David William

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

Upside down Guy Picciotto from Fugazi thoughtlessly damaging a basketball hoop

I wish I could enjoy this photo, but I was playing basketball at that gym the next day and missed a free throw because the hoop was slightly bent. That was the end of my NBA dreams.

Alberta regulator rejects Canada’s largest data centre | The Narwhal Lack of public consultation means project that would have consumed as much power as Edmonton won’t go ahead — for now

A rare win for the environment and people of Alberta. #abpoli #cdnpoli

*me working on the Ship of Theseus* this is going to be so great when it's finished

Husky House, by Fulfilment 10 track album

It's #BandcampFriday today, and in an act of shameless self-promotion, I'm throwing my hat in the ring. First, my current punk band Fulfilment (FFO Jawbreaker, Constantines, Wipers, Unwound).

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

I fully expected Alberta to be one of the non-signing provinces and was pleasantly surprised

Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations References used to be one of the last things journal editors checked before publishing a paper. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

Academic publishing relies a great deal on the honour system, in the sense that submitters are generally assumed not to be acting with malice when they send in an article for review.

There is no honour among thieves.

This is probably the most important part of today's #BandcampFriday

Putting aside everything else, it's remarkable that the first scene is from Minority Report, a film literally of the 'Torment Nexus warning' genre.

zeta ii reticuli analogue/digital/electric/acoustic/magnetic/binary/auditory/neurochemical

And finally, my solo electronic work under the name zeta ii reticuli. All hardware machines into a cassette 4-track (FFO early Aphex Twin and ambient/techno/whatever more generally).

giant sons giant sons. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Second, my very old Winnipeg band Giant Sons, which people still seem to dig. Instrumental indie/punk (FFO Weights and Measures, Chris Brokaw, Wooden Stars, Propagandhi).

Husky House, by Fulfilment 10 track album

It's #BandcampFriday today, and in an act of shameless self-promotion, I'm throwing my hat in the ring. First, my current punk band Fulfilment (FFO Jawbreaker, Constantines, Wipers, Unwound).

Fun note on this article, this company uses comfyUI, which boasts a collection of some of the most unethical and exploitative GenAi models.

This whole deal is Netflix normalizing the exploitation of the creative workers—whose works GenAi companies stole to train their models— they hope to replace.

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

"Claude became part of a system developed by...Palantir [which] uses machine learning to identify and prioritise targets and recommend weaponry, accounting for stockpiles and previous performance against similar targets...[,and] to evaluate legal grounds for a strike."

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

Five Underrated Death Metal Albums You Might as Well Discuss in This Job Interview Since They’re Clearly Not Going To Hire You Oh shit, this interview is not going well. As soon as this guy used the phrase “income statement”, you knew your decision to embellish your resume was coming back to bite you in the ass. In your…

Five Underrated Death Metal Albums You Might as Well Discuss in This Job Interview Since They’re Clearly Not Going To Hire You
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"Reference librarians are trying to find hallucinated articles and books, create new lesson plans with AI literacy, and educate those who are uploading licensed and copyrighted materials into training data. We are navigating AI fallout while learning alongside our faculty and students." 📚

Sad to say, it's over now
Here come the Huns

Sir that's a load-bearing often attributed

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One in four people in my city are monsters, it was ever thus

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and ousted American politician Kristi Noem

Posting for no reason at all

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war

My "the United States possesses huge amounts of ammunition" shirt is raising lots of questions already answered by my shirt.

Person riding a bicycle in Calgary on Mar 4, 2026

Calgary is a winter bicycling city
#Calgary #yycBike