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google image searched “cunt playing ukelele” (don't ask) and the first two photos are scott morrison playing a ukelele. i love australians.

How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit | The Tyee We used to pledge lower emissions. Now we push for higher oil production.

when do we get to start removing these people from positions of power? all pro-fossil fuel politicians and oil & gas industry board members & lobbyists should be sent to the hague. there is just no excuse. you're dooming us all. environmentally and economically.

#cdnpoli

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

"Everyone is 12" theory complicated by expectation that 12 year olds can read

In Hansel and Gretel, does the witch have a sanitary room to do her business that’s separate from, yet within, the edible gingerbread house, or does she have a portable Andy Gump blue port-a-potty in the back yard? And does a man come out and empty said potty every month?

This is important.

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"it's inevitable" has never struck me as a compelling argument for AI. never seen a genuinely useful technology ushered in with the enthusiasm of a tired mom coming to terms with the fact that her kids are going to pick up foot fungus at a community pool.

Ending the emissions cap, cutting tens of thousands of public sector jobs, but funding AI with $925 million. This is a joke

aww he thinks he's people.

Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement

The print version of @theonion.com is worth every dime.

question for the canadian government: if tobacco companies aren’t allowed to advertise then why are oil and gas companies allowed to? the extraction and burning of fossil fuels is waaaay worse for human health, society, and the world than cigarettes ever could be. #cdnpoli

which ai-infected boomer twit decided this? wtf #socan

nah you're awesome. your episodes are very informative and what you're doing is very important. i find your economics takes super useful and you do a great job explaining clearly and with adequate context on a complex topic that can sometimes otherwise mystify some of us. ❤️

AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

You know what, Nigel? Writer’s block isn’t really a thing. The real “block” is trying to survive in a capitalist system, in which creativity has been devalued & publishing taken over by managerial types who only understand productivity & see writers as “brands.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

pick your pipe dream.

Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can't Give Us What We Actually Want Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

“We’re meant to be the smartest species on earth, but we locked ourselves in our invention — a self-reinforcing labor camp that makes us miserable — and then we get all huffy when people dare to question if it’s the only way of doing things.”

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/capitalism...

Generative AI is a societal disaster Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

you're gonna complain about someone stealing food? but there's no guarantee that everyone will get food. so why wouldn't there be people stealing food? if a society can't (or won't) guarantee basic necessities to everyone, kinda seems like we're just expecting some people to just die.

i dunno man. i don't think it makes any sense to complain about homeless people or encampments when housing isn't a guaranteed human right. y'know? when we have a society where there's a chance somebody won't get to have a place to live, what the fuck do you think is gonna happen?

greg gutfeld triggers my gaydar. my hunch: he's closeted. and doing the fox news nazi thing for the money cuz he's not a particularly good comedian. and also probably a nazi. a closeted gay nazi. i cannot be the only one who senses this when i see/hear him speak.

Anytime an action is taken to "maximize shareholder value" it is bad for society.

How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.

As the US faffs about with declining fossil fuels, China has leapt forward to become the uncontested global leader in clean energy -- and not just on the cheap labor/commodity side, either. They're beating us on research, startups, & patents.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

AI needs Fascism And Fascism needs AI

AI needs fascism, and fascism needs AI.

We have to fight this nexus of Big Tech and the fascist regime.

Together they’ve formed a deadly alliance against democracy, and against the working class.

www.jphilll.com/p/ai-needs-f...

generative ai is a very large computer virus designed to destroy the entire internet.

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Smart Glasses Are Ushering In An Anti-Social World w/ Chris Gilliard - Tech Won’t Save Us

everyone give this a listen: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...

Wild that anyone bothers to celebrate Columbus when they could just pick anyone at random who’s ever made a wrong turn.

Needless to say I think this is brilliant.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

and using ai for promo material is the hackiest shit too