Canada isn't just racist It's where you can make a career as an influencer celebrating the mass murder and rape of Indigenous children

Canada will continue to release three new Drake records every single day until our demands are met

America threatens to annex Canada, and we respond in kind by releasing three Drake records all at once.

"It was more likely, Mr. Sarts said, that the two drones, after being knocked off course by Russian jamming, selected a new target that resembled what they had been programmed to hit. “It’s all autonomous. It picked its target.”"

Canada has, in the span of a year, nearly doubled its defence spending to hit 2%/GDP; stood up a project to build America's much-needed icebreakers; and is (finally) creating its own defence industrial base. So, naturally, the U.S. is suspending a shared defence panel that's been around since 1940.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Appeasement does not work. Appeasement has not worked. Appeasement will not work. youtu.be/Hwsbu-MTFFk?...

Hey, everyone who thought that Mark Cuban was one of the “good” billionaires? He’s not. None of them are. There are no good billionaires unless they give away enough money to not be a billionaire anymore. Yes, this includes your favorite entertainers and talk show hosts. Eat the rich.

Heads up. He is/was in a lot of starter packs, too, so check yours if you've made one so you're no longer recommending a rapist.

My sister & I were the first in our family to graduate university. My parents were so excited to hear our names. This is so disrespectful of the students & their parents.

Of course. And if our government had any spine, they'd expel Hoekstra.

As the onslaught of scams targeting the writing community continues, one author who nearly fell for an e-mail scheme herself offers advice to avoid falling prey. “Scammers are getting smarter and savvier…. [F]ight back, together, with me: Join my battle against the bots.” at.pw.org/SpotAScheme

One thing that's on my mind lately is the collapse of local empirical infrastructure. There's an adage that news is the first draft of history; the decline of local news means that all sorts of information about local govt goes unarchived. Soon enough we won't have many academic historians either...

The best thing about having written, aside from temporarily silencing the rampaging guilt harpies, is knowing that you've created a tiny pocket of world that never existed before.

Opinion: It's been six months since Premier Doug Ford's ban on "cash grab" speed cameras, and the data is in, writes @graphicmatt.com. All of us get to say it: we told you so. #onpoli

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

My prediction is that AI is actually so organically unpopular that we’re going to see a backlash against any new product that uses “AI” even if it doesn’t and that was a marketing ploy. All these newly “AI” companies are going to come crawling back, AI-less

A shocking number of people are replying to my call to block Neil Gaiman with variations on "Wait, what did he do?" I guess some folks have been living under a rock, but it's never too late to wise up: archive.is/cr8Me

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

A local pub/restaurant that I've shown my art in before recently posted a flyer for an art event featuring nothing but AI crap. An artist I know excused it as acceptable. People whining that they can't afford to hire an artist for the flyer. Absolute bullshit.

Some good pieces on hantavirus that are neither alarmist nor calm-mongering. Again, no one is saying panic (it's never time to panic). We're saying precautionary principle. Humility. Learn from the mistakes of COVID. 🧵

this persistent liberal mindset that we have to appeal to some mythological perfect standard instead of engaging in political combat is literally the secret weapon the right has employed for decades now to turn us into fascism. i cannot fucking understand holding on to it after all we have seen.

Alberta's separatist leaders are musing openly about staging a coup to oust Danielle Smith and takeover the UCP:

To be clear: the 400,000-plus people who signed the Forever Canada petition don't want a referendum. They wanted to prevent one. So no, Premier Smith, you don't get to add their names to those of the separatists. If anything, they more than cancel them out. #abpoli

I haven't been in school for years but this seems like something that was pretty important to get right at the time. are researchers just like. worse and more stupid now. or

Ross Barkan's plagiarism mini scandal has barely been discussed on Bluesky. We should be taking note of it. Especially since, now that he has responded on Twitter, his explanations are ridiculous.

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

Even if this doesn't stop the spread of AI infrastructure and tech oligarch dominance in any way, it's important to make as plainly to history, to your great-grand kids/neices/nephews, that none of us wanted this and that we fought it at every turn

Almost like every CEO that praises AI imagines replacing everyone in that crowd. "Your hard work and dedication is soon to be made irrelevant"

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

And the decline from the 70s is from the baby boom, which was in some ways an anomaly (especially as regards the very young age at which people started and completed their families). It would be more revealing to think about this in relation to trends running across the twentieth century.

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

Even if AI wasn't so destructive I don't see anything cool about offloading all my creativity and thinking to an LLM.

THEY TRAINED THEIR INFERNAL MACHINES ON MY COPYRIGHTED WORK, WHICH, IN SOME CASES, THEY ACTUALLY STOLE. I RECEIVE PROMPTS HERE ASKING IF I WANT HELP IN REWRITING MY POSTS. I AM STILL TRYING FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET COPILOT OUT OF MY WORD DOCS.

For our species' future addressing climate change is far, far more urgent. Birth rate doesn't matter at all. There are plenty of people now. And there'll continue to be. Bigots are worried there aren't enough of the "right" people. Capitalism needs more. Even if it kills us. Humanity doesn't.

I'm not a sci-fi fan in general, but I like to keep an open mind and read books in genres I don't normally enjoy. So I love lists like this which give me somewhere to start

Im probably butchering it, but I remember reading a book by a Buddhist nun where she talked about compassion & genuinely wishing well for others. Easy to do for loved ones. Hard to do for strangers. Saying Albertans deserve the harms of Smith's government doesn't follow this practice of compassion.

If you think a public agency that collects our taxes to provide a social benefit is functionally equivalent to a coal CEO because both are "bosses," may I suggest that you don't actually believe in public provision of goods and whatever claims you make to being a socialist are aesthetic at best.

F441.4.3 Forest spirits brighter than moon.

Die in a fire. Absolute dogshit. I have rarely been prouder of my SM curation than when I realised Good Omens 3 had come out on telly and not one person on my TL was talking about it. Honestly mate, fuck off, you've been told.

My spouse had to remove a tick from my scalp. No truer love etc.

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

I have to plug My Winnipeg. It's shocking which elements are actually true.

This is definitely up there.

I'm guessing photos of Lupita N'yongo in her blue Prada Oscar's dress was on Christopher Nolan's moodboard.

Whoever it is, I hope it pisses off many people on X. Remember how angry people got because Daniel Craig is blond?

Some rescues are run by people who have lost touch with reality. As for "must have 2 cats", that's so silly. My two are littermates and one of them hates other cats, including her sister. She'd be thrilled to be a solo act.