Impressive how the weeks and months and years keep passing and there remains no compelling reason for me to use generative AI for anything.

My new garden totes are Rosa approved.

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

Here’s #2: www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Amazing news from the guy who brought us the legless metaverse.

Goldfinches love thistles

Five things I saw in my garden during my staycation: A swallowtail butterfly the size of my hand A merlin chasing a small bird A group of small birds chasing a merlin A nest of baby robins asking for food A white pelican flying to the lake #urbannature

Some thoughts about finding a new plant species, only to discover it's an invasive weed. www.thiswildcuriosity.com/2026/07/03/w...

HAPPY CANADA DAY MOTHERFUCKERS WE WILL NEVER BE THE 51ST STATE 🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸 youtu.be/LyyFIbaU45w?...

Lobbyist: "We need to make a choice! Climate or AI! We might lose to..." Me: *smacks climate button Lobbyist: "But we have to open the conversa..." Me: *punches climate button Lobbyist: "But our competitive..." Me: *JUMPS UP AND DOWN ON CLIMATE BUTTON www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

Morning magpies

Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

Dave Eggers, on NPR's Wildcard with Rachel Martin: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...

I hate this. I just want to watch animal videos without feeling like I’m being scammed.

Was poking around on Wikimedia Commons and couldn't help but put together this series of early illustrations of American bison drawn by Europeans who may or may not have seen a buffalo in real life. For reference, here is the animal in question: Photo: Jack Dykinga, USDA

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

I love all the new research showing bees are so much smarter than we thought. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

One day I will take a good photo of a yellow warbler. Not this week, but one day.

Mind blown! 🤯 Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I never get tired of seeing beavers and I love the pattern of the water in this photo.

Preserves Mary Pratt 1978

I want to frame this beautifully written essay.

Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

LOL. No.

I want to see hot adults who are absolutely no younger than 45 and I want to see them get into some Situations™️ and I want a script by someone who studied at the Nora Ephron School of Flirty Banter and I want a poppy soundtrack and everyone in great clothes and I would like it IN A THEATRE!

Here's a fun way to learn more about the realities of Alberta separation. nextstepsalberta.ca

There are many reasons I don't want Alberta to separate from Canada, among them the massive inconveniences it would cause to me, personally

I'm calling it shotgun federalism: a type of national-provincial governance in which everyone walks around with a shotgun in their mouth. What could go wrong? www.davidmoscrop.com/p/canadas-sh...

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Boze Herringon: "Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us that we can't do things we've been doing for 5000 years."

I was trying to explain what ChatGPT is to my mom (she thought it was a messaging app) and after my explanation and some thought, she volunteered, “Oh, so it’s the magic mirror in the beginning of Snow White when it only tells the queen what she wants to hear.” Perfect analogy.

Working in the same business as a parent isn't nepotism. Nepotism is when someone is given a job by an employer (who is their parent, or works for their parent) that they're unqualified for. It's not nepotism if a butcher, baker, or candlestick maker has kids follow them in their profession.

Design made by Albertan Tony Villamar. Share widely and proudly!

Yes, I agree. Only billionaires should be allowed on this mission. As many of them as possible. We wouldn't want any of them to feel left out! What an exciting opportunity for all of us.

Hear me out. I have an idea about billionaires and the sun...

Well, I won't be doing any of that, but thank you.

I’m just so angry these days at what we could be doing to help billions of people, and instead our resources are being used to help individuals become billionaires

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Something perhaps not mentioned enough about the digitised world is how much it encourages us to be more ruthless, untrusting people. I refuse to acquiesce to that. I refuse to change my default mode from thinking the best of people until they prove otherwise. I will not submit to the icy nastiness.

These guys really could have sold AI as “this is going to make your lives better.” Instead they picked “this is going to take your job and ruin all the art you love and you better embrace it or get left behind.” And they expect applause at commencement speeches!

This is one of the best pieces you'll read on the impact of court's decision on the separatism petition. And separatism, in general, including Quebec. www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

"And they’ve wanted their whole lives to be special. And they’re not special. So, they’re trying to rob real creative people of our gifts. And you can’t. And even if you try, you will never be cool. You guys suck."