Mary Gillis

Sky funeral for me plz

Well isn't that convenient. Buddy, you just lost my vote.

Ew. You've tasted asparagus?

Getting really flustered during battle because my sword makes a flirty little "ooh!" sound instead of a "clang" every time it hits another sword.

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

This from 2024 is essential reporting about AI, target generation, and tempo, deadly deadly deadly tempo.

www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

the survivors who chose to follow me into the wilderness after watching me wordlessly rub two sticks together to start a fire are growing dismayed as it starts to become clear I just love rubbing stuff

I cannot stress enough how short and direct the connection is between abandoning values in favour of making deals with authoritarian regimes with awful human rights records, and now facing potential participation in an illegal and immoral war alongside Trump. This is where rationalizations get you.

The only one who could ever reach me /

Was the son of a…

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

people.com/trump-says-i...

Don’t be afraid to change! Even if it’s for the worse. Just slop around in the mud if you want. Who cares anymore

an essential thread

about cities, choices, and the future

They should make a TV show that's just more of Better Call Saul. Only it's not more seasons of Better Call Saul because the story was the correct length, and it's not rewatching Better Call Saul because it's new content, and it's not a spinoff, but it's still somehow more of Better Call Saul. Yknow?

Think of myself as a rational human being until I am presented with a tiny version of a regular-sized object. Is that a little jar of Marmite? No. That is a baby. That is little baby Marmito and I love him with my life.

OpenAI is doing the bare minimum they've calculated they need to do in order to keep the Canadian government from actually regulating them. And Canadian politicians are going along with the charade because they don't want to regulate AI, but they have to pretend they do because the public wants it.

It's not an apology if someone refuses to voluntarily change the behaviour they're apologizing for, it's PR and damage control.

Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation — Streetsblog USA The Three Tenors of Urbanism explain their latest effort: The Urban Truth Collective.

BRAND NEW: “15-minute cities are open air prisons. There’s a war on cars. Homelessness has nothing to do with housing. Wider, faster roads and highways are an improvement.

When it comes to cities, we’re inundated with lies like these.”

Our new op-ed for @usa.streetsblog.org is live! #UrbanTruth

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

WATCH: This is my favourite thing on the internet right now. Well done Norway! youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

This is the single bitchiest trailer ever made

A Shirley Jackson novel will wallop you so hard you have to sit quietly about it for a while.

[after a solid minute of the funeral director staring at us, i repeat]

…bunk coffins

[my wife doing stacked hands motion]

like…double decker

Turning off notifications on this because way too many people can't be bothered to see if someone else already posted the same reply they want to post.

Margaret Atwood on the Galloway Affair | The Walrus To think that members of a group called "women" are always right and never lie does a great disservice to accusing women and abuse survivors

I was wrong, it's based on an Atwood book too. So just the same level of eyerolling as the first series.
Except this book was written by Atwood after she published this little gem comparing a male UBC professor being accused of sexual misconduct to a witch trial and said hey, women are liars, too!

Oh. Wow. Yeah, I still don't care.

I cannot express how little I care about finding out some privileged dude's take on what it would be like to be a girl growing up in a misogynist, fascist society.

I didn't bother watching THE HANDMAID'S TALE because I thought it was incredibly eyerolling that it had a male showrunner, but hey, at least it had the female-written source material.

This one? No source material, just the same male showrunner.

One good thing about this very rainy week is that sometimes you get to see a long-haired dog who the rain has made very frizzy. Just some golden retriever ears looking positively CRIMPED