Canada Post delivers to 17.6 million addresses every day (business and residential). At 260 work days per year, that is 4.57 billion deliveries each year. Over eight years, that is 36 billion mail deliveries in 8 years.
Canada post delivered mail 36 billion times and it only cost $6.1 billion.
That's it? $6.1B in eight years? We gave Ukraine $25B in four and didn't even get daily mail out of it.
Im barely on socials anymore but im podcasting again! Yay!
It’s official: WE’RE BACK!!
In this episode we’re announcing some changes, including the addition of our new cohost @maryturner.bsky.social, & sharing our live reactions to the Season 2 trailer!
Quick reminder that PM Carney's entire strategy is rampant private extraction and privatization (irreversible), via a self-imposed nonstandard Structural Adjustment Program with the IMF
she-what.ghost.io/carneys-davo...
“Regret the impact” but no actual apology to Chappell at all
Another genius Lex Luthor move to show the entire world that you as CEO, who blew $80 billion on VR nobody wanted, are replaceable by AI
"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.
Tomorrow I’m presenting my research for the first time since my thesis advisor passed away. Feeling all kinds of ways about it.
I really want to write an instagram caption like those couples who are clearly having problems so they write long posts about how much they love each other despite everything but it would be about my cat and how much I love him despite his stinky poops and his hair everywhere.
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
Tomorrow is a fresh start.
the pigeons have discovered military fortification
A sticker from ohmygollyembroidery on Etsy that says Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.
Nothing could have prepared me for this
On the Environment and Climate Change cuts. Remember when Carney ran partly on climate credibility - the whole sustainable finance framing?
From @nolore.bsky.social :
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
In capitalist terms: the only market the predator class couldn’t completely corner was the knowledge market. AI made that possible.
Learning is like putting money in a high-yield savings account. Using AI is you giving your money to the rich and powerful and keeping none for yourself
cat keeps crossing US-Canada border
become ungovernable
No better way to start a Sunday event to wake up and see Harry Styles came out for the 110th time
Laugh crying in public because my baby is 12 and finishing elementary school and how was he so small just such a short time ago and my life is passing me by and I miss Jeremy and people must think I’m crazy
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
he's a better man than I am for not just quoting back at them from that shitshow Oval Office meeting and then hanging up
Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
I don't think ppl are stupid at all, I think capitalist society is a failure, because companies are allowed to lie on a mass scale and coerce users into reckless behavior. The free market that was supposed to provide for us is just chewing ppl up and spitting them out
No, Claude is not anxious.
Anxiety requires two components:
1. Awareness of the possibility of annihilation of self.
2. An autonomic nervous system.
Mimicry of the words of an anxious person is not being anxious.
A dog can be anxious. Your plagiarism machine cannot.
tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying
bsky.app/profile/slcl...
Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.
Anyone working in "news" or "politics" needs to finally wrap their minds around the idea that X isn't reaching anyone that matters. You're wasting your time pitching no one. You're wasting your money pitching no one.