Me, actively trying to lose friends on staff after the US won gold in women's hockey during our staff meeting: "In a strictly utilitarian sense, the US winning gold is better because there are more Americans so although we Canadians are sad there is a net increase in happiness globally."

Lots of talk about electoral reform. About time. This is, IMO, basically the core issue because everything else follows from this.

Lol the Minister of Education for the province of Ontario issued a _directive_ to all teachers saying we must let students watch hockey on their phones? We are governed by deeply unserious people.

Unsure when my cat transitioned from "murder-beast who stalkd the neighborhood for blood" to "has his own blender but still won't eat if he can see the bottom of the bowl" yet here we are.

Six o clock was earlier than usual today

in honor of the late great Tom Noonan, i want to encourage everyone to watch (or rewatch) one of my favorite things: They're Made Out Of Meat, an underseen sci-fi short film directed by Stephen O'Regan, starring Noonan and Ben Bailey. Worth the 7 minutes!

Don't know why nobody else is talking about this yet, but the Ontario government just made it mandatory for all teachers to get a Vulnerable Sector Check every five years. Why is this a big deal? www.ontario.ca/laws/regulat...

PREDEPLATFORMING is my early pick for word of the year 2026

Academics talk like normal humans challenge level: impossible

“Labelling generative AI, which includes tools such as ChatGPT and X’s Grok, as a “social disaster”, Birhane said they are a “major threat to truth, democratic processes, information ecosystems, knowledge production and the entire social fabric itself”. Tell me again we should push AI into schools.

The lasting way to fight fascism—and the thing each of us can do—is to liberate your mind from the fascist framework. Stop being frightened of the things that fascists say are frightening. Start looking at those things as liberation. Fear the things fascists say make us safe. See them as prisons.

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look man, if "the left" isn't excited about your tech maybe it's because your tech is deployed in the service of oligarchic fascism

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

the "left" broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades

Okay, kids... PJs inside out, spoon under your pillow... instantweatherinc.com/article/onta...

So looking forward to the future of statistically plausible synthetically-generated "news." #AI is an epistemic weapon.

I never wanted the new Google phone, but every time Steph Curry smirks his insufferable genocide-profiteering smirk at me during Olympic commercial breaks I somehow still want it even less.

the Black Panthers were right

Never not reposting this video. FRIENDS IS THE GOAL.

The move in Ontario to remove principals (education managers) from unions and now to increasingly seek MBA quals over ed quals for Directors and superintendents is part of the same problem. The people in charge of education have never been more divorced from the material conditions in classrooms.

"EDUCATION FOR THE RICH ONLY" Another thing Doug Ford didn't put in his vanity snap election campaign platform last year. #onpoli #cdnpoli #onted www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In the mid 80s I had an hour long bus ride each way to school and like a dozen cassettes for my walkman. Probably listened to this entire album at least 200 times before I turned 18. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X01E...

i love my f y h o d shirt. you'll love yours too.

Forget about your prognosticating groundhogs. I am pleased to report that the potato that has sat dormant in a planter my basement since October--unwatered and covered in a tarp--has declared the arrival of Spring. Onwards and upwards, sun lovers.

Look at us, making the pie higher.

You just know the primary use case for this will turn out to be Taylorist bosses forcing warehouse employees to work even harder than their fragile human bodied currently permit.

the big lie we were raised with is that luddites hated all technology when they really just hated technology that was designed to put some of us out of work and make the rest work harder while the ruling class got to make extra profit off our backs

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Hot take but sports where competitors routinely collapse in exhaustion at the end are just objectively better than non-collapsing sports.

Expecting the IOC to do the ethical thing is a sure path to disappointment. Shaming the IOC for refusing to do the ethical thing is a bold, brave, principled thing to do. Props to Heraskevych for not backing down.

BRING VAL BACK TO LIFE is a weird way to say "let unscrupulous people profit off his legacy while gnawing on his bones like absolute fucking ghouls."

In kindergarten I pushed a kid off the slide because he had a dumb hat. He's still my best friend 50 years later.

You absolutely can have a meaningful conversation about AI on here, the real problem is that a certain cohort of white dudes are getting VERY uncomfortable with the meaning surfaced in those conversations

Friendly reminder that MLA Tara Armstrong can fix her fucking heart or die.

Being trans is not a problem. It’s not a mental illness, nor is it something to be ashamed of. Transphobia is real, it gets people killed. The hateful rhetoric coming from Canadians is absolutely abhorrent, Canadians have a problem with homophobia, transphobia and racism that yall do

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the... "We provide the illusion of education. Students provide the illusion of engagement. Together, we uphold the illusion of academic integrity."

the burden of proof is on the mother-fucker asserting something.

"They're doing a terrible job investigating my many scandals and criminal connections--gotta love 'em, my special boyz."

Today was above freezing for the first time in at least a century. So poetry.

Bought a new Android tablet and wow is it loaded with layer upon layer of intrusive bullshit. I just want a bright screen that displays files stored in my Google Drive. I would pay another $100 for 85% fewer functions. Thinking of returning it and just using a binder.

Lol my board is gearing up to get all staff embracing AI bullshit, and the first email I get from my online AQ course says this:

This whole story is weird, off-putting. A Canadian soldier died of ???? and is lauded as a hero etc etc--as the propaganda machine does. But how did he die? Doing heroic stuff? Why won't they say? Framing suggests all soldiers are de facto heroes if they die. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The governments pushing the moral panic the loudest are doing so because it's an excuse to further the destruction of anonymity and privacy and further advance the surveillance state.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

and who are you rooting for? "while i've eaten a seahawk or two in my time, nothing can replace delicious and nutritious human meat. Patriots."

The Distance. My entry into the Super Bowl ad mix.