angrypolarbear

this makes me so excited!!

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a great opportunity to use the word “abomination”

I did it all for tanooki

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

this picture makes me happy!

I wish I could “mute” everything with a sora watermark in the same way that I can mute words like crypto

not sure if it counts but a few years ago I did a barbershop arrangement of a Sam and Max song!

Erik is a fantastic person to work with, l wouldn’t have been able to release an album without him!

tfw when other people choose to wear the picket signs I made 😊✊

wasn’t expecting to still be on strike four weeks later but here we are!

The shwash

Actual Intelligence

They did not

Let’s hope they bring something worthwhile to the table

Come get some!
For King and country!
Extra crispy!
The instrument… of doom
Little C4 knocking at your door

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

Me on the picket line with the BC General Employees Union, wearing a picket sign that says “BC Gov underpays the experts who monitor and protect our air and water”

when a former hockey teammate is a union photographer

Air Quality Data and Advisories | Metro Vancouver Check current air quality advisories, status updates, monitoring outages, and AirMap.

No air quality warnings as of right now but it could change quickly, of course.

metrovancouver.org/services/air...

Suavemente!

day 8 of the strike
day 69 of getting over 10k steps
😎

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

If you're thinking about using AI for a graphic, lemme stop you right there. I don't care what it is: it would be better hand drawn by a child on crumpled up notebook paper and scanned into your pc than to use AI.

Adding that Metro Vancouver issues them for MVRD and FVRD.

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social When CBC Vancouver news on the radio reports air quality warnings they are always attributed to Environment Canada and never to the BC Ministry of Environment and Parks, even though it’s provincial staff who issue the warnings. Is there a reason for that?

Does anyone know of any weekend / casual or contract work that I could potentially pick up if I need to supplement my strike pay over the next little while?

Local to Vancouver or remote

Out of Hibernation, by angrypolarbear 11 track album

Bandcamp Friday is a wonderful day to support your friendly local government science guy who is on strike

angrypolarbear.bandcamp.com

me on strike with the British Columbia general employees union, wearing a placard that says “air quality experts deserve fair wages, right?”

day three of being on strike. figured this message might cut through on the smokiest day of the year so far

if I keep putting in this same level of effort, maybe in another six years I’ll look like someone who goes to the gym sometimes

¡Feliz cumpleaños!