Brian Lamb

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Elwira, so grateful you can keep all these receipts in your head. Really impressive.

I was thinking of re-watching this tonight, but the premise of needing to genetically re-make Hitler to bring back Nazism is just too much.

That bygone process is a luxury that cannot be indulged in our fast-moving times. Thankfully we have novel technologies that can automate those functions more effectively.

It was just integrated into my email. (Long story.) It offers to write all my replies and I’ve been getting grim amusement from its drafts. If I used it as is I’d be removed from my job within a couple weeks.

But maybe I’d be a rising star in the uni, showered with praise and rewards? Who’s to say?

Such an admirable person. Huzzahs!

So cool to listen to these people, and an opportunity to join the conversation.

These young Californians have something to say. I hope you’ll listen.

“The kids in the Cages” by The Neighborhood Kids

@theneighborhoodkidsmusic

I'm no pundit, but fairly sure that Trump and Musk will mostly make up and restore their alliance. Each of them can harm the other, but not as much as they can help each other. Neither has a substitute who can help them as much.

Whatever crazy shit they say, they will shrug it off like they do.

Bill C-2 has enormous implications for the privacy of Canadians. Buried toward the end is a law enforcement wish list that includes warrantless disclosure of information about Internet subscribers and unprecedented access to Internet provider networks.
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A solid use case that goes beyond cheating on term papers.

Freak #folk legend Michael Hurley remembered by fellow freak folk legend & collaborator Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders) www.furious.com/perfect/mich... #Folkmusic

Few tech critiques have aged as well as Phil Agre saying "Oh come on. Face recognition will work well enough to be dangerous, and poorly enough to be dangerous as well." Obviously lands well beyond face rec.

Lots happens in a year! The TRU Library Makerspace Librarian’s Report – 2024-2025 Academic Yearhttps://makerspace.trubox.ca/2025/05/13/tru-library-makerspace-librarians-report-2024-2025-academic-year/

Lucky for both of us that I am so sharp early in the mornings.

Plaid, of course.

What about big tough boys and their big tough trucks?

"Even the sensible uses of artificial intelligence are over priced and possess unsustainable valuations. This isn’t an industry that takes market humblings in stride, and will shift their focus to where money can be made."

A Spotift playlist I created that just has two songs: If I had a million dollars by the Barenaked Ladies If I had a rocket launcher by Bruce Cockburn

Inside of you are two Canadian classic rock songs

i can't stop thinking about this book, so poorly aged before it even released. imagine complaining about diversity or inclusive language or whatever being the real threat to science. & not even now, but months from now! humiliating for all involved

If I can only follow one account on local politics, you are the obvious choice.

This, by Klein and Taylor, came out a while ago but is worth a re-up:

"This is the last great heist, and they are getting ready to ride out the storms they themselves are summoning – and they will try to defame and destroy anyone who gets in their way."

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“Perhaps what’s changed are the aesthetics? Perhaps what’s shifted are the politics? And these options seem far more foreboding.”

“I am the Lizard King. I can do anything.”

Tweet by George Siemens saying "AI as returning us to our humanity:" with a link preview titled "Matter and Space" from matterandspace.com, showing a close-up image of skin.

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”

Rosemary Barton also very concretely placed the blame: "There were not altercations between journalists inside... these were right-wing people who publish their own agenda websites who confronted journalists... these are people who the commission decided to accredit."

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So many things suck about aging. But turning your son on to “Repo Man” is not one of them.

Great night of curry and flicks.

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Kenyan lawsuit against Meta will test Big Tech accountability A Kenyan court will hear a $1.6 billion lawsuit that alleges Facebook helped incite genocide in Ethiopia. The case could be a model for those looking to hold platforms responsible for online hate and ...

In a $1.6B lawsuit, Meta is accused of helping incite ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia. If the case succeeds, writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social, it could open the door to real accountability for platform-enabled violence worldwide.

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The lawsuit, brought by @marthadark.bsky.social and team at Foxglove alongside its Kenyan partners, claims Meta not only failed to remove incitements to violence—it amplified them. And it gave African users less protection than others, violating Kenya’s constitutional guarantees.

Right up there with “Zero Hour!” as a 1950’s prefiguring of a 1980’s classic.