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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · May 29

A brief thread on the interference with humanitarian aid to conflict zones.

Interfering with the ability of people trapped in conflict zones, to access food or healthcare,

is
a
crime
against
humanity

under the Rome Statute. This applies to anyone, acting from anywhere.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 42m

what's the programme

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1h

Me calling Edward Said not to report that someone did an Orientalism but to invite him to a concert by his favorite composer JS Bach, because I'd never reduce his complex relationship to European high culture to just 'critique'

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 47m

Thanks that was great, it's never actually obvious but it's often worth it, this is about identifying infrastructure of longstanding value and investing when it's needed. And being flexible about who does what, perhaps?

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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 6h

Praise for Montreal's bike-share system, from TIME. Worth a holiday thread on a couple of operational + political aspects of Bixi's history that are intriguingly left unsaid.

Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 8h

“Montreal revolutionized the bicycle-sharing trend. The tech behind BIXI became the backbone for bike-sharing programs in London, New York, Chicago and dozens of other places, turning two wheels into a genuine option for navigating cities.”

BIXI named among top 25 inventions of the past 25 years by TIME magazine

TIME magazine has released a list of the top 25 inventions of the past 25 years, and Montreal's bicycle-sharing system BIXI is on it.

cultmtl.com

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 58m

this one's doin numbers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since Zack Polanski took over last month The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month. It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. Continue reading...

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 1h

Sophie Grégoire-Brand ahoy

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 1h

it's better than ok!? now that i'm settling into it it rocks on the beat

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 4h

just got followed by a bot whose most recent post is this ask

is it okay to be a petite old man

Screenshot of a tumblr ask from user rttaku3942 (deactivated) who says “good morning. I'm sorry that I'm Japanese and don't understand English. Is it okay to be a petite old man?” to which user masterslavebitch responds “Hello how are you write me l'm my message inbox let's talk more there”

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 2h

no tall me, huh

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Antique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 3h

Victor Cavendish as Jean de Dinteville
from Hans Holbein's painting, The Ambassadors

#DevonshireHouseFancyDressBall

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

Anyone who is like hoo hoo hee hee ha ha wheeeeee i'm sowing watch me sow, they probably would find reaping to be equally a scream

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

Incidentally, I have to say, that while reaping is heavier work than sowing is, sowing fucking blows. I don't like planting season either and I have yet to meet one person who is honestly like, planting season. Yes. Cannot wait to fucking sow. You know what i like? Bending. Good on all the parts.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

I mean how could you be so stupid as to not support us, your opponents who haven't taken you seriously at all since we were elected with a minority

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

Everyone tells the minority PM to go out there and govern like you have a majority and it's super fun and everyone has a good time wearing the shades and dunking on the opposition and meeting the King and promising $150 billion for arms dealers. It's so fun. Then comes a vote and boy, it's no fun.

Hill Times:

It would be 'idiotic' for any party to topple government on budget vote only seven months after election, say some Liberal
MPs
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies and Green Party
Leader Elizabeth May recently met with Prime
Minister Mark Carney, but won't comment on how they'll vote on the budget, saying they will decide after reviewing the document, which will be released on Nov. 4.

[photo of F-P Champagne]

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is set to table his budget on Nov. 4. Liberal MPs warn it would be a mistake for opposition parties to topple the government so soon after the las election. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

It seems to me that governing like you have a majority when you don't is fun until you need to take a vote on something and then it's not so fun

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 19d

RFK Jr: please read this and get back to me

the cover of the bill james historical baseball abstract. cover is a super messy baseball dungeon

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

yes. but the human assistant would be human, and when I corrected them they wouldn't make that mistake again because, well, they would know what would happen. and i literally never would have to worry again.

guess what the garbage machine does

sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 4h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

Yes he was strongly tested in the primary and won easily because the conventional candidates put up against him were a grim joke (and not up to the quality, though also not the advanced age, of Janet Mills)

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

The John Fetterman who ran was easily the best candidate in his race; these things happen

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

Exactly. While this is indeed simple water carrying, primaries are good. Fetterman was of course tested, and won, in large part because the conventional candidates put up against him were atrocious gooey turds

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

There is all kinds of text generation that isn't intended to be actually read, that these things are able to reproduce. That's not a use. Busywork is not a use.

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 4h

Putting the ass in the front is truly the apotheosis of GenAI

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 4h

It's incredibly simple. Anyone who offers you an opinion that the Gen AI chatbot is useful for anything, is outside their area or expertise. If they purport expertise, it's fake. I simply don't see how anyone can be taken in anymore by the garbage generator

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