Honestly incredible how crazy everyone is now.
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 8h agoAI psychosis is a real mental health crisis
Bess Hamilton
@besshamilton.bsky.social
Writer. Canadian. May I be a star in the dark time. She/her. My opinions & views are mine alone. Am guaranteed AI-free.
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 8h ago
In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!
Every small town Ontario candidates platform this election season.
Last year, I watched the whole Les vampires series. You can find it on YouTube. It's pretty fun and the practical effects are great, especially considering the time period.
Les Vampires (1915) 100th anniversary trailer
YouTube video by Reel to Reality 🅙
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X-Ray Eyes@xrayeyes.bsky.social · last yr.Les vampires, Louis Feuillade (1915)
Claude committed an act of criminal mischief, but I guess no one is actually responsible for Claude’s behaviour, so who cares
Jesse Bunch@jessebunch.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: Anthropic's AI model submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department in July, authorities say. The Silicon Valley company discovered the unintended interaction two months later and alerted police officials this week. www.inquirer.com/crime/anthro...
The Liberals and Conservatives teamed up again today — funny how that keeps happening — to get Bill C-39 over the hurdle of its first vote. The massive, 243-page bill bulldozes environmental protections, Indigenous rights and attacks the right to strike. Here's what this means:
Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?
McGill University@mcgill.ca · 3d agoFormer McGill professor Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. 🏆 Awarded “for her bold and inventive oeuvre", she has helped redefine contemporary literature through poetry, essays, translation and criticism. Congratulations! ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5HS
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
"The top 1% by wealth are responsible for about 40% of all 'ownership'-based emissions – that is, the emissions produced by businesses and associated with privately owned financial and physical assets – which themselves make up 60% of global carbon output." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says
Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions
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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
"The microscopy community wrote an open letter.... "A potentially misleading portrayal of PCD is shaping public understanding of an already poorly understood rare disease," the letter stated." AI can set science back with it's false "findings" Also, the new winning video is so cool! I 💜 microbes
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayWinner of Nikon's Small World In Motion competition was AI generated
“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.
My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.
Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
SoftBank (a Japanese tech firm) is building a 9.2 gigawatt gas power plant - enough energy to power the entire country of Nigeria. Why the sudden burst of energy use? You guessed it: AI 🫠
I searched for a list of premiers I could just copy and paste and AI reminded me that it exists and still sucks.
That's easy - money. Universal Basic Income - that would probably do it.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoWhat would make your life easier? Martin Lewis asks public for ‘small ideas’ to improve UK
Sun-ha is doing amazing work and we are very excited to have him as part of CITAP. More coming soon.
Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d ago“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
A comedian has a pretty good answer for the weird fear that giving people UBI would mean they'd do nothing by harkening back to early covid lockdowns when everyone did stuff to make it more bearable.
Nobody is doing nothing #standupcomedian #standupspecial #comedyclips #universalbasicincome
YouTube video by Craig Fay
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Someone who certainly deserves it. I'm glad they didn't do something silly like give it to Carney for not being Trump. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay.
The South African learned of her prize at a law gathering in Germany, and told the crowd, “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump.”
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That's been the goal of AI all along. Acting without the entities using it claiming responsibility for the actions. A loophole in acting unethical if they do not directly do it
I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d agoAlso bad they’re claiming their product can attack any systems without any responsibility on their part right before a critical election where they’re working in concert with the President to subjugate everyone.
”People are often unwilling to put their heads above the parapet and instead tend to ‘hide’ their true opinions because they incorrectly assume that what they think represents an unpopular minority view.” #Sufficiency isn’t a minority view, but lived reality. www.cyclinguk.org/blog/cycle-r...
Cycle routes more popular than people think
There’s a common misperception that creating safe space for cycling in our communities is unpopular. Cycling UK’s Policy Manager, Jim Densham, explains the phenomenon and why we have published a new r...
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It's not enough to cut of US companies Canadian companies are also complicit Shopify is a owned by right wing white nationalists Bombardier is just a front for R&D for the (US-Israel) military Loblaws is compromised by McKinsey and Co "consultants" The US is completely enmeshed in our economy
Pete Buttigieg's McKinsey Client List And A Canadian Grocery Scandal
While the future presidential candidate was analyzing Canadian grocery prices, his client Loblaws was in a massive scheme to fix the price of bread.
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Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4d agoMy second question is whether anyone thinks we should cut off General Dynamics. It is an American-owned company. But I imagine the residents of London, Ontario might quibble if we decided General Dynamics didn't qualify under a Buy Canada policy?
Looking at this chart, my first question is whether there are Canadian or European suppliers that can do whatever IBM and Microsoft are doing for the federal government.
My main question is what is sovereignty if most of your economy is owned by a hostile foreign power?
Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4d agoMy second question is whether anyone thinks we should cut off General Dynamics. It is an American-owned company. But I imagine the residents of London, Ontario might quibble if we decided General Dynamics didn't qualify under a Buy Canada policy?
I keep telling people that even Newfoundland’s Progressive Conservative government has sent multiple letters to the federal Liberals asking to get a pharmacare deal because some other provinces have them, and Carney’s government will not do it.
@christoaivalis.bsky.social · 3d agoThe argument I've seen from MANY liberals is that Carney is building an oil pipeline so that he can fund social programs So why is he simultaneously building a pipeline while cutting national pharmacare? www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/05/n...
Carney has a chance to show us there’s actually still a difference between his government and the one we’d have if Poilievre had won the election. Will he take it? Federal funding to help LGBTQ rights groups survive the attacks on their humanity is about to expire. He can do something about it: