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
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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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a thing i have noticed is theres like a million internet "entrepreneurs" and "CEOs" and whatever, but i have never in my life purchased a product or service that's produced or provided by those people or the business they are the CEO of, and i think that's probably true of most folks.
January 29, 2026 at 6:04 PM
a thing i have noticed is theres like a million internet "entrepreneurs" and "CEOs" and whatever, but i have never in my life purchased a product or service that's produced or provided by those people or the business they are the CEO of, and i think that's probably true of most folks.
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enjoying how, in the absence of any moderating influence, the conservative canard "our brilliant philosophies/policies/movies would be universally beloved if not for suppression by Liberal Elites!" keeps eating absolute shit, crashing and burning in the most spectacular ways imaginable
January 27, 2026 at 7:29 PM
enjoying how, in the absence of any moderating influence, the conservative canard "our brilliant philosophies/policies/movies would be universally beloved if not for suppression by Liberal Elites!" keeps eating absolute shit, crashing and burning in the most spectacular ways imaginable
for blue monday only doing 5 sets per exercise instead of my usual 4. just like arnold! but without roids to give me wolverine healing idk what will happen
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 AM
for blue monday only doing 5 sets per exercise instead of my usual 4. just like arnold! but without roids to give me wolverine healing idk what will happen
the high difficulty of x-com (permadeath ironman, every choice/mistake has permanent consequences that ripple and endure) vs the high difficulty of dark souls (git gud to progress, death is the opposite of permanent and almost every choice you can undo/farm out of) are a hegelian dialectic.
January 26, 2026 at 5:33 PM
the high difficulty of x-com (permadeath ironman, every choice/mistake has permanent consequences that ripple and endure) vs the high difficulty of dark souls (git gud to progress, death is the opposite of permanent and almost every choice you can undo/farm out of) are a hegelian dialectic.
ratatouille is a mech movie. like all good mech media, it is about how it is better to be the mech than the mech pilot, how the pilot wishes for the mech's life.
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
ratatouille is a mech movie. like all good mech media, it is about how it is better to be the mech than the mech pilot, how the pilot wishes for the mech's life.
i think we can say for sure that the metric system is better
January 23, 2026 at 3:49 PM
i think we can say for sure that the metric system is better
"how do you wake up, go to work, and abduct 5 year olds?" easy if you wake up, you put on the mask and costume, and step into a character who isn't subject to society in the way you are, has a predetermined relationship to society that can be taken off and put on.
google standford prison experiment.
google standford prison experiment.
We all put on masks and costumes of a sort in our everyday life. But when we truly conceal and negate our own identity I think something powerful happens, we can step outside of society in a way.
This is not inherently liberating, as demonstrated by the masked storm troopers facing the frog hero.
This is not inherently liberating, as demonstrated by the masked storm troopers facing the frog hero.
January 22, 2026 at 8:54 PM
"how do you wake up, go to work, and abduct 5 year olds?" easy if you wake up, you put on the mask and costume, and step into a character who isn't subject to society in the way you are, has a predetermined relationship to society that can be taken off and put on.
google standford prison experiment.
google standford prison experiment.
this puppy jumped on my face and gave me a scratch on my eye, makes me look rugged af tho.
i went to buy lumber tonight and the guy didnt ask "do you have a contractor number" he asked "whats your contractor number?"
i went to buy lumber tonight and the guy didnt ask "do you have a contractor number" he asked "whats your contractor number?"
January 22, 2026 at 5:46 AM
this puppy jumped on my face and gave me a scratch on my eye, makes me look rugged af tho.
i went to buy lumber tonight and the guy didnt ask "do you have a contractor number" he asked "whats your contractor number?"
i went to buy lumber tonight and the guy didnt ask "do you have a contractor number" he asked "whats your contractor number?"
i remember watching Alone UK where british people had to survive 30 days in canadian autumn and seeing people overwhelmed at being in a truly Wild place for the 1st time: this hit the same way.
Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.
January 22, 2026 at 3:56 AM
i remember watching Alone UK where british people had to survive 30 days in canadian autumn and seeing people overwhelmed at being in a truly Wild place for the 1st time: this hit the same way.
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I truly hope you or your loved ones are not among the people who are suffering or experiencing a worse outcome while waiting for care in an Alberta ER and/or hospitals.
However, if you are/were, please consider sharing your experience - use the form at the bottom of this story.
#AbHealth #AbLeg
However, if you are/were, please consider sharing your experience - use the form at the bottom of this story.
#AbHealth #AbLeg
Minister says Alberta emergency room deaths and poor outcomes are exceptions to the norm | CBC News
As Alberta doctors raise red flags about seeing what they say are delays in emergency room care, the province’s hospitals minister says he doesn’t think cases that the doctors have recently highlighte...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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I unironically recommend Karl Jaspers's postwar essay The Question of German Guilt in thinking through these questions
It’s not personal. But this is Americans’ responsibility, collectively, even though tens of millions of us made a different choice.
January 21, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I unironically recommend Karl Jaspers's postwar essay The Question of German Guilt in thinking through these questions
i saw an AR-15 loving lib saying "we should not do the gun buyback we should use the buyback money to support ranges and training programs" and that is exactly incorrect, and i am exactly correct but once again - too early.
tbh if canada were to learn lessons from ukraine, 5% gdp for the military should be spent on civil response training programs to train prepare and support volunteer militias like we saw in kiev, and develop and integrate squad level drone and antidrone capabilities, instead of paying lockheed martin
January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
i saw an AR-15 loving lib saying "we should not do the gun buyback we should use the buyback money to support ranges and training programs" and that is exactly incorrect, and i am exactly correct but once again - too early.
"i did not vote for him!" or "i maybe did or did not, but do not support these things he is doing!"
this is saying:
"i did not consent to this!"
but - you did!
voting is how we make a decision. we all agree (consent) that we all cast a vote and our collective decision is the one with the most votes
this is saying:
"i did not consent to this!"
but - you did!
voting is how we make a decision. we all agree (consent) that we all cast a vote and our collective decision is the one with the most votes
January 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM
"i did not vote for him!" or "i maybe did or did not, but do not support these things he is doing!"
this is saying:
"i did not consent to this!"
but - you did!
voting is how we make a decision. we all agree (consent) that we all cast a vote and our collective decision is the one with the most votes
this is saying:
"i did not consent to this!"
but - you did!
voting is how we make a decision. we all agree (consent) that we all cast a vote and our collective decision is the one with the most votes