Paul Barber 🇨🇦🌈
@jpaulbarber.bsky.social
I'm unique, just like everyone else
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Woah woah woah what the fuck
A new AI abomination in journalism, giving new meaning to the damning term "Pretendian":
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social #AI #Journalism #Indigenous
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social #AI #Journalism #Indigenous
‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
www.cbc.ca
September 18, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Woah woah woah what the fuck
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The Pope meets the ambassador from the planet Tython.
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
September 18, 2026 at 8:01 AM
The Pope meets the ambassador from the planet Tython.
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Back on my literary bullshit #SylviaPlath
September 16, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Back on my literary bullshit #SylviaPlath
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Yeah, I mean "my wife's hot, gender isn't real, we don't give a shit if you think we're trans or not, go fuck yourselves" while whirling a claymore round your head in nipple stickers is about as good a response as anyone has ever given.
September 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Yeah, I mean "my wife's hot, gender isn't real, we don't give a shit if you think we're trans or not, go fuck yourselves" while whirling a claymore round your head in nipple stickers is about as good a response as anyone has ever given.
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV’s brother, John, told Italian media that the pope helped him file his tax return and, over a video call, got him back into a computer he had locked himself out of.
Prevost propped his iPad on the dead machine and asked his brother what to do. “Because I’m computer illiterate.”
Prevost propped his iPad on the dead machine and asked his brother what to do. “Because I’m computer illiterate.”
Pope Leo XIV Does Tech Support and Tax Prep for His Brother in Suburban Chicago
John Prevost locked himself out of a new computer, propped his iPad on top of it, and called the Vatican. Then he told Italian TV what makes him proudest of his brother: “He hasn’t collapsed yet.”
www.thelettersfromleo.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
NEW: Pope Leo XIV’s brother, John, told Italian media that the pope helped him file his tax return and, over a video call, got him back into a computer he had locked himself out of.
Prevost propped his iPad on the dead machine and asked his brother what to do. “Because I’m computer illiterate.”
Prevost propped his iPad on the dead machine and asked his brother what to do. “Because I’m computer illiterate.”
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Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste:
September 16, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste:
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Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
September 16, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.
September 12, 2026 at 10:11 AM
If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.
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werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
September 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
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"Women are TOO EMOTIONAL to be president!!!!!"
September 11, 2026 at 1:41 PM
"Women are TOO EMOTIONAL to be president!!!!!"
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10 September 1930 | An Italian Jewish woman, Liliana Segre, was born in Milan.
In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944.
Liliana survived. Today she turns 96.
In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944.
Liliana survived. Today she turns 96.
September 10, 2026 at 11:00 AM
10 September 1930 | An Italian Jewish woman, Liliana Segre, was born in Milan.
In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944.
Liliana survived. Today she turns 96.
In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944.
Liliana survived. Today she turns 96.
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Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you!
🥰
emilyhare.com
#dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns
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emilyhare.com
#dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns
September 10, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you!
🥰
emilyhare.com
#dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns
🥰
emilyhare.com
#dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns
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You cannot will technology into neutrality
so long as governments, policy makers, and regulatory bodies continue to treat tech companies/products and their underlying anti-democratic and fascist ideologies as something separable, things will continue to get worse for fundamental rights and democracy
September 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM
You cannot will technology into neutrality
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My late wife actually worked with radioactive mice and often had a few tucked into her lab coat pockets. She loved them. Do they ever bite you? I asked. Sure, but not hard. Even so I had visions of her secretly going out at night as Mouse Woman.
September 9, 2026 at 12:45 PM
My late wife actually worked with radioactive mice and often had a few tucked into her lab coat pockets. She loved them. Do they ever bite you? I asked. Sure, but not hard. Even so I had visions of her secretly going out at night as Mouse Woman.
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September 8, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
September 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Rough Draft vs Final Draft
September 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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“Scrooge was confronted with his deceased business partner, sentenced to wander the afterlife in heavy chains for all eternity because he sort of had a point” is a hell of a take.
just what everyone wanted for the holiday season, a christmas carol adaptation for twitter debate me bros
September 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
“Scrooge was confronted with his deceased business partner, sentenced to wander the afterlife in heavy chains for all eternity because he sort of had a point” is a hell of a take.
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A couple of days ago, Australia post started a promo with HBO for the Harry Potter TV series. It you noticed the app logo changed to incorporate an owl, that's why.
A bunch of people sent in complaints about the association with that revolting TERF JK Rowling.
Today they replied. Partnership ended!
A bunch of people sent in complaints about the association with that revolting TERF JK Rowling.
Today they replied. Partnership ended!
September 1, 2026 at 6:40 AM
A couple of days ago, Australia post started a promo with HBO for the Harry Potter TV series. It you noticed the app logo changed to incorporate an owl, that's why.
A bunch of people sent in complaints about the association with that revolting TERF JK Rowling.
Today they replied. Partnership ended!
A bunch of people sent in complaints about the association with that revolting TERF JK Rowling.
Today they replied. Partnership ended!
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Courtesy of @evonomics.bsky.social's fb page 😂
August 31, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Courtesy of @evonomics.bsky.social's fb page 😂
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I mentioned the men’s rights movement in passing to my very not-online therapist. Her eyes got enormous and then she said, very carefully, “Do men… not have rights currently?”
August 31, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I mentioned the men’s rights movement in passing to my very not-online therapist. Her eyes got enormous and then she said, very carefully, “Do men… not have rights currently?”
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Pure fairy tale magic in this vibrant, furry neon creature brought to life by Anya Boz.
August 29, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Pure fairy tale magic in this vibrant, furry neon creature brought to life by Anya Boz.
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Peter Brookes @PeterBrookes on #Trump #LakeAmerica @TheTimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
August 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Peter Brookes @PeterBrookes on #Trump #LakeAmerica @TheTimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
January 31, 2026 at 12:28 AM
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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<melancholy>let’s do the time warp again
August 27, 2026 at 11:09 AM
<melancholy>let’s do the time warp again