Noticing a lot of user-first platforms popping up in response to this kind of BS. There’s the Nebula video platform, the music one I can’t remember the name of, & Gander, a social media platform, founded by a non-billionaire dude, just for Canadians, and MODERATED ACCORDING TO OUR CHARTER OF RIGHTS

Really ingenious. Attract doctors into family medicine by making them municipal employees so they can just provide care & don’t have to deal with the admin burden of running a practice. We need more of this kind of outside the box thinking to fix healthcare in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Can’t wait to give this a listen

I feel like waiting around for billionaire tech men to decide how our culture is going to work based on their various products launches has not worked out and we should turn away from them and their companies now

If you create an AI-powered wearable device that sucks and nobody wants, you should be forced to eat the unsold stock

This is what’s playing out in Canada now. Carney jumping thru hoops for the right, the rw echo chamber too busy screaming communist at him to care, meanwhile those of us who thought we voted Liberal last election are left going wtf

Great thread on the melting of ICE in LA and the 'empowered bullies' that comprise ICE. A thread of encouragement from LA to Chicago...

Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.

This was always the scam. Writers: CHARGE MORE to fix AI docs

This is exactly the wrong time to kneecap arts and culture in this country

Do the Alberta book banners worried about children being exposed to inappropriate content know that there is an internet

Solomon’s priority should be protecting Canadians from the excesses of these dodgy companies and making sure they’re not permitted to heedlessly Kool-Aid Man themselves into every aspect of our lives

New human just dropped

Say it louder

For the cynics who think it doesn’t matter, that the compensation for authors whose work was stolen will be so low it’s not worth fighting, I personally think it’s worth making the monetary punitive damage these companies suffer as big as possible to deter similar theft in the future.

The money and time squandered on self-infatuated megalomaniacal bullshit by Musk, Zuckerberg, and Altman alone could have built rail networks and clean energy, replanted forests, paid teachers and researchers, fed and educated millions quit Facebook quit ChatGPT boycott Tesla

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Worthwhile thread on AI, what it’s really for and who it really serves—especially pertinent after the Eden Mills debacle

A swift, good decision to just not

I can’t believe this is real. Eden Mills wth?

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence. If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept

When you think of it, South Park is the only comedy that could take on the administration because it’s the only comedy whose world is more cartoonish than Tr*mp’s

The US has to get this death cult out of power

And all it took was a little thing called political will

“This is not a process for sense-making; it is a process for making people feel upset at scale.”

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

www.thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... Critchley was asked what she thought of AB separatism, and she talked about getting a maple leaf tattooed on her chest after serving in Afghanistan, and added ‘I’ve buried too many friends under the Canadian flag’. 😳

All I know is that it's important we still punish these meddling college kids for being right this whole time.

‘The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".’ 🤔

they are stealing from us and from our children even though they have unfathomable wealth. they openly tell you that they're building gibberish machines to put us all out of work. it's a fucking scandal and everyone knows it and everyone hates it

It's almost as though the people obsessed with imaginary pedophilia rings paid no attention to the reporting on the actual pedophilia ring.

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

Holy cow, this is such a thrilling and audacious approach to social housing and I’m so proud it’s happening in Canada torontolife.com/city/ive-see...

Organizers of the ‘AI for Good’ summit lost their minds when they discovered, 2 hours before her talk, that their keynote speaker intended to suggest that AI, every so often, is not in fact good

Words I never thought I'd say: I love this interview about Canadian tax law. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-q-and-...

This conversation felt like water in the desert. No one cuts through the bullshit like TMC

Re: Diddy being acquitted on sex trafficking charges, one of the reasons the MeToo backlash has been so effective is because the court system enables a commentary class to say the absence of a guilty verdict means that women and victims are liars. In reality it’s incredibly hard and rare to convict

Ffs

All anyone had to do was 1. Listen and 2. Believe them

The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.

It amazes me that all this is debatable.

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

This thread about post-9/11 weirdness reminded me how, in book publishing, suddenly everyone was all: Fiction is dead! Not serious and grave enough! Non-fiction only! (There was a similar “comedy is dead” contingent that The Onion quickly put paid to)

I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime. My generation has witnessed anti-progress. A cultivated backpedal. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Like, any random group of psychos could decide to slap on some masks and start a weekend kidnapping ring as a hobby

Sorry to keep banging this drum, but in ways big and small, the point of shoving “ai” into these devices is to insert the tech as a replacement for interpersonal relationships and foster distrust in your own assessments of how you feel.

If👏 Creativity👏 Has👏 No👏 Value👏 In👏 Society👏 Then👏 Why👏 Are👏 So👏 Many👏 People👏 Going👏 To👏 So👏 Much👏 Trouble👏 To👏 Steal👏 It👏

Be great if this feud could somehow be parlayed into one of them saving the planet to spite the other