Darrin White 🌻🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻🏳️🌈
@darrinwhite.bsky.social
Dad, ally, fiercely anti-fascist, Access and Privacy Investigator, printmaker, community volunteer, settler in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. My posts are my own & do not represent the Government of Nova Scotia. Living with Granulomatosis with polyangiitis, 🇨🇦 #Halisky
This is what happens when you surround yourself with people who don't actually know how to do anything, and everyone who DOES personally know how to do actual real things in a real world doesn't want to be in the same room with you.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is what happens when you surround yourself with people who don't actually know how to do anything, and everyone who DOES personally know how to do actual real things in a real world doesn't want to be in the same room with you.
Yes.
Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Yes.
Read the study. There’s a reason everyone is sicker. The reason is COVID. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Read the study. There’s a reason everyone is sicker. The reason is COVID. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Folks, time to post as much info about Hep B vaccines for future ref. Our neighbours may find it hard to get in the future. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Hepatitis B vaccines: Canadian Immunization Guide - Canada.ca
The Canadian Immunization Guide is a comprehensive resource on immunization. The guide consists of 54 chapters organized into 5 parts. Chapters are updated as new evidence becomes available
www.canada.ca
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Folks, time to post as much info about Hep B vaccines for future ref. Our neighbours may find it hard to get in the future. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25
It’s very important to think about these numbers and what it means for how you understand the world around you and upon what facts and information you make decisions.
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s very important to think about these numbers and what it means for how you understand the world around you and upon what facts and information you make decisions.
I don’t know what Canada should do about Canada Post but this ain’t working. If it’s a flyer for La-Z-boy, by god it gets delivered. But a paid package with a delivery window of 11:30-3:30 today as provided by the app? According to an agent that’s just an estimate for both the time *AND THE DATE*!
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I don’t know what Canada should do about Canada Post but this ain’t working. If it’s a flyer for La-Z-boy, by god it gets delivered. But a paid package with a delivery window of 11:30-3:30 today as provided by the app? According to an agent that’s just an estimate for both the time *AND THE DATE*!
I have to share this wrenching comic by artist Savannah Tries based on her interview with a 60s scoop survivor (who wished to remain anonymous). This dismal chapter in Canadian history haunts the survivors and this country to this day.
Seeking Stones: Grief in Foster Care — Grief Matters
This month’s cartoon is by guest artist, Savannah Tries. Savannah spoke with a person, who wishes to remain anonymous, about their experiences of grief and healing after being raised in foster care as...
griefmatters.ca
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have to share this wrenching comic by artist Savannah Tries based on her interview with a 60s scoop survivor (who wished to remain anonymous). This dismal chapter in Canadian history haunts the survivors and this country to this day.
Can a single comic strip capture love? Yes. Yes it can. xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Can a single comic strip capture love? Yes. Yes it can. xkcd.com/3172/
This is exactly the way everyone should be thinking. LLMs are thieving, lying, hallucinating, manipulation machines.
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is exactly the way everyone should be thinking. LLMs are thieving, lying, hallucinating, manipulation machines.
Holy Dinah. The whole damn thing is quotable. And beautiful. And we need more humans in this sort of creative space. “But your private, cloistered reveries turn out to be one of the best ways to create that shared, inclusive space that can shelter other people.”
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Holy Dinah. The whole damn thing is quotable. And beautiful. And we need more humans in this sort of creative space. “But your private, cloistered reveries turn out to be one of the best ways to create that shared, inclusive space that can shelter other people.”
I haven’t built a plastic model in decades. I have to say I’m enjoying the heck out of building a model Honda RA272 (a Formula 1 race winning car from 1965). The engine is nearly complete. Paint and cement have come a long way since 197x.
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I haven’t built a plastic model in decades. I have to say I’m enjoying the heck out of building a model Honda RA272 (a Formula 1 race winning car from 1965). The engine is nearly complete. Paint and cement have come a long way since 197x.
Just caught up on #LasVegasGP. There’s 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back. What an uninspired race/circuit.
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Just caught up on #LasVegasGP. There’s 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back. What an uninspired race/circuit.
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Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor — the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932–1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
1/9
1/9
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor — the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932–1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
1/9
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You should take the time to turn these off if you still use or have a gmail account.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
You should take the time to turn these off if you still use or have a gmail account.
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
It’s World Kindness Day! There’s a lot of heavy darkness out there. Take some time and brighten your community with an act of kindness, if only for today.
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It’s World Kindness Day! There’s a lot of heavy darkness out there. Take some time and brighten your community with an act of kindness, if only for today.
How to spot performative action: Writer leaves Twitter/X due to Nazi problem. Comes to BlueSky to promote their writing on Substack, which has a Nazi problem, which they refuse to leave.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
How to spot performative action: Writer leaves Twitter/X due to Nazi problem. Comes to BlueSky to promote their writing on Substack, which has a Nazi problem, which they refuse to leave.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
There are two of these stories in circulation. This one about Meta/Facebook (which includes Instagram & Threads) and the other about Twitter/X. Everyone who stays on these platforms is making a conscious choice to support these platforms and people. If you don't support this, leave.
Meta internally projected it would earn about $16 billion from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
“It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google" docs show.
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social with the goods.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google" docs show.
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social with the goods.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There are two of these stories in circulation. This one about Meta/Facebook (which includes Instagram & Threads) and the other about Twitter/X. Everyone who stays on these platforms is making a conscious choice to support these platforms and people. If you don't support this, leave.
There are two of these stories in circulation. This one about Twitter/X and the other about Meta/Facebook (which includes Instagram & Threads). Everyone who stays on these platforms is making a conscious choice to support these platforms and people. If you don't support this, leave.
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
There are two of these stories in circulation. This one about Twitter/X and the other about Meta/Facebook (which includes Instagram & Threads). Everyone who stays on these platforms is making a conscious choice to support these platforms and people. If you don't support this, leave.
Take note. This is the beginning of the end, and I, for one, cannot wait for this whole big pile of AI slop and garbage to collapse with the density of a dying star. When Burry shorts a stock, pay attention. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Global stock markets fall sharply over AI bubble fears
Drop in US, Asia and Europe follows warning from bank bosses that market correction could lie ahead
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Take note. This is the beginning of the end, and I, for one, cannot wait for this whole big pile of AI slop and garbage to collapse with the density of a dying star. When Burry shorts a stock, pay attention. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
2025 Blue Jays are my champions regardless of the outcome.
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
2025 Blue Jays are my champions regardless of the outcome.
It’s not too late to check your storm drains! I checked the one outside my flat only to find it under a 7” thick mat of decomposing leaf litter. Big rains coming to #HRM #Halifax #NovaScotia
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It’s not too late to check your storm drains! I checked the one outside my flat only to find it under a 7” thick mat of decomposing leaf litter. Big rains coming to #HRM #Halifax #NovaScotia