Almost anyone with a cursory knowledge of military history would be better at his job than Hegseth.

I thought of another one

punk music is getting popular again

I want to say something fancy, but when I'm having a bad day, nothing hits like a Canadian (pepperoni, bacon, mushrooms).

A Christian economy?

Universal healthcare
A livable wage
Debt forgiveness
Care for the orphan widow and stranger

AI is simply not ready for use in litigation and courts should promulgate local rules requiring attorneys to disclose if and how it has been used in any filed papers.

Ending tuberculosis – the world's DEADLIEST infectious disease – needs sustained political will and investment, from research to treatment to prevention. Thank you @pressprogress.ca for shining the light on this urgent issue 👇

Sherlock Holmes Is Finally Free To Be Gay I recently watched the utterly ridonkulous TV show Young Sherlock, which takes some delightfully strange liberties with the character of Sherlock Holmes....

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.

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Dismantling Canada Post for parts Canada’s mainstream media’s convergence was on full display today.

Why are Canadian media reporting on Canada Post as if they've all been given a script to follow? Journalists are interfering with the union's contract ratification vote by parroting Canada Post management's talking points and telling Canadians that it isn't viable.

This is illustrative, grotesque, and unfortunately not unexpected. Everyone who likes podcasts and the internet should email these chumps and complain. They didn't even award the people who developed Claude software. Fake awards for fake persons producing fake content. We live in the worst timeline.

🙄 Buffoons, all of them.

Ps: you really have to flog a mid-90s Ford Aerostar minivan to get it up to 130 km/hr.

When my spouse first met me, he despaired over my speeding. How a car/motorcycle guy can drive so sedately is beyond me.

I only ever got 2 speeding tickets. Both radar ones in Winnipeg for going 70 in a 60.

I will say I speed way less now. Is that due to age, gas prices, higher fines or meds? Who can say?

But at 20, I definitely drove 130 km/hr in 80 km/hr zones frequently. Now the most I'll speed is 10 km over. And only if conditions allow.

Any drive over an hour is so relaxing. 2/2

I always find it interesting when people say "I'm a bad driver because I have ADHD." Part of me is like "are you sure that's why?" Which isn't charitable.

But pre-diagnosis & meds one of the few places my brain felt focused was driving. Probably because of all the stimuli. My mom's the same. 1/2

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

"The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true. They may be hoping this because it makes them feel important, or because they want to be billionaires, or because they simply do not understand other people."

It never gets old

It's the Ford way to change hus mind at great expense.

The NHL fixes the Stanley Cup playoffs to go the full 7 games to sell more merch etc.

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

I wonder if it wasn't so much "people loved being hermits" but, for many, it was a much needed rest from burnout.

I didn't enjoy isolation. But I did like my commute wasn't eating up time every day. And I enjoyed the brief decoupling of our lives from our culture's fetishization of productivity.

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, “the absence of human activity has enabled wildlife to flourish despite continuing radiation, 40 years after the nuclear disaster there”.
There are now wolves, foxes, Eurasian lynx, elk, wild boar, brown bears, European bison, greater spotted eagle, feral dogs...

Graph showing that 97.1% of respondents find it very important that a piece of writing is authored by a human; 2.5% think it's somewhat important, and 0.1% said it's not important.

0.1% of respondents say it doesn't matter to them if a work is human-authored.

ZERO-POINT-ONE.

6 out of over 4000 respondents. I'm cackling.

Our Survey on Creativity, Writing, and Reading in the Age of AI What does it actually feel like to be a writer in the age of AI? For nearly three years, we’ve been building Ellipsus alongside a growing community of writers. And in that time, AI has shifted from b...

Heyyy, I got quoted in the write-up of results from an @ellipsus.com survey about what creative workers think of genAI.

Spoiler alert: Everyone hates it and places tremendous value on human creativity and in preserving spaces in which that creativity can flourish and be celebrated.

We switched to a deranged alphabet. I can't remember the keyword now.

Pretty sure we'd got the idea from one of her dad's books. He was a military history enthusiast. Whereas my dad read mostly horror. 2/2

Childhood memry.

In Grade 6, to hide the contents of our notes, my best friend & I used a simple substitution cipher to encode them.

I remember the teacher, when he caught us, seemed a bit torn between punishing us for passing notes and being a bit impressed we'd thought to use a code. 1/2

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

Coverof book showing Renaissance era painting of a young white man with a reddish bob, mustache and goatee. The image is on fire. Text on cover reads: Dark Renaissance. The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival. Stephen Greenblatt. Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World.

I'm currently reading this bio of Christopher Marlowe.

If you were looking for inspiration for a period piece TV series, you could do worse than filling in the blanks of Marlowe's alleged spy career. Could be played as comedy or drama depending on your bent.

Hey boos! It's just your girl talking Female Trauma in Horror Cinema: The Blurred Reality Between Horror & Real Life with Seed Talks, a virtual event.
We'll explore how horror narrates the real lived experiences of women. Horror has always been society's mirror. Join us: tinyurl.com/yrbjkujd 👻📽️

It's a solid analogy. Especially since the companies pushing lead-based products knew for decades how dangerous lead exposure was for human health but hid the research so they could keep making money.

How conservation authority changes could affect Ontario's drinking water | The Narwhal Ontario drinking water committees, formed following the Walkerton tragedy, face an uncertain future as conservation authorities amalgamate

ICYMI: @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and Matt McIntosh spoke to a dozen sources, received a leaked document and interviewed Ontario’s environment minister for this story on the little-known water protection committees, tied up in the conservation authority changes: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sour...