Altman’s comments were bad enough. But the following day to read about how OpenAI had neglected its duty when it banned a user in Canada who was using ChatGPT to play out gun violence scenarios put his comments in an even worse light. disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-...

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Winnipeg, MB. Just in my inbox via Councillor Duncan's office, so I thought I would post for those who've been following this issue, given timelines & delegations tomorrow.

The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100

Yes it is, and this is a good explainer of the impact of international student caps. But it's infuriating that Benarroch is simply reconciled to the state of government funding while pushing for tuition hikes.

So remember kids... Bullying works.

Basically, your Charter right to free expression won’t apply downtown

It's always the people whose offices have doors and sunlight who insist workers will be more productive in person

Canada did a consultation on a new national AI strategy, formed an expert task force to write 32 reports, then used AI to analyze the responses & reports. The result is a summary that strings together 100s of vague action items & flattens nuance and policy trade-offs into false consensus

Winnipeg’s transit system upgrade was supposed to increase ridership, but the data — though not entirely reliable — suggests it may have done the opposite, @jsrutgers.bsky.social reports thenarwhal.ca/winnipeg-tra...

Roads and police and police and roads

If you're open to party politics and want to vote for the next party leader, today is the last day to become a member.

one of the worst things about so many canadians being glued to cnn and msnow is that they import that approach to politics, such that you can’t ever criticize the libs or carney because they’re your team even when they absolutely need to be pushed to do better.

That's a hard no (with alt text)

Registered for what may be my first race in almost two years post injury 🥹

UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.' “These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”

This was the first thing I saw when I opened Instagram today

Listen to Black Midi and text a friend today pitchfork.com/news/black-m...

This photo and caption combo really speaks volumes www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's great that the government of Canada portal redirects to the Salesforce landing page when it times out, because what I really want when I'm renewing my passport is to calculate my ROI on an AI powered CRM

Disgusting statement

you should have children so you won't be lonely in your 50s is not good advice.

At new years it bears repeating that reading isn't an inherent moral good. Cultivate patience and curiosity with or without books in a way that works for you.

Made myself a wallet today.

There really shouldn't be any story about this development that doesn't mention Gem/Marquess suing dozens of protesters in 2017 for ostensibly delaying the project by trying to prevent clearcutting.

"White Mineral Desolation, unvarying and chill." [Mason & Dixon]

Got some leather working tools and made the jankiest glasses case I've seen in my life.

Remember this propaganda video next time someone tells you bodycams exist for the sake of police accountability.

This was a terrible situation and I can empathize with people's fears, but I genuinely don't understand how anyone thinks SROs would have prevented this.

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

Imagine arguing that parking is more important than housing when there's an encampment literally a few meters away.

There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance. We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others. disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...

This is a really lovely profile

I enjoyed listening this morning then immediately logging on to see Sapiens on the bookshelf behind the instructor for a required PD course 🙃

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

It strikes me that both cars and AI are technologies which have their place but are dominant to the point that they make society worse and people begin to resent them. Both in the name of profit and a distorted sense of personal convenience.

"95 per cent of generative AI initiatives produced zero return." But huge volumes of hype. This is #BigData, not intelligence www.ft.com/content/fca4...

Today at 3:30

Lol brutal "One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25."

This is a really beautiful story. I happened to spot Tim on his bike this morning out in the (relative) boonies and wondered where he was heading on such a blustery day!

If you’re wondering whether we still need these changes, a driver hit Rob’s ghost bike THIS MORNING

New pricing options mean that in many situations peg city car coop is both cheaper and more reliable than winnipeg transit. Which is great, but really shouldn't be the case.

Timeline cleanse: look at these carrots! The novelty still hasn't worn off that you can put seeds in the ground, wait a while, then go outside with a headlamp in November and pull food out of the ground.

Ok this is great actually. Libraries for the win!

A man. A rant in 12 parts. This week has been rough. In less than 5 days, I’ve had three incidents involving men and I want to share them with you. 1/12 @ianmccausland.bsky.social

Most weird behaviour is not dangerous!

Increasingly fragile??

I wish Colbert wouldn't frame "the coming ai revolution" as inevitable, but this is the right energy to bring to the conversation

I think about this are lot re: workplaces as well. People in charge tend to be those who got a business degree or whatever because their career aspiration was to be in charge. The best bosses I've had have been women who ended up in leadership because they're competent and were asked to move up.

Within a few blocks of Ellice saw four police officers standing by bus stops and four transit enforcement officers. Some $500k plus in annual salaries. Watched them turn away someone over a $3 fare. Noticed it’s gameday for Jets.