Jay Cockburn

Great so as well as having no-AI clauses inserted into the contracts I sign while I'm alive I have to put one in my will now.

Trump calls for probe into Epstein’s ties with Bill Clinton, other Democrats Trump asks Justice Department to also investigate former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and prominent Democratic donor Reid Hoffman

It's so clear that Trump and co assume that everyone is as morally empty as they are. They think Democrats might be opposed to paedophiles being prosecuted because they're Democrats... and that might get them to shut up about his own involvement.

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It's also quite clearly wrong. It was the Republicans who were screaming about trans rights while Harris said *nothing*.

This is awesome but its also the wards that need it the least. I'd be thrilled to see a store open on my street.

But the suburban wards where folks have to drive to pick up milk and eggs are the ones who actually need this! The arguments against have been so detached from reality.

Literally saying "we can't have nice things" out loud

Do these people hear themselves

I used to dream of working there and now I'm just disappointed in their total lack of integrity

When you have first hand experience of something they report on you immediately realise how detached their reporters are and how little they actually verify truth.

E.g. If were in Canada during the World Series you would know that nobody actually said "glue jays".

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I'm having complicated feelings enjoying Arc Raiders and the AI use in that game is pretty minimal. At least that's a proper game, though. Krafton are just stating they're gonna publish slop.

Windows 11 users... just how bad is the AI bloat? My current laptop is nearing its end of life and I should really upgrade but I know it probably means also moving over to 11 and I just... don't want to.

I've autonomously decided to change my external direction away from any desire to purchase and play the eventual Subnautica 2.

Gonna try this next time I'm accused of murder

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

I would bike in the car lane but I absolutely do not trust car drivers to accommodate for the extra stopping time and slipperiness of the roads in bad conditions.

The thing that stops me biking all through winter is just not knowing if the city will have actually cleared the bike lanes. In theory they do, but in reality half the time the road plough has pushed snow into the bike lane, there are patches of ice... it ends up being too dangerous.

Yeah my issue has never been "these emails are too long", but more "there are too many emails and nobody read the last one I sent anyway"

The Chef's Table, presented by Milk.

Sometimes in Canada things are just sponsored by a food.

Not the company that makes the food. Just the food.

For example: Milk.

Someone needs to go to Bushwick and tell them all yop doing monotone comedy music on TikTok and IG reels. There are enough of them now.

Yeah this is like the opposite of why I love bikes. Let's not John Deere the people's vehicle!

You had me at "banning digital menus".

You know what maybe we deserve a male loneliness epidemic

The worst part is Maker's Mark sucks. This is performative snobbery by someone who wouldn't know if he was given the cheap shit!

Everyone knows Tim Davie ran for election for the Conservatives before he got the BBC job right?

One of my least popular opinions is that public office should be paid absurdly well, with the condition that you can't earn money from other sources during your tenure. I don't mean held in trust, I mean nothing. No rental income, if you hold profitable assets on election revenue goes to the state.

If you care about journalism and press freedom, read this thread from Luke.

The year is 2065. Cities are just one big police force. There's no public subway, only a special cop tube big enough for the horses to ride. There's no homelessness because everyone is a cop who lives in Barrie. There's no crime because everyone is a cop who lives in Barrie. Taxes are the same.

It is frustrating how supposed contrarian free speech advocates like Weiss are mostly just useful, gullible idiots that fall for well funded comms.

Might wanna get the org out of CN and move Wired to Canada then

My DMs are open or you can email jonathon [dot] cockburn [at] gmail [dot] com.

We can start our conversation off the record and go from there.

Are you a current or former public servant, or do you know one who has thoughts on Carney's budget? I'm looking to speak to someone for @nationalobserver.com about potential cuts to the federal public service. If you worked there before 2016 that's even better!

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