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It's worth remembering from time to time where the modern concept of "police" came from, and recognizing that its principles are becoming as revolutionary today as they were 200 years ago. Erasing the line between police and occupation forces comes with a price. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian...

Taiwan is the only country CLOSE to getting it right. This should be for everyone though. www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6129174

Absolutely outstanding article on the link between EBV infection and long-term health problems. The concept of infection with a pathogen causing not only acute illness but also being a risk factor for chronic illness in the future is not controversial. This is why I avoid SARS-CoV-2.

"The human brain is an existence proof of a more efficient training model” - Mekka Okereke I want this printed on a plaque and distributed to every CEO firing people in consideration of today's generative AI.

Toronto & GTA AQI in the 100-150 range according to Purple Air.

Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking. Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

Don't forget your Corsi-Rosenthal boxes!

Apparently Android tv streamer has now disabled the keyboard search function unless you enable Google Assistant with a named account. Google is shoving Assistant in everywhere to facilitate it's AI force feeding agenda.

Practicing self-care by staying in bed all day

Uh oh. More fulsome post tomorrow. Everyone seems occupied tonight 🤷‍♀️ #bced #bcpoli

Amazing. Respect the lede.

“…instead of using AI technology to run the chatbot and create the app, the company hired 700 engineers in India to pose as Natasha in conversations with clients, and then to do the actual coding of the app.”

Grok, what is crony capitalism?

Omnifocus is the one Mac app I really really miss.

An excellent blog from @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy My job as a senior technologist has been to help executives sort the ponies from the piles. I have often been offside of the hype cycle, but in a fact based & data driven way. This time is harder. blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-th...

Here I thought people would treat genAI code like a code review & actually understand it before proceeding. *sigh Next someone will say "well if they can get it working this way why not". GenAI is a time for quality tradeoff at best. Working this way sacrifices time & quality for low skill

The speed of writing code has never, and will never be the bottleneck. The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it. People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.

AI fail #34,801: Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat. futurism.com/therapy-chat...

Reminder that most of the US federal debt is owed to.....? Americans #EconSky #FinSky www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-here...

It is a terrible time to look for work, and a terrible time to hire. AI slop applicants are gumming up the works.

one day it's going to come out that the total revenue for the entire generative AI industry is like $20-$25bn in 2025, and the cost to make that revenue was $50bn-$100bn+