draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 17hSomething very funny about some AI bros meeting with the Pope and being like "Hey you wanna endorse this new god we created" and then being upset that the Pope finds the idea of creating a new god to be offensive. 0349
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 17hI pulled that paragraph from this, which is otherwise good.lizpelly.ghost.ioThe state of listening doesn't make headlinesMajor magazines report this crisis of reading, but the crisis of listening barely registers. 000
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 17hPeople love to cite this bit from Amusing Ourselves to Death, but it's, you know, wrong. There is a long and ongoing history of authoritarian governments banning books and other speech in order to try to preserve their power. Orwell was clearly correct! 110
Reposted by draglikepullTechni-Calli @illleavenow.bsky.social · 18hHave a Friday gift! Behold my article on why Muse is a problem: epic.org/metas-mass-d...epic.orgMeta’s Mass Data Collection Is Not A-Muse-ing 013
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 18hAlso I think it's rude to waste someone's time by sending them AI-generated text and pretending you wrote it yourself. 130
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 18hI think some people just don't like answering emails, and fair enough, but that's not a problem I have. The number of emails I'm replying to each day is pretty low. 100
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 19hWorth noting that when the OP was asked what kinds of things they think are better examples of what LLMs can do, their reply was: 1. Answer emails. 2. Manage my calendar. The same boring non-problems that come up every time someone asks this question. 210
Reposted by draglikepullMatthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 20hthis is doubly beautiful because HeadOn was homeopathic quack medicine that literally did nothing and never went through clinical trials. The sticks were 99 percent wax. It was all marketing and no product 2228
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 21hNone pizza with left beef has a surprisingly detailed Wikipedia article. (And is apparently nearly 20 years old, RIP to all of us)en.wikipedia.orgNone Pizza with Left Beef - Wikipedia 091
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 22hSo *that's* what Newton meant about standing on the shoulders of giants. 030
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 23h!!!cbc.ca'Prepared ourselves for the worst': FlyDubai passenger recounts moments during cockpit attack | CBC NewsAlmog Italie and his family were on the final leg of their trip home following a vacation in Japan when they felt FlyDubai flight FZ1073 plummet. Italie was one of 174 people on board the plane earlie... 010
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I posted this earlier today. If it’s older than that, I don’t remember what it was. Maybe the upcoming Metroid game? I posted the trailer for that a couple weeks ago. 100
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trudeau stayed in power for a decade and there's no chance his MPs would have forced a snap election if he had refused to step down. Highly recommend reading this recent book if you want some insight into how the PMO wields power, and how frustrated many MPs are at how little power they wield.utppublishing.comNo I in Team - University of Toronto PressWhy are Canadian politicians so loyal to their parties? Why do so few parliamentarians rebel as mavericks or switch sides? And can anything loosen the grip that party leaders have on elected representatives? 100
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In theory, but MPs of the ruling party aren't going to undercut themselves to force an election that would likely cost them their own job. Increasing concentration of political power in the PMO is a long-running trend, and no party's MPs have found a good way to reverse that trend. 100
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hate to give Harper credit for anything, but he wasn't exactly wrong when he described the federal government as a "benign dictatorship". 010
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One strange thing about Canadian politics is that the country is ostensibly supposed to be run by Cabinet, but most prime ministers act more like presidents, and Carney seems to be taking that further than any of his predecessors, cutting Cabinet out & installing old business contacts in key roles.thestar.comJustin Ling: Who does Mark Carney really listen to? I asked the insidersIt’s become clear that the prime minister would much rather circumvent problems than fix them. 210
Reposted by draglikepullSteve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The hard part about housing policy discourse is that there has genuinely been movement at all three levels of government, beyond what I could have hoped for back when I started on the file, but that it doesn't come close to meeting the scale of the problem. 1283
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Surely I am not the first person to do this one. 030
Reposted by draglikepullAnil Dash @anildash.com · 01/10/2026NYC’s PIT Crew (Public Interest Technology) is already delivering: Click to Cancel is here, with the law saying it has to be as easy to cancel a service as it was to sign up for it. The site makes it easy to report any products that violate the rules: www.nyc.gov/main/click-t... Kickass!nyc.govClick to Cancel - nyc.gov 3339101
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Honestly if 2 or 3 people go to prison for these hacking incidents, the companies will figure out how to stop them from hacking real quick. 010
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026None of this is inevitable; these are choices by individual humans, and those humans are responsible for the outcomes those choices engender. 170
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Last re-post is good, but one thing that's missing from this conversation is that these companies could choose to *not do the things they can't implement safely*. If Muse carries a high risk of, for example, leaking people's banking information, Facebook could (and should) simply not release it. 271
Reposted by draglikepullMatthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I wrote a post on whether sandboxing is enough to contain rogue agents. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/i...blog.cryptographyengineering.comIs sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasional… 3418
Reposted by draglikepullAlbert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What a light last week in the forest near my house 1144272
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It looks fun, I've got it on my wishlist. Hopefully later in the year I can find some time to try it. 000
