An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

This framing is why allowing the techbros to flatten everything to AI was a massive mistake. Generative AI is almost uniformly evil, and its critics are correct. OTOH, "AI" as a pattern-finding tool has huge advantages. But you don't need these massive models destroying the world to do THAT.

Deutschland!!! Aber wie passiert das denn?

Now I'm worried about what AI superfan Carney will do to 24 Sussex...

What just struck me reading this is how it’s the same thought process as people loving AI “art” and “writing.” It’s people who are satisfied with an incredibly shallow imitation of the real thing because they genuinely can’t seem to tell the difference. That’s who’s in charge of the country.

Reminds me of this - soooo good 😆. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Anything that makes us even slightly less aligned with a genocidal country is very,very good news

Choosing a party tightly led by a man who knows to say all the right things but wants to do the exact opposite might end up being one of the worst mistakes Canada ever makes

Do you think someone said "build us a truly Yankee Victory Arch," but the contractors heard "build us a truly janky Victory Arch"? Seems like the only way this would be possible... I've seen high school plays with better sets than this

Congrats, #CanMNT!!! But can someone explain to me why these guys try to make plays that rely on the clinical passes they truly do not make? How many times do you have to try and fail at that "get the ball to the middle of the top of the box" before you start trying other options?

Wasn't Trump wearing that uniform because he had been sent to military school because he was a nightmare of a human and needed straightening out (didn't work, clearly)?

Can he read what he wrote? "We gotta stop being ineffective to stop people who work together and HELP each other take over our party"???

Regular use, probably a t-shirt that my mom used to wear in the late 80s-very early 90s. Occasional use, a box camera from the 1930s.

This is the best thing I've ever seen and every team should be required to do this before their qualification to the World Cup is confirmed (except for Qatar, they might break a kid's legs)

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People keep saying “we can just fix hallucinated references”. They don’t understand that genAI hallucinates EVERYTHING: data, quotes, figures, you name it. References are just the easiest to catch. Friends don’t let friends write with genAI.

Doug Ford and his ministers were caught speeding 23 times and fined $3,300. So Ford banned speed cameras. Now: ▶️ speeding is up 380% ▶️ 2 people have died in accidents where speed cameras used to be. #ONpoli

Oh man, France plays today. This is going to cause a riot (and huge losses for places showing the game)

Every time i see some news item talking about how incredible it is for a team to get out of the group round for the first time (and to a lesser extent, to play in a World Cup for the first time), I remember that the knockout rounds this time start with literally the number of teams in previous WCs

Is that ref in the Germany v. Ecuador game German herself? That foul that led to the German goal should have been a yellow for Germany, not a goal. And she keeps giving them stuff

Did Rubio get himself enough botox for male Mar-a-Lago face, or is that what someone looks like when they've sold their soul to the devil and he came to collect ages ago?

Noo! We gotta give them even MORE ACCESS. Let them stalk people continuously, warrant-free! Otherwise you're on the side of the criminals (who are not those police officers in this situation, for our purposes)! C-22 for the win!

We need to always speak in these terms. How many deaths and life changing injuries will you, person who is against speed cameras and other infrastructure that are proven to slow drivers down, willing to accept? How many strangers? How many people you know? How many family members? Every time.

If the #CanMNT offense doesn't have a massive overhaul before their next game, this journey is going to end in the round of 32... The defense too, given those goals today, but all the defense in the world will not make up for the fact that they don't even TRY to score. So much passing in the box...

Come on!!! Can #CanMNT only win when they're 9‐11? What is this disaster?

I think this makes the implicit point in the quoted post explicit: The issue is that ANY left-of-center political positions, even the mildest, are now considered extremist and illegitimate by supposed moderates

All the teams playing Iran have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Norway: bans AI in schools to protect their citizens' critical thinking skills Canada: invests in destroying their citizens' critical thinking skills to increase AI uptake We're not the same. #canpol

Amazing how Ukraine can build an entire drone arsenal from scratch on their kitchen tables during a war and still be highly selective about hitting legitimate targets throughout Russia, while Israel has total air superiority over Lebanon and uses it to do things like this.

Did the courtiers that flattered the Emperor's New Clothes suffer any consequences once the kid called out the nakedness? So far, looks like the answer is no.

Relevant to Canada also as Carney moves the LPC rightward.

Choosing a narco-lawyer with no political experience over a human rights defender to defeat crime and gain the upper hand in gangster negotiations because you're afraid of communism (which is what my right-voting family members kept alleging) is peak stupidity. I love Colombia, but I'm glad I'm out

The V-Dem Institute report on global democracy shows Canada's democratic decline, accelerated by the firehose of government bills undermining basic civil liberties, human rights and democratic practices-- C-5, C-4, C-15, C-12, C-14, C-9, and C-22. cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2026/06...

Green Day is a dad band?

It's only to prevent the most heinous of crimes (sotto voce: or to harass Canadians)!!!! They'll absolutely use it responsibly and only under the direst circumstances (sotto voce: or for fun, to harass Canadians)!

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

Winning is always going to mean doing what we can in the now, within that relational and historical spiral of ancestors and descendants.

look people you elected Trump to drain the swamp, what did you think that meant

Aww... Donald Trump has finally met a reality he can't warp and it is messing with his head so much

All US arm sales to Israel must stop. This is not the language of a liberal democracy anymore.

Congrats, Team #Canada on your amazing victory (which unless my math is totally off, guarantees you the next round)!!!

Welp!

It should be illegal for GOP congress people to post stuff like this without a sentence that says "and I enabled it all!"

Ford shut down the legislature for 5 months & is on track to sit the fewest days of any Ontario government for 5 decades. He tried to cancel summer committees but the @OntarioNDP appealed - and won. Now Ford's MPPs will have to do some work over the extended break. #onpoli

I'm sorry, what? I know what happened at Tumbler Ridge was a tragedy, but in what world does it make sense to give $200M to a community of less than 2,400 people? That's more than a fifth of the AI infrastructure fund that is the Carney's government darling and 25% more than the new CBC funding!

I guess it's hard to find a better role model for a racist than middle ages/colonial Spain...

First Rough Draft of History dept.

Did Joy Behar roll him harder than Iran rolled the US? Because that seems utterly impossible, unless he agreed to give her two of his kids and his favourite couch, and pay her for the privilege

The fact that the GOP's strategies and tactics rely heavily on the Dems saving them from themselves is something that has not been sufficiently exploited

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses