Colette Riley

Hope all goes well today.

Yearling (8)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Watch this. Spread it far and wide. This is the song for our times.
We are all Minneapolis. They are all fascists.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...

In French, "chat échaudé craint l'eau froide" (a scalded cat fears cold water).

I care. A while back, our mailman took the time to ask us why our mail had been stopped since we were clearly not away, and saved us from an attempt at identity theft.

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Indie

C'est une autre paire de manches.

Secouer les puces de quelqu'un or se secouer les puces (shake someone's fleas or tell them to shake their fleas)

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Thing I think about a lot

How long does it take people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?

This is passion.

This is great leadership.

This is about equity.

Canadian family physician here. The US war on vaccines is hurting infants and children beyond the US border. We, too, are seeing an unprecedented increase in measles and other vaccine preventable diseases due to disinformation and to travel of unvaccinated populations.

Wish Canada could sue RFK Jr.

La traduction littéraire fait appel à la sensibilité humaine : défendons-la face à l’IA ! Valoriser la créativité des traducteurs, c’est privilégier la diversité culturelle et la beauté des langues contre l’uniformisation numérique des textes, fait valoir Philippe Robinet, le directeur-général des éditions Calmann-Lévy.

✍️ Valoriser la créativité des traducteurs, c’est privilégier la diversité culturelle et la beauté des langues contre l’uniformisation numérique des textes, fait valoir Philippe Robinet, le président–directeur des éditions Calmann-Lévy.

Sa tribune dans Libé 👇

‼️Friends,this is very important. Please share this& send the information to media.

The United States stopping the supplies of critically important air defense missiles and other weapons is a matter of life& death⤵️

📹: one of the recent massive Russian attack on #Kyiv.Turn the sound on, if you can.

A fun catch while shore fishing during our trip to the Elliot Lake area!
#elliotlake #shorefishing #smallmouthbass #bassfishing

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America: pretty bad day when the Nazis lost huh

Germany: what

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe

TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day

MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

this is amazing

Opinion | Ken Jennings: Trivia and ‘Jeopardy!’ Could Save Our Republic

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

Paywall is down for non-subscribers. Great opinion piece by Ken Jennings

Les deux se disent.

A rainbow made up of different Manitoba wildflowers. The red on the left end is a three-flowered avens (lantern-shaped flowers), orange - wood lily, yellow - goldenrod, green - green bog orchid, blue - lungwort (little blue bells), purple - iris.

Happy #Pride everyone. Nature is infinitely diverse.

Public services are not businesses.

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

EXACTLY!