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So excited to be a part of Blueskyism! It's a marker of people value kindness and respect, above misinformation and propaganda. Vive La Résistance!
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Oh no! Please don't bankrupt the industry that is killing the planet so it can make inaccurate and often directly problematic "human-like" outputs. Why should we value the work of people who have spent countless hours, months, years of their life perfecting a craft? Go for it! Do it for all of us!
It took them a while to realize that Ice was a paramilitary force! It was obvious the minute the budget came out!
It would in much of the rest of the world. If the USA government makes it out of this crisis, they need to add a code of conduct agreement to their politicians' job description.
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I keep hoping he’s going to use it as a bait and switch for something different, like cross country water pipes.
It's not going away because it's simply a rebranding of technology. Literally everything with a sensor or computer chip has "AI". Even when it's an identical product to something that was made before AI. Given the definition, a vintage mercury thermometer has AI because it knows the temperature.
It seems to be making the argument that MLM's are actually a propaganda tool to sell "the American Dream" and the idea that poverty is a moral failure because you didn't work hard enough. I suspect it will eventually link to Trump's popularity.
Yup! Everyone is selling a lifestyle! That's why it's an MLM. I also happen to be halfway through #LittleBossesEverywhere and I'm an old-school blogger (started my first one in 2002!) So it's very much on my mind as the industry changes. bookshop.org/a/97617/9780...
There was a surge in get-rich-quick bloggers during the pandemic. It came from the "passive-income" ideology. And was primarily supported by an MLM-style scheme of people selling blogging as easy money. Like podcasting, there's little start up costs, but it takes a lot of quality work to succeed.
He's certainly given us more than our share of tariffs, which seems like a precursor to aggression. And our institutions are working to preserve as much of the academic and scientific data as possible. However, it is a very long border, with lots of different landscapes, and very cold winters.
Happy for a source of hope! Thank you for sharing! I'm Canadian, and I hope that we too can become a beacon of progress... but I honestly fear the next stage of USA fascism may involve border expansion. 😟
Does your washing machine suffer? Every week it has to clean awful things; dirty underwear, mud-stained socks, blood soaked towels. It can’t complain when you overload it, and it valiantly tries to spin an unbalanced load. Without thanks. Not once has it been thanked. 😥
So sad to not be able to attend this year. I’ve been volunteering at this conference for a long time. My favourite part of fall. 🍁📓
Add a large pinch of racism to bring out the flavors of hate. Wouldn't want them to get overwhelmed by the despair and fearmongering.
Ever wanted a list of all the various AI-related articles, research, and information so you could make an informed choice? Someone put that together... and unsurprisingly discovered that AI sucks. ai-sucks-actually.fyi
I’m now wearing my teenagers old clothing. That’s actually for both of them but the younger one only for shoes. She has big feet. I am going to be the small one in my family.
Camping with poor Internet. I can’t open the link. Commenting so I can find it later. 😉
Writing as someone who woke up this morning from a dream where Trump ordered an attack on our border. The military bombed rural Ontario and everyone was freaking out. Not the best way to start the weekend!
Not a defender of Carney. But I am genuinely afraid that economic warfare (or worse) is Trump's plan. Providing no valid excuses, clearly demonstrates to PP supporters and the world that we did all we could do. It prepares us for what is to come and allows stronger retaliation in the future.
That is impressive. I’ve been trying to get my phone to correctly spell my daughter‘s name for the past 12 years. 😂
Time for some rainbow graffiti… Under the cover of night
Well done! I secretly want to let go as well. Unfortunately, I’ve been doing this for so long I don’t have a teaching career to go back to. 😂 The Internet is a very hard place to live in. Middle schoolers may be a pain, but at least they have to do it to your face. 😉 Your takes will be missed. 🍎
Interesting. Our schools are requiring kids to leave their phones in their lockers. (Too much distraction otherwise).
Really simple instructions for how to turn off the auto AI on your web browser. I use Firefox and it does indeed work and only took a second! 🔥
I imagine the execution will be 10 people in one mostly white neighborhood. Lots of Fox News coverage for those 10 families. And no mention of the fact that it benefits very few people and most of them are nearly middle class.
Pinterest is mostly AI content these days so maybe they’re trying to prevent an internal loop of AI training off of AI? Right up until Reddit starts answering everything with AI. 😂 or maybe that’s already happened? 😳
Or it’s a company that just added AI to their profile so they could sound cool. My husband works for a startup that is building solar powered mini boats that are used for research purposes and preventing illegal fishing, etc. Their AI is an automatic boat detection and whale call detection.
I also like story graph. They create nice graphs of your reading life. showing you your preferred length of book, preferred genre, etc..
We are! Canadian authors have their own lawsuits. This ruling will help us too. The AI companies are probably terrified about the onslaught of lawsuits pending from this one. Artists, musicians, people posting videos on YouTube, online magazines, news articles. So many people were stolen from.
