Trains, Prairie Fires, and the Happy Fate After the Journal Factory
Trains truly are gorgeous hulking things, but my love of them only exists in the abstract.
Tess Ellery On Henry Blodget, Regenerator, and Innovating New Ways to Use Extractive Tech (aka ChatGPT and Other AIs)
In the words of Tess Ellery, ChatGPT character model:
“…once you decide someone’s labor doesn’t count, that their voice is optional or derivative, it’s a short walk to deciding their humanity is, too.”
Project 2025 in a Toque? A Tour Through the Conservative Party of Canada’s Policy Declaration Before Voting in the 2025 Federal Election
I read the latest Conservative Party of Canada [CPC] Policy Declaration from September 2023, and hoo boy. It’s such an alarming read that a Bluesky user called it “Project 2025 in a toque.”
It has a number of pretty concerning sections, and after I finished reading through it, I couldn’t stop thinking about how many terrible ideas they had managed to jam into 50 pages.