Reposted by Erin KBAndrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 25/09/2026#Ontario: flu and COVID-19 vaccines available Sept 28 for high-risk groups, and Oct 26 for general public news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...news.ontario.caOntario Newsroom 35544
Reposted by Erin KBJared Mabry @jaredmabry.com · 22/09/2026Every 'rogue AI' headline is a human decision disappearing from the story. Name who built the test, who removed the restraints, and who left the door open. 35215
Reposted by Erin KBEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The phrasing of that question *almost* sounds like an invitation. But it's an invitation to a trap. Claims of superintelligence (incipient or longer term) are bullshit. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and "debate me bro" is not extraordinary evidence. >> 27411
Reposted by Erin KBEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...buttondown.comWhat To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI DoomerismOur recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that... 414763
Reposted by Erin KB404 Media @404media.co · 15/09/2026Want to know what AI is up to? @jasonkoebler.bsky.social is here to tell you that recent advances in artificial intelligence and the ability for AI to act on the internet has a 100% chance of being annoying as hell, and is already ruining the internet.404media.coThere’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online. 36723
Reposted by Erin KBCam T. Mann @camc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Not satisfied with simply mastering the Single Panel Comic, pants has now chosen to elevate alt text to its own art form 257372
Reposted by Erin KBSorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Pisces: Today you will feel charismatic, confident, funny, intelligent, sexually attractive, and then you’ll wake up. 017746
Reposted by Erin KBBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas. 230113251303
Reposted by Erin KBAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/09/2026this is, I think, one of the inherent problems with LLMs using natural language interfaces: they are a statistical tool *that looks like* a logical tool statistical approaches can be a useful way to find related information! BUT for it to be useful you have to *know that's what it's doing* 938293
Reposted by Erin KBParis Marx @parismarx.com · 10/09/2026the media’s reaction to this anthropic guy’s tweets are a great demonstration of how they don’t want to inform the public, they’re just happy to go along with a sensationalist narrative handed to them by deluded and self-interested tech people 8520126
Reposted by Erin KBTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Guys but it's the fictional machine god that needs to be regulated and that we should worry about. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...prospect.orgAnthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American ProspectNew hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters. 623397
Reposted by Erin KBSteven Schapansky 🇨🇦 @legopolis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What do you get when you merge an iPhone that’s too wide to use with an iPad that’s too small to do anything with? 074
Reposted by Erin KBtunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 427174343861
Reposted by Erin KBnash flynn @itsnashflynn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024i guess my question is have we ever really given strange women in ponds distributing swords as a system of government a chance 17570136
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 06/09/2026I thought this was going to be a Wile E. Coyote situation, but these caterpillars later moved along to more stable terrain to continue their meal. 010
Reposted by Erin KBMichael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Digital sovereignty means Canadian rules apply in Canada. On Lake Ontario, Google and Apple Maps did exactly that: Canadians see Canada's official name. Demanding it defy the U.S. invites platforms to pick whose rules to follow, and the next pick may not be ours. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/be-c...michaelgeist.caBe Careful What You Wish For: Why Asking Google Maps to Defy the U.S. on Lake Ontario Would Undermine Canadian Digital Sovereignty - Michael GeistI woke up early on Monday morning for 14 interviews focused on digital sovereignty on CBC Radio stations across the country (here’s the Manitoba version). Most opened the discussion by asking what dig... 164
Reposted by Erin KBSorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Pisces: Someone else is living in your house, but they don't know about you either. Each day you dance unwittingly together, too perfectly in sync to ever meet. There's something very hauntingly beautiful about it. Still, your landlord has some explaining to do. 227851
Reposted by Erin KBSorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Pisces: Follow your heart today. It’s terrible at making decisions, but at least the train wreck will be spectacular. 223464
Reposted by Erin KB404 Media @404media.co · 22/08/2026AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing. www.404media.co/anthropics-t...404media.coAnthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About WritingAI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing. 316458
Reposted by Erin KBEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A point I frequently make when talking about chatbots is that their output only seems to make sense because we are making sense of it. And worse, we can only do that sense-making by projecting a mind behind the text, something we do reflexively. >> 633468
