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Open the pod bay doors, HAL
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I found a piece of toast that looks like it has a smile on it. Scientists say we should make it our king.
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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AI is like this giant fucking boat we all were forced to get on, and it's a boat they stole, and also it barely floats, and also it's not going anywhere good. So it either takes us somewhere we hate, or it fucking sinks, so either way, fuck AI.
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Vast sin-concealing chaos
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dougie loves his F-150, just sayin...
NEW: Privacy officials with the Ontario government won’t release details of who was responsible for cabinet minister vehicles caught speeding, saying it would violate personal privacy and could threaten the “safety or health of an individual.” #OnPoli

globalnews.ca/news/1146863...
Ontario government won’t say which cabinet minister vehicles were speeding, citing safety | Globalnews.ca
Documents show vehicles assigned to Premier Doug Ford's cabinet ministers were caught by automated speed cameras 23 times, including one driving at 70 km/h in a 40 zone.
globalnews.ca
October 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Life vs death
October 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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the folks who are making a big deal about banning speed cameras sure have been caught by speed cameras a lot
Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca
Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.
globalnews.ca
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Yankees paid tribute to Charlie Kirk? Well the Blue Jays have Alejandro Kirk.
October 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Woo, woo! Go Canada!!!
#uciworldchampionship
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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So now taxpayers will have to pay for traffic safety measures, rather than having law-breakers foot the bill through fines. How is that good for taxpayers? www.cp24.com/local/toront...
September 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I wish every mayor & councillor in Ontario who doesn’t carry water for Ford would speak up like this. Ask yours what they think & why they aren’t talking, if they aren’t. This isn’t just Toronto’s stupid inane fight.
ALSO PS YOU CANT PUT SPEEDBUMPS ON ARTERIAL ROADS LIKE MAITLAND AND WOODROFFE AND BASELINE AND GREENBANK
September 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Hopefully we get rid of police enforcement next and just let drivers do whatever the hell they want, it's time we give our streets back to those in the automobile!🤞
September 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Canada's parliament started the week giving a standing O for free speech and the memory of Charlie Kirk.
They ended it by joining Orban's Hungary and Trump's America in targeting @kneecapceol.bsky.social an Irish hip hop group for challenging the genocide.
Not our finest hour.
September 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media.

Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are.

Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
August 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Shit getting real dark really fast
September 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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A selection of New York Times columnists tap gently at the door of Jordan Peterson’s Arizona crypt, asking him to come out and explain how, although the left may not have done it, the left *made* that troubled young man do it.
September 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Live your life in such a way that when you die, people aren’t able to cite thousands of comments you’ve made advocating the deaths of others.
September 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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It sure seems like a lot of Canadian conservative politicians who had no issue with their supporters carrying signs threatening death on Justin Trudeau have an issue with political violence now after Charlie Kirk was shot. I don’t recall them speaking up against political violence during the convoy.
September 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM