Larissa
@bisseemom.bsky.social
Albertan, mom to 2 emerging adults, like to have flour on my counter, dabbler in crafty stuff. Wants to see more joy in the world. Knows that there are injustices to fight. I don’t correct typeos
Great thread to use to explain to those who keep defending AI why it actually is useless
The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Great thread to use to explain to those who keep defending AI why it actually is useless
These are not the kind of cuts that lead to nation building that @mark-carney.bsky.social has been so vocal about. Same with the cuts to Agriculture.
Carney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians | CBC Radio
Scientists and labour leaders are warning that cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada could significantly impact the health and safety of Canadians as well as Canada's wildlife and environment.
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2026 at 4:47 AM
These are not the kind of cuts that lead to nation building that @mark-carney.bsky.social has been so vocal about. Same with the cuts to Agriculture.
Take the time to do this
If you saw a woman being cornered on the bus, would you step in? If you witnessed transphobia at your local coffee shop, would you know how to help?
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February 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Take the time to do this
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More Albertans MUST tell their stories!
Cancelled due to HCW shortages... TWICE... But the Premier thinks everything is fine.
She's getting very bad advice from consultants who don't work on the frontlines or in HC at all...
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More Albertans MUST tell their stories!
Cancelled due to HCW shortages... TWICE... But the Premier thinks everything is fine.
She's getting very bad advice from consultants who don't work on the frontlines or in HC at all...
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Edmonton man has heart surgery rescheduled twice amid hospital capacity issues
Kimon Pierson thought he would have his heart surgery done in early December and be well on his way to recovery by now, but it’ll be another two weeks until his rescheduled surgery date – at least that’s what he hopes.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 29, 2026 at 2:55 AM
www.ctvnews.ca/edmon...
More Albertans MUST tell their stories!
Cancelled due to HCW shortages... TWICE... But the Premier thinks everything is fine.
She's getting very bad advice from consultants who don't work on the frontlines or in HC at all...
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More Albertans MUST tell their stories!
Cancelled due to HCW shortages... TWICE... But the Premier thinks everything is fine.
She's getting very bad advice from consultants who don't work on the frontlines or in HC at all...
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I'm just going to keep saying this until I die:
In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.
Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't.
Rinse, repeat.
In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.
Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't.
Rinse, repeat.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 AM
I'm just going to keep saying this until I die:
In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.
Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't.
Rinse, repeat.
In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.
Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't.
Rinse, repeat.
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The way to give millions of Canadians the relief they need now, and build a stronger, more resilient economy for the long-term, is to implement universal basic income. Frame it as a dividend from technology everyone is owed. End poverty. Grow your economy. Show the world how a real democracy works.
January 27, 2026 at 5:11 AM
The way to give millions of Canadians the relief they need now, and build a stronger, more resilient economy for the long-term, is to implement universal basic income. Frame it as a dividend from technology everyone is owed. End poverty. Grow your economy. Show the world how a real democracy works.
Nation building includes protecting our cultural resources. @mark-carney.bsky.social things like these need our attention too
Alarm as Canadian Register of Historic Places to Shut Down - National Trust for Canada
The Canadian Register of Historic Places, better known as the historicplaces.ca website, is coming down. Parks Canada announced in late...
nationaltrustcanada.ca
January 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Nation building includes protecting our cultural resources. @mark-carney.bsky.social things like these need our attention too
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Why should Alberta stay in Canada? The reasons aren’t just economic or legal. I hope you will read and share my robust rebuttal to those trying to break up our country. And I hope you’ll respond. #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada
The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views
Let’s not quit Canada. Let’s make it better for everyone—including Albertans
albertaviews.ca
January 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
This move of the goal posts again should infuriate every Albertan
#weareAlbertan
#weareAlbertan
Alberta country music star Corb Lund says the citizens petition initiative he had filed against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains has been retroactively killed by Alberta’s new legislation:
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This move of the goal posts again should infuriate every Albertan
#weareAlbertan
#weareAlbertan
#WeareAlbertan I care to speak out against the party that is destroying my province - environmentally, economically and emotionally
Read Jared's article
Read Jared's article
2025 was the darkest for Alberta democracy.
Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
What Can We Do?
A Holiday Plan for Restoring Alberta’s Democracy
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
#WeareAlbertan I care to speak out against the party that is destroying my province - environmentally, economically and emotionally
Read Jared's article
Read Jared's article
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Canadian scientist here. I don't want this. I want you to fund our excellent early career scientists who do great work in Canada. Fund them properly and that will help 1000x more than recruiting handfuls of cherry picked bigwigs from Harvard, Stanford and MIT who will leave after a few years.
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Canadian scientist here. I don't want this. I want you to fund our excellent early career scientists who do great work in Canada. Fund them properly and that will help 1000x more than recruiting handfuls of cherry picked bigwigs from Harvard, Stanford and MIT who will leave after a few years.
This stay at home mom says "unchecked power is not normal"
People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms?
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This stay at home mom says "unchecked power is not normal"
Puzzles are a big red flag for AI. I love puzzles and it's getting harder to find a real photograph or piece of artwork. But it's worth taking the time to find one.
I just discovered that the jigsaw puzzle Mom and I have been working on is AI. The tells for me were the things in the lower right: the weirdly distorted ornaments, the blue yarn blob, and the... flutes? Nunchucks? I don't even know. Ran it through WasItAI and yup, it was. Super flipping depressing.