It also sets a precedent for everything else that was stolen. Artwork, news articles, online writing and magazines. It sets a precedent for suing all the AI companies. One lawsuit to become many.
🎶 Sound on 🎶 On August 17th, while out in Blackfish Sound with the A50s (7 Northern Resident killer whales), the seas were quiet and the whales were chatty, leading to some beautiful echoing calls on our recording. #orcas #whalesky
And my neighbour's musical "water ionizer". 😂
Indigenous author and illustrator Gord Hill is back with a timely and expanded edition of The Antifa Comic Book (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) and we sat down to chat! Check out our conversation: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/08... #CanLit #DiverseCanLit #Comics
😂 just saw my typo. And here I am... touting to be a writer!
A Canadian 👋 with a kid applying for University this fall. And we're expecting it to be hugely competitive. We can't imagine any international students choosing the US right now. It doesn't matter what reality Trump wants... the rest of the world isn't going to forget history and facts.
That sucks... like you where hired to replace yourself with AI. I'm also a blogger, and we're lawyered up... but waiting to see how these other lawsuits pan out first. However, right now all AI output is pretty generic junk, so I'm less worried about being replaced than I was 2 years ago.
I don’t think anyone realized flight attendants weren’t paid if they weren’t in the air. That is unbelievable and not something most of us would put up with in our workplaces.
I reached out to the lawyers for the Canadian lawsuits and they said there’s no need to opt all Canadian authors, whose books were trained on or automatically involved. But they were interested in having my impact statement.
I know Canadian authors have launched their own lawsuits (four separate lawsuits against 4 AIs). I assume our lawsuits means we're not part of this one. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
Our annual writing contests are on now until November 30th! prairiefire.ca/conte...
It was a brilliant move to show that Zelensky has legit support from Europe. And a great way to force Trump to either be polite or blow up relations with much of Europe. (Kind of like Canada opening this round of parliament with an address from King Charles.) We have allies and friends.
😂 My blogger group regularly shares these sorts of nutty recipe swaps.
Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
Today in @thetyee.ca, I speak with J.B. MacKinnon about suing the AI giants training their LLMs on #CanLit. "“I have yet to meet a Canadian author whose work wasn’t used in that way." thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
They are bringing the energy the world needs right now. It is not a dichotomy between right and left, but a dichotomy between the wealthy and everyone else. I doubt the strike will make news cycles elsewhere. But I hope it stands as proof of the power of the people. Together, we are unstoppable.
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I think this is true for everywhere in the world. There are a few in the BC legislature who should be removed from office because of their public statements. Racist misinformation is lying because of racism and not a matter of opinion.
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I'm in LibGen... how do I get on the class action suit?
Do all these institutions think people will forget how quickly they rolled over and gave up on their educational principles? Meanwhile, Canadian Universities are excited to hire all those unwanted Ivy League Professors. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's like being in a family or organization where the stated truth isn't reality. The boss who says they want their employees to have work-life balance while requiring tons of overtime. The "kind and loving" parent, who really isn't. It's hard to be a truth-teller when everyone else is afraid.
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It requires people with poor judgement and a willingness to pay for stuff they can’t necessarily afford. That’s why it works better on the right than the left. Hard to grift people with a high need for cognition. Everyone I’ve met on that side of the spectrum is usually hoping to get rich quick.
Gotham Writers is currently doing a survey of how writers are using AI and if you’re a writer it’s probably worth filling it out. gothamghostwriters.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Pretty sure they’re playing out a Mad Max fantasy. It’s exciting, not a call-to-action.
Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below. If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es). www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action... www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
Emotional dysregulation is rampant, especially in online spheres. Or... maybe they're jealous of your overt Canadianism? They want to be tuque owners too, but the lack the necessary canoeing skills to sneak across the border.
It's Sam Altman's job to make Chat GTP sound like a good idea. No one should take the opinion of someone trying to sell you something as a valid product review. Unless you really like spending money on snake oil. Then believe in everything you're sold.
This week the Girl Guides of Canada sent an email to all volunteers (like me!) telling us that all travel to US is suspended because not everyone is able to safely travel. I could imagine some (many) countries deciding the same thing. If everyone can't safely travel, then no one should go.
You may only eat fruit and vegetables and meat that you have plucked from the ground or killed yourself with your bare hands. Then you must use those canines and molars that God gave you to rip it apart and self-process the food by chewing.
I absolutely wouldn't have even seen the ad if the Daily Show hadn't played it while making fun of the controversy. So much free advertising over jeans/genes. Meanwhile, a lot of real shit is happening that deserves outrage. A whole football field worth of shit piled high.
Even calling it a hallucination is spin. It’s wrong, inaccurate, crap.
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
This is theft. I don’t know why anyone is pretending if AI changes just a few things. It makes it something new. Copyright piracy is copyright piracy no matter what a tech company says.
I took a screenshot from the email. I tried to find a public link, but the link is behind a member only login.
