A little article I wrote. https://dianne.skoll.ca/writings/ai-is-bad/

Een uitstekende aflevering van "Lubach" over de AI bubbel, met een heel grappige reactie op de Coca-Cola AI reclame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_5jTOFX5Wc

I guess Apple thinks that Apple fans will buy anything... https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/

Religion has much to answer for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrAZRhoW24

The ICC is ditching Microsoft Office for an open-source European alternative. Good move. Now we need to convince Canadian organizations to do the same. For businesses, relying on American products or services is an unacceptable business risk, and for governments, it's a national security risk. […]

Here's a list of the pieces-of-shit comedians performing in Saudi Arabia. Many of them are the same people who bemoan the "lack of freedom of expression" in comedy, yet seem very content to accept money from a dictator who paid to have a journalist murdered […]

Something genuinely good has come from the massive AI hype machine! Nobody talks about "Agile" any more.

Een heel grappige video over LinkedIn en LinkedIn-taal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMMw-_WYIc

Sometimes a parody says it better than anything else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyoYRN8cc-g

Freedom of expression still exists in some countries / Vrijheid van meningsuiting bestaat nog steeds in sommige landen / Arjen Lubach has a *fantastic* segment on the Jimmy Kimmel episode. Mostly in Dutch, but there's a hilarious English spoof of Disney at around 4:37. Well worth watching […]

Just in case anyone has forgotten, today is the 24th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack to hit the United States. RIP to all the victims. https://www.911memorial.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bF_AQvHs1M The dark side of AI. Or one of the dark sides.

Trans rights being supported with reference to the Second Amendment was not on my bingo card. I am so conflicted. 🙂 Very much pro gun-control, but also pro-trans. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/nra-transgender-gun-control

Well-connected person whom I trust was just telling me that he’s personally talked to 4 Canadians who in recent weeks have had US CBP demand to look through their phones and on that basis been turned back and handed 5-year entry bans. Three of the 4 were at Vancouver airport. These people are […]

One less far-right homophobe/transphobe to worry about. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4kqy44djo

We have lost one of the most brilliant (if not THE most brilliant) musical satirists, Tom Lehrer. 🙁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html

LOL, we're "nasty". https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/trump-thinks-canadians-nasty-for-avoiding-us-travel-banning-booze-ambassador/

Great article in the Globe and Mail about book-banning: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1f56a6fa6df1c99805e9cf90cc849db6831fef1f921fc93d89b67bcf743767dc/LOW6EVYVYNC4JLW4S3SLNC755U/

We have terrible wildfires in Canada that have claimed lives and threatened towns. So six US congress members sent a petulant letter to our ambassador to the USA complaining about smoke from our fires. I have a few words to say on the topic. Some of them NSFW […]

That didn't age too well.

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, in which the Chinese Communist Party massacred hundreds, if not thousands, of pro-democracy demonstrators. We should never forget. And we should certainly never take our democracy for granted […]

Isn't it annoying how so many companies make mobile apps when a mobile web site could work just fine? Well, at least in the case of Meta and Yandex, having an app lets them abuse your privacy, even when you browse using a mobile browser rather than the app. See link below for details. I […]