Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

i was on emily st. john mandel's wikipeda page, noticed she's married to someone new, looked it up and came across this article from a few years ago about not being able to update her own wikipedia page. hilarious way to address it, 10/10. www.businessinsider.com/emily-st-joh...

me, a member of the steelworkers union (though i touch no steel for my job): 🫡

I consider it a violation of my personal human rights to have to look at an ad at basically any time

vancouver folks: i have a solo art show this summer! it’s about decay as a cycle of nature. the show opens aug 27 and runs until sept 1 at slice of life gallery (just off commercial drive) 🍄🪱🪲🐦‍⬛

Heads up ya'll! with Bluesky rolling out moderation crack down in their new update, please consider enabling "adult content" under your moderation tab in settings. Not so you can have porn on your feed, but to ensure that you can still see posts with the word "stupid" and "hell" in it-

this is the stuff i get to be like “back in my day” about 😪

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

enough self improvement, my new goal is to get better at shoplifting from big name stores

that moment when you exchange a look of shared frustration with a cashier over the customer in front of you that they’re currently helping

oops i’m immediately good at this Dialed Daily — May 26 47.33/50 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 dialed.gg?d=1&s=47.33

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

stop generating crap you look stupid! 🐟

This voting pattern has become ubiquitous on every terrible thing.

It’s long fascinated me how Hollywood’s rare depictions of married couples still sexually excited by each other tend to be tinged with sinister/gothic/morbid vibes, like the Adams Adams, or Only Lovers Left Alive.

Let city council know they must protect Vancouver's climate plan and if they do not, voters will hold them accountable this fall Sign up to speak to city council this Wednesday opposing Motion 8: vancouver.ca/your-governm... Send a letter to city councillors: act.stand.earth/page/98177/a...

To oppose the wholesale dismantling of environmental regulations in Canada, please go to this page www.canada.ca/en/one-canad.... ignore the very leading 'proposed' questions and submit your comments. CC your MP. If you need inspiration here is what I just sent.

they've closed the comments on this, but you can contact the lead planner to share your thoughts: [email protected]

People don’t “collaborate” with AI products any more than they collaborate with any other product — this is language that tech companies use, but we shouldn’t. (2/x)

this is the rezoning application for one of the two proposed data centres in vancouver. if you have concerns, please submit your comments: www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5 metro van is going into stage 3 water restrictions next month for the first time in over a decade. we don't need this.

Also I don't know if no one ever told you this or what but you're allowed to keep learning things after high school. A high school education is supposed to give you the basics so you can continue to keep learning things as an adult.

This could be us, but we’re building pipelines.

Now is the time. Transit users in Metro Vancouver need a low-income transit pass before a five per cent fare hike takes effect in July. 🚏🚍 Advocates Aman Chandi and Sacia Burton write. #vanpoli

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim proclaimed May 29, 2024 as “Guy Felicella Day” in honour of my work advocating for “BOTH HARM REDUCTION AND RECOVERY.” Tomorrow, I’m returning it. I won’t be used as part of a disingenuous display of fake compassion. My full statement is below 👇

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

i went to the art supply store

Unacceptable

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The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

Canada’s wealth gap is the widest it’s been in StatCan’s recorded history. You’d think Carney would focus on that -- not privatization. In fact, “Carney’s policies will only make inequality even worse," @dtcochrane.bsky.social, a senior economist with the Canadian Labour Congress, told me. Uh oh:

uploaded an image to wikimedia commons because a thing didn't have one, went to add it to the wikipedia page for that thing and someone had already done it?? how??? seasoned wikipedia editors frighten me with their powers

deeply troubled by the fact that ken sim's gov is targeting arts & culture venues, including raiding a queer venue. spaces like this are so important for making cities vibrant, fun, and interesting. we're already sorely lacking 3rd spaces, and i don't want the only events to be corpo bs.

if you as a driver try to use your vehicle to intimidate me into not crossing when i’m at a zebra crosswalk pls understand 1) it won’t work and 2) i’m cursing your entire bloodline

With the closure on Broadway, drivers are rat running along 10th and completely ignoring the modal filter on Manitoba St, so we tried adding our own sign maybe it will help 😭 Or... the City could actually do something? (Meeting with them tomorrow!)

it will never not be funny how they thought bsky was going to be a google campus and instead they got tumblr and they absolutely h a t e it

Capitalism has brain rotted an entire populace into thinking you need to be able to get face cream, a lamp shade & dish soap delivered to your house within 24 hours or else a hate crime has been committed. Your à la carte living has made you anti-social, isolated & an environmental menace.

some more messy ink sketchbook drawings. did these at night on my couch, i just put on a lil youtube dj set and drew a few random references (important part of my creative routine now tbh) if you tend to be too precious in your sketchbook may i suggest: cheapass shitty sketckbook

a few messy inky skull drawings from my sketchbook i love using these diy ink brushpens, they're so sloppy and imprecise that it's impossible to be a perfectionist about my marks

I think the greatest trick for getting good at creative work i know is - finish making as many mediocre things as possible. Just finish stuff, again and again. Share it or don’t, but put a bow on it, put it aside, make the next thing, repeat.

I don't want to shoot videos I don't want to post tutorials I don't want to show my process I don't want to pour varnish I don't want to turn my canvas I don't want to record my screen I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships I just want to make pictures and shitpost

i really hate how whenever there’s an issue with a modem or router the advice is always “be sure place this ugly ass piece of equipment with annoying blinking leds in the middle of your living room somehow” like am i supposed to get a plinth for it? shut up

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

i have to be the hottest bitch at the blood donor clinic

One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification" So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults

Anyone that says government should be run like a business should be punched in the face

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Union launches petition to restore funding for lifeguards at Vancouver beaches

Fucking horrendous. Is this worth your cartoon avatar? Your crap logo? Stop. Using. AI.