I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1756

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

this is the guy who wants an AI Dead Nan

Tech bros don’t actually understand the sci-fi they claim to love. Thank you Al Jazeera English for having me on.

As someone who has experienced both Peterson Academy (one week) and an accredited Alberta university (5 years, oops) it is striking to me that Albertan officials were discussing "transferability." The most rigorous testing PA did is an AI-generated multiple choice quiz. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Hey cool, the Smithsonian Podcast episode interviewing me about space debris is out! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/podcast/series/theres-more-to-that/season-2/the-astronomical-problem-of-space-junk/ (disclaimer: I have not yet listened to it!)

That's not what these products provide. Also, she was probably fine with talking about the weather "out there" a few times a year before insisting I must be busy and she should "let me get back to it" (in between birthday and Christmas cards). Respect the dead. Don't touch this ghoulish tech.

AI products that do a shitty impression of someone’s dead loved one for money are some of the most depraved and sadistic forms of “big tech innovation” that I’ve seen. Like the emotional manipulation and disrespecting the dead IS the product

Council will consider $12,150,000 in transit cuts during next week's budget debate. This is what that will look like. On the chopping block: • accessibility training for drivers • accessibility improvements at stops • end evening service on Sundays • cancel 4 planned driver positions /1 #yqrcc

Drop a lawyer.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Yeah. We’re wading in a sewer pond. Undergrad students especially, how are they going to tell.

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

Gutted to hear about the death of Daniel Woodrell, one of *the* all-time great noir writers. WINTER’S BONE, TOMATO RED, and so many more — but also, not nearly enough — books.

Big loss. Tomato Red and Winter’s Bone are two of my favourites. RIP

Just as horrifying: I polled my students a couple years ago and almost all of them admitted to watching the movies I assigned them at 2x the speed!

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.

Imagine going through life like this

LLMs are word generators. They were trained on the writings of humans who describe their own consciousness, so the fact that they mimic (or outright replicate) those writings when told to be more factual isn't strange. The idea that any of this output is eerie is propaganda.

Activists Are Using Fortnite to Fight Back Against ICE. Players are role-playing ICE raids in Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto to prepare for real-world situations. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/activi...

here comes the notwithstanding clause for abortion

I always laugh when someone calls me a ‘paid shill’ for mentioning the scientific consensus on vaccines. If I really wanted to make money, I’d target people’s biases with sensational, polarizing content—the stuff that spreads fast, builds big followings, and turns outrage into revenue.

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.

Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Blowing their minds with the Dreamcast logo and telling them they can become a computer if they eat an entire console

the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

Good to see so many Anthony-Bourdain-hate-for-Henry-Kissinger style takes on Dick Cheney today. “I fucking hate him, yeah. Because in my travels I’ve stumbled upon his good works everywhere I go.” www.themarysue.com/anthony-bour...

now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This is an essential read on the legacy of Cheney

Today we celebrate Cuomo Boys taking L’s

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Use my AI summary generator to get a concise summary of my works and cognitively offload your despair.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. I am out of the office but checking emails. Responses may be slower than usual. If your matter is urgent, please feel free to look upon my works and despair.

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I know other profs say this all the time but it's so true: Hearing from terrific former students that they are enjoying their jobs & are doing well (all things considered) is an absolute highlight of the job - and a high point of any week that it happens.

If only every single critical "AI" researcher had warned about the likelihood of this danger for machine learning-based systems for the past decade or so and if only an acronym like "GIGO" had existed for decades Prior. Oh If Only 😐 "Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’"

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

Let’s see what happens. #jays #wantitall