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No idea if this game is any good (I'm still wrapped up in Fire Emblem), but one thing I love about this era of gaming is that an indie developer can make a really focused experience like this for a specific audience, sell it for $10, and make a decent living.store.steampowered.comSave 10% on Slow Roads on SteamZone out on an endless drive through infinite scenic landscapes. Generate a unique world, set the scene to suit your mood, and just drive... 120
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's just normal billiards but all the balls have googly eyes 010
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Are AI-generated tunes going to replace Taylor Swift? Nah. But they could very well fill up playlists with titles like "lo-fi beats to study to", and for a lot of people that is a huge chunk of the music they listen to. 140
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026People who listen that way don't care who the artist is, or whether they ever recognise a specific song. They just want vaguely pleasant, undistracting music to fill the space behind other activities, like studying. 110
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One thing I learned reading Mood Machine (great book, highly recommend) is how many people use Spotify as a kind of background noise, and how easy it is for Spotify to fill those playlists with cheap, generic music without anyone noticing. They already do it with "ghost" musicians.en.wikipedia.orgMood Machine - Wikipedia 100
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not going to do a dunk tweet, but I'll just say "AI music apps are going to replace Spotify" seems silly, but "AI music is going to have an increasingly large place in many Spotify playlists" seems pretty plausible to me. 270
Reposted by draglikepullJen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Breaking news from the DULF trial, where two founders of a drug compassion club in B.C.had previously been found guilty of trafficking but their lawyers started a constitutional challenge. The judge issued a ruling today in that constitutional challenge. A previous story: thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...thetyee.caDULF Founders’ Drug Law Charter Challenge Ends | The TyeeCompassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will wait months to learn if they face prison. 16019
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That Bush song is a banger, but that album is mixed weirdly. The songs sound kind of flat. It sounds like there's no overdubs, nothing double-tracked, almost like a demo. 121
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I fear this is barely going to get any coverage, but "Facebook may be downloading your private text messages even if you don't use any of their products, there's no way to opt out, and there's no way to know if you're affected" is really, really bad. 0168
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Worth noting that this means if you message someone who is using Meta Muse, *even if you don't have Muse or any other Meta products installed yourself*, Facebook is reading your private communications. 2158
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I mean, I say “lying”, a lot of them are actually in a doomsday cult that really believes this shit, but they’re still misleading investors, it’s still securities fraud. 1110
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is securities fraud. They’re lying to boost the share price by making the software seem more impressive than it actually is. Start charging these guys with the crimes they keep committing! 4251
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Once again I must reiterate: A screenshot of a post, with no link to a reliable original source, is usually misleading at best and often completely false. 040
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've worked on campaigns, I'm familiar with why campaigns want data. But I'm very skeptical that most of this stuff actually impacts the outcome. I think campaigns spend a lot of time and money on stuff that doesn't work. 100
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"They didn't even have pianos in 400 BC!" I know, crazy, right? He's just that cultured. 010
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This guy listens exclusively to piano sonatas written in 400 BC. 100
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The highbrow/lowbrow cultural distinction implies that to be maximally cultured your eyebrows should be somewhere around here. 233
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So my point is, not only are there all these red flags about privacy and surveillance, but there's reasonably good odds that parties are creating these risks *for no reason*, because it's far from clear that these tools actually turn out enough votes to swing any given election. 010
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think political campaigns, like most other organizations, are obsessed with data collection because it seems like you *must* be able to do *something* with it, but it's unlikely they've built and tested a model to demonstrate *how* it's useful or to what degree. It's just there so they want it. 240
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The article asserts "politicians have no incentive to regulate the data collection practices that bring them to power." But *do* these practices bring them to power? What is the evidence for that claim? I don't think anyone (including inside campaigns) has tested this, it's just assumed to be true. 110
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is bad for all the reasons everyone else has identified, but I have a more fundamental question: Does all of this data collection by campaigns *work*?nationalobserver.comToronto mayoral candidate Bradford’s campaign appears to have breached its own privacy policyIts campaign tool, called the Victory App, was the subject of a CNO investigation last week for its use of AI to locate online discussions about Bradford. But another aspect of the app also raises que... 351
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026😍nhl.comCanes Unveil Stanley Cup Championship Ring Created By Jason of Beverly Hills | Carolina HurricanesNearly 900 diamonds and rubies tell the story of the team’s championship run 0180
draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In regard to those last two retweets, it's interesting that movie/TV production, like video game investment, saw a huge boost when Covid hit, as though everyone in the industry thought that a short-term boom caused by people being stuck at home represented a new long-term normal for the industry. 030