I’m definitely overdue a visit! Was looking at some photos of my old garden there and feeling very wistful. Growing some tomatoes in pots on a roof deck is not cutting it!

4 years!! I still remember that day you moved in and posted the view from your balcony.

I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

Also, I especially appreciate the open licensing. 😉

Great to see this @profjhangiani.bsky.social and I appreciate the format you chose to adopt for this - very simple and accessible.

You have more restraint than me. People who don’t put their phone on silent at night are not my problem. (You are probably just a better person than me. That is also possible).

I get at least three heartbreaking, incoherent emails a day now from random strangers who believe they’ve awakened an LLM god or LLM consciousness of a new dimension. The most salient quote from the screenshots below: “(An LLM) will never just say, ‘Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??’”

I didn’t get to vote this time but I still dislike him. Can I be in the club? Can bring comedy Scottish swears.

“today’s Internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us, responses, which are hostile to human flourishing”

Lest I be hand-waved away for “emotional responses” to AI I feel pretty okay saying that now is not the moment to be wrapping up data collection and storage in the USA (including potentially sensitive health information) in some pretty culturally deaf marketing and calling it the future.

it’s definitely dystopian. that Lakota video also strikes me as serious epistemological Pretendianism.

No no no. I think you have that wrong. You mean “when do we lose the right to work *for pay* and vote”. I’m pretty certain these new plans don’t involve us popping our slippers on and having a nap most days.

The Supreme Court ignored trans voices. I’m ashamed of what our law has become | Good Law Project The Supreme Court’s decision to exclude trans voices has harmed trans people – and harmed the fairness of their ruling.

I've put on my hob nailed boots and given the Supreme Court decision the kicking it deserves. goodlaw.social/vd3a

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Non-US educators need to be not just thinking about but planning for data sovereignty for ourselves and our learners, too.

Taxes are good, actually. Big fan. Pay them in several countries. Get services in return, including healthcare! All round awesome-sauce.

People and trust first, technology second After a productive early morning call with my excellent OSI colleagues and a satisfying burst of administrivia deck-clearing, I made a second cup of coffee and settled down to read this morning&#82…

I blogged a thing: ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/...

I am have some big epistemological questions about the book I have just started reading. It opened with positive emotions towards Motley Crue and has now described 80s hair metal as “hard rock”.

There’s (sadly) a reason that cliches don’t die.

Of all the things I hate about this moment I hate these bits the most. The knowing cruelty of it.

It’s flag day here, which normally isn’t something anyone celebrates, but this year is a bit different for some reason!

Anyways here are a few rejected Canadian flags from the Great Flag Debate in the 1960s in order of how much I love them. 🧵

This is unequivocally the best flag. Possibly that I have ever seen. It’s so chaotic. The sacred trinity of the geese! The asymmetry of the leaves / lys! The way the British flag is sidelined to the corner. Perfection!

I mean ideally what comes after is a delicious latte…

A cat with its paws on its belly, with the text “my tummy has a happy”

I ate a croissant with ham and cheese. I warmed it up so it was all melty too. Apparently I’m not supposed to have wheat and dairy but…

As someone paying rent in Vancouver right now. Very yes.

😘 sleep well my friend. Miss ya!

When my literal national dish is the leftover bits of a sheep, mixed with oats, and put inside another leftover bit of a sheep, then boiled, that turnip is looking hella special.

I am very shocked by how much vodka is grain based in general. The whole point of a vodka is to make good use of manky patooties I thought?

The same. Plus a turnip. Cos we fancy 😂

I think the U.S. govt has really underestimated how many people in Canada have deep family histories of making do with 3 potatoes and a cabbage.