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Dale Hennessey

@dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca

760 followers 750 following 5.6K posts

Climate, bird flu, AI, and Trump are our next existential crises. I like to think my opinions are well-considered but I have blind spots and am open to new perspectives... Always. Frequent dropper of F-bombs; less frequent dropper of C-bombs.

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TiggsCupcake @tiggsisacupcake.bsky.social · 7h

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 7h

Oh fuck off. Gas powered vehicles are WAY worse and you know what? Gas powered vehicles aren't required to keep people alive. This is ableist bullshit.

STITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 8h

Inhalers in the US emitted 24.9 million metric tons of CO2e over a decade, costing society an estimated $5.7 billion.

by Feldman WB, Han J (...) Chesebro BB et 2 al. in JAMA #MedSky

👉 get more here

📖 read the article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2839471

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Alt Evil @altevil.bsky.social · 16h

I was going to say this was shocking... But is it really?

Leaked "Young Republicans" Group Chat Shows Them Regularly Engaging In Racial Slurs, Bigotry, And Praise For Hitler

A report was published on Tuesday that revealed the contents of a Telegram chat by the Young Republican National Federation, which featured ...

thegodlessliberal.blogspot.com

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 16h

It's crazy how m
people are dumb as rocks these days. There's a dearth of critical thinking skills everywhere.

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Gabi T 🇨🇦 @gabituto.bsky.social · 16h

lol not quite as intended 👇
@deonandan.bsky.social
@jonathanconp.bsky.social

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 17h

Thank you - as always - for telling truths.

Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 17h

Given everyone's ridiculous swarming to AI to help them work - and organizations forcing members to do so - it seems entirely realistic this happened. 2/2

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 17h

Not completely. We're trusting the original poster to be truthful. That said, this isn't the first time AI garbage has been passed off as "real product." Scientific papers, legal briefs, and student essays have all been found to include AI garbage. 1/2

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 18h

It looks like it was generated with older versions of AI than currently exist. Newer AIs produce better garbage (which, IMHO, makes them more dangerous). If that is what the teacher did they deserve to be fired for being stupid & lazy.

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 18h

The self-checkout machine accused me of an "unexpected item." The item was my will to live, which I had mistakenly placed in the bagging area.

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 18h

This is vile & disgusting. AI use in schools should be banned, not encouraged - especially if it makes teachers this stupid & lazy. AI is trash.

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 21h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 18h

Absolutely!

Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 18h

I will be so happy when people wake up to just how shitty and unreliable AI is.

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Stephen Vincent @chelseaman.bsky.social · 14d

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 1d

That's crazy.

Astronauts cannot spend more
than 18 months in space, or their
bodies would transform into
perfect spheres due to the
lack of gravity.

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penboyasgod.bsky.social @penboyasgod.bsky.social · 1d

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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 1d

this may be the best description of theftbot-generated slop I've ever read

via this great rant: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Quote from n+1:

But a still graver scandal of AI — like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency — is the technology’s colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole — and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays. Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Dec 27

"oh, so you're saying--" no. i'm saying the thing i said, not the thing you made up. go back and read the thing i said

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Dad Jokes @dadsaysjokes.com · 2d

The man behind me honked at me for going 70 in a 50. So now we're going 20. Together.

I hope he packed a lunch.

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 2d

This fucker!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 2d

“Hey mister, wanna see me go really fast? Mister?”

A young cheetah reaches out to grab the pant leg of a person next to them.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 11

"When ur havin a hard time but ur best friend is there for u[sic]"

[Image is of a nice red cat who has folded his front paws around an outstretched index finger. So cozy.]

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · May 17

"How I feel when I have to scroll down to the year I was born:" someone yanking hard on the Price is Right wheel.

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 2d

AI is about to... #Pop

Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 2d

Important to remember this especially with CUPW on strike right now!

Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sick of RW govts trying to separate “the unions” from their members.

“The unions” can’t take strike actions without balloting members. “The unions” aren’t forcing members to strike; they can’t. Members are voting to strike, because of shite offers from this govt.

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

"I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients," Christopher Luxon says.