It's better than mens rea. It's willful infringement. *rubs hands*

I went to the VPL Mt Pleasant branch to see this picture of a shark in person and it was absolutely worth it

BIG NEWS for any pedestrians fuming at e-bike riders Lime have permanently banned a rider caught cycling on the pavement. City of London police says:

Well looks like it’s time to bring back a beloved oldie …

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 3y ago

GRANDFATHER: whhyyyy have yooou summoned meee from beyonnd the veil of deeaaath? ME: I wish to tell you, there is a chance Ireland may finally be reunified. GRANDFATHER: Hooww is this blessed thiinnng to haaapen? *an hour later* GRANDFATHER: ... whaaat the fuuuuck ... ME: Nope. Not finished.

Coyote vs. Acme has now grossed more than the $30 million tax write-off Warner Bros. originally shelved it for, reaching $33.84 million worldwide.

them: we need you to get with the program, be expert tech-embracers me: i have a literal PhD in something literally called Science & Technology Studies and i actually think this tech is bad them: not like that (it's almost funny to me. *almost*)

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago

The thing about the people who insist that AI will "revolutionise" my teaching in history classrooms if I would just be open-minded is that there is existing tech that I do already teach with. I use digital mapping tools to map the Black Death, annotation technology, 3D printing to build exhibits.

Absolutely amazing.

JRho@jrho.bsky.social · 2w ago

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

"Generic State is particularly proud of our traditions of doublethink, in which we tout our stated mission to make education accessible to all while simultaneously celebrating the clear financial winners of education (i.e., not English majors)." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gen...

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Let's go now to a live look at BC Conservative Party headquarters

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 3w ago

LibreOffice 26.8 is now available with a new Paragraph Composer in Writer, native OpenType variable font support, Calc improvements, and better document compatibility. linuxiac.com/libreoffice-... #OpenSource #OfficeSuite

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

Every single video clip of Dolly I’ve encountered today has made me smile. Would that we all could bring only joy.

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

good news: Lego’s quarterly results imply that Botanicals has usurped Harry Potter on their list of high performing themes No mention of HP anywhere There’s also no HP advent calendar this year, for the first time since it was introduced in 2019 It’s happening. People don’t care anymore.

The world will mourn her because she made the world better in so many ways.

Oh goddamn, Dolly Parton, that one hurts. Farewell to one of the people who never stopped making the world better every chance she saw. One of those ways, if you want to make a memorial donation: imaginationlibrary.com

‘Coyote vs. Acme’ includes a message in the film’s end credits thanking the audience for saving the film: “Dedicated to everyone who posted, shared, held up signs and spoke out when it counted. This film made it to the big screen because of you.”

Data centers create 1 permanent job per $17 million invested. Other industries create between 7-18 jobs per million dollars invested. So, eat shit, Alice.

William Lawrence@wewill2026.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is what data center developers are saying all across Michigan It's condescending and it's going over like a lead balloon.  Michiganders don't need some California billionaires telling us what to do, and we aren't buying their false promises.

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Artist Studio Notes: move the cup line two pixels up.

Davis Bickford@davis.social · 4w ago

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Artist: don’t drink that. it’s brush water.

“Carney’s official statement deserves to be read in full, slowly, with a beer, because underneath the diplomatic wallpaper it’s the most quietly savage document a G7 leader’s put out in years. It reads like a bank manager foreclosing on a bloke’s entire self-image & the bank manager is enjoying it.”

KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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I really can’t get over what a rookie mistake it is to look the Government of Canada in the eye and say “We’re gonna need you to piss off Quebec.”

boy howdy this storm

Amusement and cheering aside, I also really like the taxonomy they built here for prohibited uses: "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, [and] editing". Like a CREDiT system for bad things you can do with AI.

Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 4w ago

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

BCferries and IslandLink bus both upped fees again, feeling this today

Yuuuup. Understanding how LLMs and generative "AI" work is not some sort of secret knowledge, nor at its heart an unenduringly complex topic, and it turns out writers, who generally how to do research, are in a good position to get a bead on them.

Lauren Thoman@laurenthomanwrites.com · last mo.

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

also lol

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last mo.

A recent attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven software development, has exposed access secrets from Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, and Salesforce, among others.

lol indeed

I know Count Binface is not gonna win tomorrow, I *know* that, but lordt it would be so FUNNY

I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last mo.

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar