Colossal Bullshit.

LOL. Bluesky rule #17: *No matter what* you write, someone will be along in the comments to "Well, actually..." and rationalize. No matter what.

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The kind of AI that techbros and governments are pushing is not the internet, or cell phones, or personal computers, or heavier than air flying machines, or the wheel. It's the digital equivalent of asbestos, plastics, teflon, and lead.

The loudest voices on this site on Covid are the most obnoxious and know the least about it from a social justice framework. They also refer to the pandemic in past tense

I'm at the point where I won't review a manuscript if the authors used AI. Every journal should be requiring authors to state clearly up front if they used AI and how, and then let reviewers know that when asking them to review.

Hard to overstate the importance of this point. Especially when AI is introduced as a cost-cutting measure.

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

BC is moving to suspend its Indigenous rights law as soon as it seems to carry more weight than a land acknowledgement.

The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza

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Nice sum of our new study! Your Chatbot Is Likely Not a Reliable Source on Nutrition conscienhealth.org/2026/04/16/y... by @conscienhealth.bsky.social 🙏 "Overall, the chatbots dispensed problematic information half the time."

But the answer is given right in the post: what we see in LOTR *is* the evil stuff. The company's name *is* a reference to that. I doubt they dug deep into the lore in choosing the name.

Cool. So, a) actually correct those weaknesses rather than pushing for *more* integration (especially on fossil fuels), and b) actually be transparent and make your actions match your speeches. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

That was quick. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the Republicans lose the U.S. midterms. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/isra... #Palestine #Israel

The PM is calling his new regular updates 'Forward Guidance'. Is that supposed to be cute? For anyone who doesn't know, that's pure central bank language. Central banks use forward guidance to provide info about monetary policy directions. Do we really need a central bank glossary? #CdnPoli

LOL. He thinks his fans are children. Which is fine, I guess, since they are content with government by Father Knows Best.

OMG LOL

This man is just absolutely full of it.

As more students get addicted to chatbots to do their homework, the temptation to cheat on exams will become more widespread. Once you start offloading cognition it’s really hard to go back.

What the rest of the world reads: more than 1 in 3 USians still approve of Trump. 1 in 3.

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Something that CBC did not cover much today in their article on public grocery stores (about them having "a moment"): "They already exist [elsewhere], and they work." As well as other solutions like public distributors: youtu.be/RPuEhQl8Cxo?... #CDNpoli #CBC #CDNmedia

Note that the Carney government is *not* disentangling us from this company. They're working with Cohere, who works with Palantir.

Yup.

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get mad or get fucked, those are in fact your two options

“Tech companies are racing to put AI chatbots in our ears.”

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

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Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

"As I logged off [from Zoom], all I could think was that my beloved communities of colour are never getting free until men are finally willing to reckon with their complicity with the patriarchy, so this is my attempt at illuminating that, on the off chance that any men are willing to listen."🫂

Knight Rider Airwolf Miami Vice Magnum P.I. For you youngins I'll put these bangers in comments below.

Why are tech bros

And he'll grant one. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Got to speak with Rita Rubin again for another piece in JAMA, this time about the Cicada (BA.3.2) variant of SARS-CoV-2. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hey all, what does "/s" mean? Also, do you all think I'm one to blame lockdowns and not the virus? 🤪

Carney Should Channel His Inner Lougheed In a “ruptured” global order, Canada remains tied to a passive economic model: de-risking private capital rather than directing the national economy. Private capital = oil companies, banks, LNG, mining, etc. markhamhislop.substack.com/p/carney-sho...

No one could have foreseen this. Certainly not the slippery slope conservatives have wanted to start down for decades. Not the predictable consequence of starving the public system. Not media complicity with how they have long framed the issue. 🤷

Not inconvenience. Actual ownership of physical media. No AI slop.

Alternate headline: Mediocre white dudebros will go to another continent to exploit disadvantaged women rather than improve themselves and their attitudes

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers. Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

Canada can and should be leading here, but our government is convinced that our economic future is dependent on selling more fossil fuels.

@theresisters.bsky.social got a chance to sit down with @joho.bsky.social to talk a/b his latest book “Everyone Else Is Lying To You” & then we talked about how some of the chickens are starting to come home to roost. #womeninpodcasting #publichealth #thegrifters podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/n...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

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