hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context

What is up with the voices on About That tonight?? Everyone sounds like baritones.

Portables are starting to show up in Tumbler Ridge to replace the hugh school.

My wife said AI in Outlook has started to send summary notes about emails and the summaries are longer than the emails and full of wrong info lol. "I got a 5 word email from my coworker that said 'Lunch will be at 1' and the summary said 'Your lunch meeting is now at 11' lmaoo

Hey Canada, beware of all the right wing groups pumping out lies and disinformation by the minute. This list is unbelievable and may be funded by MAGA. They're parasitic! canadastrongandfree.network/list-of-othe...

At a glance, I thought bottom left was Gritty.

Pro-Trump white supremacist with "SS" tattoo who shot and killed family members, is being painted as example of "trans terrorist" by far-Right due to their gender identity. Comments in support of William Pierce, author of 'The Turner Diaries,' implies shooter was active neo-Nazi for decades.

It’s weird we never do stuff like this with other terrible decisions. Newspaper doesn’t run “I saw a half empty can of Mountain Dew left on the street and drank the rest of that mfer”, and the guy who drank the Mountain Dew is only hurting himself

Local man who often speaks poorly of Canada says people who work for him are not allowed to do that.

1. Totally normal. 2. Not gay. 3. I guess that old dude humping the back of the sauna is Kid Rock. 4. Working out in jeans and no shirt: also totally normal and not gay.

We’re not going to need the space for the baby boomers by the time this facility is going to be built. 😒

So BEFORE anyone asks, it's STILL the Streisand Effect. It's not the Talarico Effect or the Colbert Effect or the Brendan Carr Effect. It's the Streisand Effect.

Fun in our city all this month.

Kelowna founder leaves trivia company after child sex abuse material charges surface #Kelowna

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

I don't think "invading a country, kidnapping its President, then stealing its oil" is what I would call "diplomacy." But perhaps I'm not a political science expert like some folks.

Big fan of CBC not playing the same celebrity obsessions with the man on the left that the NBC and other American media has. (The Kelce Brothers media chubby thing is not something I understand.)

Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes. Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!

‘Secure and Hold’ issued at two Chetwynd schools

Those Von Slicks butter sticks are legit. The creator was at our local trade show last spring. Slathering the caramel one on grilled cinnamon buns is amazing.

there’s a whole different America out there posting on Threads

Good time to re-up: the Tumbler Ridge newspaper is literally one person who is doing his best to update his community while grieving along with them. One-time donations can be etransferred to [email protected] or ongoing via www.patreon.com/posts/thanks...

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

“Approval of Prime Minister Carney remains strong, while Poilievre’s favourability has fallen to a record low.” Approval of Pierre Poilievre has reached an all-time low

SCOOP: Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year and has been praised by the press and the Trump administration, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good."

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Wow.

I clicked “learn more” and it gets ~better~

CBC voice over reporter just said “Dawson’s Creek” talking about health services in our region.

very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy. better not to use image generators at all.

This sounds exactly like lawmakers saying they’re not banning abortion, they’re just requiring a 48-hour waiting period and two trips to the clinic

I'm not a big brained political strategist like Jamil Jivani, which is probably why I don't understand why he'd go on Breitbart's podcast and criticize Canadian attitudes towards the US

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

The Canadian Conservative Party of Hissy Fits has thoughts...

I know people like to dunk on wearing tiny "ICE OUT" pins, but I think they represent a really important culture shift. Even people who are very conscious about their image and expected to perform in a palatable way are wearing them in very public places.

Complaint prompts recall of birth control pills prescribed in Canada

Chip Roy on Fox News tries to explain why the SAVE America Act won't actually prevent women from voting

I'm old enough to remember NFTs

“Favourability of the United States now sits at a record low — second only to Russia.”

pretty stunning chart

Hate in a Hallmark Town, Part 3: My Life In the Eye of a White-Supremacist Storm. Now posted at HateComesToMainStreet.com

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.

I respect the need for precision & get that we have no airtight evidence that visiting a site created solely to show murder, torture, etc. means you're guaranteed to commit a violent act but my GOD. It's so fucked & you cannot convince me it's anything other than a sign that you are deeply unwell.

Lowell Green was a racist demagogue who used his CFRA radio show as a soapbox to rant about immigrants and target racialized communities in Ottawa Contrary to Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe's eulogy here, Lowell wasn't proud of Canada – he wrote an entire book about how it wasn't white enough for him

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

I see Rubio’s being a prick again so here’s that time Canada rolled out the red carpet square sample for him.

Europe is breaking up with visa and Mastercard. europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/eur...

Well now... HERE'S a lovely article spreading the word about the history and influence of Corner Gas, for anyone who may have missed out. From @movieweb.bsky.social. (***Feel free to repost this to spread it around!) movieweb.com/schitts-cree...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.