Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
AI slop or not,
For the record, when I say "Death to America" I'm talking about the America that put a pedophile in the oval office. If that's not you, don't be mad. I hold that Bluesky is forever palpably worse since telling people to off themselves is against TOS.
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view profile on Bluesky Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
AI slop or not,
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Well that just doesn't make sense. Who wouldn't be ecstatic mowing lawns for Donald Trump? Not to mention this is the work required to Make America Great.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
It might *literally* cure your retardation
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
*Points and laughs at America* Hey, you know what you should do next? A giant, framed photo of Trump in every K-12 classroom! Khomeini Style!!!
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
The Sin of Empathy but its for Rudy Giuliani
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
These are the most terrible, tasteless, aroma-free, extremely overpriced organic tomatoes I have ever bought.
PsyPost (@psypost.bsky.social) reposted
Online hate speech mirrors language in Cluster B personality disorder forums
Sung Kim (@sungkim.bsky.social) reposted
The author of this paper recently secured $2.5 million in venture funding while promoting herself as a literal badass and future MMA fighter MIRROR: Cognitive Inner Monologue Between Conversational Turns for Persistent Reflection and Reasoning in Conversational LLMs Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.00430
Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) reposted
You will hear professional racists imply that Haiti is an example of (and clearly they mean something else when they say this…) anti-imperialism being Bad, and that Haiti would have been better off not freed, when clearly the horror it experiences now is an obvious example of a) why imperialism is…
Andrea DeKeseredy (@andiewinnipeg.bsky.social) reposted
In honour of Labour Day, here is our piece on why Canadian employers removing remote work policies are a huge mistake. Remote works!
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
He has bad judgment in general if he thinks this is in Canada's interests. Heck he has bad judgment if he thinks positioning for any of that is in *his* own interests. 😕
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
That's just crazy.
Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 (@bill-comeau.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I will point out that the current leader of the Canadian conservative party, Pierre Poilievre, actively sought the firing of the Bank of Canada head, in a dangerous Erdogan-like attempt to force lower interest rates. financialpost.com/news/economy...
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Ed is all pathos all the time.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Yeah, it's downright tyrannical and hostile. This is without exaggeration an underhanded, undeclared war on civil society and the rule of law.
The Shovel (@theshovel.bsky.social) reposted
Migrants to Australia have displayed an inability to assimilate with local values and refuse to speak anything but their native tongue, a study covering the last 237 years has found.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
What you've always been.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
Why do women put up pictures of themselves giving the middle finger to the camera on dating apps? If I put up a picture of me holding a sign that reads "You are a whore" is that supposed to get me more matches? I don't understand modern dating and relationships.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
>YouTube algorithm showing me that ONE video I actually *would* like to see at 3:04AM after a late night of coding where I actually am tired and just want to go to bed Goddamn it YouTube!!!
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
That's ffmpReg, this one is totally different but some guys are apparently into it
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
And let's be real the establishment Democratic/Liberal Left and the "maverick" Republican/Conservative Right are all just a bunch of shit-eating *glowies* trying to shoehorn people to support super-straight bombs or LGBTQ+ bombs. Am I hitting close to home here?
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
I mean that's what all the alt-right / far-right algorithm pipeline is, right? Just there to lead a bunch of people into becoming soldiers to go fight somewhere on behalf of billionaires somewhere else, right? Which is also what we did in Vietnam, right??
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
...and guys who are cisgender who feel inferior about their masculinity want to reshape society so they can live out their war fantasies? I mean, yes, right? That's what this is. War is good for business, and as long as it's someone else dying somewhere who really gives a shit, right?
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Because some general somewhere understands that trans people can't fight (or won't, because they know what kind of a shitty imperialist system puts them up to that sort of thing), and...
