one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.

The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.

Really good video about the poor state of much scicomm about AI at present. youtu.be/1IQ9IbJVZnc @hankgreen.bsky.social I hope you can do better...

I don't know about you but the way my brain works is by analyzing the contents of the entire internet to make an educated guess about what word I should use next.

New meme format just dropped: Super thank this video from @gamersnexus.bsky.social with your distro of choice, if you've been a linux gamer for years, and can afford it! youtu.be/ovOx4_8ajZ8 I use debian btw!

When much the City’s self-described “savings and efficiencies” include deferrals of capital investments as well as reduced fuel costs resulting from the elimination of the Carbon Tax, it’s more accurate to call it “cost avoidance” and “blind luck”.

Hey @davidallengreen.bsky.social does the BBC need SLAPP laws in the UK?

Hey Toronto airport fix your fucking shit. Can I carry on bottles of liquid or not? Got both answers today

An odd oversight in Canadian cannabis legalization: there's no cannabis bars or other establishments where you can hang out and get stoned in company. No cannabis third places. And no legal framework for them either?!

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo

"At the G20 summit 2021, Canada forged new partnerships in trade, energy, NFTs, tech, sustainability, and defence." STOP THE FUCKING BANDWAGONING. YOU WILL LOOK LIKE A FOOLISH CUNT SOON.

The Ottawa city government and @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social are not a serious government. They are a clown show masquerading as a government. This is all in an effort to appease about 20 millionaires who can't possibly pay any extra city taxes, for services they don't use..

This is from Nov 3rd but I just found it running the Fark Headline of the Week queue Scientists discover that people are more likely to be helpful to each other in public spaces if there's someone else in the room dressed like Batman

Something else that the author fails to note: what's the easiest economy for a young couple trying to escape the trap? Skip childcare. How do you do that? No kids.

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A fascinating article, and though America centric, it has echoes in many countries in the Western world.

Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Not a single one of the big pro-Trump "Canadian MAGA" accounts is actually Canadian.

watching the real-time brain rot of people like nate silver bears this out

dang some people called this but wow youtu.be/QRtR2OM3_so

She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people. It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.

Huh. I wonder which Canadian billionaire it will turn out to be.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.

We demand twenty trillion dollars in living-next-to-morons dues from the US.

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Don’t know the reason/the reason

Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome: - Right-click - Unpin Gone!

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Me when I start jamming out to outer space by prodigy.

There need to be social consequences for enacting anti-evidence policies that kill kids. One of Danielle Smith’s staffers just called me over (??) at an event wanting to say hi. Once I realized who she was, immediately questioned her about trans rights.

My favorite piece of content today.

Shot + chaser

JD Vance slams Canada after being rejected by sexy chesterfield

Arguing with JD Vance feels like taking the bait but still: 1. Per capita GDP is not a measure of "standard of living" 2. US GDP/capita is highly skewed by the outlier ultra-wealthy 0.01% class 3. Canadians, as a median, earn more money, work fewer hours, and live longer than Americans

This guy can get fucked

So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

People who use this technology do not want to be taught about a topic; they want the end result of having learned, without learning. I would guess for many this describes a feature, not a bug, of the technology.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

THIS, THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE ALL THINKING, I KNEW IT, THIS IS WHY I HATE PARTIES

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

Alberta's government is engaged in something I can only describe as psychopathic politics. What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us? When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids? It's disturbing: