Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦
@lousycanuck.bsky.social
Cis bi white guy trying not to be as shitty as social media white guys tend to be. He/him. Be nice or I'll cry.
jfc we have to fight fascism now!?
trans rights
no kings
jfc we have to fight fascism now!?
trans rights
no kings
Pinned
No gods, no masters, no kings.
I remember wondering how they did the high res text in Secret of Mana for the SNES. It's apparently a clever trick where the SNES does transparency by writing the left half of the pixel the foreground and the right the background, and using black and white. In case you were wondering too.
February 18, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I remember wondering how they did the high res text in Secret of Mana for the SNES. It's apparently a clever trick where the SNES does transparency by writing the left half of the pixel the foreground and the right the background, and using black and white. In case you were wondering too.
It's LITERALLY a randomness driven, CPU intensive, garbage generation robot that will create zero of consequence, and people are out here giving them small stock portfolios. I'm just ANGRY at this bullshit. As someone who needs to keep the internet working by my fundamental nature.
Security experts have urged people to be cautious with the viral agentic AI tool, known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable. www.wired.com/story/opencl...
Meta and Other Tech Companies Ban OpenClaw Over Cybersecurity Concerns
Security experts have urged people to be cautious with the viral agentic AI tool, known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.
www.wired.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:31 PM
It's LITERALLY a randomness driven, CPU intensive, garbage generation robot that will create zero of consequence, and people are out here giving them small stock portfolios. I'm just ANGRY at this bullshit. As someone who needs to keep the internet working by my fundamental nature.
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I'd rather eat glass.
Writers if you could drop your novel or short story into an AI and have it make a great and watchable movie out of your story, and you could sell that movie, would you do it? #writers #WritingCommunity
February 17, 2026 at 8:14 PM
I'd rather eat glass.
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every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
February 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
Keep your tech alive as long as humanly possible right now. We are going through a period of severe misallocation of resources and people will literally die from it, so preserving what works is super important.
i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
February 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Keep your tech alive as long as humanly possible right now. We are going through a period of severe misallocation of resources and people will literally die from it, so preserving what works is super important.
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What we found is obvious to you, but it needed to be formalised and analysed and fact-checked thoroughly for everyone else:
When AI is presented as a "net climate benefit", it's a false coupling of old machine learning with new, explosive single-use slop firehose dominating tech today.
When AI is presented as a "net climate benefit", it's a false coupling of old machine learning with new, explosive single-use slop firehose dominating tech today.
February 17, 2026 at 8:20 PM
What we found is obvious to you, but it needed to be formalised and analysed and fact-checked thoroughly for everyone else:
When AI is presented as a "net climate benefit", it's a false coupling of old machine learning with new, explosive single-use slop firehose dominating tech today.
When AI is presented as a "net climate benefit", it's a false coupling of old machine learning with new, explosive single-use slop firehose dominating tech today.
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karen bass and gavin newsom will do nothing to protect the rights of students who are correct to protest
The LAPD is citing truancy laws in an attempt to squash the ongoing school walkouts against ICE. The LAPD is also threatening to arrest any parents or adults who support the kids in their acts of civil disobedience.
February 17, 2026 at 5:27 AM
karen bass and gavin newsom will do nothing to protect the rights of students who are correct to protest
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And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.
February 17, 2026 at 3:38 AM
And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.
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Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 16, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.
MAGA, the Nazis, whatever you call em, the project of fascists is the accumulation of power to the end of subjugating who they view as below them. Always. Forever. The Right is an on ramp to fascism.
MAGA is what Republicans have always been/building towards stop trying to separate them
February 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
MAGA, the Nazis, whatever you call em, the project of fascists is the accumulation of power to the end of subjugating who they view as below them. Always. Forever. The Right is an on ramp to fascism.
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The worst things in regards to mass surveillance big tech and the death of free speech that can happen are happening and all the people who spent their careers pretending to care about any of it are dead silent
February 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The worst things in regards to mass surveillance big tech and the death of free speech that can happen are happening and all the people who spent their careers pretending to care about any of it are dead silent
"crime goes down when you get money for giving blood" is an indicator of desperation. Just like army voluntary enrollment. There's a floor of desperation and the people running the show need to keep it BELOW a certain level.
My god do we need UBI
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"crime goes down when you get money for giving blood" is an indicator of desperation. Just like army voluntary enrollment. There's a floor of desperation and the people running the show need to keep it BELOW a certain level.
What if we're on the bad timeline because of all that resetting and Mr Resetti was trying to warn us
a video game character named resetti is talking
Alt: Mr Resetti, time travelling mole from Animal Crossing, yelling at you for resetting
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
What if we're on the bad timeline because of all that resetting and Mr Resetti was trying to warn us
Basically, the longer a conversation goes on, the mathematically further from intelligible language the bot can produce. The math is conceptually interesting but WAY beyond me.
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Basically, the longer a conversation goes on, the mathematically further from intelligible language the bot can produce. The math is conceptually interesting but WAY beyond me.
I enjoy the process of curating my ROM collection, getting the metadata, the images, making it all conform to a standard, using star ratings to weed out what works vs what's actually good. I think I like doing this more than playing the games themselves.
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
I enjoy the process of curating my ROM collection, getting the metadata, the images, making it all conform to a standard, using star ratings to weed out what works vs what's actually good. I think I like doing this more than playing the games themselves.
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with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
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Winnipegers standing in solidarity with Minneapolis and Minnesota
February 15, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Winnipegers standing in solidarity with Minneapolis and Minnesota
This is why every absolute clown shoes moderation decision you've seen on this platform happened, and why it will never change. The intended audience is not the current user base.
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
This is why every absolute clown shoes moderation decision you've seen on this platform happened, and why it will never change. The intended audience is not the current user base.
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Rubio's entire speech was Christian white nationalism. What else could this mean? It's nothing close to actual history, it doesn't make sense except through the invented history of a "shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry" in the "common civilization" of whiteness.
February 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Rubio's entire speech was Christian white nationalism. What else could this mean? It's nothing close to actual history, it doesn't make sense except through the invented history of a "shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry" in the "common civilization" of whiteness.
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I fundamentally believe this era is an illusion. The current versions of Codex and Claude Code are costing OpenAI and Anthropic so much money because they’re running at like a negative 150% gross margin. All improvements involve more and more compute. The limits will be sudden and brutal.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I fundamentally believe this era is an illusion. The current versions of Codex and Claude Code are costing OpenAI and Anthropic so much money because they’re running at like a negative 150% gross margin. All improvements involve more and more compute. The limits will be sudden and brutal.
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I think agentic coding gives humans a "high" with the illusion of god-like productivity. Basically, all of Silicon Valley is on cocaine, (where every idea could change the world!) with the power of an endlessly productive "agent." This is what cocaine does to your brain.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I think agentic coding gives humans a "high" with the illusion of god-like productivity. Basically, all of Silicon Valley is on cocaine, (where every idea could change the world!) with the power of an endlessly productive "agent." This is what cocaine does to your brain.
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I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”
February 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”
Marco's speech was not nicer in content. Maybe in tone. But it read as, "c'mon guys, join our evil white empire voluntarily now, and we can murder foreigners together like the good old days". There's a hell of a lot of implied threat behind the evil ask.
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Marco's speech was not nicer in content. Maybe in tone. But it read as, "c'mon guys, join our evil white empire voluntarily now, and we can murder foreigners together like the good old days". There's a hell of a lot of implied threat behind the evil ask.
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Happy Valentines Day from all of us here at The Outrunners
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Happy Valentines Day from all of us here at The Outrunners