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I’ll be on CBC Radio this morning talking about the fake AI-generated journalist who was published by several Canadian media outlets and somehow even became a recurring columnist for the Western Standard Check out Day 6 on CBC Radio with Brent Bambury at 10 AM (or, 10:30 AM in Newfoundland)

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 43m

“you’re being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion” yeah man that’s the job

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 22h

I knew creative-first ho, creative-first ho was a friend of mine, you sir are no creative-first ho

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 30/09/2026

What in the world is going on back there

The back of a new BMW, a jumble of senseless shapes and angles

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 29/09/2026

I know there’s a lot of election stuff going on but I’d encourage anyone in Victoria to follow the Martlet and its coverage of UVic governance. We’re a university town! It matters!

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 29/09/2026

Are you from Ontario because I’d like to ‘ont your ario

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 29/09/2026

Are you from Manitoba because you’re the only Man i’d like to Take Out Back Ahaha

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 29/09/2026

Are you from Ontario because I’d like to ‘ont your ario

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 29/09/2026

Are you from Saskatchewan because you’re the only saskatch I want

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 29/09/2026

Thinking about how Canadian provinces don’t make good pickup lines Are you from BC because you’re the only B I see

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My story about Second Sons showing up in Kamloops and how experts say this is a wake up call to law enforcement, and to political parties who have been making space for residential school denialists. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Masked Group in Kamloops Sparks Alarm and Racism Fears | The Tyee

‘I don’t want these people in my neighbourhood, in my city, in my country.’

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

I’m pretty sure they know they’ll get what’s coming to them if they show up in town, that’s why they’re haunting highway overpasses in the interior.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, but not the way he means.

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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ferves Ranger 4×4 silodrome.com/ferves-range...

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a kitty I sculpted

Polymer clay sculpture of a stylized roly-poly cat, seated with one paw raised

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Never misses.

The famous political compass saying all left authoritarians are 1917 (ie planning/yearning for an imminent Bolshevik revolution), right authoritarians are 1488 (white supremacist Nazis), left libertarians are 420 (stoners), and right libertarians are 12 (pedophiles)

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

they could have built a machine that respects boundaries in the first place but instead they’re just reinventing cops.

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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Avi Lewis says Carney’s ‘nation-building’ agenda is trampling workers’ and #Indigenous rights. The federal NDP leader criticized the Liberal government’s push to fast-track resource projects in response to Trump’s trade war. NEW from @justinbrake.bsky.social: ricochet.media/politics/can...

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Avi Lewis says Carney’s ‘nation-building’ agenda is trampling workers’ and Indigenous rights

Speaking in St. John’s, the federal NDP leader criticized the government’s push to fast-track resource projects in response to Trump’s trade war.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

COMMISSIONER GORDON: They call him the Headler. He doesn't kill his victims, but he does give them tremendous quality of head. BATMAN: That's disgusting. COMMISSIONER GORDON: They smile so big that they have a great time. BATMAN: I'm going to break my rule of not killing, for the Headler.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

It was a bummer because she loves the book, but we did watch the movie instead, which despite being made in 1971 is somehow less sexist than this dumb show.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

The kid had this on and I walked in when they were doing some kind of honey challenge where the “big strong men” had to rescue the women, trapped in honeycomb-shaped boxes, that the game called “sweeteners.” This show is no longer allowed in the house.

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BC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Former BC Greens MLA Adam Olsen endorses Emily Lowan for Saanich North & the Islands! They’re teaming up to send Emily to the Legislature, and keep Adam and Rob’s legacy of standing up for the people of Saanich North and the Islands going.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

You never know with TOS if you're going to get a sublime sci-fi masterpiece or a bizarre 1960s fever dream, and sometimes you get both at once, and it's wonderful. Plus, there's nothing in the followup series that can top the goofy original kirk/spock/bones dynamic.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

it's my fault for doing business with such a shit company, but Shopify's "human" tech support is obviously just an LLM now, and it's just.... offensive to tell a customer otherwise. Honestly kind of shocking to be openly, plainly lied to.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

I can't claim I haven't heard it before but when I finally realized what song everyone was talking about i was like

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Her Disbelief Meme: The Question

Alt: Michael from Arrested Development saying "Her?"

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

what is the saanich version of "choosin texas"

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

We have municipal and provincial elections coming up soon so i listened to "choosin texas" and gained no additional insight.

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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

white nationalists doing hate crime on the highway overpass in Dufferin neighbourhood of Kamloops now

A bunch of fucking losers dressed in black with white masks, standing on an overpass with a black banner that says “GOT BONES?”

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

This is a software tool with access to all the information in the world and no ability to understand what any of it means or if it’s important. That’s a deadly flaw for anything being sold as an assistant and yet here we are.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 28/09/2026

It’s been years and every one of these stupid LLMs still has exactly the same failure mode.

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 27/09/2026

I don't think anyone's rejecting the idea that these tools can and will find a way to do what they're asked to do in unexpected ways. I think everybody's skipping right past that to the idea that they shouldn't be in a situation to "escape containment" if they're so unpredictable.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 27/09/2026

they're doing non-Euclidean genders now

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Anthony “Mayor Tony” @frattaro.li · 27/09/2026

We will destroy one third of your precious White House, despoil your capitol’s symbolic landscaping, and build a great monument to our victory that casts a shadow over the graves of your heroes 👹

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