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

youre not gonna lose your job to magic beans, you'll lose your job to someone who traded their cow for magic beans

Real baddies don’t use AI

Remember when they gave Sonic the Hedgehog human teeth and it looked like shit? Weird they thought that was a good idea when Donkey from Shrek already had human teeth years earlier and looked like shit.

New cat just dropped! First new one in a hundred years. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

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Uh, whut? Cashflow managers sure, make the argument, but they're also enormous profit-takers. They could make things easier for the "end buyer."

PD City Hall (Paul Dechene)@pdcityhall.bsky.social · 6d ago

Niebergall: Developers are just cashflow managers & the end buyer pays for everything. I'll keep beating this drum, this is a financing problem. The coopertown lift station was a good example of leadership in financing. #yqrcc

There's always a new wrinkle to this tariff business, it seems. Josh O'Kane does great work, also. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

U.S. tariffs are throwing Canadian art sales into trade-war chaos

For decades, art freely flowed across the border, but that ended once Trump began his second term

theglobeandmail.com

What does "bring your own power with you" mean, exactly? If private company Bell builds the province's biggest natural gas power plant, generating power equal to almost a fifth of the province's current maximum capacity, what kind of regulations will apply in a province with a Crown power monopoly?

I just saw the STUPIDEST AI bumper on TSN’s Rider game broadcast. Players with cartoonish grins fishing off a dock, playing banjos in a rocking chair on a front porch, etc. If I was a player I would be pissed. Surely their CBA wouldn’t allow such a thing?!?

I love my family, even as they troll my with a Shrek.

Blazed through this, as I knew I would. What a pile of absolute scumfucks that propagate this industry. Anyone who even thinks about messing around with AI or using it regularly: read something. This book is great, but you could also try…

Dan the cool genius, willing to yank a cheap grassroots effort to help redevelop an inner city neighbourhood based solely on a single email -- yet when I showed up in person with a laundry list of concerns about the Brandt/REAL deal worth tens of millions of dollars, he had not one single question.

PD City Hall (Paul Dechene)@pdcityhall.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeah… giving money to an Indigenous youth group that's supporting the development of housing in North Central is not going to get council trouble. But you know what would? Turning down an apartment complex on the airport's say-so. #yqrcc

The Economist has actually done some very good reporting on the obvious AI bubble. Which makes this op-ed so inexplicable. This Yale-educated genius seems to think using gen AI will somehow teach people to write better by example. Instead of just how to be lazy. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

This article wasn’t written by an AI. So what if it had been!

It’s great that bots can help poor writers say what they want to for a fraction of the cost of a ghostwriter, argues Ryan Jacobs

economist.com

I would love it if this town could find a second vacuous pseudo-celebrity desperate for a never-ending spotlight, please.

Surely these four inch chainsaws were only manufactured for murder, right?

I’m currently loving ‘Partially Devoured’ and VERY curious how much time elapsed between @danielkraus.com writing this bit and finding out he won the Pulitzer.

WHO THE FUCK IS HE TALKING TO? He knows the Administration and he are on the same team, right?

PD City Hall (Paul Dechene)@pdcityhall.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bezo: You're going to be faced in the next little while by this thing called "AI". When AI starts to hit & we don't have our infrastructure up to date, you're going to have more issues than what you're having right now. #yqrcc

What the fuck does that mean? The media is going to go to back for his righteous stand?

PD City Hall (Paul Dechene)@pdcityhall.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tsiklis to close: I had a humdinger to close. But I'll throw that out b/c this won't pass. I'll let this die to day & let the media do what the media does. Hopefully they're paying attention. And I'll come back w/ something palatable. #yqrcc

What an absolute baby George Tsiklis is.

PD City Hall (Paul Dechene)@pdcityhall.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tsiklis wants to know what the point is to getting the dates right when he knows it isn't going to pass. Mayor says until there's a vote, have to treat it as though it might pass. Tsiklis says, "I was trying to use common sense but I guess we're not going to do that." #yqrcc

Two obvious problems there: that they have to go into private session to talk about it, and that Council’s sock puppetiest member isn’t interested in doing it.

PD City Hall (Paul Dechene)@pdcityhall.bsky.social · 4w ago

Rashovich: As we're leasing, we'll still be able to upgrade those facility? Admin: We could go into private to discuss that. R: That's okay. #yqrcc

Literally unbelievable that a single employee “going rogue” can put together an RFP and get it posted on sasktenders with nobody noticing or questioning it. Like, it cannot be believed.

Jeremy Simes@jeremysimes.bsky.social · last mo.

Saskatchewan's marshals policing service has been ordered to pause development of a proposed tactical unit, and the community safety minister says a rogue employee is partly to blame. ca.news.yahoo.com/saskatchewan... #skpoli

One of my all time favourite pieces of media.

Canada is so crazy. It's a miracle anything gets made her!

Dog brained fucking shit heads everywhere you turn www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Robot book club

Reading books with an AI partner

axios.com

IT CANNOT BE DENIED

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · last mo.

There are so many better uses for all the money being poured into AI, but I am at a point where I think we'd be better off as a society if that cash had been invested in new flavors of chips or faster skateboards.

Catch the fuck up Canada! We can pass regulations around this shit!

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.

To comply with the EU AI Act, Anthropic will now watermark text and photos created by Claude and digitally sign files it creates to indicate they were generated by AI. So going forward text generated by Claude will be detectable as generated by AI programmatically.

What a stupid fucking world. Dobby is the worst. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Harry Potter fans force power link diversion to avoid Dobby's grave

Potter fans complained after a project manager suggested cables would go under the grave in a BBC interview.

bbc.com

Quick, someone send this to the Sask Party. techspot.com/news/113324-country-music-stars-unite-against-data-centers-spreading.html

Country music stars unite against data centers spreading across rural America

Paisley was among the first to draw attention to the issue, opposing a proposed data center in Nashville that would be located about 500 yards from the...

techspot.com

You would be shocked how much Olivia Newton-John's songs from 'Grease' sound like Nina Simone if you slow them down a bit.

Very disappointed to learn the adaptation of 'The Shards' is a Ryan Murphy joint. I have long since had it with his particular brand of nonsense.