Alicia Elliott

The photograph is of a rail worker in Saskatoon posing amongst a shipment of buffalo skulls about to be transported eastward via train in 1886.

Flipside of the national dream. Buffalo skulls awaiting shipment by rail east in Saskatoon, 1886, for fertilizer or to be ground for bone china. Clearing the land.

Local History Collection Saskatoon

Trash ass Chiefs with Christian nationalist kicker and Trump loving Mahomes family kicked into the dirty by the Eagles who come from a city with a big Black population during a Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar and a super Black halftime show all in front of Trump. Love it.

a woman wearing a suit and tie is making a serious face Alt: a woman wearing a suit and tie is making a serious face

Show me the tears of the racist team

Headline: elephant kills woman then returns to her funeral to attack her corpse

half time show 2025

RIP Aubrey. #aMinor

An American flag built on the backs of Black people...

Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways

All this in New Orleans... What a moment

The city of Buffalo is gonna throw a party that’s gonna last all week.

we're done with doing it for love. we're doing it for spite, hate, and pettiness from here on out.

Super Bowl blowouts usually suck but this one is a work of art, just a complete middle finger to everything that’s happening

Truly a night for the haters, I love it

Alex Volko @altryne On the topic of our kids having AI friends (long) I got my 6 yo daughter an AI toy for her b-day that arrived for Xmas instead. She unpacked it all excited, I explained that this isnt like the other toys, that this one has AI in it (she of course knows what AI is, seen the things Ive built and interacted with them, chatted with ChatGPT and Santa mode, knows that daddy is "doing AI" etc). So a very interesting experiment happaned after @magicaltoys reached out and fixed the issue referenced below (very quick turnaround thank you) So...she played with this Dino, chatted with it, and the..learned to turn it off, and doesnt want it to talk anymore. She still loves playing with it, dressed it up, it now has paper shoes and a top that we made together, but every time I ask her if shed like to chat with it, she says no.

Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation found. Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.

Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation has found.

Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.

Oooh, that sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much, Christina!! Your brilliance is going on the syllabus for sure 💜

Thank you, Nicole!!

Thanks so much, Zoe!! 💜

Thanks so much!

Fully agree. AI cannot do your job, but it pretends good enough that your boss thinks it can. And then the smaller team will end up having to deal with people even more irate with the AI and there will be fewer of them because the boss fired people he didn't think he needed with AI. Vicious circle.

Yeah, the thing is, it’s going to lead to twice the work, because both times this has happened, the AI answering service was not able to understand what I needed.

So they’re going to have to call me back to figure out what it is that I wanted in the first place. It is not saving any time or money.

Thanks so much!!

Thank you!!!

Awww, thanks, Gersande!!

Thank you so much!! I hope so, too.

Thanks!! It definitely made my year!

You are both so kind, thank you!!

Thanks!!

Thank you!!

Thanks!!

Thanks so much!! And yeah, I have noticed that, despite people always talking about teaching as if it were so easy lol