Me, sowing an electoral system so I can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, reaping an electoral system where they can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

WORLD HERITAGE POST

In other words, Carney has no idea what "AI" is and how it works and what is at stake in its wide-scale implementation (certainly not more interesting and rewarding jobs). And while we're at it, I would love to know what "Canadian values" are.

Veggie burgers aren't supposed to taste like meat, and any company trying to make them taste that way is missing the point and the opportunity of a lifetime.

Your goals are to replace human public sector workers with AI so you can slash public services and to make your buddies at Brookfield even richer by spending public funds on AI infrastructure for private profit.

A better world is possible.

worthless teeeechnology

We'll have to bury the current internet in a metre of concrete and start over new once the bubble bursts.

#jays were losing until the #artemis capsule touched down. Rallied for 5 in the 4th immediately after.

Trying to decide if it would be funnier if they come out dressed like Shriners from a clown car, or if five come out instead of four. 'oh yeah Jerry was there the whole time'

Today totally makes up for my formative GenX memories of Challenger and Columbia.

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

Think how sad it would be if a great Leviathan arose from the San Francisco deep and devoured the landing module after going so far so safely.

Why do we choose to do such awful things as a country when we can clearly do neat things instead?

Cmon. How beautiful was that? Humans are so cool when they're not fighting.

I cannot overstate how nice it is for things to go exactly as planned. The total absence of drama involved in landing #artemis is healing my soul. Nothing ad hoc, nothing panicked, just calm smooth efficiency. We can have nice things.

The #artemis mission coverage from NASA gives me such hope and joy. Watching / listening to calm smart people explain in precise but accessible language exactly how they're going to incredible things is such a palate cleanse after the vomitous horrors of the week in politics.

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

lol they took a thing everybody hates and made it worse go pound sand

@greenleejw.bsky.social 's regular eel updates are exactly how social media is supposed to work. Always a source of both delectare et audare.

Spent my morning trying to convince a class of 17 year olds that a billion dollars was a LOT of money. They got it when I said it was the combined annual salary of every single employee in the school for over a century. Nobody should be a billionaire.

remember that cool thing you bought and so thought you owned? haha nope

i described eggs as "bird fruit" and now my family thinks I'm a monster

Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social

A public school in a school board taken over by the Ministry of Education had parent concerns about school safety and teaching model changes escalate because of an "an unprecedented lack of communication." One source called this a "warning sign for the entire public education system in Ontario"

Somebody explain to me the difference between "testing" a ceasfire and "violating" one...?

Canada hears you. Same story, barely even different names.

Let us never forget.

I know Carney is conservative. But accepting this floor crossing shows an absolutely astonishing deficit in values and judgement

Hey, if you can't win a majority in fair democratic elections I guess you can fucking well collaborate with your ideological soulmates to steal one.

"all of our problems are trump" is just such facile, pathetic cope. it absolves all of the rest of american politics for the decades of build up and support for fascism abroad that led us here and absolves liberals of any need to do work because they just have to wait for trump to die.

Headline of the Year

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

Also, fun as hell as a teacher to know that while I will never upload my materials to the plagiarism machine, my students are being encouraged to do it on my behalf.

"they should have sent a poet" is, as a matter of demonstrated fact, always the right play

I'm always excited to play a gig with the #approximators, but outdoors tomorrow afternoon? I might not be able to move my fingers. C'mon springtime!

Trasna ort féin!

Depluralize a movie: One Battle

Oh man. I was driving home late from a study session at the uni library under clear starry skies on Dec 4 1993 when the late night DJ announced the death of a musician I was tangentially aware of, then played Inca Roads. I had to pull the car over. RIP Frank Zappa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqp7...

lol even they know the "help me write" features is deeply problematic. google is practically daring you to use it.

y'know since the last couple days have been Big Epistemology Talk™ i am gonna drop my big epistemological shitpost which is that knowledge has to fucking WORK in order to qualify as knowledge like if you can't actually deploy it and get the outcome you expected then it isn't knowledge

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

AI generated Val Kilmer, obvs.

TV anti-war ad from 1971

Fundamentally the roots of most "green space/nature" internationally & historically is conservative folks "giving to the people" small amounts of land that was taken from said people, enclosed, and turned into property. This is one of the roots that became colonialism. Turning land into capital.

I'm glad you asked. The exploration and critique of gender essentialism is one of the key themes of feminist philosophy and is foundational to a proper understanding of the central question of the transphobic mindset, which is "What Is A Woman?" A short thread, I hope.

Transphobia destroys your mind! It makes you fundamentally ignore the nature of the reality of the very people you are talking about so intimately, you keep asking what is a woman what is a woman what is a woman and you never think to ask them the right question are you a woman how do you live