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this is precisely why it is so frustrating to hear claims that adapting to AI is the same as the adaptation to the internet or personal computing—tech that evolved from existing tech, including public interest & private infrastructure.
with AI, it’s *just* manufactured private infrastructure
with AI, it’s *just* manufactured private infrastructure
Most "bubbles" have had *some* amount of public demand:
With the "tech bubble," the general public was interest.
The "housing bubble" was fulled by lots of people wanting homes.
But this "AI bubble" is the first to my knowledge where there's ZERO public demand…the people don't want this shit.
With the "tech bubble," the general public was interest.
The "housing bubble" was fulled by lots of people wanting homes.
But this "AI bubble" is the first to my knowledge where there's ZERO public demand…the people don't want this shit.
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
this is precisely why it is so frustrating to hear claims that adapting to AI is the same as the adaptation to the internet or personal computing—tech that evolved from existing tech, including public interest & private infrastructure.
with AI, it’s *just* manufactured private infrastructure
with AI, it’s *just* manufactured private infrastructure
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‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.
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we live in hell
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
we live in hell
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This gets at the fundamentally flawed approach of the federal government: they are trying to find a policy solution to an identity problem.
It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed.
It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed.
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This gets at the fundamentally flawed approach of the federal government: they are trying to find a policy solution to an identity problem.
It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed.
It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed.
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This broadly tallies with my experience of teaching, and what colleagues have shared, over the last decade or so, though of course there are exceptions
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This broadly tallies with my experience of teaching, and what colleagues have shared, over the last decade or so, though of course there are exceptions
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I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Hippie GA dad just told a story about the time he had to cut off this guy's cockring because the guys penis got infected and swelled so much it swallowed the ring itself
We are 5 scotches deep
We are 5 scotches deep
November 29, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Hippie GA dad just told a story about the time he had to cut off this guy's cockring because the guys penis got infected and swelled so much it swallowed the ring itself
We are 5 scotches deep
We are 5 scotches deep
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The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance | Common Dreams
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts.
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts. 📚
Lots of banger quotes in this @commondreams.org article by Rodney Freeman Jr. about how library and archives workers collect and preserve materials, including zines.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.
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this is a public health intervention.
DULF was doing Vancouver Coastal Health‘s job: providing drugs of known composition and potency as an alternative to the unregulated drug supply — because VCH wouldn’t.
VCH‘s leadership should be the people on trial
DULF was doing Vancouver Coastal Health‘s job: providing drugs of known composition and potency as an alternative to the unregulated drug supply — because VCH wouldn’t.
VCH‘s leadership should be the people on trial
DULF was collecting donations (legal) and buying heroin, cocaine and meth off the dark web (illegal). Once they had the drugs Vancouver Coastal Health worked with them to help rigorously test the drugs and label the drugs (legal), and DULF would sell the drugs at cost to members (illegal).
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
this is a public health intervention.
DULF was doing Vancouver Coastal Health‘s job: providing drugs of known composition and potency as an alternative to the unregulated drug supply — because VCH wouldn’t.
VCH‘s leadership should be the people on trial
DULF was doing Vancouver Coastal Health‘s job: providing drugs of known composition and potency as an alternative to the unregulated drug supply — because VCH wouldn’t.
VCH‘s leadership should be the people on trial
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When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
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Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
HAMILTON, ON - Local residents this morning report driving past an excitingly long lineup and assuming it was for a blowout Black Friday sale, before realizing that it was just a regular queue for a b...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
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"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.
'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News
In a recent article about the United States' strained relationships with other countries, Time Magazine included a made-up quote from Canadian satire site The Beaverton — seemingly as fact.
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.
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Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.
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"This isn’t nation-building—it’s nation betraying: A betrayal of our children’s future, a betrayal of Indigenous Peoples, and a betrayal of Canadians who overwhelmingly continue to support climate action"
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.wcel.org/media-releas...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.wcel.org/media-releas...
41 civil society organizations oppose northwest coast oil pipeline and tankers | West Coast Environmental Law
Joint declaration by civil society organizations working to secure a safe climate system, protect marine and freshwater and uphold Indigenous rights and sovereignty
www.wcel.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"This isn’t nation-building—it’s nation betraying: A betrayal of our children’s future, a betrayal of Indigenous Peoples, and a betrayal of Canadians who overwhelmingly continue to support climate action"
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.wcel.org/media-releas...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.wcel.org/media-releas...
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I love the full quote actually even more based
"I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people."
Hero modder who started the Thomas the Tank Engine meme with Skyrim thumbs his nose at 'legal threats' and 'black vans with the Mattel logo' by modding Thomas into Morrowind: 'I have issues with autho...
Choo choo!
www.pcgamer.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I love the full quote actually even more based
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy
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If you would like to embrace Weizenbaum Thought, the Internet Archive is one of the only convenient ways to read "Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation," which is criminally out of print
archive.org/details/comp...
archive.org/details/comp...
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you would like to embrace Weizenbaum Thought, the Internet Archive is one of the only convenient ways to read "Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation," which is criminally out of print
archive.org/details/comp...
archive.org/details/comp...
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one of the things Weizenbaum really nails is that our propensity to believe machine intelligence rivals our own is embedded in a deeper view of humans as being basically machines, that the ELIZA Effect is in part a product of our spiritual and cultural empoverishment... it seems the woke pope agrees
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
one of the things Weizenbaum really nails is that our propensity to believe machine intelligence rivals our own is embedded in a deeper view of humans as being basically machines, that the ELIZA Effect is in part a product of our spiritual and cultural empoverishment... it seems the woke pope agrees