Don Murray, P.Eng. (he/him)

The salmonella cleanse.

Did you know we have a merch store now? Get your "Fresh AI Hell" and "Mathy maths" mugs, they're perfect for drinking CEO tears.

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A large room showcasing an extensive collection of books on wooden shelves.

A view of a bookstore featuring a variety of books laid out on tables and along the walls, highlighting a vibrant literary space.

A cozy room packed with books and a projector showing an old timey movie, plus chairs.

A cozy bookstore filled with shelves overflowing with a variety of books in different genres and colors.

Ever been to The Next Page in Inglewood? They're a bookstore (they sell books, like on paper, for reading). Pretty cozy spot

They buy used books ($1/ea cash or $2/ea credit).

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#Calgary #books

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

12/12

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.

I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

Urban Dictionary: ai;dr ai;dr: "Artificial Intelligence; didn't read.", meaning a post, article, or anything with words was auto generated by some AI, and whoever used the...

Can't believe "ai;dr" has been on urban dictionary for almost two years already

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

LMFAO

One thing that’s cool about our current system is how it creates things that people don’t want or need, and also those things are bad for us.

Alberta government won't say if promised new triage emergency doctors are on the job | CBC News Nearly a month after Alberta’s hospitals minister said emergency room doctors would “immediately” be working to triage patients in overcrowded waiting rooms, the province and its health agencies will ...

Where are the triage liaison physicians the government announced would help overtaxed ERs starting Feb. 1? The AB govt and health authorities won’t say if any are working. I asked 7 times in two weeks.

#AbLeg #AbHealth

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

I am exhausted by AI hype. AI doomerism is 100% more AI hype.

A *lot* of harm is being done in the name of AI.

If that harm is too hard to keep looking at, then you get this kind of nonsense:

It's time, Canada. You'll be greeted as liberators

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

Evangelicals won't dump Trump over his racist Obama video A few spoke out, but most right-wing Christians quietly support the president's ugly views

"They could not explain why headliner Kid Rock — who has frequently joked about sex with underage girls — is more wholesome than Bad Bunny, who included a genuine wedding in his show.

"The answer is obvious: Kid Rock is white and Bad Bunny is Latino."

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U of A looks to remove EDI from hiring policy | CBC News The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy, a year after the school initially said it was moving away from the term.

New emails obtained by CBC through access of information show that before announcing the end of EDI at the University of Alberta, the president sent his announcement to the UCP before publication.

How's that for institutional neutrality?

He's also a sexual predator. (Both Brett AND Tyson)

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

ANALYSIS | An era of 'wrecking ball' politics: What the Munich Security Report says about Canada's moment of reckoning | CBC News The world has entered an era of "wrecking ball" politics, says the new Munich Security Conference report. The analysis builds on the case Prime Minister Mark Carney made during his recent speech in Da...

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LLMs are hilarious. From the newsletter episode I started writing today:

This Wasn’t a Hopeful Speech. It Was a Dog Whistle Pierre Poilievre and the Americanization of Canadian Politics

This Wasn’t a Hopeful Speech. It Was a Dog Whistle
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"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."

ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
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I was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts.

Another long 🧵>>

I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark.

A long thread 🧵>>

Calgary’s #BanksEh is up to their shenanigans again #calgary

The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.”

* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)