jack speyside
@jackspeyside.bsky.social
i am a juris doctor holding career public policy expert esp. in public sector delegated governance but i am otherwise a good ol' 'berta boy (communist) he/him or they/them is fine too
as much as right wing governments want to punish their workers as a stimulus to capital, this is going against the grain in a way that's unsustainable, not just for these reasons....
Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy from the Ottawa-area riding or Carleton is breaking ranks with the Carney government on its Return to Office policy for public servants:
“There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians”
“There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians”
February 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
as much as right wing governments want to punish their workers as a stimulus to capital, this is going against the grain in a way that's unsustainable, not just for these reasons....
the first unequivocally ethical use of gen-AI is going to This Person Does Not Exist dot com to fool the discord face scanner
February 9, 2026 at 8:04 PM
the first unequivocally ethical use of gen-AI is going to This Person Does Not Exist dot com to fool the discord face scanner
the cyborg doorbell lets ppl ring the bell by sending an alert to my phone, which buzzes in my pocket and i come over to let them in if i need to. when the analog doorbell loudly bongs, the dogs get revved up and bark and need to come down, even for solicitors i ignore. it solves a problem i have.
February 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
the cyborg doorbell lets ppl ring the bell by sending an alert to my phone, which buzzes in my pocket and i come over to let them in if i need to. when the analog doorbell loudly bongs, the dogs get revved up and bark and need to come down, even for solicitors i ignore. it solves a problem i have.
"roleplaying" in a game and "metagaming" in a game are incompatible activities, each intrinsically the negation of the other; this is trite commentary. and yet they can be collapsed into the same activity by clever game design.
February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
"roleplaying" in a game and "metagaming" in a game are incompatible activities, each intrinsically the negation of the other; this is trite commentary. and yet they can be collapsed into the same activity by clever game design.
this is what alberta wants to do with your pension is be able to spend it as a stimulus helping their ideological allies/actual friends
This is honestly insane – like something out of China and Russia. MAGA-aligned US military officers have reportedly been pressuring their troops to go and watch the 'Melania' movie:
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will
A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
this is what alberta wants to do with your pension is be able to spend it as a stimulus helping their ideological allies/actual friends
well, yeah. i understand how the weather works.
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
well, yeah. i understand how the weather works.
went to take the pup out and the storm door's outer handle lost its set screw. unfindable. got back in fine but ig i need a replacement, door is 30 years old plus, chat am i hooped?
February 7, 2026 at 4:03 AM
went to take the pup out and the storm door's outer handle lost its set screw. unfindable. got back in fine but ig i need a replacement, door is 30 years old plus, chat am i hooped?
its a hardtime of year, easy to bottom out.
a thing i have found that helps alot is:
work does not come from the motivation.
the motivation comes from doing the work.
the task, the challenge, is to get in there and grind even when (especially when) you dont want to: the rest follows in time.
a thing i have found that helps alot is:
work does not come from the motivation.
the motivation comes from doing the work.
the task, the challenge, is to get in there and grind even when (especially when) you dont want to: the rest follows in time.
February 6, 2026 at 11:46 PM
its a hardtime of year, easy to bottom out.
a thing i have found that helps alot is:
work does not come from the motivation.
the motivation comes from doing the work.
the task, the challenge, is to get in there and grind even when (especially when) you dont want to: the rest follows in time.
a thing i have found that helps alot is:
work does not come from the motivation.
the motivation comes from doing the work.
the task, the challenge, is to get in there and grind even when (especially when) you dont want to: the rest follows in time.
LRT the main reason google changed its algo, imo, is because it used to return a wikipedia article as the first result if one existed, and rich ppl hate wikipedia because they cant keep verifiable dirt off it.
February 6, 2026 at 3:21 AM
LRT the main reason google changed its algo, imo, is because it used to return a wikipedia article as the first result if one existed, and rich ppl hate wikipedia because they cant keep verifiable dirt off it.
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haha, here's one editor who did a lot of the damage, currently blocked en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
February 6, 2026 at 1:43 AM
haha, here's one editor who did a lot of the damage, currently blocked en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
billion dollar idea make a search engine that does what google used to do (search the web for the verbatim search term, applying boolean operators. rank results by how often the use the term and how often they are *linked to* by sites using the term. return results in rank order.)
i've been trying to use duckduckgo and it's unfortunately just such dogshit. it'll be like oh you searched for dick tracy, you want to see porno, right? or it does the thing where it just shows dozens of ai-generated sites spun up in response to search terms
February 5, 2026 at 11:44 PM
billion dollar idea make a search engine that does what google used to do (search the web for the verbatim search term, applying boolean operators. rank results by how often the use the term and how often they are *linked to* by sites using the term. return results in rank order.)
dead hollywood theory. zombie hollywood theory.
why have you never even heard of the top grossing movie of last year? why are the high grossing western movies mostly cynical cash grabs?
why have you never even heard of the top grossing movie of last year? why are the high grossing western movies mostly cynical cash grabs?
