You are not an artist if you use digital or Photoshop- only certain manual mechanisms count as art You are not an artist if you photograph - you must physically render the image by hand You are not an artist if you paint - you must shape clay by hand Etc.

Canada struck a China deal involving canola and a cap of 49,000 Chinese EVs. Trump threatened Canada with 100% tariffs. Now his White House touts recommendations for tariff relief on $30 billion in U.S.–China goods each way, plus Chinese purchases of U.S. coal. Apparently China can trade with America. Canada needs a permission slip.

Me, in a time machine, to Eliezer in 2006: The year is 2026. You stand back to back with Bernie Sanders. Peter Thiel has named you the Antichrist. EY-2006: Oh no. Did somebody invent pharmacological mind control and use it on me, or- Me: Nvidia was on the verge of destroying all things. You had no choice. EY-2006: Are we talking about the computer graphics card manufacturer, or an unrelated supervillian named "Invidia"? Me: The former. It turned out that computer graphics cards contained a surprising amount of world-destroying potential. All attempts at hindering the reckless exploitation of the Graphic Card Force for corporate profit were stymied by the far left, which feared that any attempts to regulate them might lead to regulatory capture. Other attempts were made to prevent Nvidia from selling to foreign companies that resold to communist China, but those attempts were blocked by the far right. Nvidia is now a $5.5 trillion company. EY-2006: ...What are politics like in 2026, exactly? Me: In other news that is mostly unrelated, the decision theory paper you're currently working on will accidentally spark off a transgender vegan murder cult. EY-2006: A WHAT? Why? How? Why? Me: Millions know your name as the greatest of heroes, millions more as the greatest of villains, and other millions know you solely as the greatest author of Harry Potter fanfiction. EY-2006: This is beginning to strain credulity. Me: The New York Post will probably soon publish a story claiming that you keep a harem of submissive mathematicians. Sadly, they will be lying. EY-2006: I'm going to stop believing you now. Me: All of this is taking place under the ominous shadow of Donald Trump.

Quote-marking this because I think a bunch of people are going to play games and pretend something didn't happen when it did

No, they didn’t ’dodge the question’ The Navier Stokes problem concerns the solution of a system of differential equations with or without external forces. Openai solved the case with such a force. Saying that OpenAI dodged the problem by solving it only when an external force is present is like saying that showing electromagnetic waves are solutions of Maxwell’s equations in a vacuum dodges the challenge to solve them, because no charges or currents are present

Mark Carney does Trump's accordion hands

Mark Carney’s approval hit 70%, the highest level, surpassing Chrétien’s 66%. So freaking awesome.

Basically, what Canadians have heard from President Trump (and his Cabinet) since January 2025 is the following: “you are the equivalent of a piece of s**t. We don’t need you; you are nothing without us. We will use economic pressure to force you into submission. It doesn’t matter that we have a free trade agreement between us, setting out the rules. It doesn’t matter that that agreement was my idea. It doesn’t matter that I praised the agreement as being “the best one ever.” No matter what those rules say, I’ll do whatever I want to you whenever I feel the urge to do so. It kind of gives me pleasure to hurt you economically; I especially enjoy humiliating you. You should sit back and welcome that. You absolutely shouldn’t complain about it. If you dare hit back, I’ll strike you even harder. We can retaliate; you cannot! And don’t even think about looking for any new relationships. If you try that, I’ll scorch the earth under you – and I’ll make any country entering into agreements with you regret doing so.” This meets the classic definition of an abusive relationship. It still shocks us that the U.S. now behaves this way. Canadian businesses and individuals treasure the connections we have to Americans. These bonds have been formed over centuries and have greatly benefitted both Americans and Canadians. We wish more Americans were acting to stop their Administration from destroying what we’ve built together. Sadly, the only predictability – for the time being – is more of the same from the Trump Administration. All threats, all the time. Our government understands that Canadians, overwhelmingly, see no plus sides in succumbing to this grotesque harassment. We can’t have confidence that this menacing behavior will stop anytime soon; we know, based on common understandings of how bullies behave, that ignoring or tolerating such abuse simply invites more of it. In recent times, albeit in different ways, Russia & China have been the most consistent big power “aggressors” in international relations. Under President Trump, the U.S. has chosen to join that group. Canadians are coming to understand the costs we’re likely to bear from preserving our self-respect and our sovereign rights as a country to pursue our collective interest. It’s all very unfortunate (to put it mildly). Weaning ourselves from disproportionate dependence on buying from and selling to Americans will be hard. But our leaders have been left with few options. Mercifully, there are still many jurisdictions in this world that behave ‘normally’. That aren’t predators. That are interested in partnership, not dominance. We need to deepen our relations with as many of those as we possibly can. Who knows what “Associate Membership” in the EU will mean, if it ever comes to pass. Canada isn’t interested in being governed by Brussels any more than we’re interested in being governed by Washington. So, this may lead only to deepened trade relationships, maybe only in certain sectors. If so, that’s still better than being so heavily exposed to the whims of an ever-more-hostile U.S. Administration.

For those keeping score, the school yard argument of “we can all be friends but maybe I won’t be your friend anymore if you’re friends with her” has recently been sanctioned for use in Congressional assessments of third party foreign policy.

Why does MAGA get so triggered by everything Canada does? You’ve said you don’t want anything from us. You’ve said you don’t need us. You’ve said the same about Europe. So why the outrage when Canada and Europe move closer together? You should be thrilled. Less need for you.

>Paper saying LLMs are fundamentally lacking *Looks inside* >They are evaluating 2.5 year old model

Canada spent decades building one of the closest trading relationships on Earth with the United States. Trump decided that was leverage to threaten us with. So Canada started looking harder at Europe and the rest of the world. Now MAGA is furious about that too. You don’t get to scream “America First” and then throw a tantrum when Canada says “Canada First.”

You’re telling people that things need to slow down when you’ve teased a world of abundance and future science breakthroughs while leaving them threejs games. Of course people are going to have strong emotions to this. Anyway huggingface, AISI ,CAISI for independent evaluators.

OpenAI's Dean Ball literally said that open weights would destroy American AI by destroying the labs (wrecking their margins), and when people disagreed with him everyone else at the labs spoke up & defended the take. So no, the reg capture angle is quite credible.

America is actively trying to make us a colony Fuck these Yanks

Many of us who are not Americans have come to assume that Americans (even Democrats) tacitly agree with Trump that the whole of North America from the Panama Canal to Greenland and Canada should belong to them. The complacency is approval. No other first world nation would allow their leader to behave like this. Unless there is a serious glitch in your governmental system, the fact that he is still in office and hasn't been legally removed indicates widespread silent approval of his behaviour.

How about instead we kill you

Credit to @bandit13_nation for introducing me to this banger. Co-sign with no hesitation.

Fucking quaking in my boots

Trump I could plausibly be called a Black Swan. Trump II cannot. Once an electorate knowingly repeats the choice, we have moved from an improbable long-tail event to something closer to Le Bon’s The Crowd: evidence of a recurring susceptibility to collective irrationality.

Carney: "The U.S.'s narrow merchandise trade deficit only exists because the U.S. buys so much of its energy from Canada. I don't think they want us to stop sending any of that energy."