RavenNemain
@ravennemain.bsky.social
They/them/she-I-guess
Enby dog mom, reader, crafter, gamer, nerd
Neurodivergent rage-poster
Enby dog mom, reader, crafter, gamer, nerd
Neurodivergent rage-poster
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The Notwithstanding Clause is something I've long called the ticking timebomb in the Canadian constitution.
And this is why. I've warned trans doomers in the US who advocate fleeing to countries like Canada that the fight is global.
This is the shape of things in Canada right now.
And this is why. I've warned trans doomers in the US who advocate fleeing to countries like Canada that the fight is global.
This is the shape of things in Canada right now.
i hate the ucp in charge of alberta (for now) with the heat of a thousand electrolysis sessions
the absolute monstrous cruelty of this
the absolute monstrous cruelty of this
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The Notwithstanding Clause is something I've long called the ticking timebomb in the Canadian constitution.
And this is why. I've warned trans doomers in the US who advocate fleeing to countries like Canada that the fight is global.
This is the shape of things in Canada right now.
And this is why. I've warned trans doomers in the US who advocate fleeing to countries like Canada that the fight is global.
This is the shape of things in Canada right now.
Yes, buy them, you will not be sorry! I will be dropping *everything* to read the fourth one when it releases.
What's this? A bundle sale on Itchio where you can get the first 3 books of THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES SERIES for $6 (or for $2 each).
Grab them on sale while you can in preparation for the release of THE REANIMATOR'S FATE in January
Grab them on sale while you can in preparation for the release of THE REANIMATOR'S FATE in January
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yes, buy them, you will not be sorry! I will be dropping *everything* to read the fourth one when it releases.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
10/10. No notes.
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
10/10. No notes.
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As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.
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Looking at The Last Supper, the paintings & statues crawling over the walls & ceilings of cathedrals in Parma this month, I thought always of their human artists reaching through time, their inner worlds & effort suspended in art. & then of shitheads typing out a prompt to spew synthetic pap.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Looking at The Last Supper, the paintings & statues crawling over the walls & ceilings of cathedrals in Parma this month, I thought always of their human artists reaching through time, their inner worlds & effort suspended in art. & then of shitheads typing out a prompt to spew synthetic pap.
This should be required reading
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This should be required reading
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This is really good. A clearly written summary of the many harms caused by AI, with copious references.
Researchers at the Citizen Lab and director @rondeibert.bsky.social sign open letter to the Canadian Minister of AI and Minister of Industry rejecting the “National Sprint” on AI strategy.
Read it here: bccla.org/policy-submi...
Read it here: bccla.org/policy-submi...
OPEN LETTER to the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation from civil society organizations and individuals opposing "National Sprint" consultation on AI strategy - BC Civil Liberti...
The Honourable Mélanie JolyMinister of IndustryHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK1A 0A6 The Honourable Evan SolomonMinister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital InnovationHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontar...
bccla.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is really good. A clearly written summary of the many harms caused by AI, with copious references.
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What would happen if this shit collapsed? Some rich fucks would have to live slightly less delusionally privileged lives. The end. Let it fucking die.
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
What would happen if this shit collapsed? Some rich fucks would have to live slightly less delusionally privileged lives. The end. Let it fucking die.
Apparently this is a gluten free pizza crust. This is why I’m afraid to try new things (I ordered another pizza from a Trusted Restaurant)
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Apparently this is a gluten free pizza crust. This is why I’m afraid to try new things (I ordered another pizza from a Trusted Restaurant)
“OpenAI in Danger”
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“OpenAI in Danger”
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Reading a delightful supernatural mystery series, but by book 5 it gets hard not to roll my eyes every time the narrator says, “There is no WAY the dreams/unexplainable noises/feeling of being watched/strange weather can have anything to do with this case!”
My dude, you are supposed to be smart!
My dude, you are supposed to be smart!
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reading a delightful supernatural mystery series, but by book 5 it gets hard not to roll my eyes every time the narrator says, “There is no WAY the dreams/unexplainable noises/feeling of being watched/strange weather can have anything to do with this case!”
My dude, you are supposed to be smart!
My dude, you are supposed to be smart!
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Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
It’s even funnier than I thought it would be
Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
It’s even funnier than I thought it would be
Yes, read it, it’s so good!
As the nights draw in and the cold deepens...
The original printing of "The Lord of Ruthven Hall" is the first story I ever sold, and very much a love-letter to the Victorian Gothic. By way of murderous transmasc werewolves, because I know what I'm about.
saranadosfiction.com/2023/08/04/t...
The original printing of "The Lord of Ruthven Hall" is the first story I ever sold, and very much a love-letter to the Victorian Gothic. By way of murderous transmasc werewolves, because I know what I'm about.
saranadosfiction.com/2023/08/04/t...
The Lord of Ruthven Hall
(This story was originally published in Wyldblood Magazine #9) My father is dying. He holds my hand, skin parchment over bones like frost-stripped twigs, and tells me that he loves me, as he …
saranadosfiction.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Yes, read it, it’s so good!
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Players with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run:
Ernie Clement
That's it.
Ernie Clement
That's it.
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Players with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run:
Ernie Clement
That's it.
Ernie Clement
That's it.
English-teacher approved post
Ironically that post reveals the other meaning of the Torment Nexus, which is that STEM only education left a generation of tech guys with no ability to interpret text
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
English-teacher approved post
Halloween Vibes Book Wrap Up
Finished 11 books: (🎃= new fave)
Summer sons 🎃
What feeds at night 🎃
Pour one for the devil
The Bayou 🎃
The Secret Skin
All of us murderers 🎃
Frankenstein
Salt magic, Skin Magic🎃
Spread Me
Feed Them Silence
To Clutch a Razor🎃
DNF’d 2:
Botanical Daughter
the Z Word
Finished 11 books: (🎃= new fave)
Summer sons 🎃
What feeds at night 🎃
Pour one for the devil
The Bayou 🎃
The Secret Skin
All of us murderers 🎃
Frankenstein
Salt magic, Skin Magic🎃
Spread Me
Feed Them Silence
To Clutch a Razor🎃
DNF’d 2:
Botanical Daughter
the Z Word
November 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Halloween Vibes Book Wrap Up
Finished 11 books: (🎃= new fave)
Summer sons 🎃
What feeds at night 🎃
Pour one for the devil
The Bayou 🎃
The Secret Skin
All of us murderers 🎃
Frankenstein
Salt magic, Skin Magic🎃
Spread Me
Feed Them Silence
To Clutch a Razor🎃
DNF’d 2:
Botanical Daughter
the Z Word
Finished 11 books: (🎃= new fave)
Summer sons 🎃
What feeds at night 🎃
Pour one for the devil
The Bayou 🎃
The Secret Skin
All of us murderers 🎃
Frankenstein
Salt magic, Skin Magic🎃
Spread Me
Feed Them Silence
To Clutch a Razor🎃
DNF’d 2:
Botanical Daughter
the Z Word
This whole thread, but especially this!
The Luddites weren't anti-progress. They weren't anti-technology. They were pro worker rights. And it's convenient for the tech barons (in any age) to make us believe those are the same thing.
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This whole thread, but especially this!
Ahhh, @sportsnetpr.bsky.social once again showing why you are so worth the $300 a year (this is sarcasm. In case anyone is wondering. It’s better than tsn, but so is getting kicked in the face).
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Ahhh, @sportsnetpr.bsky.social once again showing why you are so worth the $300 a year (this is sarcasm. In case anyone is wondering. It’s better than tsn, but so is getting kicked in the face).