And Mark Carney is determined that Canada won't hire a single one of them.

Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.

me: *visits a new website* the website: *allow/deny notifications widget* the website: *cookies settings bar* the website: *gives us your email for free newsletter and—* me: *closes website*

The future liberals want

Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.

Oh, shit. Seriously: oh, shit.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Every accusation a confession. It is hella telling that the right genuinely doesn't understand that there are possibilities other than astroturfing

I think about this post a lot

look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what

Anybodye yn NYC got photos of the Bethesda Fountayne yn the snowe todaye? Ich love that place, that statue, wyth all myne herte. Plese poost yf you have some.

I wasn't ready

Photograph by Jeff Wheeler/@startribune.com (pls credit in the post, not only alt text. so most will see it. 🙏🏼)

Solidarity will break them.

Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.

I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

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CONTINUE TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT AI IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT EVER IT IS WORKING CONTINUE TO MAKE ART YOURSELF CONTINUE TO WRITE THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IS TO CREATE COOL SHIT AI STRIPS US OF THE POINT OF BEING HUMAN

I'm going to fucking lose it, this man was grown in a lab for me to support

Morning

Good one, Beaverton. 👑

Is KW bullying other cities that have LRTs by running ours so efficiently, regardless of weather?

Molly's being characteristically thoughtful. I'll be more of an asshole: THE AI COMPANIES HAVE USED WIKIPEDIA'S SHIT FOR YEARS. It costs millions of fucking dollars in infrastructure to serve up content to these companies. Should Wikipedia subsidize them? No? Then it's *good* they're getting paid!

“Better than America” has always been a poor excuse for a Canadian national identity, and the further America descends into abject chaos, the greater a duty we have to stand for something of our own.

I still remember the backlash to Obama's tan suit

Scientists stop saying “AI” when you mean a specific type of model challenge.

ICE AGENTS IF YOURE READING THIS a common midwestern technique to test if you are underdressed is to lick a metal pole outside. if it stays wet for more than 5 seconds after you pull your tongue away, it means you are warm enough. please SHARE to spread awareness

With this list of Minnesota labor and community orgs this is REAL. Not internet randos repeating a meme.

we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell

A year ago, I worried about a US invasion. These days, I worry about something that actually scares me more: that our government (and other governments) will decide that we have to do whatever the US regime demands, and what they demand will be ever more fascist alignment.

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

If the upcoming Catholic schism is incited by Vance getting excommunicated, that will be very embarrassing for all of them. Imagine a child asking about the founding of your church and you have to tell them it was thanks to fascist Ralph Wiggum.

Here is a template letter, with alt text for copy-pasting, to send to your state AG, or tweak to send to your reps, etc. It will take two minutes. Find their contact here: www.naag.org/find-my-ag/

When I called, the nice man signed off with "don't give up." You can call, too!

Cat is out of the bag! Tor declined my suggestion to include in the blurb "sapphic Winter Soldier, but wizards"; however this is in fact the only accurate way to describe this book torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

Can’t pull the lever to stop the trolley. The trolley has rich people on it and it lets them go so fast!

When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv You can never change or guilt it Just go find the guys who built it When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv

Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.

“many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers” is deep wisdom and you don’t need to reproduce to embrace it!

Guys this bubble's gonna burst so hard

If you see items in a black box like this on the Amazon app (presumably similar on desktop), do NOT use Amazon to purchase. Go to the artist's site directly to see what they actually have, buy more easily, and not support this garbage concept that big corps can scrape whatever they want.

Perhaps an obvious point, but beyond a certain level of wealth, these numbers become meaningless. Those eight billionaires are mostly wielding political capital at this point; the bank balances are irrelevant. What this is a record of is therefore only what they *took* from everyone else.

You are a sucker and she is playing you for a fool. She is not anti-authoritarian, she just didn't get the success she wanted out of _this_ authoritarian. She will support the next one. And you will let her hurt every marginalized goup she wants until it happens.

I really appreciated the 2 part @ifbookspod.bsky.social podcast covering the book plus the special episode about the lab leak garbage this book puts forward. I recommend it to anyone who wants to know why so much is wrong w this book without suffering through it themselves.