I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES

Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches

People will say it's the lack of enforcement, and that's a factor, but we also have technology to limit phone use while driving and our automakers and leaders refuse to implement it. It's a choice to allow distracted driving. And all the deaths and injuries that result are because of that choice.

If Ukraine is forced to cede territory and other surrenders that reward the illegal invader in order to achieve “peace,” nations that claim to believe in the rule of law and the sanctity of nations will have profoundly failed Ukraine, and greenlit the next invasions by dictators and war criminals.

This is bad.

Will the government FALL today? Are we headed for a Christmas ELECTION? Well, we're going to find out at 6:45pmET tonight. That's when the vote is taking place, as I've confirmed with the lovely folks behind the scenes at the House of Commons. Big day for nerds!!!!

leading a rich inner life: exhausting, overwhelming, ultimately leads to disillusionment interior blankeness: every passing phenomenon is a novel source of joy and wonder

bluesky is the woke left echo chamber where a mid tier liberal comedian got banned for saying "wood chipper, feet first" about someone defending child rape, but a nazi fan account is still here after saying "we will kill you" to some fishermen

We need to follow Finland's lead in teaching our children how to recognize mis/disinformation and propaganda. We also need to seriously look at upgrading our education, as European countries have. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

I genuinely don’t understand why crosswalks aren’t elevated to physically slow drivers down

my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.

Imagine being such a loser that your loserdom is now international news. This is yet another step in the humiliation ritual that is the Conservative Party

When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products? >>

Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment. It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

it is necessary to invent Hell so that Elon Musk can be sent there

I know AI is “just a tool” and any tool can be used for horrible things, but at least a hammer doesn’t tell you to end your own life

It isn't. Please send $9M to cycleto.ca/donate

More than anything else, I think this shows that people who remain on X because they think they don’t want to “cede space to the other side” and want to “meet people where they are” are profoundly stupid and negligent people

In Canada, the NDP should be taking notes.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Every once in a while, I'll take my phone out of its case and think to myself, premium polycarbonate phones need to make a strong comeback.

ICYMI: Our ancestors survived by knowing that our fate is inextricably tied to the land and the water, to one another. johnniejae.com/why-indigeno... #indigisky #nativeamericanheritagemonth #nationalindigenousdisabilityawarenessmonth #climatejustice #disabilityjustice

After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion

cc: the folks who say we have to teach K-12 kids how to use AI because we have to prepare them for the future.

Did you wake up irrationally angry at how much energy is being used - and CO2 is being emitted - to foist upon us AI technology that most of don't even want?

Deaths will rise, probably more so with children, but other than that, what could go wrong? “Ford has said speed cameras don't work to slow drivers down — though evidence collected by municipalities and Hospital for Sick Children researchers says otherwise” #onpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

It goes without saying he's a loathsome nazi worm, but I also have vast contempt for pathetic sanghi shitheads like his wife who're willing to grind their dignity, self-respect, & fellow brown people into the ground just to have the respect and/or 'love' of white supremacists.

People will die just as democracy has. No consultation. It’s Trumpy.

reality is very upsetting to the right wing so they are spending a ton of time and money building an alternate reality safe space to delude themselves into believing they aren't unpopular assholes

PSA: Ontario is opening COVID and flu shots to the general public starting tomorrow

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Reading comprehension has gotten so bad that people now need tone indicators for obvious jokes. Poe's Law died and we're all living in its irony-poisoned corpse.

also people’s mental health and sense of shared civic community has never been higher

Here are some of the scary jack o'lanterns I've made for our cats over the years. First: the cone.

This version of Total Recall sucks.

OpenAI has released new estimates of how many ChatGPT users appear to be experiencing severe mental distress in any given week, and the figures are startling. For one, around 560,000 people's chats -- EVERY WEEK -- appear to indicate mania or psychosis.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Food insecurity is also likely to escalate disordered eating patterns among marginalized groups, as my first longform story was about how oppression factors into mainstream treatment for eating disorders, so this will cost BIPOC LGBTQIA+ disabled lives in particular: prismreports.org/2023/09/13/b...

Calling for a “Zionist Palestine” is like calling for an “apartheid South Africa” this is humiliating and not what Canadians voted for.

Unfortunately the satire is entirely indistinguishable from the actual ai industry hype.

"If you reduce anyone’s suffering, if you make anyone feel defended, or aware that they’re not alone, if you make space for hope, if you engage in acts of solidarity instead of stewing in the rancor and alienation that’s killing us—that matters, and it will always matter."

listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them