Yan Basque
@yanbasque.com
Writer, artist and musician. Queer. Critic of technology. Grad student (Information Studies at McGill). (He/they) https://linktr.ee/yanbasque
Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
There should be a trillion dollar fine for hitting the moon with junk
Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 7h agoWe're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
Thanks to Charli XCX now I have a loop of David Cronenberg forever repeating in my head: "They're dead. They're gone. No one lasts forever. They're dead. They're gone. No one lasts forever. They're dead. They're gone. No one lasts forever. They're dead. They're gone. No one lasts forever..."
As soon as I saw Leland Palmer in the season 4 finale of Voyager, I knew he would turn out to be a villain.
I'm looking at a "body positivity for men" subreddit and there are literally before-and-after pics of guys who started working out and the moderators are like "that's awesome, congrats on deciding to work on yourself." Clearly, we don't have the same definition of body positivity.
I spent most of the day doing very repetitive data cleanup stuff for work and then decided to relax by playing minecraft and doing very repetitive mining activities (the way I play minecraft is ultra boring) and now I feel like my brain has been completely destroyed.
A 30-year-old episode of Star Trek Voyager made me cry. It’s embarrassing
Okay, someone please explain why this episode of Voyager made me cry (S04E25 “One”)
Yan Basque@yanbasque.com · 3d agoI love seven of nine so much!
My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 5d agoWe're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.
Please remember this the next time someone claims AI "cures cancer."
Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social · 5d agoAlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.
When the free-chatbot spigot finally gets turned off and everyone has to pony up serious $$ to keep using these things, we're gonna see a LOT of addicted journalists go through a form of delirium tremens
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 4d agoThere's quite a few content creators that I suspect are suffering from AI psychosis.
My hot take is that Joy Division and New Order are the same band and instead of pitting one against the other we should think of it as a natural progression.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
The NYT is a bigotry-laundering operation that lends credibility to the deranged lies of people whose only goal is genocide.
Trans News Network@transnews.network · 5d agoReminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:
I wanted to do something beyond my level of expertise with Excel, so I asked Reddit and got a correct answer right away from someone who was eager to help me. Also they didn't generate 12 paragraphs of bloated text in the most annoying tone imaginable, so that was a plus.
Liz Orembo argues AI risk is relational—it "does not reside in code alone." A model can pass every frontier safety test and still cause harm when deployed into different languages, institutions and social realities. That matters, in particular, for Africa.
Why the Global AI Safety Agenda Cannot See African Harms
Coordination around an incomplete definition of safety risks scaling the world's blind spots rather than reducing them, writes Liz Orembo.
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My mind is so broken by this revelation that I couldn't even finish typing Charli's name
Yan Basque@yanbasque.com · 7d ago"I think the dance floor is dead" -Charl I'm losing my mind. Charli XCX releasing a "rock" album less than a month after Madonna drops Confessions II is some kind of cosmic fuckery that I can't even process right now.
"I think the dance floor is dead" -Charl I'm losing my mind. Charli XCX releasing a "rock" album less than a month after Madonna drops Confessions II is some kind of cosmic fuckery that I can't even process right now.
Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 7d agolol, annnnnnnd there's the nail in the coffin, if there was still any doubt:
I was at a movie screening last night in Montreal and in an early scene a kid said something like “guys around here are not all fags like in Montreal” and the straight people all around me laughed way too hard at that comment. Especially because I don’t think the director intended it to be funny.
Do white people ever think, "I wonder what it would be like if every book I read or TV or film only had Black people in them?" Just constantly inundated with images of Black people, in our vastness. Probably not, but, I dare say, it would change how they view everything. Representation matters.
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"Using AI improves the overall quality of my writing." I need everybody to understand that it really, really doesn't. But I think maybe the problem is we don't have the same definition of "quality." For me, quality means authenticity, having your own voice, working through an original thought. >>
