Enshitification of basic things these companies said they do

When I lived in Kits, I was a short walk away from the best print shop I've ever used: Copies Plus. They were consummate professionals—accommodating and friendly. Go in with your documents on a USB stick, and they'll print them on the spot. Dealing with Staples today has made me miss them SO MUCH.

thinking about pivoting to being a god-tier AI hater on linkedin

Coming hot on the heels of the news that the Commonwealth Writers Prize gave an award to an AI-written story…

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

I believe this is known as liquified natural gaslighting. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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Fuck this. Fuck you Google. Give me an internet that fucking works. We had one for 20 years. I’m so sick of everything getting shittier so modern-day emperors are never told no like a spoiled fucking toddler.

this is a masterpiece

Vancouver friends! Reminder - this vote comes to city council tomorrow (Wednesday), so act today if you want to make your views known. 👇

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

WHO Ebola update: 1. 513 cases, 130 deaths — sharp rise 2. deaths reported among health workers, indicating healthcare-associated transmission 3. significant population movement in the area, >100K people displaced 4. epidemic caused by Bundibugyo virus for which there’re no vaccines or therapeutics

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

He reads the silly post He reads the scoldy post He reads the jokey post And the pedantic post He reads the posts that remind him of the bad site He reads the posts that remind him of the worst site Don’t screenshot that, troll behavior

Fascinating to hear the reasons writers, game studios, etc decide to use Gen AI. Fascinating because the reasons are always complete shit. Every time.

#Medsky I AM GOING TO GO TO MY GRAVE SAYING THAT ALL INFECTIOUS DISEASE PRESENTATIONS SHOULD BE SEEN WITH FULL PPE INCLUDING A RESPIRATOR. I AM SO SAD TO HEAR WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS EBOLA OUTBREAK. ALL. INFECTIOUS. DISEASE. ALL OF IT.

thanks, Microsoft Word grammar check 🫶

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

The hockey will continue until morale improves

This is appalling. And it is the perfectly logical consequence of the Alberta government’s anti immigrant rhetoric and referendum questions. #yyc #ableg #abpoli #referendumb2026

Yes, @decentfilms.bsky.social raises an important point I’m keen to amplify. There is nothing inherently wrong with the passive voice, and it’s often properly useful.

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misread a can of crushed tomatoes as "cursed tomatoes" and am now having fun thoughts about what that would mean for my next soup.

I made a new dumb thing because I wanted it. Jankify! Upload an image and get it back in emoji, pixel art, ascii, polygons, and [request here]. No AI. dr.eamer.dev/jankify

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

Nature has learnt that a clinical trial of two therapies against the rare Ebola Bundibugyo virus spreading in Africa is in the works, pending approval by the governments of DRC and Uganda. go.nature.com/4uNZU0i

I promise you none of the people who manage your local bookstores would say the same. www.nbcnews.com/business/ceo...

NEW: Alberta separatist group’s controversial voter ID app has links to US Ambassador, MAGA influencers and wealthy Michigan Republicans US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told @pressprogress.ca he was ‘not aware’ an American-made app he previously promoted was used to help an Alberta separatist group

We ask when is it enough? When will he do the 'thing' that takes him down? Child rape isn't enough. Stealing taxpayer dollars for his own personal use isn't enough. Killing Americans on the streets isn't enough. Is this enough? Killing earth creatures? I doubt it. He is a parasite, that's all. WTAF

I don't cook my brain on Twitter, which turns you into a racist weirdo. I cook my brain on Bluesky, which turns you into a pedantic weirdo

"this is why we need all that police funding" and points to an abject failure of the funding to do anything

This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

“The spectre of separatism is an enormous risk to investment in our province, jobs in our community,” he said. “It’s creating uncertainty. You can’t build a robust economy, a prosperous Edmonton, with this looming spectre of separation.” globalnews.ca/news/1185366...

I can't for the life of me understand why he wants to keep doing this. He seems miserable. Like, retire and go spend the rest of your days watching TV from bed and eating McDonalds. Feels like we'd all be happier that way.

@skleinedler.bsky.social "Axolotlisation" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Hey @evansolomon.bsky.social - how can you attend events platforming such noxious fascists? Do you not see the overlap between AI + tech and these awful people??? Canada needs data sovereignty, of course, but you absolutely must freeze out the technofascists + Putin apologists.

This article about how AI deepfake tools are being used to create CSAM from photos of kids posted online is worth reading so you can consider your kids' digital footprint and safety. Scary shit! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/family-...

NOOOOOOO!!! This is devastating 😭 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Does anyone have examples of successful SHRC Doctoral award applications that they could share with me? We have a Canadian student who is interested in applying for one and we don't have any examples. Thanks in advance!

For the holiday Monday crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Supreme Court recognizes new tort of intimate partner violence #SCC #cdnlaw

I knew we had to talk about mental health impact of the administration's ongoing attack on immigrants. We do that. What I didn't expect was Cristina Jimínez, a MacArthur fellow and expert, to be so positive about what Minnesotans taught the country about how to come together. Hell of an episode.

NEW: University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models. Crucially, it was opt-out, rather than opt-in.

I've been thinking a lot about the death of friendship lately. "Somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...

“The increase in Black infant mortality, from 9 to 21 deaths per 1,000 births, means Black infants born in Hamilton County are more at risk than those born in Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya or Vietnam, according to the World Bank.”

WHO now recommends #airborne measures & quarantine for #hantavirus

hey graduates, good job on the four years you spent learning how to learn and think among a community of learners and thinkers. the most exciting news i can think to tell you is that your learning and thinking will soon be replaced by feeding little prompts to an AI. ok now why are you booing me

it's caturday, but i'm making an exception for Her

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