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 15/08/2026You would have a blast at super conference. Need to find a way to get you there! 110
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 14/08/2026Lol. So much. Also anytime I find old library conference swag I get a bit nostalgic. 110
Reposted by Erin KBGander Social @gandersocial.ca · 10/08/2026Thanks for having us, Michael. Appreciate you reading the privacy policy too. We got into the fine details and all the nuance that goes into infrastructure, moderation, verification, privacy, and everything else that comes with the territory. 22011
Reposted by Erin KBViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026“God has a plan for you” No, thanks. I’m familiar with his work 201637399
Reposted by Erin KBjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126027995
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 01/08/2026My sister went to that concert! She said it was really good. :) 100
Reposted by Erin KBSorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Pisces: The future is bright (you lost your sunglasses). 219240
Reposted by Erin KBEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Unusually for bsky, this has attracted a lot of folks who want to argue (via QTs here and downthread) that the anthropomorphizing language is just fine, actually. Helps people understand clearly. Doesn't obfuscate responsibility. And/or is a more accurate portrayal of what the models are doing. >> 515939
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 21/07/2026I’ve added a whole bunch of the recommendations to my playlist, and will probably go back for more. Great thread! 020
Reposted by Erin KBRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/07/2026Latitude and Longitude xkcd.com/3273/ 654835650
Reposted by Erin KB404 Media @404media.co · 20/07/2026Humans used blog to get their links to the top of Search. Now, AI spamming the internet, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social explains. We teamed up with the Los Angeles Public Library to talk about it on a panel with @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social and @dexdigi.bsky.social. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLU... 626991
Reposted by Erin KBKate Watson @loreandordure.com · 20/07/2026Humans can form relationships with AI systems, true, but this is not at all the same thing. 7374
Reposted by Erin KBMichael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Banning social media for millions raises obvious constitutional risks, but the safeguards meant to save it, including age verification standards and exemptions, won't be operational when the ban takes effect. My post on why safeguards come too late to save it. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/why-...michaelgeist.caWhy the Government’s Plan for a Social Media Ban in Bill C-34 Is Unconstitutional - Michael Geisthe debate over the government's proposed social media ban for under 16s has raised several difficult questions, including doubts about whether it will work, which services it will cover, and what… 0179
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 11/07/2026Fantastic video on the Dark Fishing Spider aka the Dock Spider in my neck of the woods. If you’re at all intimidated by these, give this video a chance to make you fascinated instead. 000
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 06/07/2026The ducklings came to visit! Mama/auntie merganser keeps bringing different numbers of babies - sometimes more, then less, then more again. So I think there’s a crèche nearby. Later they completely passed out in this spot, snoozing in the sun. 010
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 29/06/2026Robins are almost ready to fledge. I thought this one was going to go for sure, but it changed its mind. Sometimes we need a few tries before we take big steps. 010
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 29/06/2026Just watched the movie - the book is so different. I think they share the same philosophical threads, but if you read the book plotwise I don’t think you’ll feel like it’s a retread of the movie. I liked the book better, but I didn’t dislike the movie. 010
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 26/06/2026Had a painted turtle lay her eggs in our driveway! Our local turtle conservation folks came and excavated the nest. 3 eggs have gone to their facility for safe hatching. 100
Reposted by Erin KBweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Check out this sword stuck in a stone!! 95149663704
Reposted by Erin KBDaniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 21/06/2026💯 💯 “the government should be willing to call the bluff of any company bragging about the destructive potential of its products, ending the era in which these A.I. labs can simultaneously terrify the public about their technology while continuing to develop and market it without constraint.” 0339
Reposted by Erin KBGander Social @gandersocial.ca · 19/06/2026Defaults are decisions. Algorithms are decisions. Feeds are decisions. Friction, labels, visibility, appeals, and safeguards are all decisions too. Online safety is defined by product choices long before a parent, teacher, or moderator ever gets involved. 1102
Erin KB @erinkernohan.ca · 19/06/2026This was a such a charming read. I wanted to read the book before watching the movie. Sweet, funny, and smart. 110