Alright new H-Mart drink day 2: this one’s called “Jasmine Flavored Lemon Tea Drink” Tastes like a lightly sweetened bottle of Jo Malone perfume - interesting, but wouldn’t buy again 6/10

По принцип на Евровизия дледам само хайлаитите ама тази година станах стан #бангаранга Невероятен боп, лятото официално започна youtu.be/EltgrumKJfk?...

A friend has a rule that every time she goes to Nations (iykyk #TO) she tries a new type of fruit she’s never tried before Decided to apply this to my post-yoga H-Mart snack runs, but for drinks Starting off with Asahi Calpis (?? what a name) 7/10, vague lemony flavor & sparkly #newdrinkreview

This is the second case I’ve read about like this in the last month. This one right here at home. This should alarm everyone. wapo.st/41uBvjN

My Review of Super Canucks: An Anthology of Canadian Small-Town Superheroes, edited by Matthew Del Papa & Andy Taylor medium.com/reviewsday-t... Full disclosure: I have a story in this anthology, so my review is tinged with pride at having been part of this project. 🤍🍁🤍

If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious. Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.

Show me a picture that captures your essence

2024: "The endgame is not Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads. The endgame is finding communities on the web and following them all on the best platform for you." Aging pretty well, honestly. Probably going to age even better as time goes on.

Was at a panel today where a participant pointed out that a lot of small to med sized nations have no capacity to prepare for the current state of AI enabled cyber threats let alone Mythos For govs where employees still use personal emails for official comms or systems lack 2FA, there is a reason

Everyone knows the economy is doing great. I dont know why homelessness is up and a record number of people are working 2 jobs, but that has nothing to do with the economy. The economy is a chart with a line going up, not that other shit. Grow up

I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

Notable precursor to the "we should redistribute wealth" paper from OpenAI this week

TAPPING THE SIGN ONCE MORE

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

This story is horrific. Worth noting that Target is not the only retailer using AI for theft prevention. It’s an entire industry. And if you’re looking for alternatives that are safer to shop at in this regard, you’re very likely out of luck. Small, non-corporate businesses probably your best bet.

Was fun to contribute to this great, free training initiative from GIJN!

A CBC News secret shopping investigation has uncovered — once again — several Loblaw-owned and Sobeys-affiliated stores overcharging for underweight meat, despite claims last year the grocery giants had taken steps to rectify the problem. www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

i liked the new lena slate.com/culture/2026...

I mean it's not like Marvel Studios has made any money over the last decade or so, so this makes sense

The death of educational institutions juxtaposed with the army of tech bros touting how AI is going to replace teachers/teaching/thinking truly is the most powerful sign of the barbarians at the gates

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

who is making the spiritual successor to the iPod? whoever mounts the iPhone pro cameras on a machine that stores 200gb of music & has NO cellular access can have my money immediately

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

Bunch of you need to get your dumbass boy. Blue checkmarks not beating the allegations. N.B. The answer is "nothing" because they've already tried it. They literally tried to *right at the start of the war* and their paratroopers got turned into fucking mulch.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Minor thing given what's going on in the world right now, but I've just discovered that TurnitIn, the product many universities use for grading & plagiarism detection, offers students an 'AI-powered writing tool' as well as AI detection tools for instructors. They're selling weapons to both sides.

I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Amazing record for the FIFA

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

88% of Canadians want a wealth tax. Funny how that public concern never gets a response.

After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. -Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak) #everynightapoem #war

Canada finally reacts, through our foreign affairs minister (not our prime minister). Really, embarrassingly timid statement when you consider what just happened.

NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/ theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...

Back in 2016 when Jezebel’s staff writers were being forced to moderate their own article comment sections and were flooded with r*pe gifs, I predicted this would get much worse with the personalization possible from deep fakes Watching your own likeness be abused is horrifying

Very sad to read that Janet Fish has passed away. Her work is gorgeous and bright and in these heady times, art that embodies joy is so necessary www.artforum.com/news/janet-f...

CNN commentator just now: "You have to congratulate the administration on keeping this quiet". The news media is a huge contributor to the rise of unlawful tyranny.

This is your energy for 2026 *via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown

So much of any year is flammable Naomi Shihab Nye, "Burning the Old Year" #everynightapoem

As if Figma didn't already burn enough trust with designers, now they are also silently opting everyone in to let them train their AI on your work. For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?

I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.