Motherfucker, AI isn’t “reshaping reality” at all; it’s just making shit up. Reality is over here, where the quotes are real, and your statistically probable speech machine is over there, and it’s just wrong. “The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.” - Douglas Adams

Good luck, Charge! (Also good but slightly less good luck, Montreal!)

Personally, I favour starting in the top left and writing one word at a time across to the right, but other directions have worked equally well for other writers too. There’s literally no wrong way to write!

I believe in taxing billionaires *because I am a pacifist*. Taking back the money that, for example, Jeff Bezos took from a hundred thousand workers pissing in bottles merely in taxes is a position bordering on non-confrontational cowardice. Furthermore, I think that Loblaws must be nationalized.

Fragment of @doctorow.pluralistic.net's speech for U Washington’s Neuroscience, AI and Society lecture series. doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

“But what if the stupid AI summary that we added to our once-beloved product became the only part of our formerly-beloved product?”

AI, no longer content to kill your career or the occasional user suffering from delusions, has now also killed irony.

Just this morning my child told me that they thought there would be one more team announcement, because there’s always been an even number. They were right!

Ooooo, my @mollytanzer.bsky.social preorder magically showed up on my Kobo this morning!

The absolute, bottomless greed of the capitalists will be their undoing. “Work or starve” has been extremely effective for them, but “work *and* starve” is absolutely not going to fly. Furthermore, I think that Loblaws must be nationalized.

Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"

“You shouldn’t have bothered getting educated, because human intelligence will no longer be required. Please deposit your textbooks into the ingesting machine on the way out on the off chance we don’t yet have a scan of them, and I look forward to seeing you in the gig economy. Loans are due.”

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

Rogen also noted that he would never want to find a shortcut to creating a new script because he enjoys the the writing process. “And if you don’t want to go through the process, you shouldn’t be a writer. The idea of a tool that makes me write less is not appealing to me, because I like writing.”

I hate LLMs because they are threatening to remove humanity from art and kneecap an entire generation of young writers, but that’s not going to kill anyone (probably?). But the AA sycophancy machine will immediately fail the second someone types “I just had a drink, is that okay?” in. Just no.

This is appalling. Absolute evil on a truly heartbreaking scale.

Ori, Óin, Glóin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur

Or, to put it in @wtyppod.bsky.social terms: Roz, November, Yay Liam!, Devon, Guest, and Activate Windows.

Happy crazy 8's day!

Nature, Nurture, Heaven, Home, Sum of All, and By Them Driven.

Here we go, via @scalzi.com, the music side of the vibe-coding thing that @gruber.foo was talking about. Artists can tell when AI is passed off AI as art. Look, I wish I was more musical or a coder, but I’m just not good at those things. Just do the thing that you love and can do well! That’s fine!

Combination book store and coffee shop. There are a few others like that around, but they are all over on the mainland and I can’t get to them anywhere near as often as I would like.

“…the fantasy of (a CEO’s) own worth is always dangerously close to collapsing, due to the haunting knowledge that if you don't show up for work, everything continues as per normal; while if your workers don't show up for work, the shop closes down and stays closed.“ - @doctorow.pluralistic.net

So, an AI took my post where I said the AI wasn’t wrong or bad but some other, far worse third thing, and just reposted it…. “It's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him.”

Via @gruber.foo this post about a vibe-coded Mac app: daringfireball.net/2026/05/next... Okay, taking as a given that AI is “democratizing creativity” or whatever buzzwords, just for the sake of argument. Just because someone *can* now vibe-code an app, it still not the same. Not at all. 1/

Taking a brief break from injustice, wealth inequality, and generative AI to celebrate ladies’ hockey for a moment. @thepwhl.com is killing it, big three-team expansion just announced, and two great Canadian teams in the finals! Love @victoire-lphf.bsky.social but love @pwhlcharge.bsky.social more!

Steeltown, we’re BACK - for good this time. 👏 📰 youtu.be/oEzj-wS4_6E

WE'RE ALL IN ✨

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Okay, setting aside that this is likely code for “I don’t want to even see (whatever prejudice) people on TV”, it just assumes that the writer, casting director, actor, costumer, and director all just, what, didn’t notice that this “filler” character didn’t need to be there? But you alone did?

Okay, other than asking Americans to think using the wild (to them!) unit “millimetre”, this is a fantastic way to visualize the absolutely (metaphorically) astronomical (literal) wealth of Elon Musk.

History doesn’t repeat but it sure does rhyme. Not the first time that the British justice system has kept vitally important information secret to tilt the table in their favour. A (somewhat historical) dramatic renactment: youtu.be/pYDhp11S34A?...

At first, I was heartbroken when a patron shared a story he “wrote” (but which was clearly AI). Later, he shared a sequel that he had clearly written himself, and my reaction was basically “this is garbage; I’m so proud of you.” 1/? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... via @doctorow.pluralistic.net

As an aside: I moved provinces as an adult after immigrating as a child from the country that my Irish and Welsh great-grandparents immigrated to, making me feel like my whole family is indigenous to nowhere. Identity, immigration, indigeneity…there’s a lot of potential for stories all around. 1/?

I just realized that Kishōtenketsu, the eastern four-act structure (introduction, development, unexpected twist, conclusion) is oddly similar to Motie three-handed logic (“On the one hand, on the other hand, on the gripping hand…” where the gripping hand is a third option that trumps the other two.

Hahaha! Delicious. Hmm, I wonder why new graduates might not like the thing that steals meaning and employment opportunities from them while soaking up all the money and power and RAM and attention?

Oof, that’s spot on. We could have most people able to support themselves and the people around them in dignity, but a very few of the greediest and most awful people alive today decided that Gilded Age-levels of wealth consolidation just weren’t enough.

““If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” A corollary: when one person lacks retirement savings, that’s their problem; when most people lack retirement savings, that’s everyone’s problem.” - @doctorow.pluralistic.net

In the age of chip shortages, tethering your desktop over cell, and fast-but-small SSDs, pushing out 4GB of data without permission or notification makes every “please let us write a small cookie to your browser” look ridiculous. All for an unwanted feature. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

So, he acknowledges that each instance of an LLM is unique because it uses the unique (human-provided) context of the conversation until the conversation ends, but misses that by having a conversation about the metaphorical “life” of instances, he made his instance mirror that back at him.

If you find a mysteriously circular spot in the forest, no you did not, turn around and back all the way off and don’t go back there.

The terms fiction and nonfiction are kind of wild when you stop and think about it. I love that there is a single common word for “totally not real completely made-up story” but writing about totally normal stuff that does just exist is only defined by its opposite.

We better not ever make GenAI actually self-aware (instead of the current system of just faking it), because I will be super prejudiced against it and will have some unspeakably rude old posts in that case. via @gruber.foo daringfireball.net/2026/04/we_d...

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward hilarity. theonion.com/at-long-last...

This great essay by @doctorow.pluralistic.net is about non-fiction, but the same idea also applies to fiction, too. People often say that “AI writes well” when I can clearly see that it does not; it is because people can’t read a prose-shaped blob well enough to see. pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/n...

He’s working on the weapon that will finally allow capital to destroy labour at long last, but class warfare is when someone with less net worth tries to burn down his home. Obviously, no one should be attacked with a Molotov cocktail, but also no one should starve because of wealth consolidation.