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...and having no real idea what 'doing the work' would even involve.

fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence.

If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept

As the US gets faces losses of $29 billion from the travel boycott, Canada is doing just fine.
Keep it up my fellow Canucks.
Thanks to all those who are crossing the border to come north to visit their neighbours.

Chart showing 96.8% drop in US wine exports to Canada

Wow. Canadians — keep the pressure on. American wine industry — thank your idiot President.
#cdnpoli

'Alarming' for whom, exactly?

one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

In fairness, this was also a problem in Alberta (a.k.a. Canadian Texas).

There's a joke in there somewhere about the over-commitment of big tech to gen AI.

Girl Guides of Canada to suspend U.S. trips over Trump administration policies | CBC News Girl Guides of Canada is suspending upcoming trips to the United States over concerns the Trump administration's changes at the border could affect some of its members.

“Girl Guides of Canada is suspending upcoming trips to the United States over concerns the Trump administration's changes at the border could affect some of its members.”
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Please share: From the Richmound Mayor's wife: "It’s heartbreaking and infuriating. I can’t believe we’re still here, with no real help, no protection, and no answers — just more waiting and more promises from people who say they care.

I just noticed that myself, now I can't unsee it.

I guess this is the fine arts equivalent to the authoritative 'voice from nowhere'.

The fuck is a 'peaceful invasion'? 1984-esque nonsense.

The sound still haunts me...

Teen climate activist (my son) needs Canadians to respond to a 2-minute survey to help him build data to bring to local Cdn politicians to urge them to make it easier for Canadians to donate used electronics for reuse (after wiped clean) and recycling. Pls share: marketing4health.formaloo.me/b8j3vp

I still can't quite get past "No, no, Chat GPT is really wonderful, it simply can't read."

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

“data-driven” is almost TOO on the nose here. there’s a whole species of white liberal Logic Bro with no principles except winning. they think people driven by justice, love, or a deeply held sense of right and wrong are too “emotional” (ie female, gay, soft, et al) to sit at the adults’ table

PICARD: Mr. Data, we need to discuss these anomalies in your latest reports DATA: Respectfully sir, the odds I would make a mistake in my work are 43,650,000 to- PICARD: On this map of the alpha quadrant you've labeled Klingon "Krisphon" and Vulcan "Vuvutrishpo" GEORDI: Captain, be reasonable! He's not supposed to be good at that. Just ask him to write another poem about cats

Who Is Kathryn Marshall, Lawyer for Ex-CBC Host Claiming Anti-Conservative Bias? Marshall, former spokesperson for the Ethical Oil Institute, was an early architect of the ‘foreign funded anti-pipeline protester’ controversy.

Sounds like a textbook case of Hitchens's razor to me. Massive coverage is not, in fact, a substitute for evidence.

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Another day.
Another roll of the die.

For real - it would look much more like a series of unskipable cut scenes.

On the rare occasion one of my students has submitted an AI-generated assignment, it features a lot of vaguely plausible academic jargon while also being completely incomprehensible. To be fair, this also describes a not insubstantial percentage of actual conference presentations.

In fairness, I, an actual PhD candidate, also sometimes misspell embarrassingly simple words.

It's hilarious that these hosers keep acting like we started this. Who, exactly do they think they're fooling?

Feels like a good time to share this call for papers. Can't wait for EPSS 2026!

See also: softwood lumber

I only ever learn that someone has written another one of these articles by seeing them getting made fun of, in real time, on Bluesky.