I don’t buy band media anymore but I do go out to live shows and buy t-shirts and other merch like nobody’s business.

Record company middlemen and forever streaming can take a hike.

I expect there are strategic reasons why the travel advisory isn’t being updated ahead of the CUSMA review. Once it’s over I have a strong feeling that will change.

Why do people need the government to tell them not to visit the US? People can read the news and see the travesties happening south of the border.

Based on polling it’s the people who specifically dislike the government and their messaging that need to stop traveling. An official advisory isn’t going to change many of those minds.

The one benefit I see of an official advisory is if your work tries to force you to travel. That becomes a lot harder when the official policy is it’s dangerous.

The risk of intelligence coming from LLMs is zero, let alone superintelligence.

The danger isn’t some computer mind deciding to destroy us upon its birth. It’s the everyday harm CEOs are doing to the working class and future students by using AI as an excuse to cut jobs and force paid products into education and the hands of young workers at the expense of their own skill development.

Nobody up here is taking these threats seriously anymore. Manufacturing in the US would immediately crater. So many Americans would lose jobs, and thanks to their bullying isolationism nobody is lining up to replace Canada as a viable trading partner.

Having no free trade with the US would suck but it’s temporary. Being a vassal state or getting annexed is permanent.

Maintain current elbow position.

That’s the shitty part. The news always says they have to hire them all back eventually but it’s not guaranteed to be the same group.

For many, AI is just the latest excuse to downsize and juice the quarterly revenue numbers for shareholders.

Takes me back to the Square Gamer forum I used to volunteer on. If any of you are still out there, that was a really fun and silly time of teenage life I enjoyed with you.

Yep, trust the Brexit guy. That’s going just fine.