guys what if Bruce got Pam fired WHAT ELSE CAN HE DO

Guz Khan nailed it straight after the first accusations of family voting. bsky.app/profile/snig...

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

A ungentle reminder that the RCMP was formed to enforce the Indian Act in Canada.

Canadian Christian children, confidently: Christ died on the cross at Calgary

Reasons for being less likely to travel to the US Political climate between Canada-US (67%) Trade relations (61%) No longer feeling safe to travel to the US (59% Don't feel welcome in the US (48%) Weak exchange rate (39%) Among others, from Leger

In addition, for animation... There's a long stage where it looks like absolute shit you can't show anyone and even scrubbing feels bad. You must push through the shittiness stage, it is always there

honestly hearing stories about game industry and tech and government layoffs make me feel better because it just cements that it's all completely arbitrary. it's not my fault. it doesn't matter who you are or how well you do or what your expertise is we're ALL fucked by capitalism and fascism

He is just so bad at this.

There's not enough Scots posting here.

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

Tapping the sign

the National Post guys are real mad about this one, that's how you know it's good:

Hard to square with the push to water gobbling AI and the continued focus on a resource extraction-based economy. Not to mention continued attempts to ignore Indigenous rights.

It makes sense since medical residents come and go all the time. Narratively, it's a bummer. I really liked the character and Ganesh played the part well.

also like listen, I get that maybe this is just me, but isn't part of the fun of being an author is that you get to wander off into endless research spirals on whatever thing you're currently obsessed with and buy books & write them off and call it work??? WHY ARE PEOPLE SKIPPING THE FUN PARTS???

Jesse Brown insists he’s done nothing wrong Banned from Reddit and accused of phishing critics, Canadaland’s founder is leading a chaotic 'investigation' into an army of sockpuppet accounts

call me old-fashioned, but i think that the name at the top of an article should signify the person who actually wrote the article

A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.

When you elect conservatives, they will spend SO MUCH of their time in office indulging in their own weird sexual obsessions. You're electing bathroom monitors, book banners, genital police. Their obsession with sexual activity, usually involving children, is both creepy and endless.

three of us have the crud. not covid, not flu, not rsv, not strep which is how I learned of human metapneumovirus is a thing my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

I will never understand these women. Divorce is always an option. Look to Melinda Gates for inspiration. There's also another more permanent option, but that's not for everyone.

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

i have the privilege of knowing an above-average number of writers and editors. all of them would spit in their own grandmother's face before they chatgpt-ed their art. my information is anecdotal, but so is the majority of this reporting.

Some Twitter nostalgia in the quotes and replies

This is something I keep coming back to, it is in just about every conceivable way making things worse for everyone except rich assholes and their zealots, from the negative impacts of data centers to larger electricity bills for everyone, but even if that wasn't the case, it's still killing people.

I don't know about you, but it feels like AI proponents are getting off lightly with the level of scorn directed at them, all things considered. They've earned so much worse. Frankly, I'd like to see Sam Altman criminally liable for the deaths his chatbots caused. As a start.

AEW Dynamite was in Winnipeg last night, and the Canadian crowd broke into a "Fuck the tariffs!" chant 😆

I try to be hopeful. I see species that were extirpated from my area when I was born in 1978 returning. We can't let capitalists strip everything. They know they're dooming themselves too. They don't care because they'll consider themselves winners if they've got all the money when it all ends.

Yeah that’s cool

I'd rather cut off my hands.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Simple. AI models do not have peers. They cannot lie, cheat, or steal as they do not have intentions. Universities deserve to be ridiculed for having staff who pretend otherwise. Is there money to be followed?!

Hate super bright headlights? Live in Canada? Transport Canada wants to know about it.

Lotta people think ‘Community Defense’ is just about guns and preparing to do violence Sometimes Community Defense is helping a trans person do laundry at their apartment complex where they’ve been receiving targeted harassment and threats We keep us safe

Sharing because don't we all need to see the goodest boy?

Normalize blocking people because they are mean, are aggressively and willfully uninformed, refuse to read clear prose, are boring, or look at you cross-eyed.

Why expect anyone to take the time to read a book you couldn't be bothered to research/write/edit? If you don't want to do the work, why do you want to be published?

Uh, 'interesting' way of presenting this... the only 'authors' I'm aware of using AI are the lazy, unethical, incompetent grifters who don't give a shit about their readers or real writers. People should stop using it, not resent that they have to 'lie about it.' Jesus.

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov

If I didn't think news betting is vile, I'd bet on him getting excommunicated. Or labeled as a heretic.

A reminder that this weekend is a government holiday, with school closures, to mark a Christian holiday. But apparently it's only ideologically based when it's everyone else.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

i hope everyone around me on the subway enjoyed my look of abject disgust as i read this.

getting an influx of Trump-hating people with both French-Canadian and Louisiana heritage is a gift imo (have you seen how good we are at cooking)