R.B. Fairchild
@coffeego.bsky.social
🇨🇦 he/him BLM. Writer, photographer, occasional gym-goer, aspiring ally, and okay lawyer. Loves the Charter and human rights, admin law and accountability, intersectional feminists, books, art, alt/indie music, Apple products, frogs, and kindness.
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R.B. Fairchild
@coffeego.bsky.social
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Michael Ryan Fairchild Obituary August 5, 2025 - Basic Funerals and Cremation Choices
View Michael Ryan Fairchild's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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My younger brother passed away suddenly on August 5. He was deeply troubled, but I never gave up on him or stopped encouraging and pleading with him to get help. I will miss my brother a lot, even if not the person he became in these last couple of years.
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
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"I may not know everything about business, but I’m reasonably confident that it’s a bad sign when you write a seven-page letter about how your company is not Enron. "
How the AI Bubble Might Play Out - The American Prospect
Investment in new technology always needs startup financing, and if AI is truly God in the machine, wide adoption will pay off over time. But that isn’t materializing, at least not yet.
prospect.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
"I may not know everything about business, but I’m reasonably confident that it’s a bad sign when you write a seven-page letter about how your company is not Enron. "
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
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When I get replies like, "None of it will matter," I write off that person as a non-thinker, and unworthy of further contact.
People may mock me for earnestly trying to make things better. I can point to successes achieved by dint of focused effort and hard knocks.
They're just dead weight.
People may mock me for earnestly trying to make things better. I can point to successes achieved by dint of focused effort and hard knocks.
They're just dead weight.
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When I get replies like, "None of it will matter," I write off that person as a non-thinker, and unworthy of further contact.
People may mock me for earnestly trying to make things better. I can point to successes achieved by dint of focused effort and hard knocks.
They're just dead weight.
People may mock me for earnestly trying to make things better. I can point to successes achieved by dint of focused effort and hard knocks.
They're just dead weight.
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He's just mad because this ruins his plan to destroy Toontown
December 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
He's just mad because this ruins his plan to destroy Toontown
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Journalist Christopher Read joined us on the news to talk about his new episode of APTN Investigates where he looks at the recent eruption of residential school denialism.
Watch the new documentary this Saturday on APTN.
Watch the new documentary this Saturday on APTN.
New episode of APTN Investigates tackles residential school denialism | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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December 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Journalist Christopher Read joined us on the news to talk about his new episode of APTN Investigates where he looks at the recent eruption of residential school denialism.
Watch the new documentary this Saturday on APTN.
Watch the new documentary this Saturday on APTN.
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Justice Feasby handed down a complex, comprehensive decision six weeks ahead of an already expedited schedule. An extraordinary feat, done in order to give the public what it paid for in terms of judicial resources.
After the province tabled Bill 14 yesterday, which would have stopped the court proceedings on whether a proposed Alberta separation question contravenes the Constitution, the judge came out at a previously scheduled appearance today and just... dropped his decision. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional | CBC News
An Alberta judge says a referendum proposal on Alberta separating from Canada goes against Charter and and Treaty rights, in a decision given less than 24 hours after the provincial government introdu...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Justice Feasby handed down a complex, comprehensive decision six weeks ahead of an already expedited schedule. An extraordinary feat, done in order to give the public what it paid for in terms of judicial resources.
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he was simply asking for it based on what he was wearing (uninsured meta glasses)
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
he was simply asking for it based on what he was wearing (uninsured meta glasses)
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Canada has its fair share of terrible people, but the residential school deniers may be some of the worst. Acknowledging the past and ongoing violence and racism towards Indigenous people should be a bare minimum requirement of living in Canada.
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Canada has its fair share of terrible people, but the residential school deniers may be some of the worst. Acknowledging the past and ongoing violence and racism towards Indigenous people should be a bare minimum requirement of living in Canada.
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a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
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Efforts to frame the Venezuela boat attacks as legal are simultaneously embarrassing and horrific. warontherocks.com/2025/12/atta...