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
Do you guys think the reason why there's all this anti-trans furor is because there's a geopolitical need to mould society into a caste of soldiers and commanders because there's wars to be fought around the corner?
gencab for cutie (@babadooknukem.bsky.social) reposted
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Johannes Fahrenfort (@fahrenfort.bsky.social) reposted
What have the Romans ever done for us? Brilliant Picard version. youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Wow those benchmarks 😯
Sung Kim (@sungkim.bsky.social) reposted
StepFun released Step-Audio 2 mini - an open-weight LALM. - Free alternative to expensive GPT Realtime API - End-to-end speech I/O - Advanced speech & audio understanding - Expressive prosody control - Intelligent speech conversation - Web search support
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Does it sort of mesh with the left being more exploratory and open while the right is concerned with certainty, definite answers, or absolute order? Idunno is that pop psychology, thinking styles mapping to political outlooks? Probably a little pop-y..
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Pretty much. If you make a really ostentatious public display of it too and start arguments with people about it that's a really strong signal
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Meanwhile I'm here creating AI agents like a scrub..
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
>12-year-old Chinese lemonade stand tycoon Xiao Leifang has created new model with 80% of the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT 4.1
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
yooo I ain't readin all that
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
>Men being used as pawns actually believe they are receiving 500 million dollars for keeps and Trump is good for his word despite all evidence to the contrary
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
I reckon in the sense that if you can put it in the stock market and get a better return, it's not an ideal investment?
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
100% positive Sophia is giggling to herself using this term in private already
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
I'm literally having so much fun I'm worried the government will come after me and ruin it if I tell the public.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
We are going places!
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Sorry that's actually too mean to Ben :| I didn't mean to single him out specifically I'm just trying to crack a joke 🤷🏻♂️
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
And then it just floods all socials with grifter-algo bullshit like "AGI DESTROOOOYYYS lousy human wankers" and it's a robotic Ben Shapiro in the thumbnail
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Plot twist: the AI comes up with a slur for us as gooey biological intelligences and it's "Wanker"
brendan chambers (@societyoftrees.bsky.social) reposted
Great overview of concepts in parallelism for training large models blog.ezyang.com/2025/08/the-...
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
I gotta watch out for this one for real..
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
That's crazy - I had thought people working menial or less prestigious jobs wouldn't have to deal with this kind of grinding stress but now even judges of the law don't get a break from these insane systems.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
"Attention is All You Need" was an absolute trip of a research paper title to read, I'll tell ya..
Leah✨ (@technicleah.bsky.social) reposted
Trying to deport children, without their parents, without due process, and LYING in court that you’re sending them back *to* their parents, and using reunification as a means to nullify their legal protections, under cover of Labor Day Weekend… layer on layer of VILE. Thank goodness for good judges.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Man if Anthony Bourdain ran a tech company he'd have wiped the floor with all of us
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Amazing man.
The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) reposted
“Bourdain freely acknowledged that part of the reason he continued to work at such a frantic pace might have been a fear about where his mind might go if he ever sat still,” Patrick Radden Keefe wrote, in 2018.
Philo of Alexan (@philoof.bsky.social) reposted
Grill like an Egyptian
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
The hollow cheese slices, this griller was not joking around
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
I understand, I wasn't talking about this case, I don't want to conflate the two. But I think if someone breaks into your house at night and could potentially kill you, it just seems common sense to be able to defend yourself - the truth is not everyone out there is harmless and innocent.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Sadly there's actually too much truth to this
Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* (@honestcanadian.bsky.social) reposted
We have known for a while that beavers build habitats that benefit wildlife and people, now we see they are also helping to reduce the spread of wildfires and the lush area around ponds provide sanctuary during fires. ❤️🦫 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Completely unironically, we should have more laws protecting their welfare to be honest. The more red tape there is for lawmakers to try to mess with nature the better. Let the beavers do their magic. They might not be able to speak but they're trying to help us and we should help them.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
To be honest if a stranger breaks into our homes in the middle of the night it seems to make a lot more sense to say we do have the right to shoot first and ask questions later.
