Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

AHH

I STOLE THAT SWEATSHIRT FAIR AND SQUARE

Any credible and honourable peace deal between the United States and Iran needs to include the extradition of Pete Hegseth.

funny how that works

Another great reason to never publish in an MDPI journal

Y’know, when Stephen Harper did this shit in 2013, people got mad 🤷‍♂️

this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology. functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age. when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify

what is redcap and how do I destroy it

Facebook still has, hands down, the best infrastructure for organizing events and groups of any social media site and it sucks so much that the site is so toxic and unusable otherwise

my most millennial trait is that it irritates me to no end when something can only be done on my phone and not on my laptop

UNANIMOUS 9-0 Hamilton City Council Planning Committee votes to create an Interim Control Bylaw to freeze data centre development in Hamilton. Graphic of how Council voted. It needs to be ratified next Wednesday. #HamOnt #yhmcc

Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week and other self-help slop, is seeing his book sales crater because people are getting their advice from ChatGPT instead lmao

[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,

We are going to end up having a bluesky celebration of life for that little bumblebee Petra has been taking care of, which is totally appropriate and very in the spirit of early bluesky, but also crushing me

Screenplay about two queer women who pose as a matchmaker and a tradwife so they can take some man for all he’s worth. Have it on my desk Monday

Counterpoint: if you can borrow against it for liquidity and somehow never end up having to use your own cash to pay it back, it's real money even though it's fake

this is what actually makes science hard

There's a federal public opinion survey now, you know what to do. (For those outside #topoli the province has an unserious proposal to build a wacky giant airport on Lake Ontario, which requires displacing a midsize city's worth of people from the area where we live) tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

“listen to your body” and “make enough money to live” are conflicting imperatives under the T&C of the current OS afaik

Bad news for pedestrians who don't own a car, courtesy of the Doug Ford government. www.thestar.com/business/per...

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

This is my fear about the training data…that this is NOT the worst LLMs will ever be but closer to the besf

THERE ARE NO TRANSPHOBES WITH HONOR. NO TRANSPHOBE WILL SEE THE GATES OF STO’VO’KOR.

Can you imagine the Metrolinx railway hotel?

Let us begin as we intend to proceed.

Video of what appears to be multiple @tps.ca officers tackling & arresting a cyclist during a stop sign trap on the MGT. Cyclist - "What did I do wrong?" Cop - "You didn't stop." If true, this is excessive use of force for a traffic stop. Mayor Chow & @ausmalik.bsky.social plz look into this.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

If you think this looks like a threat to free speech you're wrong. Threats to free speech are when sex pests lose their jobs as magazine editors.

Ditto Canada, more's the pity

Hey Alberta - there's a federal petition out right now to bar construction of energy-hungry AI data centres. It aims to mandate and prioritize national environmental protections, public hearings, and First Nations consent. Anyone from Canada can sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Canada doesn’t even capitalize on the research talent it’s already got. 😐️

3/ We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble. And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

Women know a confidently wrong blowhard when they see one and are much less likely to fall for smarmy, insincere flattery

Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.

hear me out

It turns out good things are possible, if you can be bothered to try

I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism

Tech bros will do literally anything to avoid just having a train

have to keep saying (despite the many angry posts this generated last time): it's a world-historical problem how funny this guy is

great stuff google thank you so much!!!!

They’re so fucking fragile.

2/ But strong words must be followed by strong action. Sanctioning individual ministers is not enough when this cruelty is mirrored in Israeli state policy. Close the loophole on arms sales, cancel the free trade agreement and use every tool in Canada’s diplomatic arsenal to end Israel’s impunity.

Seriously -- wear a robe and draw pictures and do meditative contemplation and sing with buddies and make beer sounds like a seriously great life

once again we have reached that time of day

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

Oh boy I had fun filling this out. Have at her Hamilton folks! #HamON

Is AI better at coding than a junior engineer? Maybe! Will we ever have senior engineers if we replace all junior engineers with AI? We will not Is AI better at writing then a 6th grader? Maybe! Will anyone learn to write of all 6th graders use AI? They will not

The AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.