Got a new laptop this week and first thing I did was uninstall Microsoft CoPilot, so... y'know, go fuck yourself.
The Irish TimesAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
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Got a new laptop this week and first thing I did was uninstall Microsoft CoPilot, so... y'know, go fuck yourself.
The Irish TimesAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Re-upping this, and looking forward to taking the 9 year-old to see it next week.
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Brand New Day is... a great movie. Kinda Thunderbolts-esque 3rd act resolution. Great character stuff. Some good action. Well acted. A couple surprise appearances. Top 15 Marvel film.
Great look, guys! Keep administrating. 🙄 breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Unprecedented number of program closures nationwide.
Alex UsherCanadian higher ed folks! Give me your predictions: what's going to be the biggest story in our sector in this academic year?
I'll believe these numbers matter when the criminal motherfucker is impeached, removed from office, and in jail.
Greg SargentTrump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
Indeed, the lesson of the "Freedom Convoy" is that it was better to allow lawlessness by hateful, anti-science rabble occupying the nation's Capital than to clear them the fuck out after *three weeks* as if the country was willing to apply the rule of law.
Michael DeMoorEven in Canada, I fear that the key lessons politicians have “learned” from the pandemic is that it is less political trouble for them to let people die than it is to do what’s necessary to keep them alive.
AND WHY ARE ANY PEOPLE WHO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS DECENT HUMAN BEINGS STILL ON 'X'????
Gregg Gonsalves"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Transphobic piece of shit.
Dale SmithThe latest "Team Pierre" email is Very Concerned about trans athletes. #cdnpoli
This is why Tech CEOs are the opposite of the geniuses the media portray: AI is NOT real "artificial intelligence". It doesn't reason. It synthesizes information in ways that fools people into thinking it is generating something original. Passing the Turing Test /= 'the singularity'.
Karl BodeCEO said a thing!
They existed, but actually the pandemic produced a massive right-wing backlash that has greatly increased vaccine hesitancy and antivax attitudes.
Still a Prairie GirlThere were a lot of anti-science, anti-government, anti-vax people before COVID. The convoy just gave them a voice.
An agenda of evil. And never forget that there are a LOT of people in Canada who gave credence to the anti-science, anti-vax "Freedom Convoy" and we're seeing the results: measles outbreaks and fools not getting their kids standard vaccines.
Nick TsergasThis is absolutely going to have an effect on AI search results and bot-summaries. Looking closely at how the page is constructed, that seems to be the point.
Supremely gratifying to see Yan Campagnolo and Camille Bontems publish a new article in McGill Law Journal on the Quebec National Assembly's purported abolition of the oath requirement, contrary to our constitutional amending rules... lawjournal.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...
View of L’abolition unilatérale du serment au roi par le Québec est-elle constitutionnelle ? lawjournal.library.mcgill.caPeople thought this guy was a genius, but he's got maybe 3 IQ points on Donald Trump.
Rachel GilmoreAbsolute crash out from Musk after he’s presented with the reality that many, many people fucking hate him
I mean, we knew this. A *majority* of Canadians benefitted from the federal carbon pricing scheme due to how the rebates were structured. Mark Carney didn't just hurt the climate fight, he took your money.
Aaron WherryWhoops