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John Roscoe

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"It's not easy having a good time... even smiling makes my face ache." I take photographs and crack jokes; a meditative creative obsessed with dialogue. I was @JohnCRoscoe on Twitter. johnroscoe.wordpress.com

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    John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social

    "Ok, ok. I get it: you're disappointed. So are we! But we are so close! Allz we need is a couple thousand more gallons of innocent baby blood, and then — oh man — hold on to your hats, folks!"

    ChatGPT now reaches 700 million users, but OpenAI’s CEO warns of an AI hype bubble as GPU shortages slow progress toward its next big model.

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Concedes GPT-5 Was a Misfire, Bets on GPT-6

    ChatGPT now reaches 700 million users, but OpenAI’s CEO warns of an AI hype bubble as GPU shortages slow progress toward its next big model.
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    "Behold!" cried the wizard unveiling his greatest invention ever, "I have built a mechanical man — as fit to plow a field or mind a loom as any flesh-and-blood man alive!"

    "Astonishing! On what fuel does it run?"

    "The blood of human babies."

    "But... then why-"

    "And its mileage is kinda shit."

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    John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social

    "I say," asks a friendly elderly lady on the lake trail, "are those turtles over there?"

    "Uh," I squint through the telephoto, agog at what looks like a scene from an early John Waters' movie: horney turtles doing each other with wild reptilian abandon, "looks like a Turtle conga line, over there."

    Dirty turtles totally going at it. #Nature #NaturePhoto #NaturePhotographer #NatureIsBeautiful #turtles
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    John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social

    "Repeated COVID infections help to keep your immune system calibrated like a muscle needs to be exercised."

    ...in much the same way that...

    "Repeated blunt force head trauma helps to make your concussed cerebellum thrive like a well-aeriated lawn."

    Alt: a crashtest dummy in a red sweatshirt is riding a bike into a wall
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    John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social

    Reply to merlinofcanada.bsky.social

    If you can get people as far as "speed limits should be enforced," you can make a lunge at "so why pay a guy $100k plus to do it when a machine does the job for pennies?"

    But then the goal posts move. They're suddenly of the opinion that ticket writing is an artisanal tradition of noble pedigree.

    Stock photo of a commercial chef holding a dish he just prepared.
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    John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social

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    We're talking about the Kreskin-level brainiac mentalist who figured he'd cracked "the economy code" when some grifty swindler sold him a load of buttcoins on the yootoob.

    Just mega-super-dooper economy smart, is our Mr. Poilievre.

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    "Ok, how much do I owe you?" "That'll be eight fifty, please." "Okey-doak, I'll just get out my-" "Wait, wait... Nine sixty-six." "But-" "Market fluctuations, Mr. Poilievre." "Ok, well, that comes out of your tip." "Yes sir. Hang on... ten fifty." "I'll just pay ca-" "Eleventy-sevix." "Please stop."

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    Reply to johnroscoe.bsky.social

    And isn't infinite availability to dispassionate scrutiny more important than getting results "right away?" So what if it takes hours. Suppose it took weeks: big whoop.

    Who, other than cable news networks selling late-night advertising space, benefits from instantaneous Election Night Coverage?

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    John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social

    Hi from Canada! Our federal elections are conducted on paper, though parts of the counting process is mechanically augmented. While it takes longer, the potential for error is mitigated by the persisting nature of the ballots as concrete objects in time/space which can be scrutinized and recounted.

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    John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social

    For a guy who's being investigated for shady deals with real estate developers and craven skulldinkery paving farmland and making parkland into lakeside lots for sprawling palatial McMansions, that Mr. Ford fellah sure ain't building a lot of houses, ain't he?

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    Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social

    The pace of housing construction in Canada is picking up, but Ontario is pulling it down, a new analysis shows. While the rest of the country saw a bump in housing starts, Ontario saw a steep decline, especially in and around Toronto. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1134226...

    Ontario’s lag in housing construction was at 'the root of the housing crisis' in Canada, new analysis by the Royal Bank of Canada shows.

    Canada isn’t in a housing slump — Ontario is, RBC analysis shows | Globalnews.ca

    Ontario’s lag in housing construction was at 'the root of the housing crisis' in Canada, new analysis by the Royal Bank of Canada shows.

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