“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
Former chief psychiatrist legally challenges Manitoba’s detox detention laws
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
a life hack I invented today is to pop 3 or 4 chocolate covered almonds in your mouth, and then add 3 or 4 raspberries (while chewing) to unlock a new flavour I call "raspberry chocolate almond"
Been watching this all day, still no information. Police usually don’t close major routes for investigations like this unless someone was killed, though.
A preview of two Critical Mass poster designs, one black and white with the classic "Critical Mass Logo" (a bike and fist), a colour poster featuring our trusty mascot Horse Guy.
Have you ever wanted to spread the good word of Critical Mass irl but chatting up strangers ain't your jam? No worries! Our posters now have the updated meet up location and are free for you to print out and post wherever you'd like #yycbike
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
This is such a great idea. We need more affordable non-profit housing, and a community land trust can make that happen.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...
A typographic carnival.
Do you have an advice question for The Juice?
Call 765-266-2264 (COM-BANG) now!
*please no funny calls - we won’t use them!
30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers.
#TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.
look, as an American, i never like to "hand it to" italians. but when Adriano Celentano dropped Prisencolinensinainciusol to be like "here's you. here's what you sound like." well. hell, i aint too proud to admit it.. he fuckin got our asses
For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. [kottke.org]
this is what teenagers in movies looked like during the iraq war
This is what plays when you finally unlock Hookah Lounge in Blue Prince
I was thinking about a conversation I saw on Twitter years ago about a gaudy pair of shoes and the roasting that followed.
I found The Shoes on eBay and decided to make an art piece from it based off of one of the roasts.
It's stupid, a bit much, but I love it.
@jonhendren.com
I'm joining in this very cool panel today on data centre resistance to share some thoughts on what to do when the AI bubble pops and potentially leaves a lot of empty data centres behind: bits-und-baeume.org/posts/policy...
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. Over on @activehist.bsky.social, we’re running a year-long series examining its controversial history. Here’s the series introduction I contributed to: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...
The Calvin's dad explaining records meme. He is explaining that the two kinds of meme are Calvin's dad and Loss. Despite being a meme about Calvin's dad, this one is Loss.
I ain't "neurospicy" I got some disorders
I'm filling in for Paris Marx (because we need to maintain Canadian representation levels) at this very cool panel on data centre resistance at the Weizenbaum Institute on Monday. Catch you in Berlin, or on the Livestream?
www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...
in the middle of this, Astronaut Christina Koch says that when she looked back at earth, she “didn’t just notice the planet, but the darkness around it—
like a lifeboat”
we are really all we’ve got out here
“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine
When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth.
The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors.
➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
The federal government’s Access to Information and Privacy program, administered by LAC, is being cut by $13.6 million. LAC has already eliminated 53 positions from this program.
The Documentary Heritage Communities Program which is being eliminated has an annual expenditure of $1.35 million, plus administrative costs. Over the last ten years this program has provided over $16 million in necessary funding for archives across Canada of varying types and sizes.
🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated:
More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector
$925 million for AI
$81.8 billion over 5 years for military
However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.
One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification"
So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults
The Archival Paradox: DNA-Based Data Storage and the Data Hoarding Crisis
www.emerald.com/books/edited...
I never tire of pointing out that multiple shows did "Oh, my old friend is trans? That's interesting!" episodes in the '70s and '80s, and while none of these hold up by modern representation standards, they're all quite good and accepting in a way you might not expect.
time to rate some more amounts of money
$414,910: that's a whole bunch of money where i come from
$50: nice and neat. i love it!
$1.06: no offense, but this isn't very much money
$1000: don't bullshit me
$1002.17: yeah, that's what i thought
$614.05: solid
$0: hey, wait a minute!
$18.93: bad salad
"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product
