Chris Ogilvie
@ogilvie-chris.bsky.social
Big nerd interested in retrocomputing, history, and literature. Known elsewhere on the internet as Arclight_Dynamo. He/Him.
Mastodon: @[email protected]
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"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.
'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News
In a recent article about the United States' strained relationships with other countries, Time Magazine included a made-up quote from Canadian satire site The Beaverton — seemingly as fact.
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.
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"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
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It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
📃✍️💥👀
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“Regretting my third wish”
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“Regretting my third wish”
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When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
Idle Star Trek thought -
When they wrap Strange New Worlds at the end of season 5, I’d love it if they did a 90-minute remake of The Menagerie with this cast and modern production.
If they can make that Section 31 movie, they can give me this to cap off Anson Mount’s run as Pike.
When they wrap Strange New Worlds at the end of season 5, I’d love it if they did a 90-minute remake of The Menagerie with this cast and modern production.
If they can make that Section 31 movie, they can give me this to cap off Anson Mount’s run as Pike.
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Idle Star Trek thought -
When they wrap Strange New Worlds at the end of season 5, I’d love it if they did a 90-minute remake of The Menagerie with this cast and modern production.
If they can make that Section 31 movie, they can give me this to cap off Anson Mount’s run as Pike.
When they wrap Strange New Worlds at the end of season 5, I’d love it if they did a 90-minute remake of The Menagerie with this cast and modern production.
If they can make that Section 31 movie, they can give me this to cap off Anson Mount’s run as Pike.
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
Absolutely thrilled that I procrastinated building a new PC just long enough to run headlong into an AI-inflated RAM pricing crisis. For fuck’s sake.
If you need me this weekend, I’ll be spending too much money on computer parts, thanks.
If you need me this weekend, I’ll be spending too much money on computer parts, thanks.
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Absolutely thrilled that I procrastinated building a new PC just long enough to run headlong into an AI-inflated RAM pricing crisis. For fuck’s sake.
If you need me this weekend, I’ll be spending too much money on computer parts, thanks.
If you need me this weekend, I’ll be spending too much money on computer parts, thanks.
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Oh please just fuck off
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Oh please just fuck off
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I am going to be thinking of this as the Quintessential LA Joke for years now.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am going to be thinking of this as the Quintessential LA Joke for years now.
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"Computer 8 miles of soup no bowl"
June 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Computer 8 miles of soup no bowl"
Subscribed to Paramount+ for the first time because I need my Star Trek, and *man* their streaming website is hot ass, isn't it?
Maybe the app is better. I hope it is.
Maybe the app is better. I hope it is.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Subscribed to Paramount+ for the first time because I need my Star Trek, and *man* their streaming website is hot ass, isn't it?
Maybe the app is better. I hope it is.
Maybe the app is better. I hope it is.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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After repairing a bunch of old oscilloscopes, I melted down the failed wax capacitors and made up scented candles.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
After repairing a bunch of old oscilloscopes, I melted down the failed wax capacitors and made up scented candles.
I am damned tired of having AI "features" continually rammed down my throat. And I'm beginning to realize it's the constant, low-level violation of consent that's driving me to the edge.
Stop stealing my information for your slop factory without A) asking me first or B) allowing me to opt out.
Stop stealing my information for your slop factory without A) asking me first or B) allowing me to opt out.
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I am damned tired of having AI "features" continually rammed down my throat. And I'm beginning to realize it's the constant, low-level violation of consent that's driving me to the edge.
Stop stealing my information for your slop factory without A) asking me first or B) allowing me to opt out.
Stop stealing my information for your slop factory without A) asking me first or B) allowing me to opt out.
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how to stop being angry all the time
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
how to stop being angry all the time
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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
You know, one of the stranger aspects of living in Ottawa is that sometimes on your way home from work you get stuck in traffic behind the king of Sweden.
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You know, one of the stranger aspects of living in Ottawa is that sometimes on your way home from work you get stuck in traffic behind the king of Sweden.
TurboTax is integrating with ChatGPT, eh?
Welp. I’ve already identified an alternative I’ll be using, and now I have to see if I can pull my tax info down and delete my TurboTax account.
What a pain in the ass, all for the sake of the slop bubble. Thanks, AI bros. Really helping me out here.
Welp. I’ve already identified an alternative I’ll be using, and now I have to see if I can pull my tax info down and delete my TurboTax account.
What a pain in the ass, all for the sake of the slop bubble. Thanks, AI bros. Really helping me out here.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
TurboTax is integrating with ChatGPT, eh?
Welp. I’ve already identified an alternative I’ll be using, and now I have to see if I can pull my tax info down and delete my TurboTax account.
What a pain in the ass, all for the sake of the slop bubble. Thanks, AI bros. Really helping me out here.
Welp. I’ve already identified an alternative I’ll be using, and now I have to see if I can pull my tax info down and delete my TurboTax account.
What a pain in the ass, all for the sake of the slop bubble. Thanks, AI bros. Really helping me out here.
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Currently waiting to see if the Canadian government falls. Should know within the half hour.
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Currently waiting to see if the Canadian government falls. Should know within the half hour.