AI animal videos are ruining one of the internet's last good things: defector.com/ai-animal-vi...

Sauron says creating the Rings of Power will help create 250,000 jobs, boost Mordor GDP by 3%

Hoping all my Winnipeg friends have power, and the hail damage is minimal. Wishing a speedy fix for those who are in the dark right now.

I love this guy.

My dream, especially if I could also audiobook and crochet 🥰

IKEA didn't build renewable generation to power 1.47 million homes because politicians told them to. They did it because the economics stacked up. With much of the investment already paid off, savings of over half a billion USD per year on electricity costs, the fundamentals become hard to ignore.

So… My partner just got an 868-BACK score that put him in the top 5 on the scoreboard. At what point do I need to stage an intervention? 🤔

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Yet Carney is all in on AI. 🤖🫧💥 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/car...

If AI had ROI, it would be impossible to ignore. Nobody would ever have to say "AI is here, and it's real," and AI job loss stories wouldn't be written in riddles. The entire AI industry is built on deceitful and manipulative marketing. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

The reason that every AI booster talks in terms of hypotheticals is because if AI actually had ROI, we'd have alarming, society-rupturing results, entire fields destroyed, entire companies annihilated. Except none of that has happened. AI does not have ROI. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

Well, that explains a bit of what’s wrong with society…

T R U L Y When someone sends me 2 paragraphs of text in an Instagram DM and Meta pops up with "Let me summarize this for you!", I want to slowly walk into the ocean. Don't even get me started on Adobe constantly trying to summarize my PDFs for me.

Everybody in power apparently stopped caring about climate change during the pandemic, and maybe a lot of us had some other pressing issues, but that doesn’t mean we have any time to waste in addressing it

Welp, glad we didn’t end up buying a house in Westwood. 😅

In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week, @thedailyshow.com host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!" Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed. Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...

I often think about how conspiracy theories are a response to fear and that it is actually more comforting to believe that bad things are due to the intentional acts of humans and govts rather than just the reality that individuals have very little control over what we encounter day to day. 1/

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

Make clocks more honest again with permanent Standard Time! Oppose permanent Daylight Saving Time (so-called “Sunshine Protection”)!

"Not everything needs to be fast or efficient — especially creativity, which, in my experience, is actually a pretty slow and inefficient process. There are no shortcuts. You have to put in the work."

like, if you let "AI" write short emails/messages for you and the other person is doing the same, eventually you're both just watching computers imagining your relationship to each other. and if there's any truth to, "if you don't use it, you lose it," it probably could be a huge antisocial problem.

Someone posted yesterday about how the language used around AI was that of forcefulness & not consent. It was all "you have to use this" "It's happening whether you like it or not" "Embrace it or suffer". And that it was very techbro, because their products loathe consent, & so do they as humans

I have a laundry list of issues with this with one of them being "keeping streets safe" language. It's never referring to dangerous drivers or street harassment. It's a term that's meant to emphasize vague "urban crime" when most violence happens in private homes and spaces.

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Reposting to make it clear the tribute is because he is RETIRING. His last show with Wait Wait is this weekend. NPR's Morning Edition pays tribute to Bill Kurtis. www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n...

the point of a meeting is not meeting notes, it’s decisions

Since their 9 SOG game, I’ve been saying that the hockey gods must really want them to win 😆

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Reducing access to Manzanar Historic Site means limiting public access to this part of our nation's history. www.latimes.com/california/n...

Oil and gas represents only 5% of our GDP. Carney and Smith are investing our money into soon-to-be-obsolete technology just to appease fascist seditionists. We are scheduled to have another record breaking hot summer with some wild fires already raging. This is a terrible, terrible decision.

Also, after a difficult week so far, I was thrilled to see dandelions on the lawn across from us, then absolutely devastated when the groundskeeper came and tore them all up (he’s learning, unfortunately—he used to just mow and spray them and they’d be back within days).

Yeesh, even with the HEPA on high, this dust is making me feel like I have a cold 😭

This is my most quoted meme phrase and never fails to make me laugh. I’m in tears after seeing it in the wild. So grateful someone made this.

This is absolutely what I’ve been saying (and seeing firsthand)

One of them is actually regulated and undergoes stringent safety inspections, so yeah, I would also prefer a nuclear power plant to a data center.

I worked here for a bit during the pandemic. If you can spare a few bucks to help them with their roof you’ll be supporting one of the most vital food security programs in that whole part of the city. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Uhhhhh I really don’t like this. Monitoring for symptoms, but not required to isolate…

Sheesh, Cushman and Wakefield get bought out and now they’re selling most of Seasons of Tuxedo and Fort Garry Hotel? 😅 Can’t say I’m a fan of acquisitions

I have never felt more seen by a passage in a book

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

Imagine talking about any other public service this way. Does the government keep public hospitals “afloat”? What about when it gave Marine Atlantic $169 million to support its operations in 24/25? The media does the bidding of those who want to private Canada Post when they adopt this framing.

I hate it when adults say the stuff they learned at school was useless because "I've never needed to know this" partly because there is inherent good in knowing things even if they're not "useful" to your current circumstances, but also because I need my co-workers to do algebra for their jobs.

I see no lies here

The company’s failure to obtain valid consent for that data collection also contravened Canadian privacy laws, with “many users” left in the dark about how their data was being used to train the widely used chatbot.

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind the hugely popular ChatGPT, collected “vast amounts” of Canadians’ personal information, a three-year probe from four Canadian privacy watchdogs has found.