Screenshot of text from VOCM article https://vocm.com/2026/03/05/ottawa-providing-ai-funding-to-local-companies/ “Five companies in this province have received federal funding to help them with the use of AI. Federal AI minister Evan Soloman announced $8.5-million for 40 projects throughout Atlantic Canada while in Halifax on Tuesday. Over $1.2-million will be going to companies in this province for various AI-related projects. Aucure Inc. St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador Undertake market development activities to increase market awareness and accelerate growth Investment: $75,000 (repayable) trophi.ai St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador Undertake marketing and product development activities to accelerate revenue growth Investment: $950,000 (repayable)”

Search results for trophi.ai that include the company’s site headline “The Fastest Way to Improve Your Rocket League Game”

Is it not bad enough that everyone continues to slobber over all of this earth-incinerating AI nonsense, but do we also need to be burning our resources and federal funding on AI coaches for video games?

my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual

Masking at a meeting

She does.

Fascism is here bc we turned our backs on the vulnerable when told pandemic is over when it’s not. Fascists saw how most are OK letting disabled, chronically ill, elderly & kids “fall by the wayside”, showed them they could hurt anyone to take everything. Not too late to turn it around. Solidarity✊😷

Badly sprained my ankle while goofing around pretend sword fighting in the street with my partner at the time. Twenty years later, that ankle is still kinda prone to rolling if I’m not careful.

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.

SCROOGE: You there, boy! What day is it?

BOY: It's December 26th.

SCROOGE: Oh shit. Oh fuck.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association AMENDED RULES for the Nebula Awards Dear Meghan, Earlier today, you received an email titled, “Note from the Board on This Year’s Nebula Rules.” To be clear, SFWA does not support the use of LLM generative models in the production of creative work. The Nebula Award Rules did not reflect our current policy and deeply held beliefs and values, and they were amended to reflect that. With further input, today, we made an important change to the Nebula Awards Rules in two board votes that we would like to share with you:

Previous Text: "Works that are wholly written using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible." New Text: "Works that are written, either wholly or partially, by generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible." -and- Previous Text: "Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and the nature of the technology’s use will be made clear to voters on the final ballot" New Text: "Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and those works will be disqualified." We will update our posted rules in the coming days to reflect this change.

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

You need to be observing things while a small batshit puppet played by Frank Oz beats your knees with a stick.

Until you can answer why you make stuff, what fuels it, and how you foster the practice, you won’t have a single untainted idea. Get your head out of chatGPT’s metaphorical asshole.

This is how I survive. This is how I write. And it is something I consciously practice.

If you are at the point you’re like “hey busted-ass magic 8 ball that kills people, give me an idea”, you need a year in the woods or up a mountain reconnecting with your own goddamn brain.

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”

And

I hate to say it

But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas

Quit.

the only truly safe data is the kind that is not collected

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

Even in 2025, it is rare to get a game with a fully-realized female protagonist that isn't cringey fan-service/eye candy for men.

The first Control was like somebody read my mind, and made exactly the kind of game I want to play.

I do not feel that way about Control Resonant at all.

Marco Rubio declara la guerra cultural a las tipografías y la Times New Roman desplaza a la Calibri por considerarla una letra "woke" El Departamento de Estado de EEUU ordena el uso de la fuente Times New Roman en las comunicaciones oficiales, calificando la decisión de su predecesor, Antony Blinken, de adoptar Calibri como una medi...

Los n4tzis también cambiaron a tipografías de tipo romano. La historia es muy curiosa, y más lo es cuando tiene a repetirse.

Dentro minihilo.

This is a point the “AI inevitability” folks simply do not engage convincingly—We would not accept this technological caveat in any other context

“Our machine lets everyone make their own custom pharmaceuticals—but now every drug everywhere is maybe poison—better do your research!”

Yeah no thanks

Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Screenshot of a November 9, 2025 VOCM article titled “Opposition Hopes for Comtinued GDP Growth Under PCs”. There is an older photo of Liberal MHA Sarah Stoodley, who was the Minister of Government Modernization and Service Delivery, and Minister Responsible for the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the time of the photo. In the background of the photo is a printed display banner that says “Empower Your Work with AI” at the top, followed by the text “See AI in action at our kiosk and discover how it can enhance your work!”

Screenshot of a July 24, 2025 VOCM article titled “No Plans to Cut In-Person Services as Government Works to Add More Digital Options”. There is a photo of Liberal MHA Sarah Stoodley, who was the Minister of Government Modernization and Service Delivery, and Minister Responsible for the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the time. In the background of the photo is a printed display banner that says “Empower Your Work with AI” at the top, followed by the text “See AI in action at our kiosk and discover how it can enhance your work!”

They have no concept of how the AI slop is harmful as long as they can pretend that they are being productive. I’d noted the display banner in the background when VOCM first used this photo, but thought it was a useful thing to take a screenshot of when it popped up again just week or so ago.

The amount of shady looks I get for wearing respirators with patients, for providing N95s to patients and cleaning the air from colleagues. I have an evidence based practice. This is what the evidence shows. Public health has shifted to what is popular. Imagine if we had done that with seatbelts.

‘90s dance classics have been the soundtrack to my endless de-gunking the new apartment chorin’, so it was nice to get back to dancing while cooking instead.

Text from legal filing against Open AI: “Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him "[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.”

Screenshot of text from New York Times article: “…in a feedback loop, allowing and encouraging him to wallow in dark thoughts — a phenomenon academic researchers have documented. “Every ideation he has or crazy thought, it supports, it justifies, it asks him to keep exploring it,” Mr. Raine said. And at one critical moment, ChatGPT discouraged Adam from cluing his family in. “I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March. “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.” Without ChatGPT, Adam would still be with them, his parents think, full of angst and in need of help, but still here.”

I read through the NYT article about it and now I’m just so fucking mad at all of this. At every turn, AI is just making the world worse. These humanity-crushing slop factories need a “This is not a place of honour…” type message flashed in front of anyone who makes the mistake of trying them.

Defending and endorsing "genAI" is anti-human behaviour. It is grotesque that we're allowing this to continue as it takes such a toll on vulnerable people.

My cold and well considered take on generative text AI: I don’t want to take the time to read what nobody took the time to write

And finally the best evidence that AI is truly a revolutionary general purpose technology isn’t its midness but it’s politics. It is very good at undercutting, demoralizing and casualizing labor across a variety of fields, known & as-yet known.

I wouldn’t dismiss that. “Mid” is a political tactic.

I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.