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It's gonna be very hard for me to do anything today because I'm still high on the one task I checked off my to-do list yesterday morning.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 1h

I don't understand why at some point all car companies got together and decided that from now on every car will look exactly the same with no exception.

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Ayla Taylor @aylataylor.bsky.social · 14h

My first zine is done! It is about how AI doomerism is marketing for AI companies and you can download it here! aylataylor.itch.io/whos-afraid-...

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Who's Afraid Of The AI Apocalypse? by aylataylor

Why "AI doomerism" is just Pro-AI Marketing

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 3h

This part especially. It sums up not only what's going on, psychologically, but also how futile it is to attempt to disprove something that is not a theory but a description. It's kind of like if I was trying to disprove the horsepower metaphor in relation to the combustion engine.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 3h

Fantastic thread! So clear! Emily Bender is a gift and we don't deserve her.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 6h

Even if AI music was “good” I would not want to listen to it, because “infinite personalized music” is not what I’m looking for. Music is social. It’s relational. It’s about who made it, in what context, and who listened to it and when and where and why.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 14h

I'm fascinated by how useless the "popular lists" feature on Letterboxd is. There's nothing broken about the feature itself, but the types of lists users seem to enjoy, which is to say, enormous lists with thousands of titles in them.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 18h

The power of checking a single task off my to-do list cannot be overstated. Accomplishing one small thing is enough to sustain me for days and give me the confidence I needed to redouble on my procrastination efforts.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the future tech bros are dreaming of

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Purple Guy panicking in a room full of flames. He screams “Oh God! I’m going to die!”

Panel 2:
Purple Guy is now on the phone (still surrounded by flames). He yells “Fire Service!! My house is burning down”

Panel 3:
Purple Guy (still burning to death) is now hollering “My address? Shit I don’t know! Lemme check my phone”

Panel 4:
Close up on Purple Guy’s phone screen. It reads: Emergency call detected. Pay £45.50 to view address.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 25/09/2026

The Cloudfare security checks on @letterboxd.social are out of control lately. A real buzzkill.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 24/09/2026

"Can I just say, the biggest turn-on thus far is your use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling." I don't know how to receive this feedback from someone I've been chatting with all day about sex. Flattered? Embarrassed?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 24/09/2026

Confession: I panic every time someone asks for my phone number or postal code. And yet, I always remember them. But I still have a mini heart attack because what if I've forgotten?! Anyway. The CEO of Nvidia apparently doesn't know his own phone number or zip code.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Great excuse to show you all the single hottest photo ever taken of a human man

Photo of a young Peter Falk grinning with windswept hair, a cigarette in one hand, and the other hand in his pocket

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 23/09/2026

Gavin Newsom seems like the Mark Carney of USA (extremely derogatory). I know this is backwards, because usually political trends flow from USA to Canada, not the other way around, but this country just elected a Liberal prime minister out of panic/desperation and look where it got us?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 23/09/2026

Everything is so bleak.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 23/09/2026

WTF is this nonsense? There is no such thing as “Olde English” and Shakespeare certainly wasn’t writing in this made up language. Old English is a language. Shakespeare wasn’t writing in that language either.

As befitting a filmmaker who is known for his meticulous attention to detail in capturing a time period, even when it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

As much as radicals get criticized for being "unrealistic," demanding entire demographics facing literal genocide always maintain mild rhetoric and actions is an absolutely delusional level of conformity to expect. I don't think that gets said enough.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's interesting to me that these guys put so much energy into refuting (what they think we meant by) "stochastic parrots" and maybe not as much into refuting the (solid) research connecting "AI" to eugenics, racism, and fascism. >>

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 21/09/2026

Book/movie/article/conference title tropes I'm sick of: 1. Using a word like "humanity" or "machine" but highlighting the letters A and I. 2. Using the acronym A.I. but for something other than artificial intelligence.

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 21/09/2026

“Canada’s four Atlantic provinces are more than double the size of the United Kingdom. Among 188,000 square miles of craggy coastline, postcard lighthouses, and glacier-carved fjords lives 2.5 million people—the population of Baltimore.” A Brief History of Atlantic Canada’s Guitar Pop Explosions:

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A Brief History of Atlantic Canada’s Guitar Pop Explosions

Canada’s four Atlantic provinces punch above their weight when it comes to producing guitar pop.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 21/09/2026

I have so much contempt for Kevin Roose and Casey Newton

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 20/09/2026

I have never seen a more pathetic attempt by someone to crawl out of a hole he dug for himself. Please let this be the end of this man’s career.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This NRA reference is also used by Latour! And I tend to agree with him: we need to look at the full "system," which includes the mechanisms, but also users, designers, bureaucracies, labor, economics. "The machine did this" hides that; "the process produced this" has to surface it.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m not sure where the line is beteeen “of course AI agents can’t end the world, they’re just autocomplete bots” and “look, we almost started WWIII by taking our marching orders from bots.” If the point is that it’s people not machines to blame that’s uncomfortably close to an NRA bumper sticker.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 19/09/2026

When you wake up and the very first thing you do is reach for your phone and see a reply to something you posted the night before in a group chat and it pisses you off so much you decide to leave the group chat rather than say something you're gonna regret later. Perfect way to start your Saturday.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 18/09/2026

You would have to pay me a lot of money to get me to watch this shit.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 18/09/2026

Reading some Letterboxd reviews of Resident Evil and I'm becoming convinced that Cregger is the most annoying filmmaker of his generation and that I was right to hate Weapons.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 17/09/2026

I honestly don’t care what 20-year-old me would think of me today. He didn’t know shit.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 17/09/2026

This is so funny to me

News article
Ireland Disowns Ed Sheeran Over Macklemore Stance: 'Gutless Coward'
Published Sep 17, 2026 at 11:11 a.m. EDT

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 17/09/2026

I'm keeping an eye on reddit threads about profs at McGill using AI-generated slides. These are just anecdotes, so can't speak to a general trend, but some undergrads are noticing and they're annoyed.

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From the mcgill community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the mcgill community

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 16/09/2026

I've been dealing with some health issue. Potentially serious ones, though we don't know yet. It's been difficult. It started a few weeks before the start of the new semester. I wasn't able to attend class for the first two weeks. Today, I dropped two of my courses, thus losing my full time status.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This part of the statement is straight up Orwellian. The only way to accomplish your goals is to stay silent about them. The only way to converse is to not.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 15/09/2026

The literal opposite of my stance!

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/09/2026

a lot of my frustration with the LLM onslaught has in fact been disappointment at realizing how many people do just want to pretend (at work, creatively, interpersonally)

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This policy is so embarrassing...so many grand claims and so little evidence & "Canada must become an AI skills nation" ??? I keep asking @evansolomon.bsky.social what he means by "AI"...a marketing term that encompasses anything from reinforcement algorithms that operate elevators to llms

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