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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 2h

I...don't think I was disputing that?

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 4h

AGREED www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW22...

Sassy's Sassiest Boys - Saturday Night Live

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

www.youtube.com

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 4h

this like, say, an A&W US and A&W Canada situation, where the two companies apparently *are* completely separate (even the menu is different, iirc) and just share some trademarks / root beer?

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 4h

not that the Teen Vogue news isn't awful, because it sure is, but.... Teen Vogue was separate from Vogue? Like, completely?

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 5h

imagine saying, with a straight face, that the "ethos" of bluesky devs impresses you

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 6h

whaddya think man

adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

Don't mistake me. There are a zillion reasonable critiques of AI to make. But an information professional ostensibly in the job of making information more available immediately reaching for the one thing that is *most responsible* for suppressing the spread of information is.... A Choice.

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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 7h

Former Hamilton Centre MP Matthew Green is now the Amalgamated Transit Union International Political and Communications Specialist. #yhmcc

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

I was JUUUUUUST thinking about that person a couple of weeks ago.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, you must absolutely respect copyright, in the same manner, with the same fervour, attention, and feelings of positivity, that you must respect the police.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

I am relentlessly allistic and I would very likely not do this.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

Because I only have one rare and precious life, the moment I start reading some AI critique -- especially from librarians -- that kicks off with "I am opposed to AI because of copyright infringement" I immediately close the tab, opportunity cost recouped.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

make Guam a state

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

GREG RULZ OK

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

Don't even care at this point (and I'm pretty sure Sarah doesn't either) about reinstating her in the party or whatever. Just a "uh, you were right and we were assheads" or something.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 7h

man, I don't particularly care how feisty the provincial NDP is getting or how correct their opinions might be, I am *heavily disinclined* to support them until they actually apologize to Sarah Jama.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 10h

Ok, the headline and concluding sentence are dumber than a bag of hammers but the central point here is a reasonable one. Successful AI adoption rests on skill diffusion and the government to date is simply ignoring the issue, preferring the producer-first strategy of "handing money to techbros".

Like maple syrup and hockey, AI must become a part of our national identity

Ottawa's AI Strategy Task Force is an encouraging step, writes Joel Blit. But Canada’s future depends on whether we can build a nation where AI is embedded in almost every

www.thestar.com

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Just some guy @rocinante.bsky.social · 22h

A generation who first met Alec Guinness dressed in robes holding a pretend sword is angry someone knows Wallace Shawn from the tail end of his career.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 2d

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.

You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”