Now we’re talking.

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

so you can't trust the output, there's no way to fix it so you can, and using it to replace people who know how to do things will result in people relying on it more with less ability to know when it's wrong

“We’re about to witness…” No we aren’t. Not even a little.

There's a reason ACAB is so catchy.

Team sports can be such a fucking cult. A bunch of kids with no read on the power dynamic listening to a guy who, and let's be honest here, can easily be a ghoul and receive the benefit of the doubt from parents and administration. I don't know how coaches became more important than kids.

I feel like one of the more incredible right wing grifts is the "we don't get stuff because people are biased" tantrum. You know, when *I* don't get something I usually assume it could have been better written or more rigorous. I look at what the standards for publication are. I like, think?

Been a hot minute since this was my main beat but an immediate and enduring lesson from writing this in the summer of 2020 is that many of the tools of policing have their origin & are in feedback loop with the tools of colonial riot control, across decades www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

I just find the pro-AI discourse in academia so ridiculous. It's a tool to deskill workers. If you're not an AI engineer, why learn to use it instead of specialist knowledge? It's like a class on how to work an assembly line. The point of the line is you don't have to know anything specialized.

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

A nurse. A 37-year-old man who devoted his time to healing the sick and the injured, who came outside in the cold to protect his neighbors, gunned down in the street by bloodthirsty blackshirts

Lmao “new focus”. Was this written by that teen from a few weeks ago who talked about how disliking AI was cringe or fucking whatever?

Campus radio stations are the lifeblood of underground music in Canada and elsewhere. The conservative scourge on culture continues apace.

not a great start to the day… a battlebot got under my feet and flipped me

He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him

I got hit by a car once and bent its windshield pillar with my face. I wrote the car off and all it cost me was my health and mental wellness for the next uhhh. How long has it been? What was I doing?

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

Stochastic Book Fair

"My kids know me as this ape"

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

Steven Pinker should be forced to listen to his own opinions blasted through megaphones directly at his home and workplace 24/7.

Love the tough guy act from a group of people on campus who don’t even do their jobs if it’s raining.

Getting a wired keyboard and mouse because of the increasing tendency to want to throw them across the room.

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada. "Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

It’s simple: - News bloopers - unlikely animal friendships Everything else fuckin SUCKS

Side effect here is that it would also be illegal to be a bouncer.

It’s all bad, I think.

You can’t be pro-Union and also shill for ai in schools. It’s just not coherent. We all know how dangerous ai is to people’s brains, the environment, and to the artists whose work was stolen to train it. Shilling for ai makes you a SCAB

I refuse to say “skeet” because, where I grew up, “skeet” is a cum word.

If I could take a shit on the desks of the Springer c-suite, I’d fucking do it.

In Middleton, NY. This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs. This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.

Imagine not knowing who does labour.

Please stop publishing Rick Anderson. He sucks so fucking hard. He’s a black hole. Fucking stop it.

This is 100% the case and it’s happened or happening in universities across the country. Bargaining starts, the institution throws its hands up and won’t talk, angling for arbitration and back to work orders. Neoliberalism killing labour rights.

The Canadian government has been eroding labour protections for years with this bullshit. If you ever wonder why your neoliberal management won’t even bother to negotiate, it’s because they know the liberals will just intervene immediately. Cowards and traitors, the lot of them.

Politicians should (won’t) use actual evidence. Like, we’d be leagues ahead as a society if the people who ran cities (provinces, countries, continents) made decisions based on data and not reactionary nonsense.

Picture of Gavin Newsome doing a PR shoot where he throws homeless people’s social security cards in the trash

Industry gets created. Government takes bribe from industry so it can grow unregulated, unsustainably and irresponsibly. You have to live a shittier life to mitigate damage, while the industry remains unregulated.

None of these are the right answer The answer is to not fucking use an AI tool in the first place