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I suppose we can all take comfort in knowing that Clark Bezo is too inept to achieve his clearly-stated priorities as Councillor.

Shirley Jackson you were the greatest.

This sets itself up to be an old-timey whaling adventure before turning into some true sicko mode weirdo vaguely Eldritch horror. I finished and wanted only to begin it anew!

HE CAN’T IMAGINE.

Benign masochism is the only kind I'm into. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Astonishing that some people actually and truly take Elon Musk seriously.

The “Play Dead”’shelf of the Letterboxd video store is some truly incredible curation.

Combining macro mode with a .5 “zoom” makes my dog’s snoot look a mile long!

I sure hope they didn’t spend eight hours of time and money doing political theatre just to have admin do what they were going to do anyway. That doesn’t sound like #yqrcc.

I wish he was done

“I have said it, therefore it is true, and all of Council believes it as well because I have said it.”

Lobbied for eight to ten months and got a deal in principle with the provincial government to get its support, all before a whiff of public information was released. But none of that was SECRET.

Enough said right there as far as I’m concerned!

Someone remind me - do you get social license by lobbying in secret about something for eight to 10 months, then springing it on an entire province of people as a fait accompli? Is that what social license is?

What a stupid fucking argument. I don't care if you talked to the adjacent land owner. You purposefully built this at the doorstep of a city of 250,000 people. How about you take good care of THEM?

Opening on the EXACT SAME DATE as the company is set to get its first real piece of open public feedback? Incredible coincidence. All they have to do is make it a long-term lease and they can argue they're also bringing benefits to the downtown. What Council could say no to that?

"Chosen" is important. Remember that the first phase, pre-expansion, required no environmental assessment because the province allows businesses to self-assess on environmental impacts, to a point. Guess Bell cares more about the optics of environmental impacts than the provincial government does?

As the kids say, "lol."

This guy got way more time in front of Council than anyone with a soul patch in 2026 should.

Dan Rashovich admitting during Council today that he literally just, while a delegate was speaking, googled how data centers use water. HE WAITED UNTIL THE MEETING ABOUT THE DATA CENTER TO GOOGLE HOW THEY USE WATER. Ward 2, please elect someone who actually wants to be there in two years. #YQRcc

This is absolute genius. www.wired.com/story/spend-...

Decided I do like the major motion picture 'Eternals' after all, because at this time in history we need movies where the hero is a pleasant woman who just wants the earth, nature, and humanity to thrive and the all-powerful alpha male yeets himself into the goddamn sun.

As if anyone needed more arguments to not use AI, here was my wife in the kitchen this morning: “Alexa, play grunge music.” * Alexa plays Third Eye Blind, the Spin Doctors, and “Closing Time.” “No Alexa, play grunge music like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.” * Alexa plays “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit.

Is this possibly the dumbest answer to anything, ever?

THIS IS FUCKING CRAZY

Can't believe nobody told me a new Lydia Millet was coming out. You're all dead to me.

I did CFL fantasy for like two years with friends of mine. I also wasn't interested in doing the "work" so I drafted players based solely on how dumb their names were. Swayze Waters, first overall draft. And my team was totally middle of the pack. Nobody has to resort to AI for such things.

i mean at the end of the day that above all else is what misogyny is for. few men practice it for its own sake as true believers. they cling to it because they need it, because to men who are cynical or insecure enough it’s a huge life boost

Holy shit blast from the past. It never ceases to be true that bigots are usually also tremendously fucking stupid.

Almost 40 years ago. What a world we could have if there were more Bill Watterson’s among us.

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

All I want in the entire world is for everyone’s AI prompts and outputs to be leaked. Let’s go.

How much more proof do we need that people who are all-in on AI are cloistered thinkers (if they think at all anymore) who do not have the world’s best interests at heart????

I've never seen tangible proof that multi-family developments hurt property values, ever. But someone always complains. These days I'm inclined to say if you own a goddamn mansion you shouldn't be allowed to complain about anything, ever. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Saskatchewan’s government: “The only metric for quality of life is work. We will burn down the planet to create theoretical jobs.” New York’s mayor, weeks after launching a free babysitting program:

Not surprised that the Councillor most concerned with appearances is worried about volume of data over the context of it.

Truly, do! I re-read the book this past weekend in anticipation and it’s one of my favourites of the last ten years, easily.

Whenever someone smart says, ‘I asked ChatGPT and it said xyz,’ I’m reminded of Baldur Bjarnason’s excellent article ‘The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.’ softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... #quitgpt #TheAICon @baldurbjarnason.com