Yan Basque

Exciting news! I am joining the Homosaurus Collective as project coordinator to help with the French translation of the LGBTQ+ linked-data vocabulary. Among other responsibilities, I will be reviewing terminology and planning feedback sessions with Quebec-based community organizations.

It's astonishing how bad the Democrats are at fighting fascism.

I didn’t think Obama’s stand up comedy routine was especially good and I’m confused about why everyone is celebrating it.

Oh good. Someone is reading Kevin Roose’s book so I don’t have to!

This is kinda funny (but also not funny... RIP Jason's inbox)

I loved every minute of this!

LOL Even with that warning, I was not prepared. Completely insane. (I didn't read any further.)

It’s Friday night, I’m on my way home and I’m hungry and I resisted the temptation to eat at one of 75 fast food restaurants because I have leftovers at home and I think I deserve a freaking medal!!

Turns out I was not hacked by a surprisingly hot comms professor in Virginia. My partner was gonna send something to a friend of theirs and forgot to tell me. 😅

Random address added to my Amazon account, and yet there is no other sign that anybody accessed my account, no suspicious orders were placed, etc. Freaky. I hate when stuff like this happens. Reset everything just to be safe.

I and everyone else keep saying this but: I’m so tired of this shit.

This is craaaaaazyyyy. Guess they’re just saying the quiet part out loud now.

It's so confusing to see people be impressed by things that are just so transparently mediocre to me, whether it's ai slop or Elon Musk's pathetic car stunts. It makes me feel crazy. Why can't people see what is right in front of their eyes?

the video game industry was a 40 year long sociological experiment conducted by Harvard University. the study is now complete. thank you for your time

Holy shit. The gaming industry is truly fucked.

The best thing about being born in between generations is I get to disavow both genXers and millennials.

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

I know it looks cool to print really tiny unreadable text on the sticker at the centre of the record but please, for the love of god, just tell me if it's side A or side B. That's all I want to know and my eyes can't take the strain.

The "you don't understand the technology" crowd took years to understand the technology and have been dicks the whole while to those who did immediately.

There is so much bait-and-switch in Canada’s “digital sovereignty“ (heh) strategy. Bottom line is that building out massive polluting AI data centres to host US tech companies is a form of digital colonialism: they control the tech & the profits, and export the dirtiest, lowest-value part abroad.

an expert here: designing chatbots to be anthropomorphic, sycophantic yes-men is a choice ai developers make

I question why anyone would look at this extremely obvious fake stunt and convince themselves it is “extremely cool shit.” There’s a whole class of people (many of them journalists) who still think Elon is “cool” even as they concede he’s a bad person.

Messed up situation but the students quoted are being unreasonable. I understand that people are worried about their safety but to expect a university to disclose someone's criminal background to other students is completely insane. Do we believe in rehabilitation or not? And these are law students!

This Indigenous man spent 4 decades in prison, is out on parole, is advocating for prisoners and former inmates labour rights, and is attending law school. And McGill - with its white supremacist colonial history - is going to throw him under the bus to make white students feel safer?

The racial aspect of this is buried at the bottom of the article. Ewert is Métis and won a Supreme Court case in 2018 about racist risk assessments that failed to take into account his Indigenous status. How much do you want to bet the anonymous women who ran to the press with this story are white?

There Will Be Blood for Tax Purposes

This movie suuuuucked boxd.it/gO97ED

Sounds like a cool game

Leaving that here for future reference

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

This whole thread is such a good description of the style of writing that some people seem to genuinely believe is scientific. It’s hard to tell if they’re being disingenuous or if they literally have never read a scientific paper and think this is how everyone does it.

I have been called a boomer for referencing Star Trek. I guess that’s fine. Unrelated, but when I pointed out to my Gen Z nephew that I am in fact an Xennial, he immediately retorted: “Please never say that word again!” 😂