MPWERED (@kelvin1.bsky.social) reposted
'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
We need to get those Alberta numbers to 100%, honestly - and not in the sense of nuking all the other provinces except Alberta you know what I mean
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Mr. Prime Minister it has been 24 days since your last update, can your administration please at least outsource the handling of your account to the same woman who runs Gavin Newsom's X account
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
"What radicalized you"
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
Fascism is bad but have you ever had the shell stubbornly stick to your boiled egg and then little chunks of the egg flesh also peel off and you get this gross ugly misshapen thing and have to scrape the cooked whites off the little shards of eggshell and nibble on it like you're a chipmunk
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Kind of by a hair though honestly, we're not doing so hot - like 45% of people think a Prime Ministership under Pierre is going to be "just fine!"
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
This is gonna be like blasphemy to Fallout fans but I never really got into New Vegas that much so I don't really know what I'll be feeling about Fallout Prime Season 2
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Yeah they really shoot themselves in the foot with some of those things
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Our Atlas Shrugged moment
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
The percentage of white bread on store shelves 30 years ago was 90%! Now all this disgusting brown whole wheat is here trying to create the abominations like marbled rye!! Make The Bread Aisle Great Again! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Surely the gayest bread is the baguette.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
Fellas is it gay to butter and blueberry jam a piping hot fresh slice of sourdough? Is sourdough starter... gay??
mrscsmacdonald.bsky.social (@mrscsmacdonald.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
“The Canadian federal government provided a total of $1.7 billion in funding in April 2020 to AB, SK and BC to help with the cleanup of inactive and orphan oil and gas wells and the broader oil and gas industry, with Alberta receiving the largest share, $1 billion.” Nothing done.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
She's just unironically paving national weakness for a US takeover, right?
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Every day you Americans and we Iranians have more and more in common 🤗
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
The books old white men wrote are now banned because warnings against tyranny and sociopaths is Woke. Saving the white race by spitting on all its best authors, 'murica
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Actually they should be forced to take the vaccine and if it doesn't give them myocarditis *then* they should be shot.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Can't we just lift weights and combat train instead? I'd rather be as close to deadly as I'm gonna get if an invasion is going to happen 🤔
Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* (@honestcanadian.bsky.social) reposted
A 62% drop is great, but not enough. Who in Canada is still buying it? Geez people we had one job and it is an important one. And what is with the UK - 16% and Germany - 10%? They may have agreements, but those agreements are attempts to screw them. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
I'm not even kidding if this was his platform I'd dump the Libs and whoever else in a heartbeat
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
I'd be willing to vote for Pierre if he takes all the social conservatives and all the corporate welfare queens and scoops them all up into an OceanGate submarine for a trip to the deepest depths of the ocean. And he deports Harper to Micronesia
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
They have leeches to supercharge your mitochondria though, and invigorating swims in sewage streams!
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
They actually banned the Handmaid's Tale??
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
Banning Handmaid's Tale is straight up fucking insane, lmao. When the shit hits the fan at the very tail end of this road I will not be moving a goddamn finger to help one fucking soul here - good luck to you all.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Mandatory! Ayn Rand!! Alberta confirmed bizarre torture chamber social experiment Next they're gonna make them read the Honey Boo Boo autobiography or something.. though even that would be far more worthy
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
Cruel and unusual punishment even by Canadian standards
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
What did I just read 😂
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca)
Couldn't stop it in that church either
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
I get it, and I appreciate pragmatism more too now as I've aged, but that's a thorny road to go down and it's a compromise we were never taught we should take, and they sort of set up our and other entire generations to fail through all this guile and.. well, not all of us have infinite patience
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Honestly 10-20 years for ROI is overpriced unless you have extra disposable income because AFAIK these panels degrade over time and produce less electricity, plus 20 years is a long time for accidents to happen. Solar companies can do better than this IMHO.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
I get your point though at least leftists err on the side of empathy and all 🙃
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
I sort of disagree, a throng of zealous leftists are as pliable and can be roused to a similar kind of wrath that can harm people. Sort of like how all these morons like Obama despite the drone strikes and all the other rotten shit he did just because he was well-spoken or whatever.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Under authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, the welfare of the subjects is not material to the authorities at all. Fascism is not an exception. In such regimes the government is not meant to serve you, it's meant to serve a tiny narrow few who pull the strings.
Barzin (@barzin.sanctus.ca) reply parent
Terminally online leftists are as bad as the chuds tbh.