My goodness Diet Pepsi is vile.

I spent 6 months working for a Swiss NGO researching the tactics used by Big Oil and how similar they are to Big Tobacco’s tactics, and I can tell you that the ones used by ‘Big AI’ are virtually identical.

If you weren't Of A Certain Age by 1998 and want a good primer on insidious diet culture, Olestra is a great place to start reading up.

Canada Post delivers to 17.6 million addresses every day (business and residential). At 260 work days per year, that is 4.57 billion deliveries each year. Over eight years, that is 36 billion mail deliveries in 8 years. Canada post delivered mail 36 billion times and it only cost $6.1 billion.

That's it? $6.1B in eight years? We gave Ukraine $25B in four and didn't even get daily mail out of it.

Im barely on socials anymore but im podcasting again! Yay!

It’s official: WE’RE BACK!! In this episode we’re announcing some changes, including the addition of our new cohost @maryturner.bsky.social, & sharing our live reactions to the Season 2 trailer!

Quick reminder that PM Carney's entire strategy is rampant private extraction and privatization (irreversible), via a self-imposed nonstandard Structural Adjustment Program with the IMF she-what.ghost.io/carneys-davo...

“Regret the impact” but no actual apology to Chappell at all

Another genius Lex Luthor move to show the entire world that you as CEO, who blew $80 billion on VR nobody wanted, are replaceable by AI

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

Tomorrow I’m presenting my research for the first time since my thesis advisor passed away. Feeling all kinds of ways about it.

I really want to write an instagram caption like those couples who are clearly having problems so they write long posts about how much they love each other despite everything but it would be about my cat and how much I love him despite his stinky poops and his hair everywhere.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

the pigeons have discovered military fortification

Nothing could have prepared me for this

On the Environment and Climate Change cuts. Remember when Carney ran partly on climate credibility - the whole sustainable finance framing? From @nolore.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

In capitalist terms: the only market the predator class couldn’t completely corner was the knowledge market. AI made that possible. Learning is like putting money in a high-yield savings account. Using AI is you giving your money to the rich and powerful and keeping none for yourself

become ungovernable

No better way to start a Sunday event to wake up and see Harry Styles came out for the 110th time

Laugh crying in public because my baby is 12 and finishing elementary school and how was he so small just such a short time ago and my life is passing me by and I miss Jeremy and people must think I’m crazy

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

he's a better man than I am for not just quoting back at them from that shitshow Oval Office meeting and then hanging up

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

I don't think ppl are stupid at all, I think capitalist society is a failure, because companies are allowed to lie on a mass scale and coerce users into reckless behavior. The free market that was supposed to provide for us is just chewing ppl up and spitting them out

No, Claude is not anxious. Anxiety requires two components: 1. Awareness of the possibility of annihilation of self. 2. An autonomic nervous system. Mimicry of the words of an anxious person is not being anxious. A dog can be anxious. Your plagiarism machine cannot.

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying bsky.app/profile/slcl...

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Anyone working in "news" or "politics" needs to finally wrap their minds around the idea that X isn't reaching anyone that matters. You're wasting your time pitching no one. You're wasting your money pitching no one.

No but this is entirely correct

Anyone who is SHOCKED that the US men’s hockey team would party with Kash Patel and laugh with the pdf file in chief about him having to invite the US women’s hockey team clearly has very little experience with the NHL.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

As a lifelong Montrealer, having to cheer for Brad Marchand is physically painful.

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One of the most liberating things I’ve ever experienced is realizing that I don’t actually have to be nice. I always strive to be kind, but I definitely do not need to be nice.

Given the use of GenAI among political parties and all that entails, your periodic reminder that we have an Open Letter signed by over 20 AI experts calling on AI regulation. So far only the Green Party has committed to this. Please share among your networks and sign if you haven't already #nzpol

About one of the Trump accusers in this piece: “The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”

But tell me more about the economic and business genius of these tech bros

Sora 2 apparently cost something like $5 billion to run every year and so far made OpenAI around $1.4 million.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

“God bless America”… and then naming every country in the continent. Fuck yeah.

The Italian coach telling that little kid "your mom is an Olympic Champion" as he got to watch his mom break an Olympic record and win gold 😭😭😭😭😭

I see discourse has taken place

All about this Vonnegut quote.

5. Love on the ice, out and proud! Canadian #IceHockey players Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey at their first #Olympics as a married couple.

Maybe Armie Hammer just broke containment.

No fucking wonder these motherfuckers didn’t care about children being gunned down in schools if they were doing Epstein files shit on the side.