economic policy.

Have the police considered the stupid fucking height of the vehicle in question

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

Apologies to my neighbors, my dogs and anyone who walked past the house as I screamed: ‘I don’t want a fucking app for my fucking hair dryer!!’

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

It’s not possible to have a “reasonable” conversation about AI because the AI industry is by itself completely unreasonable. Its adherents all demand blind devotion and blanket acceptance of it, consequences like a destroyed biosphere and a flood of the worst bullshit you’ve ever seen be damned

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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines. '"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

The picture that's emerging is one of absolute tragedy for the young victims, a teacher, the shooter and her family. There are unresolved questions here about why/how the guns were returned and what mental health supports were available for a deeply troubled teen.

1) The vast majority of school and mass shooters in North America are overwhelmingly white men 2) Transgender people are far more frequently victims of violent crime 3) even if the inverse of 1) and 2) were true, nobody ever calls for the extermination of all white men after any other mass shooting.

These fucking ghouls out here layering hate onto tragedy for their own disgusting political purposes. The shooter's gender identity doesn't fucking matter. It only matters to sick fucks trying to exploit a mass tragedy to drive an agenda of hate that will kill more kids. Monsters, all of them.

a bunch of people who work for AI companies and largely paid in vesting stock options are overwhelmed by the magnitude and depth of what they've created. everyone else is a curmudgeon or otherwise a confused hater. truly this is an irreconcilable intellectual dilemma.

These are not smart people. 1) Independence makes you *more* dependent on federal policy, since they get to decide whether or not you can access TMX. Forget about ever building another pipeline west. 2) You need the goods (food, etc.) that cross "our land". Blocking their passage is self-injury.

Once you hit a net worth of say, a billion, you should be forbidden from comment on public policy on the grounds that your wealth is the cognitive equivalent of being kicked in the head by a horse each day

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"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded.