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Ryan S.
Chatbots' obsession with a fictional character named "Elias Thorne" gives new meaning to Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse." Amazing story of a hallucination shared by multiple chatbots from @404media.co www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
The merits and privacy issues of a ban aside for the moment, this is the literal Holy Grail of penalty regimes. Kudos to the people who got that in the draft bill. #cdnpoli
New Substack!
"The Western Standard's Monetization of Separatism"
Or
"How to raise money off of an event you know is never going to happen..."
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...
Splashing cold sea water on a favourite separatist talking point. #cdnpoli #abpoli #Alberta #Canada #BC
Average inflation under President Obama was 1.46%.
It has been brought to my attention that the Western Standard misleads Albertans that I have agreed to a debate and they are attempting to raise money for that event.
Let me clear. #ForeverCanadian declined to partake, ever, in any debates with WS.
#ableg
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
