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Richard Bellavance
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Posts in french & english. Music, football/soccer (#cpfc #cfmtl #canmnt), bass guitar, politics.
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"AI" is a societal danger the likes of which we have never encountered before. #FuckAI
ianfortey.bsky.social Ian of the Lizard Folk @ianfortey.bsky.social · 14h
I started researching an article back in April that I have yet to write. I need to update my sources since soooo much more has happened. It's about the dangers of AI. Here are the subheadings I have that all included sourced examples. Grab a drink and relax...
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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nfornihilism.net radical lisa loebotomy @nfornihilism.net · 1d
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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J'ai mal au coeur... c'est révoltant, inhumain de faire ça à ses gens totalement démunis. Ça prend au minimum des excuses de la ville et une compensation pour ce qui a été détruit.
Dossier | Arrondissement de Montréal-Nord | Des cols bleus détruisent sans préavis un campement toléré (2 articles)
Des sans-abri ont perdu le peu qu’ils avaient quand leur campement a été détruit par des cols bleus lundi soir. Leur présence était pourtant tolérée depuis des mois par l’arrondissement de Montréal-No...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I wasn't expecting an xkcd cartoon to make me misty-eyed, but there we are.
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Post a famous bathroom scene.
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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edzitron.com
NVIDIA has sold over $200 billion in GPUs to companies building AI services that do not make money and have no path to profitability. The expensive, hard-to-gauge costs of LLMs combined with the burdensome costs of GPUs spell disaster.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
NVIDIA Has Sold Over $200 Billion In AI-Focused GPUs, And Nobody Is Making A Profit Using Them (Which Is CRAZY!), Which Means That Eventually They Will Stop Buying Them This is a fairly simple point, and also one that makes me scream a little. Our stock market is built on the back of selling billions of dollars of GPUs, and nobody is making a profit using them. The services powered by GPUs are unprofitable, and it appears that renting out GPUs to run those services is unprofitable too. The Information reported Oracle’s gross margins on renting GPUs back in October, with H100s having a 26% gross margin , H200s 19%, A100s 9%, NVIDIA’s GB200 racks -100%, and B200 Chips -200%, and yes, those are negatives. You may also think that “26% gross margin” means that Oracle is making a profit, and you’d be wrong! All that means is that after removing the cost of goods sold (the power consumption of the rack itself, cooling, connection between GPUs, networking, and so on) you’re left with 26 cents of “profit.” The problem here is that only that amount starts going toward the actual cost of buying these things — the cost of the GPU, the debt, the construction costs for the data center, and so on. These margins also include “most” depreciation expenses, though it’s unclear what that actually means. Depreciation is something I explained a few weeks ago in detail — where a company spreads the ongoing cost of a GPU across its useful years, which in turn eats away at any revenues that said GPU might generate. In any case, even with depreciation expenses, Oracle’s Blackwell GPUs have negative 100%+ margins. These are NVIDIA’s most expensive, most power-intensive GPUs, and Oracle is buying $40 billion worth of NVIDIA’s GB200 racks to fill OpenAI’s Stargate Abilene data center as part of its $300 billion cloud compute deal. But even the non-Blackwell GPUs have pathetic margins, especially as they’re in vast, expensive data centers with massive amounts of hardware to handle power and data and networking and the staff tasked with maintenance. The problem only compounds when you realize that everybody has H100 and A100 GPUs, meaning that the thin (26 cents and 9 cents respectively) margins make it hard to stomach future discounts that might be necessary as these GPUs age.
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner.

Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
“What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Mamdani created shame the same way he created vision: by having standards, and then showing everyone what his standards are, and then proving that he truly held those standards by standing for something without shame. There is a massive power in standing for something that you'll never get by standing for whatever the most recent polls show. It's an attraction. It moves the lines of ought-to-be. It defines what is shameful by showing what is inspiring. It creates someplace else for people who have chosen shameful identities to go, if they so choose.
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
Do What You Believe In
How to navigate a complex political world.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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«Le constructeur parie sur un environnement Android intégré, enrichi par Google Gemini, l’assistant dopé à l’intelligence artificielle[...]Avec cette stratégie, GM espère contrôler davantage l’expérience numérique dans ses voitures et rentabiliser plus efficacement ses services connectés.»
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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My beautiful laundrette
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Tifo made by the fans of Crystal Palace Football Club, showing a portrait of musician Maxi Jazz, with the text "This is our church. This is where we heal our hurts" underneath. The entirety of the grandstands behind are colored in red and blue vertical stripes.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Covert art of the album Painkiller, by Judas Priest. It shows an angel-winged silver robot riding a fantasy motorcycle with sawblades for wheels and a dragon's head front fairing, flying over a desolate, hellish landscape.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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nemo20000.bsky.social
For a no-algorithm app there's a lot of algorithm happening.
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Useful info!
astridoverthere.bsky.social I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 22d
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November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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But more people should be more ashamed, I think. It seems to me that this death of shame is a big part of how we've arrived here. It's pretty shameful to be OK with Nazism. It's pretty shameful to belong to a Nazi party. It's pretty shameful to live in a Nazi country. It's pretty shameful to lavish yourself with opulence while you're ensuring that millions starve and suffer. Maybe it has occurred to you, as it did to me, that the actual reason Maple Valley Township is divided over this Nazi in their midst not only because some people there are opposed to Nazism, but also, crucially, because a lot of people there are just fine with it. Like their Treasurer, they claim to not know about everything that is happening, and then go tra-la-la down the road, unless you force them to contend with it, in which case they inform you that their support of it is your fault for making them feel so irredeemable and condemned about it that they feel compelled to support it, and having shifted the burden of culpability from themselves to you, once again tra-la-la down the road they go.
November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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anthonymoser.com
frame: smart glasses are just like an iPhone

negation: no, they're different in important ways

kirby: THIS IS A SURVEILLANCE TOOL. THEY WANT TO NORMALIZE CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE. they are making a bad faith comparison bc they want to move the boundaries of acceptable behavior
ali-alkhatib.com ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 23d
while i appreciate @404media.co explaining this, if you ever find yourself explaining to someone why smart glasses recording people is different from a smartphone, i think you have to consider that they're playing with you, and you're playing back in turn.
There are two things Meta’s glasses have in common with Google Glass which also make it meaningfully different from an iPhone. The first is that the iPhone might not have a recording light, but in order to record something or take a picture, a user has to take it out of their pocket and hold it out, an awkward gesture all of us have come to recognize in the almost two decades since the launch of the first iPhone. It is an unmistakable signal that someone is recording. That is not the case with Meta’s glasses, which are meant to be worn as a normal pair of glasses, and are always pointing at something or someone if you see someone wearing them in public.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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ianfortey.bsky.social
I've been working on the internet full time since about 2007. Nearly 20 years I've been up to my ass in this. To this day I don't know if anyone legitimately does No Nut November & if they do, I can't fucking understand why. I get everything, I understand the idea. I just don't believe it's real.
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Stunning.
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM