I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

There is no such thing as "sovereign Canadian data" held by a US-based corporation as long as the CLOUD Act exists.

Yes, even if the data are hosted on Canadian-owned servers that are located in Canada @evansolomon.bsky.social.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Unfortunately it appears the book is out on the Leafs. and that book reads "commit a bunch of infractions but don't worry the refs won't call them and then dive at every minor contact and the refs will have your back." Fun watching experience as a Leafs fan

Crazy how with these people it's always AI that's "here to stay like it or not" and never like gender affirming medical procedures or something

This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes

have said before but my old coworker who was an mis director and a superintendent had a saying: two groups you never want to piss off - (1) old ladies in sneakers with nothing but time and (2) parents of students with disabilities

Pretty sure “by mistake” here means “we were screamed at by various Republican Senators and other officials and we take it back.”

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

When your commitment to family annihilation as policy gets a slight reprieve.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

This is a very interesting case for my fledgling proto-theory of "people who fall for CIA-in-phone scams, people who fall for Juicero, people who get AI psychosis/yuddism, people who become TERFs and people who are antiporn/anti-SW shit have similar faults in their epistemology"

“Why is the night sky dark, if we live in an infinite universe?”

Kepler, Halley, and Cheseaux all pondered this apparent paradox, but the question is commonly attributed to Heinrich Olbers, who was born #OTD in 1758. 🧪 🔭

Images: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/..., Wellcome Collection

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

It always looks silly from these guys but this basic logic where the most marginalized people are actually elites representing “the machine” is also the shared understanding people running newsrooms and universities believe as well.

A while back I had heard that there was a memorial plaque in Barrie, ON for the victims of the 31 May 1985 F4 tornado there. I lived for a while in Barrie and never saw it. I finally found it - and of course it’s in ‘Shear’ Park. #ONstorm

"WE SAW YOU FROM ACROSS THE GALAXY AND WE DIG YOUR VIBE."

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

Pam Bondi, in particular, needs to pay

The most parsimonious explanation is that the people running our government like measles and would like to see more people suffer and die from measles

You’ll never guess how much empathetic outrage Benny Johnson expressed when someone broke into Nancy Pelosi’s house with the intent to kill her, fracturing her husband’s skull in the process.

Trump's Argentina Bailout

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.