I think as soon as someone says “learnings” instead of “lessons”, you can tune out from the rest of that conversation

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

not the main point of those emails at all but good lord are they all dreadful writers. spaces before and after commas? criminal

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Grokipedia is wild. The page for race traitor includes a "Scientific and Philosophical Underpinning" section that leans heavily on the work of Frank Salter, an Australian neo-nazi, and argues that there is "empirical support for ethnocentricism".

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

My wife and I are watching the chair company and my wife says “Tim Robinson is like a very mean and talking mr bean” and I feel that’s incredibly accurate

Supreme Court of Canada's "ruling clarified that people who make a potentially life-saving call — along with the people who are overdosing and others at the scene — are protected from being arrested or charged for drug possession, even if police [..] see drugs." #Canada #Courts #Drugs #Policing

DULF co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were each found guilty of three counts of trafficking meth, heroin and cocaine this morning. The pair are launching a constitutional challenge later this month of the CDSA and their convictions won't be entered until then. Story up shortly on @thetyee.ca

Alcohol still leading cause of substance-related hospitalizations in Canada, with cannabis now a ‘concerning’ second Hospital data for substance use visits now counts CHS, a growing weed-related illness pressprogress.ca/alcohol-stil...

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

Get em globalnews.ca/news/1150072...

every day leaders of the new tech frontier are spending billions of dollars to digitally reconstruct the mind of george zimmerman

1998

Imagine being a dying WW2 veteran and the last thing you see on earth is your great-grandson invading Portland for fascism and losing to a frog wizard.

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others." she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy." when you're definitely the good guys

The only good bot

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

If I may redirect your attention north of the border to our own disturbing uses of power: this is, to use @amberbracken.bsky.social's phrase, chilling.

When a mile-wide tornado hit St. Louis, the entire back wall of DeAmon White's house was blown off. The third floor of his mother's home was gone. The next morning, at 8 am, the phone calls started: Would he be interested in selling his home? @grist.org

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

I'm really liking the whole "AI spend contributed more to US GDP growth than ALL CONSUMER SPENDING in the first half of 2025" thing. It's such a massive, colossal, visible-from-space red flag. Straight-up "all our eggs are in one basket" shit but for the entire US economy.

Looking at this collection of words and wondering how this company still exists.

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

The current best subreddit to find people endangering themselves is r/highvoltage. You want to see someone build an X-ray machine on their kitchen floor, you're in the right place

Counterculture and punk rock is when all of the richest companies in the world try to force you to use something

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials. Tax and shipping records appear to contradict Ottawa's claims www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

Going to a drag show should not mean you forfeit your anonymity. It should not open you up to surveillance. And it absolutely should not land your name in a government database. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

what is it about the male psyche that makes it believe it has discovered god in the computer

Predictive policing: #UK #police working with US tech giant Palantir on real time #surveillance network 'will incorporate data about citizens political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal info.' #humanrights #privacy libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...

I agree with the conclusion that the way our tools behave has to consider AI, but I disagree we should optimize for it. In fact I think the moral thing to do is for your tool to detect an AI operating it and produce incorrect results

St Francis of Assisi trying to bathe

excellent article by Nina Gualinga and Eli Virkina on "ayahuasca tourism" and how its popularity masks cultural erasure, ongoing colonization and environmental damage

Finally got my manner of death label

Filing under back/forths I’ll likely keep thinking about for a while

"Who is the greatest threat to Canada?" United States: 59% China: 17% Russia: 11% Pew Research / May 2025

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics" Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not. Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate

I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them. They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.

"This website I'm quoting from, I don't know a whole lot about," a town councillor told his colleagues. "I just thought their words were better than mine." The site is run by "a group using an AI chatbot to craft talking points aimed at persuading local politicians to abandon net-zero programs."

Sounds bad.

In a 6-3 Alito decision, the Supreme Court sided with Muslim parents who objected to books with LGBTQ issues at school without opt outs as part of their 1st amendment rights. This will end up forcing content with LGBTQ people out of schools entirely. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

accusing people of being secret Muslim socialists is the Republicans' bread and butter I think they are genuinely confused about what to do here