Mackenzie (he/his/him)

Cannot stress how bad shit is about to get if you want to build any kind of PC.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Having the sum of human creative output called “ai training data” is frying me

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms

you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

Groups of dudes who self-segregate & talk each other into believing that they are uniquely brilliant & everyone else just doesn't get it ... are responsible for some of history's most florid horrors.

New Spotify Wrapped Feature Shows How Much of Your Money Went to Funding AI Warfare Technology Spotify released its popular annual year-end “Wrapped” feature which gives users a snapshot of their music and podcast listening trends along with a new feature that shows how much of their money went...

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An article that wasn't focused on elite colleges might be capable of considering that disability accommodations are about a student getting a good education for themselves rather than framing things in terms of a hunger games competition for who gets to be elite in society

HEY CANADA.

MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.

Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was […]

There are few positions more immediately clarifying than a person’s stance on the r-word.

‘ICE was here’: Dedham church sparks outrage over nativity scene with political message A Dedham church is causing controversy over another political statement in their Nativity scene this holiday season.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place.

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The charges here mattered, because the arresting officers admitted that she was arrested for violating the segregation ordinance and not for some ostensibly race-neutral charge like "disturbing the peace"

It's the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Charlie Brown *pulls out a raygun and starts blasting him*

There aren't many multipartisan consensuses in Ontario politics, but the one we can be most grateful for beyond nuclear is agreement on regional rail build-out. It may be slow, frustrating, and occasionally subject to pork barrelling, but we *have* come a long way and a lot of great stuff is coming.

FYI as you head into the holiday season:

Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).

a Caves of Qud screenshot of an enemy Thirst Thistle. They have a jewel-encrusted strange plant

Thirst Thistle with a bejewled Labubu gun accessory

Private Equity

This seems totally fine

still sourcing for this! this is the last month i'm going to be asking (in this way, more on that later) but with medicaid and other changes being ready for the first of the year would really help me move into the next phase of my life

god it is often so expensive to be poor

The story of how Stanislav Petrov saved the world from Nuclear apocalypse in 1983 always being me to tears.

White background, red ribbon. Text says “World AIDS Day”.

My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

I know I sound like a broken record on this and that’s OK.

Montreal gets a lot right. But one of my biggest disappointments of this city’s political establishment is saying “no” to an amazing automated train for the underserved east end of the city for largely aesthetic reasons.

Blessed are the curious.

"AI isn't perfect so double check it"

Okay but if you're using it in the classroom... where people are supposedly learning the information you're asking ChatGPT about... how would you even know what's accurate or not...

We're setting people up for failure

The make-believe of the powerful is a threat to the life and livelihood of us all, and an existential risk to the human species

37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

This, like much of what is going on in libraries, is the kind of situation that leads people to leave professions, to self censor, to protect themselves out of fear.

There is no academic freedom if someone claiming their faith justified bigotry gets to force out actual experts from their position.

Administration should be standing with the instructor.

This goes beyond cowardice.