the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

As we get excited about a mission around the moon that includes a Canadian astronaut, a quick reminder that Carney is cutting funding for the Canadian Space Agency by 33%. globalnews.ca/news/1173746...

When the writers’ advocacy org can’t read the room, this is what you get—April Fool’s jokes about AI job loss headlines that aren’t remotely far-fetched in the current climate of precarity our creative industry humans are facing, never mind humanity itself. They should work on their media literacy.

Today I realized that my local "writers' guild," of which I am a paying member, doesn't exactly have their finger on the pulse of the writing community. All the reactions to their April Fool's post were a mixture of various levels of trauma. #amwriting #books #noai

I hate April Fools but I really hate this. Sorry I don't find the destruction of my career a particularly funny outcome and the only ones impacted by this post would be people who are already vigilant for these job losses. People's futures are not something for a professional org to joke about.

Oh so now copyright matters.

Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.

There's a lot of external pressure on AI ethics to produce solutions instead of critique. As someone who's worked a lot on CSAM, NCII, mental health, and creative harms of AI, if AI developers would have only listened to critiques, we could have avoided all these harms in the first place.

It's a bloodbath for science, health, immigration, Canada Post, and many many other services and supposed Canadian values.

[COVID zine 1/18] Droplet spread theory is outdated. Respiratory illnesses are primarily transmitted by aerosols. www.wired.com/story/the-te... Powerful institutions have been ignoring this information because of the structural changes needed. clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/let-them-eat...

Is it not bad enough that everyone continues to slobber over all of this earth-incinerating AI nonsense, but do we also need to be burning our resources and federal funding on AI coaches for video games?

my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual

Masking at a meeting

She does.

Fascism is here bc we turned our backs on the vulnerable when told pandemic is over when it’s not. Fascists saw how most are OK letting disabled, chronically ill, elderly & kids “fall by the wayside”, showed them they could hurt anyone to take everything. Not too late to turn it around. Solidarity✊😷

Badly sprained my ankle while goofing around pretend sword fighting in the street with my partner at the time. Twenty years later, that ankle is still kinda prone to rolling if I’m not careful.

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.

SCROOGE: You there, boy! What day is it? BOY: It's December 26th. SCROOGE: Oh shit. Oh fuck.

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

You need to be observing things while a small batshit puppet played by Frank Oz beats your knees with a stick. Until you can answer why you make stuff, what fuels it, and how you foster the practice, you won’t have a single untainted idea. Get your head out of chatGPT’s metaphorical asshole.

This is how I survive. This is how I write. And it is something I consciously practice. If you are at the point you’re like “hey busted-ass magic 8 ball that kills people, give me an idea”, you need a year in the woods or up a mountain reconnecting with your own goddamn brain.

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

the only truly safe data is the kind that is not collected

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Even in 2025, it is rare to get a game with a fully-realized female protagonist that isn't cringey fan-service/eye candy for men. The first Control was like somebody read my mind, and made exactly the kind of game I want to play. I do not feel that way about Control Resonant at all.

Los n4tzis también cambiaron a tipografías de tipo romano. La historia es muy curiosa, y más lo es cuando tiene a repetirse. Dentro minihilo.

This is a point the “AI inevitability” folks simply do not engage convincingly—We would not accept this technological caveat in any other context “Our machine lets everyone make their own custom pharmaceuticals—but now every drug everywhere is maybe poison—better do your research!” Yeah no thanks

Here's the reality this example illustrates: It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

The amount of shady looks I get for wearing respirators with patients, for providing N95s to patients and cleaning the air from colleagues. I have an evidence based practice. This is what the evidence shows. Public health has shifted to what is popular. Imagine if we had done that with seatbelts.

‘90s dance classics have been the soundtrack to my endless de-gunking the new apartment chorin’, so it was nice to get back to dancing while cooking instead.

Defending and endorsing "genAI" is anti-human behaviour. It is grotesque that we're allowing this to continue as it takes such a toll on vulnerable people.

My cold and well considered take on generative text AI: I don’t want to take the time to read what nobody took the time to write

And finally the best evidence that AI is truly a revolutionary general purpose technology isn’t its midness but it’s politics. It is very good at undercutting, demoralizing and casualizing labor across a variety of fields, known & as-yet known. I wouldn’t dismiss that. “Mid” is a political tactic.

I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.

J.B. MacKinnon is leading four separate class actions, all filed in B.C. Supreme Court in the last four months, alleging that tech giants Meta, Anthropic, Databricks and Nvidia repeatedly, wilfully and knowingly infringed on his and others’ intellectual property to train and develop their LLMs.

also even if you don’t die, every covid infection causes cumulative damage and puts you at risk of developing new disabilities that you then have to live with. it’s really expensive to be disabled, especially if you can’t work on top of it. please #MaskUp because #CovidIsntOver.

a rejection of AI will not be so sectoral as that. we either categorically reject it, and we make anyone who works on advancing this stuff a pariah, or we tolerate these things in our day to day forever.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.

Seeing an awful lot of people sick with Covid right now. Many saying “Covid is back”. It never left. That’s why some of us are still advocating for mitigations. Every infection is a dice roll with disability. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.

7. You don't need cops to investigate the horrors in a horror story. Humans are naturally curious and seldom mind their own business. Have some self-respect and cast a librarian.

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Error Code might no longer be apt given my measurable increase in skill over our decade of going for a boot in the park, but I named myself, dang it.

AI is not "a neutral technology" because every single one of these three dimensions skews its impact towards far right goals: - the underlying tech reproduces bias - the form factor of it sidelines expertise - the way it's productized breaks down critical thinking and labor power

Today in “These are not serious people” we have NL’s top medical professionals using a hope for the best approach for the potential spread of measles, versus implementing any actual infection prevention and control methods outside of vaccinations. No mention of the dirtiest words— mask mandates.