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Puzzles are a big red flag for AI. I love puzzles and it's getting harder to find a real photograph or piece of artwork. But it's worth taking the time to find one.
I hate having my initial feelings of joy being quickly overtaken by "wait, is this AI?" But can't get complacent in actually thinking critically.
I didn't see the AI dog video but in learning to up my AI radar for images and how to spot what's off (or to realize what I subconsciously picked up on when my brain flags it as fake), what I realized is, it reminds me of is a lesson from when I did a forensic psychology course several years ago.
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I hate having my initial feelings of joy being quickly overtaken by "wait, is this AI?" But can't get complacent in actually thinking critically.
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So that's the lesson that pops up for me with AI stuff--when evaluating now, I look at whatever the focus is NOT on.
This isn't to say AI won't eventually be good enough to smooth out everything, but right now it can't. The tells are outside what the video/image wants you to focus on.
This isn't to say AI won't eventually be good enough to smooth out everything, but right now it can't. The tells are outside what the video/image wants you to focus on.
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So that's the lesson that pops up for me with AI stuff--when evaluating now, I look at whatever the focus is NOT on.
This isn't to say AI won't eventually be good enough to smooth out everything, but right now it can't. The tells are outside what the video/image wants you to focus on.
This isn't to say AI won't eventually be good enough to smooth out everything, but right now it can't. The tells are outside what the video/image wants you to focus on.
A very important read for Albertans and Canadians at large
If you read nothing else I write, read this.
Canadians outside Alberta, pay particular attention. If Smith succeeds, she will infect other provinces with "ungoverning."
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
Canadians outside Alberta, pay particular attention. If Smith succeeds, she will infect other provinces with "ungoverning."
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
Danielle Smith is "Ungoverning" Alberta
And trying to break the very idea of Canada
markhamhislop.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A very important read for Albertans and Canadians at large
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Coastal First Nations needs to always remember that, as the Alberta government and oil industry won't cleanup after their drilling activities within Alberta...
When a spill happens on the coast, Alberta will take zero responsibility cleaning it up as well.
calgaryherald.com/news/politic...
When a spill happens on the coast, Alberta will take zero responsibility cleaning it up as well.
calgaryherald.com/news/politic...
Alberta won’t use public money to clean up abandoned wells: energy minister
Alberta's energy minister says the government will not draw on the public purse to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells.
calgaryherald.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Coastal First Nations needs to always remember that, as the Alberta government and oil industry won't cleanup after their drilling activities within Alberta...
When a spill happens on the coast, Alberta will take zero responsibility cleaning it up as well.
calgaryherald.com/news/politic...
When a spill happens on the coast, Alberta will take zero responsibility cleaning it up as well.
calgaryherald.com/news/politic...
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Good thread is good:
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Good thread is good:
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We’re not opposed to TECHNOLOGY, we’re opposed to management using technology to exploit labour without any regard for the physical or emotional wellbeing of workers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We’re not opposed to TECHNOLOGY, we’re opposed to management using technology to exploit labour without any regard for the physical or emotional wellbeing of workers.
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Captain's log, star date 2512.01.
It is day 37 of black Friday. We have yet to discover when these words lost all meaning. There is growing concern that time became broken when boxing day leaked from containment and stretched first to seven days, and then advanced ahead of Christmas eve.
It is day 37 of black Friday. We have yet to discover when these words lost all meaning. There is growing concern that time became broken when boxing day leaked from containment and stretched first to seven days, and then advanced ahead of Christmas eve.
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Captain's log, star date 2512.01.
It is day 37 of black Friday. We have yet to discover when these words lost all meaning. There is growing concern that time became broken when boxing day leaked from containment and stretched first to seven days, and then advanced ahead of Christmas eve.
It is day 37 of black Friday. We have yet to discover when these words lost all meaning. There is growing concern that time became broken when boxing day leaked from containment and stretched first to seven days, and then advanced ahead of Christmas eve.
Which parents get parental rights? Such a frustrating question
Which parents are the ones who get "parental rights?" In Bellbrook-Sugarcreek School District (OH), it's those who want to ban books featuring any "sexuality content" or "gender ideology." Inside the school board's educationally-destructive new policy:
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Which Parents Get "Parental Rights?" In This Ohio School, It's Those Who Hate LGBTQ+ People
Bellbrook-Sugarcreek School District has segregated LGBTQ+ books in the high school library, among other acts of book censorship.
bookriot.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Which parents get parental rights? Such a frustrating question
May there be a special place in hell for charlatans who prey on the ill and desperate.
American ALS patient died alone after paying $84K US in pursuit of healing at controversial Sask. facility | CBC News
A 70-year-old American ALS patient came to Saskatchewan chasing the promise of healing offered by the Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center in Moose Jaw, Sask. But former Goodenowe employees say tha...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
May there be a special place in hell for charlatans who prey on the ill and desperate.
@profanity.accountant Am I as potty mouthed as my husband claims?
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@profanity.accountant Am I as potty mouthed as my husband claims?
This is so important. This is a hill I choose to die on. Abortion is healthcare!
Canada, abortion rights are under attack. The forced birthers are using the same strategies that worked in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Abortion Rights in Canada are Under Attack
Forced-birth groups are testing their strategy
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is so important. This is a hill I choose to die on. Abortion is healthcare!
"If you don't want to be recalled, don't be an asshole"
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"If you don't want to be recalled, don't be an asshole"