Nous gagnons esti
25.10.2025 02:56 โ ๐ 73 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@kristenthomasen.bsky.social
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Nous gagnons esti
25.10.2025 02:56 โ ๐ 73 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0In the immortal words of Hannah Einbinder: GO BIRDS๐ฆ! F*ck Ice! Free Palestine!
24.10.2025 20:55 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Evidence: www.instagram.com/reel/DQFT88g...
23.10.2025 00:19 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0new article and image of cyber spell books
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My article โCyber Spell Books: From Techno Pagans to AI Grimoiresโ discusses AI grimoires within a larger historical context of digital technology, magic practitioners, and popular culture.
asapjournal.com/node/cyber-s...
@asapjournal.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com
An absolutely baller (hehe) move by @torontobluejays.bsky.social would be to have Michael Bublรฉ throw the game 1 first pitch for Toronto.
21.10.2025 13:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hot โพ๏ธ take: contrary to popular Bluesky opinion, the World Series is not Drake v Kendrick. No one is claiming Drake, so it doesnโt feel like a feud.
Musically, I think the feud lies elsewhere - within the heart of Michael Bublรฉ.
Itโs Canada:Bublรฉ v LA:Bublรฉ until Ohtani decides otherwise.
That was magical. Some special teams have the power to overcome the curse. I just hope Vladdy stops touching Leafs jerseys for a couple weeks ๐
21.10.2025 12:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0still in disbelief that a Toronto team has won a game 7 ๐ฅน
21.10.2025 03:13 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0GOODNIGHT, SEATTLE!
21.10.2025 03:03 โ ๐ 163 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2Meta and Google want to free you from screens โ by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world theyโre trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
Good idea! Not one that I know of, but could be created.
16.10.2025 19:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hard agree!
16.10.2025 19:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Remember how the Death Star had that one hidden weakness?
Well, an important kill switch in this massive surveillance network is: individual control over a bunch of the nodes. People hold the power to tear the network down.
Love your neighbour, trash the Ring camera.
Screenshot of intro
Screenshot of summary of Chapter 7's "disconcertingly persuasive" argument and its "apt solution" by Froomkin, Kerr & Pineau.
Screenshot of conclusion, praising our "human-centric" approach.
So happy so see Martin Holohan of Trinity College, Dublin pen a terrific (and very positive!) review of Robot Law II, the book I edited with @rcalo.bsky.social and @kristenthomasen.bsky.social. Thank you! scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
Get your copy here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/rob...
I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Dear President Obama, I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza." Palestinians have families, too. This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide. I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world. Love, Ms Rachel
Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing
10.10.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 4464 ๐ 1147 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 49aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
10.10.2025 22:31 โ ๐ 19299 ๐ 7717 ๐ฌ 302 ๐ 246I love this poem. It was the last poem from Carver's last book written while he was dying of cancer. It is the inscription on his tombstone apparently too.
10.10.2025 12:36 โ ๐ 401 ๐ 69 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
09.10.2025 19:00 โ ๐ 3469 ๐ 784 ๐ฌ 88 ๐ 70not if it continues to advance and improve for another 1000 years could AI generate an idea I hate more than "kevin o'leary building the world's biggest data centre in a drought-prone region without consent from local Nations"
thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
David Simon, creator of โThe Wireโ, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
09.10.2025 04:42 โ ๐ 28777 ๐ 9092 ๐ฌ 342 ๐ 924Right up there with deleting Orwellโs 1984 off of everyoneโs kindle ๐
07.10.2025 21:28 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cool :)
07.10.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 944 ๐ 98 ๐ฌ 38 ๐ 6It takes no special technical expertise to know that
1) AI's main value proposition today is automating labor,
2) AI is going to supercharge economic inequality, and
3) If we do not get out in front of that policy-wise, we are fools.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...
Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com โ instead, she says:
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.โ
and beyond consent, much like colonial/imperial expansion, publics will be conscripted into training and testing the systems for ever wider use ๐คฎ
06.10.2025 19:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Others have drawn these links already, but: colonialism, rape culture, and AI /big tech are intertwined. It all comes down to a deliberate unwillingness to respect consent. Whether land, sex/bodies, or dataโif those driven by white supremacist patriarchy want it, doesn't matter if someone says no.
06.10.2025 19:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The consultation is structured to a pre-determined outcome: yes, more AI. Very much agree with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social ๐๐ป
(Iโm also offended by how much effort so many stakeholders put into trying to make the AIDA process better only to be ignored again. As Ana says, itโs no way to build trust)
Something is sparking in gen A, I hope it can materialize to its best potential.
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