jamesdphillips

jamesdphillips

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At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

PSAC-AFPC@psac-afpc.bsky.social

2,671 PSAC members at Parks Canada received notice this week that their positions may be cut. These cuts put our environment, natural and cultural heritage, parks, and national historic sites at risk. psacunion.ca/psac-raises-...

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🚍 THANK YOU BUS DRIVER IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🚍 If you’ve ever loved anything we’ve ever done, now is a critical time to support us. It’s $4.99 USD for bite-sized bus driving shenanigans. Want to help us reach more players? Your shift starts now! Buy TYBD: https://doublefine.com/tybd

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This crisis moment is a chance to reimagine what kind of Canada we want to build – and Canadians are ready to build big things together.

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“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits.

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🚨AMNESIA FORTNIGHT 2026 KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS LIVE 🚨  Help us keep making weird and wondrous games; 26 amazing game pitches await your votes, and in the end, one prototype will emerge victorious! The fate of THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is in your hands! 🌌 http://www.dfaf2026.com

Whatever happened to fig.co?

Double Fine@doublefine.com

🚨AMNESIA FORTNIGHT 2026 KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS LIVE 🚨  Help us keep making weird and wondrous games; 26 amazing game pitches await your votes, and in the end, one prototype will emerge victorious! The fate of THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is in your hands! 🌌 http://www.dfaf2026.com

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To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

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Double Fine@doublefine.com

It was hard enough losing Dolly yesterday. ☹️ And now, we cry a sea of black tears for our very own Doviculus: The irreplaceable Tim Curry.  May these beloved legends rest well, as we carry their spirit forward~   🩷🖤

My current view? We don’t need more skills, MCP servers, a better harness, hooks, … we need an agent jihad. Contravene the law of parsimony, encapsulation, or late-binding? A very-public very-awful fate much worse than death awaits. …and for good agents? seventy virgins await in clanker heaven.

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Ultimately I’m caught in the carefree paradox. I’m infuriated by the carelessness that is leading to endless churn on a project but caring too much is leading to immeasurable levels of irreparable brain damage.

My current view? We don’t need more skills, MCP servers, a better harness, hooks, … we need an agent jihad. Contravene the law of parsimony, encapsulation, or late-binding? A very-public very-awful fate much worse than death awaits. …and for good agents? seventy virgins await in clanker heaven.

Taking this as, ´the labs already have powerful tools of infiltration,´ and that’s the part the American government is trying to keep for themselves. Thank god for open-weight models. Generics for elemental chains.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

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Robert Caro says that power doesn't corrupt, it *reveals*. AI's still-hypothetical power already reveals which jobs decision makers don't respect or value, don't believe are worth human effort or time, and don't believe require actual human judgement. Today's example: teachers.