Okay, serious question: how does the heat pump pump cool air when I change the mode from “heat” to “cool” but not the temperature? It was warm air before and now it’s cool but it still says 21°C.

2018 called. They want their national AI strategy back. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

2018 called. They want their national AI strategy back. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Social fatigue but from recording a live podcast episode from home 🤪

I’ve been working from home for so long that the greatest highlights of #007FirstLight are the scenes where he walks around the open plan office and listens in on company politics

This is going to be fun! #PhilSky

97 references in the bibliography of an 8,000-word paper is bad, isn’t it 😞

007 First Light first impressions: that is one thorough end user licence agreement

AI subalternity is so bourgeois

Seems about right

Is the claim that political consciousness is necessary for a certain movement to be successful controversial or have we reached consensus on this? #PhilSky

Yes, my work on [their research topic] is super relevant to [whatever you just said].

I can’t believe someone successfully pitched “MasterChef, but there’s a lift” #NextLevelChef

Reskeet with a favourite picture of yourself

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

You know when you say “I have a problem with x — can you help me fix it?” And the answer is “I don’t have a problem with x”… ? What level of testimonial injustice is that and why is it the worst?

In this world, following due procurement procedures is an act of political defiance.

Another paper through peer review! If you’re in #DataScience, need help communicating your research, and have enough integrity to not use an AI chatbot, drop me a DM! I’m a #ScienceWriter Most of what I’ve written is here: kairoi.co/ismael/

Towards a post code-based approach to ethnicity www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The normalization of far-right ideas continues as Curtis Yarvin and Lauren Southern are invited to a glitzy tech conference in Vancouver - which several Canadian politicians also attended. Full story here, no paywall: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

I mean, if that was the extent of it, that would be the wrong call

It is quite challenging to convince people that this really is more or less what every macroeconomics textbook says, even when you are teaching them out of one of those textbooks.

Maybe commencement speakers should stop talking so highly of copyright-infringing, psychosis-inducing, water-guzzling technologies?

Very much looking forward to attending this talk (unless our workshop time clashes 😬)

Watching #Eurovision on Youtube. Missing Graham Norton’s commentary ☹️

I want a canon-accurate Bond: white male, 106 years old, severe CTE, lung cancer, liver disease. He spends the entire movie in bed rambling about prior exploits with guns and women to a group of agents desperately trying to figure out the code to a nuclear bomb which only he knows. They fail.

We have a prompts library… for hoomans! Read about how we’ll use prompts and contribute here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

If a private corporation says they can protect a nation's digital sovereignty, the nation probably already lost it. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Today is the last day for early registration for #FAccT2026! Register now to join us in beautiful Montréal this summer. Curious what to expect at the conference? Our list of keynote speakers is posted here: facctconference.org/2026/keynote...

Cool Black Mirror episode

Seems legit www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/p...

Better land use, I get; but quieter? Not in the host’s house, probably. And better water consumption? Sure, if you forget to add up all the mini data centres’ water usage. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/t...

A conference dedicated to research that is entirely unfunded

This is frustrating…

In “AI through Thick and Thin” (AT&T, hereafter), I argue that AI is a thick concept insofar that both those peddling the technology as a cure-all, and those decrying it as the bringer of end times are thick.

Does time go in both directions?

Really important tidbit here as well: even asking AI to *format* citations can result in hallucination. (I know this but my students absolutely do not believe it)

It’s hard not to be cynical when this became the prevailing framework almost ten years ago

“MacIsaac claimed he had learned of the inaccurate information when the Sipekne’katik First Nation cancelled a concert appearance planned for 19 December, after members of the public complained, citing the misinformation they read on Google.”

Absolutely savage use of the word #Prompt in the context of #AI Please have a read and consider contributing! All the details: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Heard people introduce themselves as “settlers” today, and I think I agree here: “The vibe I get is: ‘I'm a settler. Whoops, my bad. We did that. Our ancestors planted roots while destroying yours. That must have been hard.’" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Remember when Wikipedia's AI glossary had only 40 items? Those were the days... en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Are we reporting on DeepSeek being open source again? Because I have a problem with that claim montrealethics.ai/state-of-ai-...

It seems Ivan Chvatik was working on his PhD dissertation “by correspondence”* with Jan Patočka in the late 60s but working towards a PhD remotely over 50 years later is unimaginable. * yalepodcasts.blubrry.net/2024/02/07/c...

Learning that “East Indian” is a term used in Canada to refer to people from India. www.sezin.org/2017/01/26/c...

Wow, they actually *retracted* this so-called meta-analysis about ChatGPT effects on learning performance, though it got massive metrics and social media attention before that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do we talk about systemic injustices other than by pointing to specific manifestations of those injustices which, alone or in long lists, just give old-man-waves-fist-at-cloud vibes? #PhilSky

Statement from @rightscon.org and @accessnow.org on the planned event in Zambia.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9