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"...an advanced breed of monkey on a minor planet of a very average star." - Stephen Hawking

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It’s official! We’re springing forward just one more time, and then we’re adopting permanent daylight savings time in BC. 🕰️

That means more sunshine and better sleep for people across our province.

03.03.2026 00:53 👍 170 🔁 31 💬 31 📌 21

"But it’s not better than nothing. It’s worse than nothing. The face Grok produced isn’t a face it found under the mask. It’s a face it made up."

It's soooo important people realize this tech is not what they see on crime shows, where blurry footage can be "fixed" with the touch of a button.

12.02.2026 19:15 👍 238 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 0

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

11.02.2026 19:56 👍 12085 🔁 4186 💬 86 📌 190
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We can’t always prevent the worst, but we can decide who we are when it happens. #tumblerridge

11.02.2026 09:37 👍 286 🔁 99 💬 11 📌 8
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

10.02.2026 20:18 👍 31327 🔁 13771 💬 972 📌 1689
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Controversial Kamloops Mayor Loses ‘Unbelievable’ Court Ruling | The Tyee Citing the need to protect political speech, a judge threw out Reid Hamer-Jackson’s defamation lawsuit against a council opponent.

B.C. Justice Jacqueline Hughes has dismissed Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s defamation lawsuit against Coun. Katie Neustaeter.

At the heart of the suit were comments Neustaeter made alleging the mayor had violated “personal and professional boundaries.” @tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

06.02.2026 15:52 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 👍 97505 🔁 40888 💬 4302 📌 5362
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

28.01.2026 01:51 👍 25426 🔁 6951 💬 7 📌 155
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES YouTube video by Billy Bragg

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

26.01.2026 22:42 👍 5871 🔁 2411 💬 204 📌 399
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You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.

In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

23.01.2026 02:57 👍 10488 🔁 3665 💬 124 📌 350
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GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

We love to see it!

Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️

github.com/zoicware/Rem...

12.01.2026 18:48 👍 952 🔁 410 💬 9 📌 15
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Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.

Seems like the companies pushing this tech are not being strictly v honest with anyone about how it works.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

19.01.2026 15:08 👍 264 🔁 102 💬 6 📌 21
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Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow

10.01.2026 12:52 👍 195 🔁 67 💬 3 📌 19
Donald Trump likes his oil like his politicians... crude! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Donald Trump likes his oil like his politicians... crude! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes YouTube video by 22 Minutes

youtu.be/FaPOV564YWA?...

07.01.2026 22:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information Misinformation from the Trump administration is cited as fuelling Canadians’ concerns over childhood vaccinations

Canadian officials are correct, and it’s truly a tragedy.

05.01.2026 04:51 👍 1561 🔁 541 💬 25 📌 29
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Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

18.07.2025 16:17 👍 5347 🔁 2354 💬 113 📌 251

In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine

31.12.2025 23:41 👍 2846 🔁 1501 💬 1 📌 15
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No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog Mozilla's pivot to AI-first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. While ML tools like local translation offer real utility, LLMs are opaque black boxes. Waterfox won't ...

Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇

www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-h...

16.12.2025 22:09 👍 1493 🔁 635 💬 53 📌 107
I was wrong about AI...
I was wrong about AI... YouTube video by Jazza

youtu.be/zhMp62XETj0?...

29.12.2025 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

my new year's resolution is to never touch a game with genAI assets if I can help it

27.12.2025 17:20 👍 119 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
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Inside CECOT - 60 Minutes : Sharyn Alfonsi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Inside CECOT segment on 60 Minutes—which was pulled from the U.S. broadcast schedule just hours before airing on December 22, 2025, but subsequently...

archive.org/details/aqni...

23.12.2025 19:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colbert's Canceled Christmas: The Last Noel
Colbert's Canceled Christmas: The Last Noel YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be/XkEy_IttHKE?...

19.12.2025 18:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

19.12.2025 02:36 👍 6077 🔁 1713 💬 50 📌 12

Now I'm gonna tag "GenAI" games even harder!

30.11.2025 23:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?

"AI and machine learning may in fact transform the world, but there's no reason to assume that the transformation will be a good thing unless we actively try to make it a good thing. So far, tech companies have given no indication that they care about anything besides the pursuit of profit."

28.11.2025 23:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All Corporations Are Bad

25.11.2025 22:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are a handful of Steam Curators that I follow that kind of do that. "AI Check", "A.I. Police", and some others
I've also been tagging any games I find with my own "GenAI" tag, but can't filter by custom tags - unless other users tag it as well. Apparently, then it becomes a "real" tag.

24.11.2025 22:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ “We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”

Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’

24.11.2025 18:30 👍 1397 🔁 375 💬 25 📌 139
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It Should Be Illegal To Use AI To Deceive People Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

It Should Be Illegal To Use AI To Deceive People

AI products which deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/it-should-...

24.11.2025 00:12 👍 134 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 4
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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

22.11.2025 17:12 👍 1279 🔁 527 💬 22 📌 103