Worth paying attention to the evolution of climate denial Carney is innovating here. First wave: deny climate change is real Second wave: admit it’s real, but downplay its significance or ability to address it Third wave: reframe fossil fuels as a climate solution

No better time than the present to get off Google and the rest of those shitty US tech companies.

"McDonald’s, Wendy’s, White Castle, and Taco Bell have also tested or used AI in drive-thru ordering in recent years. Taco Bell quickly decided to retreat from the strategy after it found the public really liked messing with the AI by doing things like asking for '18,000 cups of water, please.'"

Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

Whenever someone prominent accidentally shares an AI hallucination, people are like “this is why you have to double-check the output!” Which is absolutely true, but remember that AI proponents market it as a faster way to work. Which is not really true if you have to double check everything it does.

This is appalling. And it is the perfectly logical consequence of the Alberta government’s anti immigrant rhetoric and referendum questions. #yyc #ableg #abpoli #referendumb2026

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"Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat"

In unrelated news, I've switched my default search to DuckDuckGo

A key takeaway: "[t]ypically, when an AI data centre is built out, fewer than 50 local workers are hired to look after the hardware, the report found. Although construction workers are hired to build the centres, the IT jobs created by the technology, if any, go elsewhere." #abpoli #cdnpoli

You can read my full written testimony here: pianofighter.substack.com/p/my-full-co...

Commencement speeches in 2026

Going forward, every morning I plan to recognize one member of our audience at random and personally thank them for reading and sharing @pressprogress.ca’s journalism Today, I would like to give appreciation to *squints* uh, Jason Kenney

"Will you do it over the phone? Would I do it over the phone? Absolutely. Let’s hear it. Mortal Kombat! Yeah, you still got it. I’m going to pay for that one tomorrow."

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

The city of Montreal is pumped for the Habs playoff series win 🔥

Friends in Calgary: please join me to celebrate the launch of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (new from @pressassembly.bsky.social ): Thursday May 28th at 7pm at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social : www.shelflifebooks.ca/events/48657... #poetry #doitwrong

Jesus de Montreal do I ever hate game 7s

NOT NOW, STRANGE UNDER-ICE STRUCTURES

My father hiking the Chilkoot Pass in 1979, wearing a homemade Chilkoot Pass 1979 T-shirt. I can only dream of being as cool as the man in this photo.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

tfw you’ve been partying with REO Speedwagon

Quoth the raven, “Check it out I can talk.”

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

"'If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper.'"

Ok les boys, let's see how my heart fares this evening #Canadiens

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

"If the party is in favour of this, and the leader of the party doesn’t do it, I would suggest that would cause problems." - Mitch Sylvestre, who also was quoted on the record as saying he believed the New World Order is trying to replace "white Christianity" #abpoli #cdnpoli

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

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

“Without additional funding to implement Bill 28, libraries may be forced to reduce, or potentially eliminate, library services." Attacking the commons via culture-war legislation is a feature, not a bug. #abpoli #cdnpoli 📚

me exercising: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. me after exercising: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

IMO: Springsteen is one of several notable exceptions to the fundamental lack of politics in most popular music. Giant stars rarely use their platforms to communicate in this way as it threatens their careers (thinking of the Dixie Chicks here).

Canada: three resource extraction companies in a red and blue reversible trenchcoat

"'This decision should close the chapter on the suggestion of an independence referendum. The court has spoken – and so have the First Nations,' chief Allan Adam said." #abpoli #cdnpoli

Become ungovernable

This is being overshadowed with the petition news, but Elections Alberta confirmed today it actually thinks ‘thousands’ accessed the leaked voter list, not just the 566 it sent cease-and-desist letters too last week. From me & @reportrix.bsky.social: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy, which represents the Siksika, Kainai and Piikani First Nations just saved Canada. edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/05/13/j...

Justice Leonard, responding to a suit brought by Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Blood Tribe, finds that since Smith's referendum if successful would bind the government to attempting to separate, the government can't do it without consulting the treaty nations. And they didn't.

"Smith said [The Parable of the Talents] refers to humankind being entrusted with resources that must be managed carefully for the benefit of other people. This 'fits with how Albertans feel about the resources that are beneath our feet,' she said." Laughably bad theology! #abpoli #cdnpoli

Become ungovernable

"Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences." www.404media.co/software-dev...

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

If Terraforming Mars appeals to you but you don’t want to support people with a public record of transphobia, may I suggest a much better game made by much better people Daybreak is incredible.

Habs anxiety rears its ugly head: the sequel jk this game rules