I give zero percent probability to the AI apocalypse.

call me controversial and finicky, but if I buy a car, I don't think it reasonable that I have to learn how to "hack" it so it doesn't kill my family But that might just be me. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Marc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.

Anyway, romanticizing smoking is like romanticizing infectious diseases or fascism. It's just because enough time has passed that people have forgotten how shitty they all are.

Our lovingly-crafted-by-hand creaky old website's been updated to include SEAMLESS ELECTRONIC ORDERING (A few bugs to be worked out, but live right now if, like me, you enjoy ordering books in your pyjamas)

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

This chatbot we programmed to verbally suck off MBAs is going to take your job, lmao loser Wild that this hasn't found broad popularity

There’s nothing thrilling about contrarianism. It’s the most toddler shit possible.

READ THE FULL OP-ED: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night. This is a press freedom issue. Here’s what happened:

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

My "Butlerian Jihad Now" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.

End Free Parking. "A decade ago, during the peak of the real estate "gold rush," the luxury market was dominated by offshore buyers looking for a safe place to park their money." as told by Jane Seyd via North Shore News #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanre www.nsnews.com/local-news/c...

Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/2530870/... If you want to make my day, please drop a wishlist! Thank you :)

Rockstar now claims it was, in fact, the leaking of “specific game features from upcoming and unannounced titles” that led to the firings. We’re going to have to see the company prove this in an employment tribunal & more than that, it’ll need to prove it for all 31 fired employees in the UK too.

People across BC deserve an affordable place to call home. While the Conservatives want to reverse the progress we’ve made by putting real estate speculators first, we’re focused on making housing more accessible for families.

The bass line to "I Wanna Be Adored" is one of the greatest in rock and roll, period, end of story www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

1. Information thread for other Canadian small business owners. A few years ago, our payment processor, Desjardins, was acquired by Global Payments, and after a brief honeymoon, our monthly fees went up...and up...and up...and UP, until it was the single biggest expense after rent and paycheques.

British Columbia is permanently banning new cryptocurrency mining operations from connecting to its power grid to conserve electricity for industries that generate more jobs and tax revenue. Crypto is a Ponzi scheme. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... This divisive rhetoric failed at the first reading as it well should. However Conservative MLAs Harman Bhangu, Heather Maahs and former Conservative MLA Jordan Kealy voted for it along with Brodie and her fellow swivel eyed loon Tara Armstrong.

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

Once again I say we are the frog in the pot of slowly warming water that doesn’t know it’s boiling to death

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

How people lie with bar graphs

Summer of Scam: Crypto

You know what they say. You can lead a pie to the windowsill, but then you have to pay the pie'd piper.

futurism.com/openai-resea... Looks like I'm not going to be out of a job so soon then. Quelle surprise.

Satya Nadella says the quiet part loud: futurism.com/microsoft-ce...

It's a sad reflection on the present state of society that this needs to be said at all www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mkV... (stay away from the comments on this video. It is as you would expect full of people frothing at the mouth who didn't actually watch it and/or understand what Mark is saying)

Make a game that is wildly successful and extremely profitable. Get laid off. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/net... This seem fair?

Python is a deeply unserious language. Why anyone would want to use it for actual work is something I have yet to fathom. If I didn't know any better I would assume it was a practical joke.