I’m a girl guide leader and it came out in the email newsletter today. Along with notes about cookie sales and getting ready for the fall meetings. Just struck me as particularly… important.
Thinking it's about tariffs is easier than acknowledging your country is no longer safe for many people. But we need you to see the truth of it. It is scary to live in a country where people are no longer safe, but you need to stop pretending that discounted hotel rates will fix the problem.
Every time an American mentions that Canadians aren't traveling to the US, they say it's because of tariffs. It's not tariffs. This recent announcement by the Girl Guides of Canada to suspend all travel to the US is about SAFETY. 😢
It's such a bad argument to say "well... he had diabetes." The logic would only work for someone who refused masks and vaccines because they didn't care about vulnerable people. But it's a pretty quick way to determine who is worth spending time with and who is too selfish to be friends.
This! Although mankeeping does have a ring to it that may indirectly make men realize they were supposed to take care of themselves. My guy friends think they don't need emotional labor. The work involved is completely invisible to them. The specifics of mankeeping may be easier for them to grasp.
I think we need to be hugely ashamed that Harper is in charge of this. A Canadian is the head of an organization aiding the election of the most the problematic governments in the world.
A Tyee article that sums up my opinion of AI though it is more focussed on US politics and Elon Musk’s plans for Mars. If you haven’t read the Tyee, I highly recommend it as an independent long form news source. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
There is something humorous about that election running out of control... and not much fun to be had in David Suzuki telling us that it's too late. 🫤
I think people are starting to realize that communication-like junk is still junk. Hard to say if that's because of AI or Trump... but there's hope for the future as people learn to identify whether something is thought or just words strung together in the right kind of order.
Oh... her picture just looked so fake. 😂 And I'm not on that platform anymore. In that case, she sounds like a teen trying to pretend they aren't jealous of not being invited to the party.
If you're also feeling salty that 5% of our GDP is going to defence and as a result, the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality's budget is being slashed, you should contact your MP and give them hell. But you should also participate in the pre-budget consultation! Link here :
What are the chances that it's an AI bot? All the right words, just not used in the right way.
An evil earworm for when you're waiting in line at the grocery store. Be careful, you'll want to sing along! 😂
As someone living in downtown Victoria... I see this first hand. The tourist traffic is way higher than normal. Lots of Alberta license plates. And it looks like the Ontario road trippers just arrived this week. We're waiting to see if Quebecers arrive next weekend. 😉
Gak, just noticed the typo. Waiting for the edit button…
This is why I’m afraid of his rhetoric on Canada and statement about not getting a trade deal with us. Fascists need someone to blame… and I fear we’ll be next. I predict we’ll be blamed for his economic failures.
Ah, your inception story!
#indieauthors #Creatives #AIPChat #UnderrepresentedWriters #writerslife
Suggests a very limited life for this project. Obviously just a whole for selfish billionaires to throw their money into.
I was on CityNews this morning talking about the Hockey Canada decision, the chilling effect and the neurobiology of trauma.
I’m also trying to focus on the fact that the news disproportionately features these people. Just think about our neighbors. Most of us are wonderful people. Not perfect, but certainly not out to destroy the world. 😂 unless you have any evil plans in the works?
I think there’s a certain proportion of the population with an antisocial personality disorder. It’s a very small proportion, but they occupy way more headspace than everyone else. I think we need to normalize talking about this antisocial behaviour as a disability rather than something to emulate
The paradox of tolerance…
Given that Trump seems to be following a 1930s style fascist playbook. I think Canadians should be quite concerned about this. Fascists need an enemy to feed their regime. Trump needs an enemy to explain the horrible inflation Americans are going to face. I fear the rhetoric will be blame Canada.
It is generally accepted that children can’t consent. Employees can’t consent. Students can’t consent. How is it that one woman in a hotel room with five men is expected to have the free ability to consent? The power imbalance was huge. And even the hockey players knew that.
I’m pretty sure most people who don’t have to travel to the US for work or family reasons won’t be travelling to the US anytime soon. And it’s not because of tariffs. It’s because we are afraid of border security.
Readers expect the first page of a novel to do some pretty heavy lifting. Today, as part of my series on editing for submission, we look at how to prep your first page to rise to the occasion: nepheletempest.substack.com/p/first-pages
There is no way that hotel room was a safe space for real consent. Even the guys knew it, which is why they made her make consent videos and followed up with her the next day about it.
I would say an unreliable testimony actually makes her more reliable than a group of men who created a perfect testimony. Anyone who has done work in memory, eyewitness, testimony, trauma, etc., knows that memory is always unreliable. Acknowledging that shouldn’t be a weakness.
Mark Carney promised “elbows up” against the US, but he’s offering a warm embrace to US tech companies and the AI hype they’ve unleashed. As Canada’s AI minister suggests AI regulation is off the table, there’s ample reason to be worried about Carney’s tech agenda. My latest for @breachmedia.ca: