Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I love that no matter how hard you try to envision a dish you order in Europe it’s always radically different than expected. 001
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Not having played soccer since I was nine, I have to assume it’s harder than it looks to not launch the ball 30 feet over the net every time. #worldcup 010
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This feels true even in my own small-scale work with AI: "If you cannot describe what the human did, with examples, you do not understand the job well enough to automate it." 000
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 27/02/2026If Anthropic holds out over the White House, I'm immediately switching over from OpenAI. 000
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Have I aged out of irony and postmodern ambiguity because I’m not sure what I’m supposed to take away from the WealthSimple commercials. 011
Reposted by TaranasarausDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025lol she got his ass and he knows it 452288546245
Reposted by TaranasarausJesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 08/11/202540 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion 70129744608
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Frantically deleting all the Dodgers podcasts I gleefully listened to after a Jays win. 000
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I’m a life long Blue Jays fan but is it okay if I go to bed? 030
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 18/10/2025One of my failures as a dad was not driving home that cereal with milk is a delicious and filling snack. It just didn't take. 000
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 01/10/2025"But then I won't be watching TV. You can see the bind I'm in." 010
Reposted by TaranasarausAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2025companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box 151047413
Reposted by TaranasarausMelissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Looking over the Epstein book messages, I'm struck by how comfortable everyone was with compiling something like this, contributing to it, and receiving it. Something most people with common sense would avoid like the plague. But the super-rich and powerful know how insulated they are. 13046511021
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I wonder how often AI is being used to form opinions about itself. 020
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Nice evening planned in the country house, watching some TV with a loaded squirrel trap a few feet away. 000
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 22/04/2025My teaching gig is officially over for another year, but I still can't bring myself to close all the school's admin browser tabs just yet, because I know someone will want something as soon as I do. 020
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 06/03/2025There is no way Trump and his co-conspirators aren't making boatloads of money off their blatant market manipulation. 010
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Canada should be doing a full recruitment blitz to bring in all the fired American scientists, educators, health care workers, business people, and anyone else who wants to come and ensure they have places to live and things to do. 010
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I assume (knocking on wood) that I'll outlive Trump and Putin, but a new life goal is to outlive Musk. 010
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 20/01/2025They will take over TikTok and dominate almost all the (dis)information spaces. 020
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 19/01/2025The brains of Twitter and Meta users are about to be turned into absolute mush (even more than currently)by the US government 030
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 15/01/2025The first experience of being in a Tesla with that giant video screen and constant visual noise made me a little depressed. 000
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A quick survey of my college-age students reveals that none use Facebook but are all nearly obsessed with Instagram. 000
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 18/11/2024There's nothing I can do to stop the broligarchy from happening, but at least I don't have to witness the takeover in real time. 021
Taranasaraus @dcorriveau.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I am in the process of moving everything I liked about Twitter at one time to this space instead. 020
