“Fraser said it would be "unimaginable" for a federal government to steer clear of a case affecting Charter rights that will have lasting impacts and suggested the premiers' argument is "untenable."” Hard agree.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I know everyone thinks this is the best thing about the Canadian Supreme Court, but the best thing is actually that I don’t know any of them by name.

tree-hugging is usually said as a pejorative but some of you should try it some time

I've been thinking a lot lately about how the worst of technology makes us lonely. Self-checkout, driverless taxis, generative "art", chatbot "therapists", all only exist to eliminate human interaction. Are we really supposed to go through life never speaking to another person? Is that the end goal?

This show was so prescient about what the future of AI would be like and I can't believe so many people slept on it.

Albertans! Sign the thing! (If you haven’t already)

A little something for everyone, whether you're following the #BlueJays hashtag for birds or baseball! 🪶⚾ One of my favourite action snaps, and appropriate for the energy of the playoff game today! Let's go Blue Jays!!

Let's go Alberta!

I’ll never a penny, but at least it keeps my rage alive.

One of my heroes for sure. RIP Jane Goodall.

October????

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE AL EAST CHAMPIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2015! 🚨🥇

The fact that an artist of Taylor's caliber is still getting offers to perform for free for the "exposure" is both reassuring and profoundly depressing.

Yes. That’s the point.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

NOOOOO. RIP to Robert Redford.

I'm sure I'm not alone in my addiction to the Merlin app, but the benefits have been different from what I expected.

doctor: your blood pressure is a little high me: [alive in the year 2025] well that’s weird

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

I would LITERALLY buy any phone that came out with internet and absolutely zero AI features. In fact if it had AI *blocking* features I'd buy it even faster.

From my morning walk

Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.

I suspect they discovered that many conservative voters also disagree with book bans. They also realized that school divisions were not going to interpret "sexual content" to mean only 2SLGBTQ+ content. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What a great technology. /s

The hubris is breathtaking

Oh no! Edmonton, please keep an eye for these two!

This is perfect.

I think there's a real culture shock for Americans when they figure out: 1) non-Americans like you IN SPITE of you being American, not because of it 2) Trump is what everyone thinks all of us are and have been for a long time

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title: Tom Clancy’s Anne of Green Gables

Once again I’m grateful that my 10 year old tech will never support this.

I cannot understand why I should be fine with environmental destruction, chatbot-induced psychosis, tanking literacy, theft of artists’ creative output, everyone around me getting stupider, wrong answers becoming just as prevalent/acceptable as right ones, and job losses, but somehow care about…this

The problem with this analogy is that I think many Canadians want a bench clearing brawl.

I love back alleys, so I went in search of places that are turning their alleys into local attractions.

My spreadsheets aren't high stakes, but I still don't want the slop machine inserting fake numbers into them.

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

You don’t say.

Great turnout, Lethbridge!

Has to be Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America by Matthew Olzmann

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.

A thing that fucks people up is the refusal to take babysteps in doing something they suck at. Instead of starting where they can, and gradually improving, they just get frustrated that they're not already good at it and never even start.

Remembered my long-neglected blog and wrote about my love of herbariums.

This is definitely the most urgent issue facing rural Canadians right now