"corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they're working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith."

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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They’re tired ✏️ #aftg #andreil

#zelink #リンゼル #TheLegendOfZelda #totk #botw #zelda

🤭🤭💙💚 #zelink #リンゼル #TheLegendOfZelda #totk #botw #zelda

🏹💥💚 (sorry for reposting again, but there where a few small things that the more I looked at them the more I hated them and so I wanted to fix them🥲) #totk #zelink #zelda #リンゼル

this is so funny. If AI disappeared tomorrow I'd save five minutes a day of clicking "report phishing" on slop emails, and half an hour a day of arguing with my children about why you should not "ask Chat" for eg a brownie recipe when Nigella's Domestic Goddess is RIGHT THERE

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 24h ago

I have one answer.

Toronto has discovered Biidaasige Park. Packed tonight for on the way back from Cherry. Maximum city. More of this, I think, is needed.

I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes

The Register@theregister.com · 3d ago

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

this is going to turn me into the joker

this is the problem with "protecting the children". the children lose all the benefits of social media (which are markedly more important for marginalised kids) and the adults don't get the protections. if we regulated instead, everyone would benefit.

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

Amnesty UK have apologised to JK Rowling for rightfully calling out her anti-rights rhetoric. Shame on them. A human rights organisation should not cave to pressure from billionaires, especially those who wish to make supporting human rights a terrorist offence. xoxo BASH BACK

Yep, "you can't just fire people, keep their passports, do brutality, not even a little bit" was in some anti-slavery reforms to the H2A program in 2024. Farmers were outraged at the "gov't overreach & red tape." They went hard for Trump in '24, & he repealed those farm worker regs in June 2025.

Gaius Cassius Longinus@cassius1213.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm also guessing that the farmers in question didn't want their workers to be able to quit and that they wanted the right to "discipline" them for "poor performance" however they saw fit?

1. every commit on this project is co-authored by claude 2. this renders your content unreadable to anyone using a screen reader or other assistive tech you can go fuck yourself if you even consider using this shit

The Register@theregister.com · 7d ago

Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

Would like to see this on every social media website, and I’m glad we’re calling it what it is now

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 7d ago

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

The Morning Star Rockford Illinois, 06.27.1916

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

Pouring one out for Vancouver. Guess you'll stay being more expensive than Toronto.

Peter Waldkirch 華彼德@pwaldkirch.bsky.social · last wk.

The Vancouver Villages plan was defeated. This is a huge blow to housing policy in the city. This was the easiest part of the Vancouver Plan to implement; Ken Sim directed staff to prioritize it. If we can't pass this, what's the point of any of it? All housing policy work here is in limbo.

Turning a big dial that says “PUNISH TORONTO” on it and looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Ontario rethinking support for high-speed rail after feds reject Billy Bishop expansion: source | CBC News

The federal government's rejection of a plan to allow commercial jets at Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport is threatening a wedge between the Ford government and Ottawa — and potentially strengthening op...

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As a corollary of this, they will say the bike lanes are empty whether or not this is the case because they probably don't know and definitely don't care.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode.com · last wk.

The people who complain about empty bike lanes do not want full bike lanes. They want no bike lanes.

Basic rules of society that we need to re-establish post Covid: - You actually have to stop for red lights and stop signs. - If you want to watch videos or listen to music in a shared public space, you need to use headphones. - Your pet does not need to go everywhere with you. - Don’t litter.

Not that there was really a reason to go to Tim Horton's anyway, but now here's a reason not to: They're in bed with the Queen TERF. Fuck her, fuck them, not another dime.

Tim Hortons to launch Harry Potter-themed menu, merchandise next month

Canadian customers will get a chance to order items inspired by the Harry Potter film franchise at Tim Hortons locations across Canada next month.

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If someone is concerned about the risk to pedestrians from e-bikes, e-motos, and scooters, but doesn't support taking away space from cars to build safer micro-mobility infrastructure then I would question their commitment to safety

Oh they’re not just closing the library permanently because it needed roof repairs. I guess it’s not as condemnable as the Ontario science centre.

Always incredible to see where these stickers end up.

ManBikesDog@manbikesdog.bsky.social · last wk.

@tomflood.bsky.social justice seen in the wild in Buxton, Peak District. Outside the primary school at the bottom of my road where the driving and parking around a corner and on a stupidly wide junction is really dangerous at times. It wasn’t me BTW ☹️.

That's because "firefighter" is a specific job title with specific pay and benefits. By classifying them as Resource Technicians, the province can pay them less than they'd pay a municipal firefighter. They've been fighting for years to be reclassed as firefighters with no progress.