Reposted by Chris OgilvieBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20hSince the mid-1950s, we have changed the thing that "AI" refers to every 5-10 years. The current thing we're calling "AI" is about a decade old, and all this label-switching leads to a lack of clarity as to what (this) "AI" is. 321362
Reposted by Chris OgilvieThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 05/10/2026Trump admin demands Canada not meddle in midterms so they can meddle in separatist referendumsthebeaverton.comTrump admin demands Canada not meddle in midterms so they can meddle in separatist referendumsWASHINGTON D.C. - Trump Administration trade advisor Peter Navarro is accusing Canada of interfering in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, unfairly distracting from American efforts to interfere in ... 7416157
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 40 "It don’t matter to you at all" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - 1/9music.apple.comI CanCon (And You Can Too!) - Weekly Playlist by Chris Ogilvie on Apple MusicPlaylist · 10 Songs 100
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is the fault of an ornery, time-travelling doctor getting fed up with a patient in ancient Egypt asking too many questions. "You have endometriosis. What you need to do—" "Endometri-what?" "Your WOMB is FLYING AROUND and fucking up your insides. Now LISTEN." 042
Reposted by Chris OgilvieStewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 02/10/2026If you want non-citizens to visit your country, a good first step is to stop imperilling non-citizens who come to the country! 38124
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula 020
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hey, non-Canadian parents. If you want books that your kids will love and that will *completely emotionally destroy you, the parent* don’t sleep on Munsch. 020
Reposted by Chris OgilvieEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13974418
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You know, one of the stranger aspects of living in Ottawa is that sometimes on your way home from work you need to stop your car to let the Prime Minister's wife cross the road to continue on her jog. 121
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Turned on CNN, and it’s bizarro world. It’s “normal washing” top to bottom. Everything going on is largely being reported, but the framing is that everything is fine. Normal. Status quo. No challenge to the way things are. You’d never know the global order has collapsed. It’s maddening. 121
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are too many people sub-tweeting right now, I can’t keep up. It’s half my feed and I have no idea what awful thing they’re talking about. 032
Reposted by Chris OgilvieGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art 101914401
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 39 "Dans mon anglais cassé" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - 1/7music.apple.comI CanCon (And You Can Too!) - Weekly Playlist by Chris Ogilvie on Apple MusicPlaylist · 10 Songs 110
Reposted by Chris OgilvieAaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is pretty cool. (Covers the 50 largest municipalities in Ontario, not just Toronto.)votecompass.thestar.comVote Compass — Ontario Municipal Elections 2026 — Toronto StarUse this interactive survey designed by political scientists to calculate your alignment with the candidate platforms. 0103
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Going to need to punt this week’s music playlist until tomorrow - finishing up some job applications that went long. Nothing amiss, just looking to greener pastures. 3100
Reposted by Chris OgilvieCyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/202633 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings. 361606459
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That PM Carney discussed the possibility of US military action against Canada is making news in the US. People are shocked. This has been widely known and reported in Canada since the beginning of the year. In case you were wondering why Canadian attitudes to the US are the way they are. 152
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thinking about the time twenty years ago that someone on a forum I was a member of argued *very* strenuously that, as an American, it was his God-given right to not know who the leaders of countries like Germany, Canada, and the UK were. Goes some way to explaining why things are the way they are. 240
Reposted by Chris OgilvieMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you're designing a website for a restaurant, my tip would be: making it easy to find the menu is important, a 30-year breakdown of the founder's original vision and evolving philosophy less important. 1452220177
Reposted by Chris OgilvieB. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026(I know it’s not this simple but gotta hit the meme button). 425342
Reposted by Chris OgilvieYeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this 11280902880
Reposted by Chris OgilvieRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano 11868551647
Reposted by Chris Ogilviesarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow 21488341166
Reposted by Chris OgilvieAaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Making it impossible for anyone outside Canada to know what time it is here is an important part of reinforcing Canadian sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 2836486
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 38 "Doomed to wait forever, moored, but he is free" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - 1/7music.apple.comI CanCon (And You Can Too!) - Weekly Playlist by Chris Ogilvie on Apple MusicPlaylist · 10 Songs 120
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have never in my life had a good pumpkin beer. Every single one has existed on a spectrum from "not good" to "absolutely terrible." You think I'd learn my lesson. 010
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m tired of living in a Philip K. Dick story. 142
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Apparently I need to add "mandate" to the list of words Americans use in a very particular way, and get angry at you about if you use it the way the rest of the world does. Right up there with "republic" and "democracy" for words to tip-toe around uttering. 🙄 021
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh, the MEP who shouted “USA! USA” when PM Carney addressed the EU Parliament is an AfD rep? Bad look, America. 110
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026None of your business. Sucks to suck.cbc.caRepublican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC NewsA long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union. 122
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I am struggling mightily today against the urge to Post Through It. *Mightily* 150
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Too much of current elite opinion exists at the intersection of flim-flam and dipshittery. Looking at you, “we might kill all humans with our God-AI.” 🙄 010
Reposted by Chris OgilvieAaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Name something that Canadians love more than filling out the census.canada.caStatistics Canada thanks Canadians for their exceptional participation in the 2026 Census - Canada.caThanks to outstanding participation across the country, the final response rate for the Canadian census is among the highest ever recorded. 2118431
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 37 "This world’s gone fuckin’ crazy" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - 1/8music.apple.comI CanCon (And You Can Too!) - Weekly Playlist by Chris Ogilvie on Apple MusicPlaylist · 10 Songs 100
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One of these days I’m going to get better at typing on a smartphone. Today is not taht doy. 143
Reposted by Chris OgilvieHans on the Bike @hansonthebike.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Confederation Park in #Ottawa right now 1254
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11 was 25 years ago this year. The United States is 250 years old this year. Which means 9/11 was 1/10 of the entire age of the USA ago. I have no idea if there’s any meaning to that, but I keep thinking about it. 040
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sucessfully interacted with a City of Gatineau employee today entirely in French, without getting any exasperated looks. I feel pretty damned good about that. 071
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“Sign in to keep reading!” No. “Give us your e-mail to keep reading!” I won’t. “Verify your age by uploading a government ID!” Get fucked. 195
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Wild suggestion: Companies should make things people want without also including things that they don’t want, like surveillance and fraud. I think a company that did that might just have a hit on their hands! 252
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026RT with your home river. The Ottawa River, for me. It’s nice, I guess… 020
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie-chris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Looks like the Americans have lifted—or reduced, I'm no expert—the tariff on toilet paper. Guess they couldn't handle it. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... 144
Reposted by Chris OgilvieGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean 52852264
Reposted by Chris OgilvieZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this: 17416157