I think most parents have thrown our kids in the air and caught them Later there is a throwing and no catching – usually the kids thrown first and then, later, parents Damian Gorman catches it perfectly in this poem Let your grief be just a brief eclipse #poetry #poemoftheday #GlobalDayOfParents

The final solution for AI in academia is a scenario where students are submitting AI-generated homework to be graded by AI-generated faculty using AI agents, all of which is being overseen by highly paid administrators who are extracting money from the students in exchange for a degree. The end.

This is true in _all_ industries touched by the withering hand of AI.

Was thinking this morning of dying my hair bright blue. So glad for this warning that no I do not need to look even more mihausian. You saved a life today, @hausofdecline.bsky.social

This whole thread is fire. Last night at my band's show a dude tried to take home a drunk girl who didn't know him. We are going to scorch the earth around that guy. At the very least he'll never be back in that bar. Men need to know that predatory behaviour is absolutely not acceptable.

tried it for myself and what the actual fuckity fuck is this?

Y'all should come over and smell my front yard. The lilacs are poppin' off.

Jfc no

Something i learned from repeated adolescent exposure to Frank Zappa is that _absolutely any phrase_ can be a sexual innuendo if you try hard enough.

oh well we were going to burn those fossil fuels eventually, might as well just get it all over with all at once :(

"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??

I don't "reject" AI; I refuse to support or perpetuate the harms current commercial AI offerings visit on society.

Fortress (North) America is straight up racist bullshit apocalypse nonsense ("oh no when the climate collapses brown people will overwhelm our white supremacist bunker continent if we don't band together to repel them"). If Mark Carney ever had a mask, it's off now.

V for Vendetta wants their old set back.

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

The revolution will not be AI generated.

Playing syncopated double bass isn't hard enough let's do it with tap shoes WHAT THE FUCK MAN

Mark Carney’s Chief of Staff Explains How Rich The Environment Will Make Him youtu.be/2yGvijKA2QM

If you live in Hamilton, Ontario, and are opposed to the data centre they’re thinking of building here, you have until June 2 to say so. Here’s how to make your voice heard as well as a template (written by one of our residents, not me). Please share widely. docs.google.com/document/d/1...?

My personal #1 hot take is "grades are a terrible way to communicate how children are doing in school and should be abolished entirely." When I hear about grade inflation I smile, glad that the system is destroying itself in an elegant reductio ad absurdum.

Let me get this straight: Canada ‘chastised’ Israel for raping and torturing our citizens… by reiterating Israel’s “right to self-defence”? You truly can’t make this shit up. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/read...

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

"As a general principle, you don’t tax the wealthy to build. You tax the wealthy to manage their power. (. . .)For this reason, every dollar over $100 million should fall into a confiscatory tax bracket of 100%. There’s no reason to allow anyone to accrue more wealth than that."

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

Giving increasing Severance vibes.

Oh dang. I have a Saturnworks "Little Black Booster" pedal on my guitar pedalboard. It's a tiny metal box with one volume control, an LED, and a footswitch. Step on the footswitch and boom, you're louder. That's all it does. It's a loud button. saturnworkspedals.com/product/boost/

Remember when Google used to be useful and helpful and stuff? Those were the good ol' days.

Lest you younguns think I'm making this up...AI has been chugging along as a political-project-cloaked-in-tech for almost 60yrs. The political project is: deskill & devalue experts. Because experts are not only costly, they represent a source of power against capital. cacm.acm.org/opinion/how-...

Conservatives, like PM #MarkCarney, prefer to spend public dollars on cops and military because they're dollars that provide no social or productive good and become unavailable for housing, health, education, and other programs and services that improve lives.

hey #HamOnt - did you know there's an AI data centre proposal in our city? Here's everything I've been able to find out about it: thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/steelp...

I have found this on LinkedIn

"...we have all been left on our own to jury rig workable pedagogical scaffolds while the educational edifice is being bulldozed around us. Individual responses will not suffice; collective action is necessary."

When another state gleefully subjects your citizens to torture, ‘condemnation’ is grossly insufficient. Sanctions. Now. (Interesting you didn’t post here @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social)

Kirbying the frame once again: Canada Post is a public service. It is not intended to be profitable--it is intended to be serviceable. We do not demand our highways turn a profit, nor our public schools. Why do we allow this kind of shite framing around other public goods?

Like, "this take was engineered in a lab by the world's foremost assholes specifically to trick you into a knee-jerk reaction" is a demonstrably-true thing, but people are so reluctant to admit they've been hoodwinked they'd rather double down on believing they'd have believed that anyway.

I have never owned an actual Stratocaster but three times in my life I have been fortunate to have owned lovely guitars that Fender is now trying to sue out of existence. A terrible look for a legendary brand. RIP to my PRS, Ibanez, and G&L s-styles, wherever they may be this morning.

Hallucination machine gonna hallucinate.

Nationalize everything. Public ownership of the lot.

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

Dear everybody: more of this crowd energy, please.

Meanwhile the actually creative people are voluntarily, eagerly limiting themselves in all kinds of ways to see what happens. They're not at all impressed by being told that constraints are stupid and obsolete.

yeah so i guess enjoy the long weekend ifloz.substack.com/p/nobody-wan...

"we plagiarized books about how people hate and fear our products and trained our products on the books we stole we did not expect our products to be so hateful so fearful how did this ever come to pass?"

Local woman looking forward to 23 days between harsh winter and uncontrollable wildfires

A bunch of my co-workers were frantically searching local stores to buy a "porch goose" this week. A plastic goose. That you put on your porch. And decorate with whimsical outfits (sold separately). Inspiring a Dutch Tulip Craze frenzy. Why are we like this?

Having finished up with all of Ford's key messages (cops, construction, military and "developers"), now Carney is moving on to Lecce's key messages. Exactly the same messages.

This speaks to a brother who isn’t fully absent from the living, persisting in the smallest domestic spaces Living becomes a routine & grief is an undercurrent In the end, the poem suggests survival isn’t the opposite of loss, but it exists beside it #poetry #poemoftheday #MentalHealthMatters

No need to disrespect the honorable art of karaoke like that...