star trek is about a utopian vision of the future bordering on fantasy where people someday will be able to make good choices about complicated problems by talking to each other and involving people who know about things

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?

Me when I think about how my lifelong affection for AI as an idea is poisoned every day by the bullshit pretender they are using to ruin everything I love

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted

Another banger from @fafo.fm @elchefe.me spitting fire in multiple orthogonal directions. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

If you’re into pedagogy, or language, or… words… this article is worth a read.

My brain is such that I experience what I and others like me affectionately term “complicated joy” Coviello puts to paper what I might call “eloquent rage” In both cases the standard stuff doesn’t hit the same. If you’re exasperated by NYT abandoning its credibility for cash, this is a good read.

"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice

THESEBOOKSAREMEDICINAAAaaaaalll 😂

*leans in* *taps mic* You don’t hate AI. You hate capitalism. Thank you for coming to my entire Ted Talk.

We need very strong norms for people taking responsibility for what they generate + share, with or without AI tools It should be considered rude to ask for someone's attention or effort if you yourself outsourced your thinking to an AI tool and did not critically evaluate the output

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It’s almost like letting young white men marinate their brains in an algorithm-driven toxic stew of nihilistic hate 24/7 and giving them ready access to guns is a bad idea

Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply. There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

After blocking Israeli military cargo, the Greek dockworkers union stressed that they refuse to be “accomplices to the genocide of the Palestinian people.” “For us, it is our duty not to allow our port to be turned into a tool of a war machine targeting unarmed populations.”

These folks f*#%in’ get it. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f... (“it” being what LLMs are and are not, the importance of data quality, and the art of a well-placed Nintendo bleep)

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#Canada can learn a thing or two from #MexicoSheinbaum on restricting information to Canadian media that is #propoganda from the USA. #cdnpoli

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

Currently rewatching A Crown of Candy from @dimension20.bsky.social and thinking about all the wildly improbable nat 20’s over the years and I’ve come to peace with something: I don’t believe in luck. But I believe in Ally Beardsley.

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands. Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.

"Polls don't vote. People vote." Don't fall for the "Canada is broken" rhetoric. We are as strong as ever and up for fighting the fascism growing to the south. BUT YOU HAVE TO VOTE! TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED! EVERY VOTE MATTERS! open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

It would be easier were this truly the end of the world, for in that case you would be free to do nothing. But this is not the end of the world, just the end of the world as you knew it, and so in this case you are obligated to do something.

"This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing." Emily Dickinson in a letter to Norcross, September 1860 🎨 Max Ernst, The Obscure Gods. 1957

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

You are strong, my trans brothers and sisters. You are a 100 ton assault platform with twin 120mm autocanons. YOU CANNOT BE STOPPED #battletech #mechwarrior #ttrpg #minipainting #miniatures #transrights

Sorry I missed your call, the frogs had my phone again.

If you could get in a time machine and visit the great thinkers, artists and inventors, well most if not all would turn out to be autistic. Oh and then find all the forgotten women too. Divergent thinking is what got us all the cool, useful and entertaining stuff.

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“There’s a button that the President can push that will get everyone to pay attention to him, and he’s going to keep pressing it because it makes him feel important” is as important to understanding what’s going on as “he actually thinks that tariffs work”

@sccambuur.bsky.social remembers how Canadians treat Nazis on behalf of our friends. 🇨🇦❤️🇳🇱 canadiansoccerdaily.com/2025/04/09/d...

Fascinating talk by Dr Sandrine Thuret on the relationships between neurogenesis in the hippocampus, depression, diet, sleep, etc. youtu.be/B_tjKYvEziI?...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

“It's crucial for society – especially parents, teachers and employers – to become more accepting of stimming. Research shows that greater understanding leads to greater acceptance.” Stimming is a form of self-soothing, very common in autists. #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/world-autism... 🧪 🧠

Happy Autism Acceptance Month Here are some important things to remember: Do not light it up blue. Autism speaks wants to “cure” us which means “extinguish” No everyone isn’t a little Autistic. Shh. If you’ve met one of us, you’ve met one of us. Functioning labels are harmful! Autism > Rubeola

The myth of the “high performing” person with ADHD. If someone can do so well how can ADHD be a big deal? Maybe others just need to suck it up? No. There’s no such thing as high performing. For all the extraordinary things you see there will be whole areas of life ignored or empty. 1/4

I've taught many people new to gamedev from kids to adult, from a practical educator lens I believe the main difference people credit to kids learning faster or easier than adults is they aren't yet consciously trying to avoid temporarily looking like a beginner at something adding alt text to help

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Legality always lags behind morality.

I’m not one for recommending products I don’t actively use. For my AuDHD siblings out there struggling with long periods of focus (or those on meds who miss the purity of hyperfocus), give brain.fm a shot.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

straight guys will learn more about getting the girl of their dreams from this one video than from the entire output of the manosphere