Paul Tichonczuk

I've been using @kagi.com for about 6 months now. I never thought I would be happy to pay for search, but here we are. Google, Bing and even Duck Duck Go have become unusable. Now I have a search where I am the customer, not the product being served to advertisers. No AI push either.

Caption: Wow, Spring is right around the corner! Picture: A spring on snow covered ground around the corner of a stone building.

American sympathy shifted away from Israel and in favor of the Palestinians, with the lines crossing for the first time ever.

Noteworthy that support for Israel declined in both 2023 (Oct. 7) and 2024 (Gaza) but the biggest drop came this year (Trump effect?) and it started in 2020-21, not 2023-24.

I'm generally a peaceful guy, but if humanity figures out a way to kill all the biting mosquitos in the world, I will support it.

Matt Johnson of Nirvanna The Band fame making maybe the most succinct and accurate observation about the city of Toronto that I've ever heard

The Supreme Court has finally announced that Donald Trump’s stupid, illegal tariffs were, in fact, stupid and illegal. Now every company in America is lining up to get a big fat tariff refund from the federal government. But who actually paid those tariffs? YOU did, because America’s big retailers marked everything up. So shouldn’t YOU get the refund? Not a bunch of corporate dipshits and douchebags? Cards Against Humanity thinks so. That’s why we are giving 100% of our tariff refund back to all of you, our customers. Sign up now at GetYourFuckingMoneyBack.com.

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And the infinite money loop continues. Amazon, Microsoft and nVidia passing billions around to each other to keep it going. Apparently this can just keep going and no government is stepping in to say, this may be a bad idea. OpenAI will be valued at 1 Trillion soon.

People who use AI for creativity don’t get it and they never will. These people just don’t have “it” in the first place and AI will never give “it” to them.

Naturally creative people who use AI will end up relying on AI and will lose “it”. Keep “it” sharp, reject the artificial creativity machine.

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

Wireless and internet costs in Canada are brutal compared to other countries, except for Saskatchewan. They have the publicly owned SaskTel. The big national telecoms have to compete so Bell, Telus and Rogers have prices 40% lower in Saskatchewan. All provinces should have the same.

#cat

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Picture of an American flag on fire

All of Canada right now

My daughter Z vs ChatGPT

3-4 years old: ✅✅
Confidently spouts completely wrong information: ✅✅
Consumes 85,000 gallons of water daily: ❌✅
Dances adorably: ✅❌

Hope that helps Sam

Canada credits gold medal curling win to expert fingering MILANO-CORTINA - With Canada's mens team defeating Great Britain to clinch gold in the Winter Olympics, Canadian skip Brad Jacobs is crediting the victory to his team's delicate, sometimes-controversi...

Canada credits gold medal curling win to expert fingering

There are a disturbing amount of articles recently that quote tech CEO's "won't someone think of the AI companies?!?". It's a solution looking for a problem. And the few uses for it are not worth the cost.

Toronto shopping street

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.

In fact, it was 4%.

And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.

Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

It not even the right jersey

It looks like they bought a knock off

"Which country poses the greatest threat to Canada's security right now?"

USA: 55%
China: 15%
Russia: 14%
India: 4%
Iran: 2%

Nanos / Feb 4, 2026

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

Lots of them are panicking that AI uptake isn't fast enough and they might run out of momentum to do the sweep they are attempting to do on society.

This isn't about AI, it's about the window in which they have permission to remould society.

www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

Me: did you enjoy your long weekend?

Kid: yeah, but I need a 14 day long weekend.

Me: Same Same.

I made banana bread. From a recipe I've used numerous times. I forgot the sugar.

I FORGOT THE SUGAR

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The Internet.

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A new #CarpenterBrut release!!!
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Everything is fine. Nothing to see here. #AI
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Seriously though. this was great. Loved it.

Wait a minute. You're actually talented??!?!?

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Are you dialectical materialism? Because you've changed my entire worldview To: From:

Happy Valentine’s Day I made you this