Ah Mile End. So good in my 20s. :)

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI.

🤷

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Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON'T give a standing ovation to OTTAWA - After members of the Canadian Parliament earlier today gave a standing ovation to recently deceased far-right agitator who touted white supremacist theories, Charlie Kirk, we here at The Beaverton are stuck trying to figure out if there’s literally anyone our elected officials won’t celebrate.

A little humour for this Tuesday afternoon courtesy of the laugh-smiths at The Beaverton:

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I very much enjoy the thoroughness of your videos and also your sass! Thanks for please continuing! :)

A man mocking women's bathroom clutter is telling on their own lack of hygiene.

#aloevera #nailclippers #essentialoil

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes “I have failed you completely and catastrophically,” wrote Gemini.

AI babysitters will be the new AI but it will be poorly paid human beings.

I mean, ideally.

xoxo

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Your country is rapidly descending into fascism and you seem oblivious. Your military has been deployed in your own country and you should be very alarmed rather than equivocating. Good luck.

U.S. doctor refuses prenatal care to woman for being unmarried Healthcare is becoming more ideological. It isn’t just an American problem.

Healthcare is becoming more ideological. This week’s stories show how, and why it isn’t just an American problem.

Ok.

Then let it die.

Because theft is theft.

And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.

Drive, Drunk Driver, by Grayson Walker from the album The Gland Factor

From deep within the archives, zero degrees from @frogeyesmusic.bsky.social, this earth has been salted so many thoroughly that it's delicious sprinkled on fries.

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#y2k

This is my favorite place to play with rare computers YouTube video by The Verge

Dear The Singularity,

The hobby of Frankenstein-ing your distant ancestors is meant as tribute.

Thank-you,
Humans

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTx...

#raykurzweil

Hunger striking is a normal tactic of labour and political activism.

Putting your body on the line for your beliefs is a core human activity.

See: War.

All the best to you.

Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time.

Monkey.

Wet.

Image of a pixellated retro screen displaying the text: DISK EXTENDED COLOR BASIC 1.1 COPYRIGHT (C) 1982 BY TANDY UNDER LICENSE FROM MICROSOFT OK DIR ?IO ERROR OK

Instead of progress bars or beach balls or spirals to let you know when they were working, '80s computers had massive disk drives that sounded like they were grinding the information into the surface every time you asked them for something.

Programming on emulators just isn't the same.

#6809

You can’t say you didn’t see this coming.

The Crazy Mass-Giving Mechanism of the Higgs Field Simplified YouTube video by Arvin Ash

When I really think about it, the idea that matter is an object doesn't make much sense after all.

Lateral space is the new all the other spaces.

xoxo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ds...

IGORRR - VERY NOISE YouTube video by Igorrr

I am frequently entertained by the visually absurd.

#meatbags

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osqf...

Amazon-produced 007 movie pits Bond against fulfillment center workers who want to unionize SEATTLE, WA – With Amazon now holding the rights to the 007 film franchise, the company’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, announced the first movie will pit Bond against his greatest enemy yet: ungrateful workers in...

Amazon-produced 007 movie pits Bond against fulfillment center workers who want to unionize

Wet Monkey is back. Live art gameshow. Get tickets now. Hosted by @jasonbalaam.bsky.social and myself with live music by @grayson-walker.bsky.social

