staring blankly into the abyss

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

people.com/trump-says-i...

When I read something like this, I imagine pitching it as a freelancer: "It's a commentary on John Tory. We are good friends, and I'm going to discuss his legacy and his thoughts, but I won't quote him at all. Two consecutive paragraphs will start with 'For me...'. Do I get the gig?"

lolol

OpenAI and…the United States Military…are teaming up to notify YOU that your son has been KILLED IN ACTION. Click here to speak with your son via AI one last time

Elbows up! Protecting Canadian sovereignty by gutting the last handful of functional national institutions we have left.

Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret" "It's a good thing that Trump is the most peaceful president in history who ends all wars, right?"

Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret"

The president of the Treasury Board is seeking public engagement as part of the review of the Access to Information system.

I presume most people will have only good things to say.

www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...

They saw all those dead children, likely killed by their AI system's shitty targeting algorithm, and said: "More of this, please!"

Toronto area home prices down 7% this February over last as housing continues to tumble Toronto Regional Real Estate Board reports another year-over-year monthly home price decline for February. Prices have fallen across the region by 24 per cent since the market peak in February

A good news story, for once.

Also: why a publication ban on his name when a cursory google shows exactly who this is? This was, after all, a huge story circa 2012-2015.

Powerful white men get protected by the police, the media, the government and the courts. Residential and day school survivors almost never see any kind of meaningful justice.

However, a central conclusion of the decision was that Robinson, prior to going to Burns Lake for the first time, had “telegraphed her intentions” by causing a notice to be posted “announcing the subject of her investigation — childhood abuse — its location, its timing, and the identity of the alleged abuser.” The judge also accepted the testimony of Dr. John Yuille, the memory expert called by Furlong, who said that, by arriving an hour late in Burns Lake, Robinson gave those who were waiting the chance to “contaminate” each other’s memories.

Remember when a BC judge found that these First Nations witnesses were unreliable and suggested that they were engaged in a mass delusion about their sexual abuse, spurred by the supposed failures of an investigative journalist? www.nationalobserver.com/2015/11/26/o...

There is a publication ban on the name of the accused but it sure sounds like it was this guy. share.google/VdzPGAap2Sm8...

I remember finding King’s post very shocking & it’s sad to remember that at the time, it felt like a dangerous but fringe sentiment, not the Republican Party’s default setting

The latter grandfather would abandon his family for months at a time, leaving them to survive off of handouts from friends and neighbors.

The former briefly became mayor of the tiny town I grew up in, dying too young and almost undoubtedly from the decades of toxic chemical exposures at work.

Farmer and, later, electrician at a pulp mill. Farmer and, later, manual laborer at a zinc smelter.

Carney Prompts:

ChatGPT, write a statement about Iran that's factually inaccurate, internally incoherent, but that will somehow make everyone mad? Make sure to sprinkle in some references to my 'rules based international order' speech that will make it seem about half as clever as everyone thought.

Monstrous inexcusable grotesque bloodlust

Taking a break from writing a book about monstrous men doing monstrous things in the past by opening up the website that directly injects the worlds horrors into my eyeballs.

seems bad

My favorite Italian city, by a long shot.

The water wars, long prophesied, has arrived.

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

lol

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

The Sugar Refinery, Vancouver. Some of my best Vancouver memories happened there, I still miss it.