How it started / how it’s going

So, in Alberta, you have to show a confirmation of female sex in order to register your daughter for youth sports. Nothing required for boys. It has been associated with a decrease in registration for girls participating in sports. No change in boys. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

I can’t imagine the poverty of inner life required to care that much about other people’s genitalia. Fix your goddamn hearts.

Nothing short of the modern day Plessy v. Ferguson. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

Technically, they’re Remains now.

"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella accused AI giants of wrecking the economy, encouraging job losses, and basically ruining everything for everyone."

neat!!

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests

Quiet piggy.

Check out this bit of ai alarmism from… the MIT Sloan School of Management.

“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. ‘It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,’ So said.” 🫠

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

"It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

This thread is a magnificent journey.

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What are we doing?

usually when we talk about "instant karma," it's when something bad happens to someone deserving in an immediately. But there's also instant good karma

Men will literally claim UFOs and aliens exist rather than going to therapy—or releasing the Epstein files.

i post this every year because men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here guys

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

In the park with my dog, a car rolls up with the windows down, the boys are back in town-style dudes within, blasting Tracy Chapman’s “Give Me One Reason” and I discovered the cure for male loneliness you’ve all been looking for.

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s disturbing online conversations with its AI chatbot even after staff flagged the account internally.

Today is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, and we’re fortunate to have a place like @shelflifebooks.bsky.social in Calgary. They host a bunch of great events each month and have an awesome staff whose book picks are driven by a passion for reading, not bestseller lists.

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

no

“Every day of operation has seen a financial loss” feels like AI’s mission statement tbh.

nothing’s gonna help with “midterm messaging” when your HHS head is making headlines for cutting off wildlife dicks

These slam poetry timekeepers are getting strict.

As "leaders" on Earth are fumbling with 12-figure budgets to execute the most vile of traits, the Artemis II astronauts and experts at NASA are reminding us of everything that makes humanity truly great. Let's continue to celebrate science, training, curiosity, and wonder.

O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

We are not talking nearly enough about the damage done by constantly telling people that their labor, their intellect, their creativity, and their identity can be replaced by an app

hmm

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'm sorry, what?!

of all the things that never happened this never happened the most

I for one think it’s very cool how millions of people periodically line up to tell donald trump to eat shit

Today I’m reflecting proudly on all my US American friends who are out in solidarity at a #NoKings protest. This cruel, corrupt administration wants passivity, and the whole world sees you standing up.

thus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

when i miss my cats while at work

Son, when I was your age, apples were as big as watermelons, they were green on the outside, and when you cut ‘em open, they were red and juicy inside and tasted like watermelon

Everything is so stupid and there will come a day when folks look back on the persecution of trans folks with the same moral disgust as other crimes against humanity. No one needs protection from trans women. We all need protection, tho, from violent hateful bigots. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

In the end all that the "AI" dudes will have disrupted is the reliability, sustainability and trustworthiness of our software supply chains. Fantastic.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it