Ken Wilson
@therealkenwilson.bsky.social
Writer, walker, lover of native grassland. My book, Walking the Bypass: Notes On Place From the Side of the Road, is available now from University of Regina Press in Canada and New York University Press in the US. readingandwalking.ca kenwilsonwriter.ca
At least this time when the lazy bastards used AI to do their job they didn’t blow up a girls elementary school.
My conversation with NiCHE Canada's Jessica DeWitt about walking as a way to make places is now up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x9L...
NiCHE Conversations 6.13: Walking as a Placemaking Methodology with Ken Wilson
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.
I am thrilled to announce that my next book, Walking Well: Trails, Paths, Pilgrimages, is available for preorder from Wolsak and Wynn. Details and an excerpt are here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/wal...
Walking Well: Trails, Paths, Pilgrimages by Ken Wilson
The year Ken Wilson turned fifty he felt “called” to walk the Camino de Santiago, though he’d never engaged in this kind of pilgrimage before. Over the course of the Camino, Wilson uncovered both the ...
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BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll just received Trump's $5 million — plus interest. Despite Trump's repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll's legal team this week. www.ms.now/news/e-jean-...
E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump’s $5 million — plus interest
Despite the president’s repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll’s legal team this week.
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Japan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract lithium from dead batteries with 90% recovery rate. This brilliant technological leap guarantees Japan's absolute economic security.
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35. Václav Cílek, To Breathe With Birds: A Book of Landscapes
I discovered Václav Cílek’s To Breathe With Birds: A Book of Landscapes through Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, where the last essay, “Bees of the Invisible,” is mentioned. I h…
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No-one ever expects the Islamic Republic of Japan. Surprise is their chief weapon.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"
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34. Matthew Anderson, Someone Else’s Saint: How a Scottish Pilgrimage Led to Nova Scotia
I’ve written about Matthew Anderson’s Someone Else’s Saint: How a Scottish Pilgrimage Led to Nova Scotia here before (about a year ago, in fact), and as preparation for the pilgrimage conference I …
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33. Robert Twigger, Walking the Great North Line: From Stonehenge to Lindisfarne to (kind of) Discover the Mysteries of Our Ancient Past
I wish I could remember who recommended Robert Twigger’s Walking the Great North Line to me. I’d like to thank whoever it was publicly, for two reasons: I hadn’t heard of it until that person told …
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32. Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, has a straightforward thesis: the technology that goes by the name “AI”—a “marketing term,…
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So, Bezos is advocating for genocide so he can build more data centres.
RescueJen@rescuejen.bsky.social · last mo.
One of the best Dutch design principles is "forgiving infrastructure". It expects human error and provides the physical space for a minor accident to happen safely, far away from multi-ton vehicles. No one should be sentenced to death for simply falling off a bike.
Laura G Mitchell@lauragmitchell.com · 2mo agoA few seconds after I took this photo my 7yo had the worst bike crash they’ve had to date, including falling off their bike so hard they actually bounced off the street a bit. They’re scraped up & have a sore wrist, but are ok. I’m so glad to have space for kids to fall w/o worrying about drivers.
10 Reasons to Love Solar Power 1. Zero CO₂ to run 2.Infinite fuel 3.sunlight 4Cuts air pollution 5.Creates local jobs 6.Low water use 7.Price keeps dropping 8.Powers homes + grids 9. Works off-grid too 10. Energy independence Future-proof tech
The world’s first trillionaire is a sad day for humanity. That it’s an unscrupulous ketamine-fueled white supremacist hellbent on amplifying fascism across the globe, should be absolutely terrifying.
Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind. "One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing." Amazing powers of prediction.
“Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history. A recent analysis conducted at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91% of the time.”
Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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