Attacking Drug Boats: Bending or Breaking the Law?
U.S. attacks on alleged narcotics trafficking boats continue unabated with little apparent concern for near-unanimous legal condemnation. The Trump
warontherocks.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Efforts to frame the Venezuela boat attacks as legal are simultaneously embarrassing and horrific. warontherocks.com/2025/12/atta...
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This year, there’s something Spotify doesn’t want you to unwrap: they're running ads for ICE. Spotify calls it “within policy.” We call it profiting from cruelty. #SpotifyUnwrapped
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This year, there’s something Spotify doesn’t want you to unwrap: they're running ads for ICE. Spotify calls it “within policy.” We call it profiting from cruelty. #SpotifyUnwrapped
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I can't listen to the song without thinking of
December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I can't listen to the song without thinking of
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Elon Musk is a Nazi and if you drive a Tesla you're inside a Hitler mobile
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Elon Musk is a Nazi and if you drive a Tesla you're inside a Hitler mobile
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There’s a good chance that when it finally happens it will happen on camera and you’ll get to enjoy watching it over and over and over for the rest of your life, and while that’s not much, it’s not nothing. We’ll have that.
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
There’s a good chance that when it finally happens it will happen on camera and you’ll get to enjoy watching it over and over and over for the rest of your life, and while that’s not much, it’s not nothing. We’ll have that.
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It is one of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century.
The portrait has appeared on stamps and on the British £5 banknote.
And it was taken by Canada's greatest portrait photographer at Parliament Hill.
This is the story of The Roaring Lion.
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The portrait has appeared on stamps and on the British £5 banknote.
And it was taken by Canada's greatest portrait photographer at Parliament Hill.
This is the story of The Roaring Lion.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It is one of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century.
The portrait has appeared on stamps and on the British £5 banknote.
And it was taken by Canada's greatest portrait photographer at Parliament Hill.
This is the story of The Roaring Lion.
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The portrait has appeared on stamps and on the British £5 banknote.
And it was taken by Canada's greatest portrait photographer at Parliament Hill.
This is the story of The Roaring Lion.
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a non-zero amount of the reason Vance and NatCons are mad at liberals is The Last Jedi
January 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
a non-zero amount of the reason Vance and NatCons are mad at liberals is The Last Jedi
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What a sleazy defense of honest critiques, a transparent attempt at a validation of the editorial dept.'s sins. A lot of us share a view that groveling before power, sanewashing, elitism, etc. is a challenge to our values, not our views.
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What a sleazy defense of honest critiques, a transparent attempt at a validation of the editorial dept.'s sins. A lot of us share a view that groveling before power, sanewashing, elitism, etc. is a challenge to our values, not our views.
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*cracks knuckles* I've been training my whole life for this.
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
*cracks knuckles* I've been training my whole life for this.
I loved this sweet, sort of ambivalent new song about Christmas and possibly even its true meaning (doing nice holiday things for the people you love just because). Check it out!
I made a Christmas song for the doubtful www.youtube.com/watch?v=RavW...
Brad Sucks - Merry Christmas (Just Because)
YouTube video by Brad Sucks
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December 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I loved this sweet, sort of ambivalent new song about Christmas and possibly even its true meaning (doing nice holiday things for the people you love just because). Check it out!
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Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
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Meh. Wake me up when we get to the chapter where he dies.
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Meh. Wake me up when we get to the chapter where he dies.
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i cannot believe i caught him stretching out his toesies under the tree
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
i cannot believe i caught him stretching out his toesies under the tree
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My AI anecdote is that I’m writing a story script for a high profile IP project featuring a virtual assistant and received the note: “don’t use the word ‘AI’ in the script because the word is toxic now, plus people will assume it’s giving bad info or evil.”
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My AI anecdote is that I’m writing a story script for a high profile IP project featuring a virtual assistant and received the note: “don’t use the word ‘AI’ in the script because the word is toxic now, plus people will assume it’s giving bad info or evil.”