David

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” MLK Jr. Loving does not mean ignoring abuse, bigotry and violence, but if hate grows within us, we are defeated. Love is the difficult way through these brutal times. Good night.

Hoping that the spirit moved through Serbia, Brazil, and Toronto will move through the Israeli election and subsequent coalition-building to finally oust Netanyahu.

I wish I thought that this is the last Toronto will see of Bradford but I fear he will try one more time. That I think of Rob Ford favourably in comparison is something.

Toronto patriots Calma Chow wins by 4pts

Because of course it is. Not housing. Not the drug crisis. Of course not the climate crisis. Just Fossil Fuel profits

So depressing.

Have wondered who would trust an AI agent developed by Meta. Apparently people do, and this is the result.

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

The fact that Brad Bradford stands a chance of winning Toronto's mayoral race while it is forecasted that he will lose his Toronto ward (where he has served since 2018) says so much about politics and voters these days, none of it good. You'd think that Trump would have taught us lessons, but nope.

well this doesn’t sound too healthy

🌱 #flowersonFriday A surprise spotted on my tour this week, Magnolia delavayi in flower to the delight of the group. I’m off to London to see the flowers in St Martini in the Field.

"[Weber] pitches a solution: make life’s necessities affordable... housing, transport, food, water, energy, healthcare... 'Fascism is rising from frustration, born out of a crisis of livelihoods... So, we need to reclaim these essentials now.'” Hadn't heard of her; this is a good introduction.

Just caught a bit of our PM speaking at the Alberta rally. Trudeau was so polished that he came across as inauthentic, perhaps even about things he believed deeply. I fear Carney is the opposite: able to sound convincing as the need arises, but having few values he won't sacrifice for capitalism.

"In the scenario of the self-replicating AI worms, the researchers prompted the agent to hack internet connected devices." AI is once again portrayed as a super-powerful, uncontrollable danger while the reality is that its human handlers keep failing to take full responsibility for its harms.

I hate the entire consumer-facing "A.i." industry so much. Just unrelenting, massive social damage and extraction. A deeply repugnant, immoral, anti-human business.

What chills me more is that the Atlantic article's author not only scanned Kundieza's work, but also scanned 25 years' worth of Caine Prize awardees to check whether they were human. A prize for African writers. It feels like the literary equivalent of doing a non-consensual genital check.

Is it just because I have not been able to make it to my usual bargain grocery stores or did coffee go up in price by a healthy percentage in the last six weeks?

Yes, and... "If you're not the paying customer, you're the product." Is not quite right in an attention economy and surveillance capitalism. If you're not the paying customer, you're the raw material they use to hone their prediction models.

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

A heckler screams you’re a pedophile president 👏

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli

Garden art from another century. I love how ordinary vegetables were treated like treasures. 🥬🍅

I genuinely think the main difference between me and AI users that think it's awesome is that I've turned off as much of the anthropomorphizing and sycophantic behaviour as I can. So it can't slowly wear me down into thinking it's my buddy. And therefore I can clearly see that it sucks.

Me earlier today

OMG! The arrogant violence professionals do; to say that someone is incapable of love!!??!!

Oh, look! The Trump administration is making crossing the US border more onerous for all the millions of Canadians who are no longer doing it. They are smart that way.

This is what unregulated AI and data center development is. "Microsoft-linked data center emitted...for nearly a year... about 140 tons of nitrogen oxides, chemicals that produce smog and are linked to asthma, heart attacks, and premature death." www.democracynow.org/2026/10/2/he...

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

every day it seems like a brand new sentence is written to describe the bonkers state of the world

Urgent: Justice for Sara, a trans woman murdered in Colombia. Two suspects were arrested, but a year and a half later the case has stalled and they could be released. Join us and sign the petition by local partners. Sign & share! ➡️ allout.lgbt/4rGkeAo

Congratulations to my mother, @refracting.bsky.social, on the first review of her new book, Two Days In Mayaro, from Quill and Quire. "...an excellent and significant contribution to Jamaican and Canadian literature." quillandquire.com/review/two-d...

Really wish some of the major companies, (looking at you, Apple) would figure out that some of us will pay for alternative systems that don’t shove generative “AI” down our throats at every turn, particularly not for environmentally wasteful things like cute emojis and clever photos.