When you already have headphones in a sunglasses on and there's still too much sensory stuff going on 🫪

Oh this is why I haven't really seen people argue that "AI is unethical because the way training data are acquired are theft" as a reason to be anti-AI anymore. Its been ruled as Fair Use a bunch via being "highly transformative"

Matlow's motion to create a Pedestrian Streets Program for Toronto CARRIES without debate, 16-6. Report due Q1 2027.

Inshallah a good sign for things to come

As if this was ever about protecting children rather than controlling them and harvesting more data *from everyone*

Noooo, I didn't know Roisin Murphy was an idiot 😭

Hilary Cass climbed out from under the bridge she calls home to tell the BBC there's no evidence of any harms to trans young people from puberty blockers. Infuriating! Evan Urquhart has more here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

If police are permitted to roll stop signs when it's safe to do so, they shouldn't be ticketing cyclists doing the same in High Park on the MGT or anywhere... Video taken on Monday.

The thing about "heteropessimism" is that it is a catchphrase almost exclusively used to shame women for objecting to their own oppression as if it is cringe.

80% of news out of Toronto get me closer to full Not-Just-Bikes-ification 😭 (The only thing holding me back are the amazing people responsible for the remaining 20%)

Do Yonge, you cowards!!!!

With slightly misplaced sincerity I would like to point out that the idea that you should decide who to plan your life with based on sexual attraction just doesn't make sense for me in the first place! Have sex with men but buy a house with your bestie(s)! Be a little creative jfc!!!

"What used to be utilitarian vehicles for construction workers are now marketed to the American masses, with messages tailored to specific audiences. One common pitch centers on machismo. Automakers trumpet how some of their trucks have an 'aggressive appearance' or a 'piercing glare.'"

I do wonder why gay politicians are disproportionately terrible, I guess some selection for "one of the good ones"?

Two vision scientists – holding adversarial positions on the theory – hide their secret romantic relationship from the field-at-large while delivering antagonistic conference talks. You won't believe what your eyes are seeing with each episode of ... "Heated Binocular Rivalry".

Is this the world cup or the men's world cup

Britain will use AI to assess ages of asylum seekers in a world-first, with other countries likely to follow suit But our investigation, based on a leaked report and our own algorithmic audit, finds the technology is deeply unreliable

Ah yes, surely we have lots evidence to back up everything that's in here. Surely its scientifically proven that continuous scroll is more evil than clicking "next page", and that short form video totally fries the brain

The world's first trillionaire did this

And those “likes of Reform” include the sitting Labour government

This harrowing article is put into additional context given the current national scandal over police ineptitude and callousness towards a victim of a stabbing itself being reframed as over ‘DEI’ and ‘two-tier policing’ targeting white people…

My trusty s22 is breaking and I'll probably need to get a new phone soon. Thing is, speed-wise, the s22 was honestly all I needed, so I kinda would love to just get a s22 again (which is like 300 EUR), but the security updates are running out soon.

Hate it when the fascists make it harder for women to commit war crimes

Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.

Hard agree! And instilling obedience in people is bad, actually, in and of itself

As a recovering European opinions on AC haver, this is affirming in my change for the better

33 out of 38 words under the subheading "keep toronto moving" are about cars 720 new police officers Olivia is making it real hard to root for her

“Pornography is the unseen dark matter molding and shaping how the online right speaks and thinks about politics, on anything from immigration to transgender people to higher education.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

The Church Street pedestrianization project is APPROVED 20-4. Church between Wellesley Street East and Alexander Street will be made car-free between June 19 and August 21.

This fucking guy

Anything bad I've ever said about Holyday, I take it back

Generic "it" is catching on (at least in City Council)

Stephen please, we know all we need to about what's happening in their lives: they have low income 😭😭😭

how would you argue that LLMs do not have the capacity to summarise? I'd say that a summary has communicative intent and an author with the capacity to distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, but would love a deeper treatise on this. Any papers from cognitive science that could be useful?

The health benefits, the freed up public space, ...

Have men ever responded well to anything

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

My conclusion of this fiasko is that we need to stop telling men how smart they are lest we want something like Richard Dawkins to occur

I'm *only* interested in the opinions of hags

I think agency is something you acquire and expand over a lifetime. Like when I was 18 there were so many things I didn't know I could, like, just do! So I don't think I'd be so hard on "younger communities" for not having a developed sense of being able to just go out and find the stuff they like

This is, I thought I was told, is exactly what tenure is for?

Praxis is walking in the middle of Augusta to antagonize cars

When abusers aren’t held accountable there’s an obvious benefit to being abusive and terrorizing people to get what you want. The Trump administration is far from the only example. This is why stuff like deplatforming and removing abusers from power is important and not just a trend or a catchphrase

I'm "credible on gay people" (I organize gay bashings twice a week)

After my masters in philosophy my interest in consciousness was at about +0.5 interest units, and now everytime "LLM" and "consciousness" appear within two sentences I lose about 5 units of interest

"one of the last remaining spaces where they can grow up doing what children everywhere have evolved to do: independently play and explore with their peers"

A womanless Psychology is an incomplete Psychology… An exclusive extract from ‘Absent Minds: The Untold Story of the Women who Changed Psychology Forever’, by @maddipow.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

And so transparent 😭😭😭 Surely we'll learn from this, collectively 🙂‍↕️

I feel like Ive been reading people warning about this shit for like the last 10 years, still insane to read how it's actually happening, and how the sole fact that its happening is in and of itself not a major scandal