February 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
dead hollywood theory. zombie hollywood theory.
why have you never even heard of the top grossing movie of last year? why are the high grossing western movies mostly cynical cash grabs?
why have you never even heard of the top grossing movie of last year? why are the high grossing western movies mostly cynical cash grabs?
kamala is a 61 year old lawyer. why will boomers not just retire? theres no work left that we need you for!
Apparently, the KamalaHQ accounts are rebranding as "Headquarters," a "new Gen-Z led progressive content hub."
February 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
kamala is a 61 year old lawyer. why will boomers not just retire? theres no work left that we need you for!
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
the gimmick of making 4 versions of the beatles movie from the perspective of the 4 beatles, like.
1. none of them had esp. interesting lives apart from being in the top selling band from 1960 to 1970.
2. all of them were there! the same main thing happened to them all in basically the same way!
1. none of them had esp. interesting lives apart from being in the top selling band from 1960 to 1970.
2. all of them were there! the same main thing happened to them all in basically the same way!
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
the gimmick of making 4 versions of the beatles movie from the perspective of the 4 beatles, like.
1. none of them had esp. interesting lives apart from being in the top selling band from 1960 to 1970.
2. all of them were there! the same main thing happened to them all in basically the same way!
1. none of them had esp. interesting lives apart from being in the top selling band from 1960 to 1970.
2. all of them were there! the same main thing happened to them all in basically the same way!
i actually kinda fw this visually upsetting byzantine perspective???
babe wake up the official portrait of the Right Honourable Stephen J. Harper just dropped
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
i actually kinda fw this visually upsetting byzantine perspective???
will never get over calling get parent, remove child. sounds fucked up.
February 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
will never get over calling get parent, remove child. sounds fucked up.
it is funny to write an article about philosophy of mind without saying the word "consciousness".
intelligence *is a feature of a mind*. intelligence *is a function of consciousness*. there is no intelligence without a mind it belongs to.
intelligence *is a feature of a mind*. intelligence *is a function of consciousness*. there is no intelligence without a mind it belongs to.
A pretty bold comment in Nature written by linguists, computer scientists and philosophers declaring that AGI has been achieved.
"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
February 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
it is funny to write an article about philosophy of mind without saying the word "consciousness".
intelligence *is a feature of a mind*. intelligence *is a function of consciousness*. there is no intelligence without a mind it belongs to.
intelligence *is a feature of a mind*. intelligence *is a function of consciousness*. there is no intelligence without a mind it belongs to.
my summer body reveal is fixing to be crazy
February 3, 2026 at 12:56 AM
my summer body reveal is fixing to be crazy
love to bust out the mattock >:)
January 31, 2026 at 8:20 PM
love to bust out the mattock >:)
in light of the most recent update to the party island guest list, want to hammer this point; the ruling class live outside of society (its norms and rules do not constrain them) and they have a common interest in maintaining this and no ideological prohibition against participating together
the elite are a monolith. the divided left-right interests we see our society as having? they do not have that division: even between their left and right, their interests are uniform. that's why they see each other as peers; why there's dems and repubs, labour and aristocrats on the party islands.
He argued with civility. It's a start.
January 31, 2026 at 4:30 PM
in light of the most recent update to the party island guest list, want to hammer this point; the ruling class live outside of society (its norms and rules do not constrain them) and they have a common interest in maintaining this and no ideological prohibition against participating together
ayo if you're watching a catherine o'hara tonight in honour (rip to one of canada's very best) may i recommend Best in Show, her and eugene levy just riffing off each other in a mostly improvised film, one of her most slept on comedies imo.
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 PM
ayo if you're watching a catherine o'hara tonight in honour (rip to one of canada's very best) may i recommend Best in Show, her and eugene levy just riffing off each other in a mostly improvised film, one of her most slept on comedies imo.
idk why japanese and chinese green teas are different from each other, but i wish chinese lunch places had japanese tea
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 PM
idk why japanese and chinese green teas are different from each other, but i wish chinese lunch places had japanese tea
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