A 20% Officer and a Gentleman #discountmoviesorplays #hashtaggames

BOGO Trouble in Little China #discountmoviesorplays #hashtaggames

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/all-things-considered-ji18657oz/-/a-sr3-l1BAQvWQ0t-HePO2Yw%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0 No, next question

RE: https://aoir.social/@sakhavi/116053009895910277 The answer to this quiz is that these words were written in 2000 by Paulina Borsook in her book * Cyberselfish: a critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of high tech*. I personally can’t believe how stagnant and repetitive my […]

Every once in a while I wonder if they ever finished counting all the crows

Dead Man Caulking #repairabookorplay #hashtaggames

if humanity keeps drinking water at this rate we'll quickly run out of AI

Echoing @elizayer on the nobility of maintenance, in some very pithy & inspiring language https://medium.com/@niacampbell/small-acts-of-maintenance-a13fdd697183

Something I have to get my head around as a researcher who used to be a programmer: "Don't Repeat Yourself " (DRY) isn't an infallible guide. Sometimes it takes multiple people covering the same insight from different angles before it "sticks" in the public consciousness, even when the original […]

It's weird how conservatives made the concepts of inclusion and equity, foundations of our pluralistic society, into third rails simply by getting Big Mad whenever they're mentioned. #dei

It’s Always Sunny in the Sun #extraterrestrialshows #hashtaggames

RE: https://indieweb.social/@dandean/116048781067233467 Brb just going manic imagining trying to convince past-me from even a few years ago that this would be a real headline describing real events in 2026

High quality software addresses real user needs, is designed, written, documented, reviewed, evaluated, and tested by humans under a comprehensive process, released on a schedule that ensures critical lifecycle management activities are performed. It's not magic, it's not impossible, it's […]

Reading scholarship on #resistance to #ai — I just want younger people to know, this is different. In my memory, theorists and practitioners didn't feel bound to organize a *resistance* to word processors or gps or email. Now, maybe we all turned technophobe all of a sudden. But maybe, just […]

For those outside Toronto, this is the equivalent of hell freezing over or George R. R. Martin releasing *Winds of Winter*. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-torontos-eglinton-crosstown-lrt-opens-15-years-after-construction/

More calls of this kind, please. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/donald-trump-voting-midterms-democrat-national-strike

Corned beef on why #mediocremeals #hashtaggames

@sakhavi Great point to make the connection between DHS funding and the threats to from ICE in the mid-terms. Bevins bill sounds like a good step, but I'd go further and it's imperative that DHS be defunded, preferably at least to pre-Trump levels. DHS/ICE/CBP has already shown they'll disregard […]

Wrote my rep: “As David French writes in The NY Times today, the MAGA establishment is threatening the use of ICE to disenfranchise Americans in the coming midterms. To head this possibility off, we must pass the Bevins bill making federal officials accountable in civil court if they infringe […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116013830830949727 This is also true of demagogues who hold up the past instead of the future as some glorious age; the thing is to avoid responsibility for working out in the here and now how to live well with each other

Hearing about tech workers and (especially) execs that insist that #ai is their employee, their friend, their colleague because it always placates their every request, and my bro, that is not collaboration; that is palliative care.

Hear ye, hear ye: Shut it down, tomorrow. https://nationalshutdown.org/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/world-qs57rganz/-/a-KDwhn11jTrKo8OxZC7Dv1g%3Aa%3A729020400-%2F0 Oh fine, now *ICE* is woke too

RE: https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/world-qs57rganz/-/a-IkDKJ2qPSTy_ywvKkK4I8A%3Aa%3A729020400-%2F0 Well… it ain’t “Born to Run.” But it hardly matters: This is the most important song in NorthAmerica today.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115974490977493496 But why would Canada and other NATO states want to distance themselves from the American security appara— oh.

RE: https://social.beachcom.org/@nasa/115969632510425191 Correct. Thank you, NASA.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/world-qs57rganz/-/a-YmKSj4aTSbiWSMTlMTzBkg%3Aa%3A729020400-%2F0 We will indeed keep dreaming. But these days we are all dreaming of a world in which America can be dispensed with, instead of one in which it has any leadership role. That is significant in […]

“Let’s Stay Sane” #antonymasongorpoem #hashtaggames

“(I Can Get Some) Satisfaction” #antonymasongorpoem #hashtaggames

“So Many Mountains Are High Enough” #antonymasongorpoem #hashtaggames

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-aspd61boz/-/a-DP-Tdtk_Qr6RElKZRgGYnQ%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0 They’re probably offering so few details so we don’t get too overwhelmed by how justified the shooting was. #ice #fascism #ifreakingtoldyoutoabolishice

The Guardian doesn’t identify which DHS spokesman responded to the resistance in MN by saying “This is beyond insane. Why would these labor bosses not want these public safety threats out of their communities?” But I’m choosing to believe it’s this guy […] [Original post on aoir.social]

Well, this seems only fair; I mean, if you profit off the back of someone’s intellectual output, you owe them a cut, right? … riiiIIIIIIiight? https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/openai-plans-take-cut-customers-ai-aided-discoveries

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MatWright/115942731496498881 Why would I go to Vegas when I can get drunk and lose money right here in 🇨🇦?

RE: https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/life-tqt3b82hz/-/a-f_XpBOiNSSyp66GqjMrldg%3Aa%3A729020400-%2F0 Yes

Hearing about tech workers and (especially) execs that insist that #ai is their employee, their friend, their colleague because it always placates their every request, and my bro, that is not collaboration; that is palliative care.

Bullet Trainer #mentoramovieorplay #hashtaggames

Kung Fu Pedant #mentoramovieorplay #hashtaggames

#canadian? Concerned about #ai ? https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/

Watching #trump , I have a Richard-Cory experience of thanking God that I have been spared power and privilege that come at the expense of sanity and basic humanity. He might get to make the world ignite around me, but at least I’ll never be afraid of fricken windmills.

RE: https://aoir.social/@sakhavi/115933207405807606 Called it

RE: https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/business-hsh2uqeaz/-/a-ZYdPElVGTiWHxE8sFpm6Eg%3Aa%3A729020400-%2F0 Yes yes, my heavens we need scholar entrepreneurs, not provincial budgets that value education over crony capitalism.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-xnMsYi7fTPWxtAoPG3Ne-Q%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0 Ooh, ooh, I know! I know, pick me! Is it batshit imperialist fuckery? It’s batshit imperialist fuckery, isn’t it? What do I win?

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I’m… impressed. #carney #canada #davos #trump #greenland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStuQ-TbL9k&themeRefresh=1

Man, I tell you what, there’s no king like a mad king

Say it Loud — I’m Black Ice and I’m Proud #criticizewinterasongorpoem #hashtaggames

RE: https://mastodon.social/@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon/115900592844628287 The only way this ends well is with #trump somehow unemployed in #greenland.