adr (goddamit yes)
@jbfink.bsky.social
adr from that place you know. He/they
JoJo Siwa Your Life Is Calling
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
JoJo Siwa Your Life Is Calling
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Yup, they got the sanctioned tanker. THANK GOD, I was legit worried he just ordered the US Navy to commit actual piracy. Lololol. This is 100% defensible, even tho a lot of people are gonna really hate hearing that.
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yup, they got the sanctioned tanker. THANK GOD, I was legit worried he just ordered the US Navy to commit actual piracy. Lololol. This is 100% defensible, even tho a lot of people are gonna really hate hearing that.
It's a real shame encumbered epubs and ebooks generally are such utter horrible shit because the Epub format itself - separated from DRM - is actually really nice. I love to read public domain books on my eReader.
December 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It's a real shame encumbered epubs and ebooks generally are such utter horrible shit because the Epub format itself - separated from DRM - is actually really nice. I love to read public domain books on my eReader.
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Fun copyright fact: you cannot copyright titles! Which is why there are so damn many books using short quotes from Shakespeare as their names.
December 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Fun copyright fact: you cannot copyright titles! Which is why there are so damn many books using short quotes from Shakespeare as their names.
Hey maybe fund the universities too? Cool idea bro
www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
The fed gov't is investing $1.7B in one of the largest programs worldwide to recruit top int'l researchers globally. Plan hopes to bring 1,000+ leaders in critical fields to drive innovation for Canadians. #Budget2025
The fed gov't is investing $1.7B in one of the largest programs worldwide to recruit top int'l researchers globally. Plan hopes to bring 1,000+ leaders in critical fields to drive innovation for Canadians. #Budget2025
Government of Canada launches new initiative to recruit world-leading researchers - Canada.ca
Canada will invest $1.7 billion to attract top global talent
www.canada.ca
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hey maybe fund the universities too? Cool idea bro
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This is a masterclass in how to move opinion. All the rhetorical emphasis falls on "your anger and fear are understandable," while the tacit premise that "AI is in fact useful and not going away" slides in like a vaccination needle you barely even noticed.
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is a masterclass in how to move opinion. All the rhetorical emphasis falls on "your anger and fear are understandable," while the tacit premise that "AI is in fact useful and not going away" slides in like a vaccination needle you barely even noticed.
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copyright doesn't exist... in HELL!
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
copyright doesn't exist... in HELL!
Because I am a grown ass man with a job I did buy the Jones Soda Fallout Themed 12 Pack at the Costco Business Centre
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Because I am a grown ass man with a job I did buy the Jones Soda Fallout Themed 12 Pack at the Costco Business Centre
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I love you bluesky but I admit I don’t totally understand the rabid and uncritical AI hate that predominates here
January 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I love you bluesky but I admit I don’t totally understand the rabid and uncritical AI hate that predominates here
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"People are getting replaced" is a basic problem in capitalism, it's not inherent in any given technology, it exists at the level of the larger value system. And unless those values are replaced and rebooted, that situation won't change.
January 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"People are getting replaced" is a basic problem in capitalism, it's not inherent in any given technology, it exists at the level of the larger value system. And unless those values are replaced and rebooted, that situation won't change.
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Okay, to translate as a designer: it’s “diversity” because part of the reason Calibri was adopted is because it’s more legible to people with dyslexia and other visual disabilities….and also everyone else, but why let that get in the way of a weird grudge?
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Okay, to translate as a designer: it’s “diversity” because part of the reason Calibri was adopted is because it’s more legible to people with dyslexia and other visual disabilities….and also everyone else, but why let that get in the way of a weird grudge?
What's the most DEI font? I'd say Papyrus. Sure. why not.
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What's the most DEI font? I'd say Papyrus. Sure. why not.
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Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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No matter what you do in your classroom, the institution has positioned your students as customers. This impacts their experience of your classroom. You cannot make it a "pure" educational space free from market pressures.
December 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
No matter what you do in your classroom, the institution has positioned your students as customers. This impacts their experience of your classroom. You cannot make it a "pure" educational space free from market pressures.
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Everything is shit but at least we had McDonald's speed running 'Bro you don't get it our misanthropic AI Christmas ad was so much work, bro, we typed so many prompts, we haven't seen our families since August' to 'THIS VIDEO IS PRIVATE' in under 24 hours.
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Everything is shit but at least we had McDonald's speed running 'Bro you don't get it our misanthropic AI Christmas ad was so much work, bro, we typed so many prompts, we haven't seen our families since August' to 'THIS VIDEO IS PRIVATE' in under 24 hours.
Dunno man. If this was an indicator of quality, I would be the single most famous best writer in the history of humanity
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Dunno man. If this was an indicator of quality, I would be the single most famous best writer in the history of humanity
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20+ years ago when I was deciding to become an educator, I know how passionate I was about preparing students for hyper-specific jobs in bubble-driven industries that will have peaked 5 years ago by the time the first cohort graduates
Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
20+ years ago when I was deciding to become an educator, I know how passionate I was about preparing students for hyper-specific jobs in bubble-driven industries that will have peaked 5 years ago by the time the first cohort graduates
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In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
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Unclear how a $19 billion dependency on a US tech giant will "promote and protect Canada's digital sovereignty"
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
Microsoft Deepens Its Commitment to Canada with Landmark $19B AI Investment
Today, Microsoft is announcing the most important commitment in Microsoft Canada’s history. We’re adding to our investments – with a total of $19 billion CAD between 2023 and 2027, including more than...
blogs.microsoft.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Unclear how a $19 billion dependency on a US tech giant will "promote and protect Canada's digital sovereignty"
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
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Hey, goth/industrial folks; wanna hear something kinda funny/concerning? A few weeks ago, I read someone having the nerve to write down "i miss when music wasn't political. Like Laibach!!" Media literacy is deader than Bela Lugosi.
December 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hey, goth/industrial folks; wanna hear something kinda funny/concerning? A few weeks ago, I read someone having the nerve to write down "i miss when music wasn't political. Like Laibach!!" Media literacy is deader than Bela Lugosi.
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Reasons academics should contest universities’ AI campaigns: a manifesto
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reasons academics should contest universities’ AI campaigns: a manifesto
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
- chatbots are being trained to replace your teaching
- you are wasting time grading chatbot papers
- you are wasting time peer reviewing chatbot papers
- you are wasting time submitting papers reviewed by chatbots
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Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types. NOTE: This is PRECLINICAL.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...
The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...
🧪🧵⬇️
• www.umass.edu/news/article...
The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...
🧪🧵⬇️
December 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types. NOTE: This is PRECLINICAL.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...
The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...
🧪🧵⬇️
• www.umass.edu/news/article...
The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...
🧪🧵⬇️
For a hot second I thought that Pigface had released a follow-up to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome...
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
For a hot second I thought that Pigface had released a follow-up to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome...
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there's got to be a better way
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
there's got to be a better way
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Postmedia is controlled by an American hedge fund, placing a key part of Canada’s news media under foreign influence;
Other countries, such as Australia and France, have established policies to safeguard domestic control of media, providing workable models for Canada.
Other countries, such as Australia and France, have established policies to safeguard domestic control of media, providing workable models for Canada.
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Postmedia is controlled by an American hedge fund, placing a key part of Canada’s news media under foreign influence;
Other countries, such as Australia and France, have established policies to safeguard domestic control of media, providing workable models for Canada.
Other countries, such as Australia and France, have established policies to safeguard domestic control of media, providing workable models for Canada.