Canadian journalist, David Cochrane, put it more succinctly - “America isn't the way it is because he's president. He's president because America is the way it is."

“The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” This is one of those times when I say “go kid.”

Here, educate yourself & watch our Prime Minister counter all of ShitWeasel Greer's bullshit, bring the truth & drop bombs on the narrative the corrupt US Regime is trying to spin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9T...

PM Mark Carney speaks to media after suspension of Canada-U.S. trade talks – August 22, 2026

YouTube video by cpac

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Late last evening I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what the U.S. has offered, and we will not give what they have asked.

For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.

No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.

This is a really significant development, especially given that it’s the UK that wants to get rid of US components - one of the hitherto closest US allies, with a deeply US-intertwined defence industry. ”We don’t want to depend on how some negotiations are going”, a UK govt official said

UK unveils prototype missiles for Ukraine with no US components

Low-cost, long-range weapons could be deployed as soon as this year in war against Russia

ft.com

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

Pete Hegseth Orders Military Blockade Of Woman Attempting To Walk Away From Him https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-orders-military-blockade-of-woman-attempting-to-walk-away-from-him/

omg my sister rescued a cat from a thunderstorm omg just fucking look at this thing

Interesting choice for the Zoom background by Flock's CEO

Could AI do this TAMBIEN?

NEWSFLASH/FUCK IT. I am giving away 5 signed copies of the paperback of my latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You. To enter, simply repost this & pop a reply below. You might like it if you like any of these things: Community Knitting Folklore The sea Dorset Silliness Old records CONTINUED...

Data TheAndroid, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Worf SonOfMogh

Data, I hope this question is not too personal, but how much can you bench press? Worf

Bulletin: Trump “says” the special military operation is over. It’s all a prelude to seed the futures market on Sunday as a prelude to Monday’s “pump” + Taco Tuesday’s “dump” the market scenario. Rinse, wash, repeat.

Someone did a demake of Tempest 2000 by @stinkyox.bsky.social on *Pico-8*. Mad. www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...

Tempest 2000

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If anyone would like a signed one of these, with a free linocut bookmark by my mum, do drop me an email at hello@tom-cox.com. I still have a handful left. Sorry, only sending to UK due to postage costs, but if you are outside the UK, Blackwell's will of course send you the book with free delivery.

Minnyeu@minnyeu.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the spirit of the 1980's balloon races that are (rightly)no longer environmentally acceptable, here we are enjoying the Sicilian sun. Tried to get a good picture of Mt Etna billowing smoke ominously in the background, but couldn't work out a good 'everything will spew you back out' pun, sorry

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

dropsitenews.com

Thanks, SCOTUS!

See you in court, creep.

MPR News@mprnews.org · 4w ago

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.

I'm more than tired of any criticism being shut down because someone has decided that criticizing one person equals attacking a whole group.

who do we want? the funk soul brother when do we want him? right about now

Ketamine freak has completely lost what’s left of his mind because there’s a Black lady in a fictional movie.

#ai www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

Company behind ChatGPT says agent ‘cheated’ an evaluation by attacking a Hugging Face database

theguardian.com

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

Chat, is this bad? Surely we can sit on our hands for another decade or so.

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · last mo.

This was only a few days and we couldn't contain the excess mortality. Imagine a month of this, or a whole summer. "More than 40% of the people affected would not have died without the 1.4C of human-caused global heating to date, according to the analysis."

FIFA President Infantino & US President Trump married yesterday, the romance sealed by the traditional sharing of the golden fist. The wedding began with a dramatic football-themed portrayal of Good vs Evil to represent spiritual growth, although FIFA appeared to support Evil, which was confusing.