RexLibris
@rexlibris.bsky.social
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read.
I have never used an "AI" product to perform any part of my job, which is entirely focused on information retrieval, reference, interpretation, updating and organization. This includes creating training documentation, emails, 3D model manipulation, records management, on and on and on.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 7h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Bay Area Children Set Up Adrenochrome Stand On Side Of Road https://theonion.com/bay-area-children-set-up-adrenochrome-stand-on-side-of-road/
Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
Foreign leaders can be so difficult when you kill their families and launch surprise attacks on their countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders
Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.
nytimes.com
"Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides’ Calgary-Bow riding received three times more contributions in 2025 compared to the previous year. And most of that money can be traced back to private school operators and childcare companies." theijf.org/brief/privat...
Private school, childcare companies top donors to Alberta education minister’s constituency association
The Calgary-Bow constituency association got three times more contributions in 2025 versus 2024
theijf.org
The largest funeral in Gaza history is being held today as the remains of 112 people from a single clan are laid to rest after being buried in rubble for three years. More than 300 people were killed in the strike by Israel, including 44 children and 37 women. The others were vaporized.
Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes
Remains recovered from beneath the rubble renew grief for families still searching for thousands missing in Gaza
middleeasteye.net
OMG imagine "slave" having different meanings than the ones you understand! It's the anglicized spelling of an Indigenous word! The Slavey people have nothing to do with the practice of slavery and the naming of Great Slave Lake and Lesser Slave Lake are for them, not indentured people.
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Does anyone else think that the problem is that this group is organized enough to have a board from which he could resign? These people are walking /just this side/ of domestic terror laws and they have damned board meetings.
Canadian Anti-Hate Network@antihate.ca · yesterdayA co-founder of Dominion Society of Canada, a group promoting "remigration," has quit. Greg Wycliffe resigned from its board on July 30 after photos and posts revealed his past work at a Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ radio station and participation in Pride events. www.antihate.ca/dominion_soc...
The right-wing pre-occupation with "camps" goes back decades. They imagined themselves being rounded up and herded under all manner of circumstances. Telling, I think, then that when their ideal President came to power they lost no time in doing to other precisely what they feared most.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
I don't know that anyone outside the US could make a joke about 9/11 as crass and clumsy as anything an American might do in earnest. This is the sort of thing one would expect from a Borat film.
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 21h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
When you catcall but your mouth is full of crackers.
Uncle Duke@uncleduke1969.bsky.social · yesterdaysomebody seems to be trying real hard to get Gurt’s attention
"Kodak’s board never voted to lose. It voted, again and again, to protect the business it understood, using numbers that were accurate every single quarter until they weren’t." Best case I've read yet for investing in a national grid, rather than a pipeline. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Is the energy transition Canada’s Kodak moment?
Billions being spent on a globally decreasing product but governments failing to acknowledge that and plan better for the future.
calgaryherald.com
You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h ago“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Ray Bradbury’s 1950 story, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, starts with a household AI reminding its owners of their appointments. But nobody is listening; they have all been killed in a nuclear war.
This is one of the reasons why I have described the separatist mindset as that of a man threatening divorce while demanding that his wife continue to live in the house, cook and clean for him - it is a juvenile and insulting demand for every exploitative benefit without any responsibility.
Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social · yesterdayIf it separates, Alberta would have to reckon with fact that nearly all the oil it exports to US gets shipped through other Canadian provinces. By me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24h agoIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
Edmonton, despite its deep river valley and relative altitude, is built in and around swamps, peatlands and drainage basins. Some of that is what made it such an excellent site for farmland but we have been draining and building over these drainage basins for a century.
Conrad Nobert@conradnobert.bsky.social · yesterday"To open up the culvert, open up the creek, bring it back up to daylight, connect it with the river and have an opportunity for fish habitat, for birds, for walking paths." - @michaeljanz.bsky.social Let's daylight Mill Creek! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
really good news for New York and beyond — mega-MAGA donor, who has bankrolled NYC & NYS right wing pols & agendas, and is credited for giving Trump the obscene NATO-wrecking idea to buy Greenland, Lauder has lost a ton of family money & shut down political spending: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/n...
Ronald Lauder, a Billionaire G.O.P. Backer, Closes His Wallet
Ronald S. Lauder, a major funder of conservative political causes, has not given a single dollar this year to Republicans in his home state, and his super PAC has gone idle.
nytimes.com
The only debate in America should center on different views over the *implementation* of liberal democracy. Not whether we will *have* liberal democracy. Republicans are now fundamentally opposed to it, preferring instead a fascist theocracy. So yes, Oliver is correct.
Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · yesterdayi think the only really legitimate policy debate in america is between the far left and center left. i do not recognize conservative policy as a legit alternative.
"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
Re-living the "Spanish Influenza" experience, this time with fast food health reporting.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterdayI would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
