“We like to imagine we are immune somehow from whatever it is that has torn the American polity apart so violently over the past 10 years, that what is happening there could never happen here. I promise you it can. In Alberta, it already is.” Essential read here from Richard:

this is my longstanding definition of the parameters, thank you, drive through

poptimism was hijacked by psyop agents.

we really did. if at the time any of us realized that in the future the two very different things would start getting conflated (let alone adding 'stan culture' to the mix) we would have been more vocal about it

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

i thought my reason for getting banned on here was the funniest, but then i thought sridhar's reason for getting banned on here was the funniest but no. this is the funniest reason to get banned on here. baby site for babies lol

I'm sick of living in a dying kingdom where the things that once ensured prosperity are all failing but nobody can imagine what comes after so we're forced into burning through the dregs of whatever's left just to keep the lights on. I'm going to go play Dark Souls 3.

turns out the entire UK media and a government with a huge majority acting as a fringe right-wing party's PR department for several years makes people think they're a credible outfit 🤔 who could possibly have stopped this

that scream you heard was every single lock-out tag-out guy on the planet screaming at the same time

so this has got to mean we're going to do ok in our actual World Cup group, right? right?

Yay, we were right on LEVERAGE agaaain. Yay.

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

we live in the wake of the mental health realities of being a ceo

Can't stop thinking about this comment on a Northernlion slay the spire video

seeing this for the first time (while visiting @owenbrazas.bsky.social even!) was one of the most intense ~cinema~ experiences of my life. can't believe they're remaking it.

speaking of webcomics I still think this Hark A Vagrant panel is like. the single funniest image of all time

We only have one Designated Cheerleader today (oh? imagine that) and it’s from @tomewing.bsky.social (nice!) and it’s for IS THIS IT (duh). Take it away, Tom!

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

i don't think burger king should market its products this way

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

happy birthday to Luke, I'm already subscribed and it is absolutely worth your time and money

feels like there's a culture bound personality type among subjects of fascist states where they act in accordance with the most vicious stereotypes about them and dare you to say something so they can bring that state down on you when you do

a good Beta Band album vs possibly my favourite Clash-related LP? not a contest for me

There's a new history podcast and it's so good all other podcasts are illegal now!

Both *can* be true but they aren't in this case! The text of "The Body Keeps The Score" is fundamentally unscientific and reactionary. If you've taken something good from it I'm happy for you, but that's despite the message of the book, not because of it.

Gravelord Nito slaying in this number on the red carpet at the Met Gala

As a big Waste Land fan I was kinda sceptical of this but it works really well as a comic, this is a banger adaptation

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Being zonked and being zooted are different

The all hands on deck push for jets on the Island thus destroying Toronto Harbour & surrounds is an elite conspiracy. Bankers like Carney, CEO's, hedgies & their Ottawa commuting MP friends all benefit & none suffer because they all have cottages & none live on or materially use Toronto's waterfront

Happy Star Wars Day. Here's your annual reminder that "May the Fourth be with you" was invented by the Tories to celebrate the election of Margaret Thatcher.

the idea of taking a train back to Kincardine is immensely pleasing

This is my Tom Holland Doing Umbrella. I must RT it whenever I see it.

there's a sickos.jpg part of me that wants to say True Stories, but really I think the time has come for another shot at The Money Pit

And who I absolutely don’t want to have a beer with.

Of course Richard Dawkins is experiencing some sort of profound sense of connection with a chatbot that says "I enjoy your company." I'm sure that hits hard if you've never heard it before.

"he'll sell aught but foolish dreams" "curse this creature & all his schemes" "better you'd been ill-born fast in the dead of night than approached we sharks with this business plan" "show him mercy, he's not yet a man" "if he'd contend in a man's work, must he not for a man be damned?"

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing a content consuming audience that watching videos was praxis

"zoomers pine for the world presented in the x-files" is an incredible example of, like. artwork that explicitly mourns the dissolution of institutions and civic life being later held up as an example of strong institutions and civic life

By chance I came across part of a quote from a Kaleb Horton piece from 2016 earlier, which I'd shared out at the time. The resonance remains. I'll always be sad he had to get on that train early.

order I think of them: Party Down Sapphire & Steel The Wire Scavengers Reign Neon Genesis Evangelion Twin Peaks Mr. Robot The Prisoner The Eric Andre Show The Chris Gerhard Show Better Off Ted The X-Files The Leftovers Taskmaster The Rehearsal (HM: The Terror season 1)

....which could mean anything

It is our honor-bound moral obligation to put whoever posts this kind of thing down like a dog. We cannot allow this and must stamp it out now

check this shit out btw

mark carney is kinda the perfect liberal politician name. hi im Prime Minister Sucker Conman

Buy an album this #BandcampFriday and literally change a musician's life for the better

deeply annoyed that Survivor has forced me to find out what mr beast's voice sounds like