Wayde Compton

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Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive? Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

My legacy as a descendant of the Taíno and African peoples who withstood Cristoforo Colombo and his ilk This is the story of one holiday of many that keeps the room’s colonial mythology alive. In telling it, I hope to help reconstruct the room in truth, so that its warmth no longer depends on exclusion.

"My legacy as a descendant of the Taíno and African peoples who withstood Cristoforo Colombo and his ilk" communitycentricfundraising.org/2025/11/10/m...

I've said it before and will say it again... if you have to check the results of AI because of its ability to lie then there is no point in ever using AI because you can't trust it.

And yet, companies have invested all that cash so have to push that fucking shit on everyone and every fucking app.

(2/2) We loved hearing from local authors, @waydecompton.bsky.social and @candietanaka.bsky.social‬, who both have titles in the collection; as well as local publisher, Brian Lam
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social.

10 Canadian poetry books to expand your mind. Canadian poetry—not actually written in maple syrup! Not entirely about beavers! (Although I have certainly written about beavers.) Canada is a complicated place, living in the shadow of the U.S., …

An all-around fabulous list.

“The operative principle underlying the music that Africans brought to the New World is that it must help people to live.” — Kim Johnson, The Illustrated History of Pan

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.

If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.

Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

A New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives Journal A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.

New in Perspectives: A New Kind of Corner Store

Public grocery stores are gaining ground in U.S. cities. Is it time for Canadian cities to do the same?

@vassb.bsky.social asks: if we can run public water and transit, why not food?

🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/municipal-grocery-stores/

U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications The U.S. State Department said it is restarting the process for foreigners applying for student visas but all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for review.

new usa student visa requirement:
must set their social media profiles to "public," saying additional screening part of the vetting process to exclude applicants who "pose a threat to us national security."

I'm old enough to remember occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, a never ending war of terror that killed over 4 million people.

And using same rhetoric we hear now- manufacturing consent through racist demonization. And blatant lies.

People's liberation never comes through imperialist terror, ever.

"A call for work that celebrates the complex, the cross-genre, the formally mixed, the abject, the unstable, the code-switched (or the code-kept) resistant text. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in The Capilano Review."

thecapilanoreview.com/language-the...

Teachers Are Not OK AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

"The future is always here in the past." — Amiri Baraka

Please run for leadership.

SOUNDING OUT AND TUNING IN Paul db Watkins and Wayde Compton discuss DJ methodologies, Black Canadian poetry, and citizenship in a conversation that highlights the interplay of sound, music, and literature. Watkins advocates…

Hey all—there’s lots of new material on the Soundin’ Canaan website, including an interview with one of my favourite poets and a key figure in the book: @waydecompton.bsky.social. We talk Black Canadian poetry, my DJ methodology, citizenship, American annexation, and more. @wlupress.bsky.social

Narrowing the racial wealth gap: Planned giving as a tool for economic justice - The Philanthropist Journal Estate planning remains an overlooked tool for closing the racial wealth gap. By fostering accessibility and trust, planned-giving professionals can contribute to economic justice while strengthening ...

thephilanthropist.ca/2025/04/narr... by @yucacita.bsky.social

Today in my #CriticalMediaPractice class at #UVic: a conversation with @waydecompton.bsky.social about race in media, and "how to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism".

Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics - University of Alberta Press Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this persona...

"the white avant-garde is prone to assuming that its fetish for formal innovation is automatically progressive. White avant-garde writers . . . use a nomenclature of alterity, but the effect is the same as the one that perennially produces white normativity in general."
— @waydecompton.bsky.social

A big thank you to everyone who came out to my Victoria book launch—especially to @waydecompton.bsky.social for the excellent reading and interview. It was both a celebration of Soundin’ Canaan (@wlupress.bsky.social) and an opportunity to hear poetry and be in community.

It’s like riding in an Uber for 26 miles then calling yourself a marathon runner.

Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics - University of Alberta Press Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this persona...

Yes I do: ualbertapress.ca/978177212743...