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🦇 Mx. Vero says Free Łink🏴‍☠️
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IDIC🖖🏻 Librarian and fandom aficionado 📚🎬🎮 Pluralist Cosmopolitan 🌌 Neuroqueer 🧠 Dynamically Disabled Settler in Treaty 4 (SK); originally from Treaty 3 (ON) 🇨🇦 🥄🦓 Lived in Sharjah for 5yrs🇦🇪✈️ 🌎Born at 351 ppm🏭 💚They/them.💜 🌳420friendly🍃 Linktr.ee/verolynne
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would love to know how far up the chain this went before the DOD said it was safe to fire live munitions over the freeway, apparently deviating from standard procedures to do it
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If you want a good laugh, you will find Reuters' AI assistant pop up the minute you click on this link from Reuters about how AI assistants make widespread errors about the news
The sushi place sent miso soup that is mostly seaweed… I mean, I guess I needed a vegetable so thanks? 🍣
Shoulda been our city bird #YQR! Now my whole family lives under Chickadee dominion! 🐣
I demand you look at this bird.

(Photo by me)
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Forced drug treatment by the government means the Sask government thinks it should decide who has rights and when, if use of the the notwithstanding clause against trans kids wasn't already a clue.

This is another toe over the democracy line no one seems concerned about. #Sask #SkPoli
Scott Mo3 announces forced drug treatment will come this fall.

I'll bet Saskatchewans' entire deficit that alcoholics that kill mothers while driving won't be forced into treatment because half our government would be gone.
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I was a teenager when social media was invented.

Within a year, you'd hear 'don't post pictures of you drinking on Facebook because it'll hurt job prospects'

And somehow we've looped to, 'Just because someone's positing nazi shit doesn't mean they shouldn't be in the senate.'
Are *you* the Roko's Basilisk who's been prophesied?
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I'm so angry and heartbroken for this province and Canada in general. I don't even know what to say #Sask #SkPoli #CdnPoli #CanPoli
Let's just ignore the fact that private surgeries do not bring down wait times - proven fact. The people working at these centres should be employed by the SHA to add the capacity needed without paying for the profit part of privatization.
globalnews.ca/news/1148784...
Saskatchewan Health Authority renews surgical partnership, aims to reduce wait times | Globalnews.ca
The Saskatchewan Health Authority says a renewed partnership with a western Canada-based surgical service provider will help reduce wait times and expand services to patients.
globalnews.ca
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
www.sciencedirect.com
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
Sure, but for once it feels like the letters I've sent over the past 5 yrs actually amounted to something
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i am friends with and related to a lot of white men and exactly zero of them have had a Nazi phase

we really do not need to normalize Having a Lil Nazi Phase
this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
🥹 finally!
Health Canada puts out guidelines recommending N95s and clean indoor air!

Let’s do this!

Yes it’s overdue, and no it doesn’t address every risk factor, but we can significantly curb COVID with respirator use and clean air.

www.canada.ca/content/dam/...
www.canada.ca
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The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet
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Echoes of the 1980s: “Trump himself ensured workers were told to remove the bronze latticework with blowtorches, separate the friezes from the walls with jackhammers, and throw them down into the interior of the building where they shattered into a million pieces.” news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
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“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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all my bad posts are retroactively off the record
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Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
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“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us."
Kenny Loggins Demands Removal of 'Danger Zone' From AI Clip of Trump Dumping Poop on Protesters
bit.ly
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billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...