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2 ' AN ANIMATED PIXELLATED BLACK AND WHITE MAZE 3 ' ON THE TRS-80 COCO 2 5 ' COPYRIGHT 2025 GRAYSON AWSOMESOFT! 10 PMODE 0,1:SCREEN 1,1:PCLS 0 20 DIM WX(10,10) 30 WX(0,0)=127:WX(1,0)=115:WX(2,0)=103:WX(3,0)=83:WX(4,0)=51:WX(5,0)=2 40 FOR I=0 TO 5 50 WX(I,1)=256-WX(I,0):WX(I,3)=RND(2)-1:WX(I,5)=RND(2)-1 52 X1=WX(I,0) 54 Y1=INT(X1/2) 56 LINE (X1,Y1)-(X1,127-Y1),PSET 58 LINE(255-X1,Y1)-(255-X1,127-Y1),PSET 60 NEXT I 70 FOR I=0 TO 4 80 GOSUB 3000 90 NEXT I 100 IF INKEY$="" GOTO 40 200 STOP 3000 X1=WX(I+1,0):X2=WX(I,0) 3010 Y1=INT(X1/2):Y2=INT(X2/2) 3020 IF WX(I,3)=0 THEN LINE(X1,Y1)-(X2,Y2),PRESET:LINE(X1,127-Y1)-(X2,127-Y2),PRESET:Y1=Y2 ELSE LINE (X1,Y2)-(X2,Y2),PRESET:LINE (X1,127-Y2)-(X2,127-Y2),PRESET 3030 LINE (X1,Y1)-(X2,Y2),PSET 3040 LINE (X1,127-Y1)-(X2,127-Y2),PSET 3050 X1=WX(I+1,1):X2=WX(I,1) 3060 Y1=INT(WX(I+1,0)/2):Y2=INT(WX(I,0)/2) 3070 IF WX(I,5)=0 THEN LINE(X1,Y1)-(X2,Y2),PRESET:LINE(X1,127-Y1)-(X2,127-Y2),PRESET:Y1=Y2 ELSE LINE (X1+2,Y2)-(X2,Y2),PRESET:LINE (X1+2,127-Y2)-(X2,127-Y2),PRESET 3080 LINE (X1,Y1)-(X2,Y2),PSET 3090 LINE (X1,127-Y1)-(X2,127-Y2),PSET 3100 RETURN

Moving on to low pmode maze game, here's quick and dirty rendering from the TRS-80 CoCo emulator I'm 'developing' on:

A very pixellated retro video game still with a black wavering column stretched from the top to the bottom on a green background and a small green V centred at the top of the column.

My TRS-80 CoCo Canyon Drop game where you descend an ever narrowing canyon before being crushed between the two walls is a kind of metaphor for the times I suppose. But this kind of nostalgia seems harmless unlike the kind that strips human rights and degrades civil society.

Kyle MacLachlan Pens Beautiful Tribute To David Lynch For Giving Him His 'Entire Career' An incredible tribute to one of the greats.

A beautiful tribute that speaks volumes to their friendship, their collaborations, and David Lynch's impact.

'... the former Bank of Canada governor in a statement Monday night. "Every dollar raised by Canadian tariffs should be used to help support Canadian workers through this fight."'

What horseshit. Canadian capitalists are going to use all this to squash progress on labour across the board.

A screenshot of a heartfelt tribute written by Kyle MacLachlan, reflecting on his friendship with David Lynch. The text describes Lynch as an intuitive and creative individual who profoundly impacted MacLachlan's career and life, mentioning their collaborations on "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks." The message honors Lynch's unique perspective on life and concludes with a personal note of gratitude and loss.

A moving tribute for a brilliant filmmaker.

Yo, something important: abusers will defend another abusers' actions, even if they don't know them personally.

I could write a LOT on this, but it's worth noting that alone. If people don't have the reaction that you expect when you need support, then they likely aren't your people.

Phillips Comedy Night at the Mint - Christmas Orphan Show That's right, it's Thursday, Boxing Day and some of you want to escape your families and we have performers looking to find validation. Drew Farrance hosts this special holiday show that featu...

Victoria, BC!

December 26th!

This!

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Thank-you!

Graphic reads "An evening with Pierre Poilievre in support of the Conservative Party of Canada. Date: December 17th, 2024. Time: 6:00pm. Location Private Residence, Toronto, ON M5P 2S7. Ticket price: $1725. Let's bring it home." Below the text is a photo of a home and the price "C$16,800,000" underneath circled in red.

By day he fights for cuts to health care and pensions. 

By night he’s handed cash and cheques at a party in a $17 million mansion.

Pierre Poilievre is a billionaire bootlicker.