Hyperbolic Pair of Pants

The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.

And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.

They're slavers.

At Issue | How Carney is navigating the Iran war response YouTube video by CBC News: The National

Hebert, Coyne, and Raj all laying into Carney.

Seconding this. I enjoy NF more and more as I get older. Much as I love it, tropes in fiction get a bit more predictable over time, whereas the meat world -- holy shit -- weirder and more baffling the more you learn about it.

I'm not letting someone who can't open a pdf file tell me what to do

Menopausal hormone therapy is free in B.C. and Manitoba. Why not in the rest of Canada? Possible symptom relief for millions of Canadian women has long been financially out of reach

Menopausal hormone therapy is free in B.C. and Manitoba. Why not in the rest of Canada? by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Why are we here? We were born here. We co-evolved. We went through puberty in tandem. It's symbiotic at this point. I'm not saying that's a good thing, necessarily. It just is. 🧓💾

305 Day - our slogan is ‘Civic Pride Through Biodiversity’ and today we celebrate Miami, an incomparable city harboring manatees and other marine megafauna in its midst. Don’t take it for granted! Today we were graced by this absolute unit of a manatee!! 🤩〰️🐮〰️🌇 #305day #coralcitycamera

I keep trying to be a middle-aged woman who Does Fashion but THEY KEEP MAKING GREAT ABORTION GRAPHIC TEES, what is a bitch to do

Photographer Stoo Metz stands in front of Province House, holding their camera and a protest sign that says "Culture Is Critical"

Many thanks to Theatre Nova Scotia & NS Arts Coalition for having me in to photograph today’s protest.

These cuts hurt everyone, myself included.

Bring back 15% HST and the Bridge Tolls and "Have Some Guts and STOP THE CUTS!"

#Halifax #HaliSky #NSpoli

GET YR PUNCTUM TOTE BAGS at our booth at #AWP26 in Baltimore.

#OpenAccess books RULZ. Queer Words Are Power.

"DOUG FORD SIMP" rofl

A full year of sunset times. The number of categories is dynamically chosen for each day based on the range for that day and therefore the number of colors changes throughout the year.

Austin: When do we hit a breaking point when stuff just won't get done instead?

Me: uh.... have you... uh... seen anything the city has tried to do... uh... ever?

Upsetting flatware continued

This is a really good summary of how bad Halifax’s financial situation really is and also “how we got here” :

So now we have to choose:

1) re-prioritize, fund one thing over another

2) go without

3) raise taxes

4) raise fees

So yeah. Long term. City's fucked.

But, in good news last year we had a flat tax rate. So...

#winning

/fin

It’s no mistake that I find “authoritarian” and “totalitarian” to be useless terms but nothing shows that more than recent days. Somehow a country led by a faction actively undermining democratic safeguards wantonly blackbagging people and murdering them in the street doesn’t qualify as either.

Polymarket's CEO Shayne Coplan has repeatedly called his betting site "the future of news." Why did they pull a wager on nuclear war by 2026? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/polymarket-p...

Cuttell says maintaining the status quo doesn’t meet the needs of all the new residents who have moved here.

“We can’t leave people standing at the side of the road. It has an economic impact, it has a social impact, people can’t get to jobs. People can’t pick their kids up from daycare.”

🎻

Cuttell: “at the end of the day the financial burden is still the same regardless of whether we do this in year one year two year three or year four”

We have a significant congestion problem now.

He asked a question about vacancies, but I don’t quite get what he’s getting at.

Transit staff say there’s still some churn so there’s always gunna be a little bit of vacancy but they’ve reduced their vacancy rate down to 10% when at one point it was up near 40 or 50%

Did I hear that right?

Fillmore, Hartling, Hendsbee, Mancini, Purdy, and Young voted to kill and maim more people on HRM streets.

More money will help that evolution happen faster

Steele asks how long the vacancies have been vacant and if there’s a lot of churn?

Pitts: difficult answer but in some cases yes, many months. at one point there was a 43% vacancy in one department (Yikes) One position turned over 17 times (yikes)

Pitts: current road safety budget is about $5 million

We are the only province without photo radar and most cities in Canada use photo radar to fund road safety - so not an apples to apples comparison.

Welcome sign
Felch, MI

Young People Are Now So Unhappy That They've Changed A Fundamental Pattern Of Life So long mid-life crisis; hello youth in despair.

Jesus christ we are literally beset upon on all sides by literal and metaphorical vampires

Tldr for the first time in the history of hominids, old people have stolen the happiness of the young

www.iflscience.com/young-people...

B.C. is finally adopting permanent Daylight Saving Time | The Narwhal On Mar. 8, British Columbians will spring forward one hour for the last time — seven years after B.C. introduced legislation for permanent adoption of Daylight Saving Time

BREAKING: B.C. is finally ending twice-yearly time changes, announcing that as of this Sunday, the province will be on permanent Daylight Saving Time. Originally created to save energy, changing the clocks doesn't benefit the environment, writes @michellecyca.com: thenarwhal.ca/daylight-tim...