David Scott 🇨🇦

Musician, writer, hack philosopher, and technology cowboy in search of enlightenment and good tea. [email protected]

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

New EP (Connection) from The Infinite Noise out today. Should be available on your streaming platform of choice. Check https://t.co/gu3SiWbK1u or https://t.co/v5Lmly5I1g for links if you're having trouble finding it. #newmusic #nowplaying #outnow #yeg

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

Shall we assume that your sincere concern to “give those 400k Albertans l what they signed up for” will translate to you arguing against your own party for then changing the question completely, @nateglubish?

[Nate Glubish @nateglubish]

So I made a motion to do exactly that.

Give those 400,000 Albertans what they signed up for.

Put the question to a province-wide referendum on October 19.

That is not separatism. That is democracy.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

Check out Fruitless, the latest release I mixed & mastered from #yeg's own FTGU: https://t.co/npwKmPmAZn

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

I've been hesitant to write something like this because I didn't want to give oxygen to Alberta separatists. The conversation alone is dangerous.

But with the threshold to a referendum lowered so dramatically, we can't let myths out there go unchecked. https://t.co/6ocvSf78BZ

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@SkepticalCent @silkfella @erik_thorvalds Imho, separatists are dangerously short sighted & have an exaggerated sense of victimhood, but I reserve that harsher label for folks like the dufus who went down to “negotiate” joining the U.S. as they threatened us.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@SkepticalCent @silkfella @erik_thorvalds When I use the word, it’s the more general definition of betraying a country or cause. I’d see Riel as more a seditionist (which can be justified), judging by today’s standards.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@SkepticalCent @silkfella @erik_thorvalds Not discrediting them. Pointing out limitations in the way you’re using them, and that you can just as easily find significant differences as you can find parallels. Isn’t the first group trying to wrap themselves in the emotion of greater struggles.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@SkepticalCent @silkfella @erik_thorvalds They’re also very happy to tell us we’re all geniuses, unique thinkers, unusually perceptive, etc. Look up “llm flattery” or “why does my llm always tell me what I want to hear?” and you’ll find lots of people talking about the problem.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@SkepticalCent @silkfella @erik_thorvalds My prompt was definitely asking it to make fun. But even “sovereignty” instead of “separatism” lean it a certain way. Plus most LLMs now learn what you want from previous chats. When I enter: “What are the parallels between Riel and Alberta’s Sovereignty Movement?” it adds:

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@SkepticalCent @silkfella @erik_thorvalds A good skeptic might point out that LLMs like Grok or ChatGPT, one of which very likely generated the above, are very willing to hallucinate any sort of argument you’d like them to. They are very, very confident bullshitters. Here’s one making fun of the same thing.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@edmontonjournal Dear friends and family, regardless of who you plan to vote for, please don’t take advice from a guy who doesn’t know the difference between a sink and a urinal, among many other things he’s been wrong about.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

Yes, the whole world is still in for a lot of unnecessary hurt… but at least we’re going to get to enjoy these assholes hitting the limits of their cult. This is the talk of someone who’s on a really big powerful ship and yet completely oblivious to the fact that it’s sinking.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

My advice to foreign leaders is that if you have not already reached out to President @realDonaldTrump, you need to do so immediately. Trump is, at his core, a dealmaker who sees the world as a series of transactions.

Based on his track record to date with foreign governments, law firms, and universities, he is a tough, but fair negotiator. He loves to make deals and he loves to get things done promptly.

I expect Trump will reward the early dealmakers with fairer deals than those that wait to sit down at the negotiating table. Countries that respond with additional tariffs on our goods will be severely punished. The carrot and the stick writ large, Big Boy style.

The Art of the Deal will soon be sold out on @amazon. But if you are running a foreign country that is now subject to massive tariffs, don't wait to read the book.

Just pick up the phone. Call the President, and make a deal.

Just some advice from a friend of the global economy.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@DavidStaplesYEG Come on guys. It took the Stapler how long to discover you’re not supposed to pee in the sink at the arena? You can’t expect him to know about the pre-Smith era of Shapiro being against tariffs.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@mattyglesias I get that you’re not the asshole who started all of this, but 🇨🇦 doesn’t exist to solve 🇺🇸’s problems. We don’t find any of this funny. We’re also not dumb enough to believe we’d be given that power. You guys would go apeshit if another country was talking about you this way.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

Looks more like a cybertruck doing a nose dive.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Visual representation of the Social Security database

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

Iolaus was and remains far more interesting…

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Trudeau was a communist idiot, threatening but overall just a placeholder.
Mark Carney is both smart and a communist. Good luck Canada.
https://t.co/1Dd6CcRWaa

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

@FreedomFox_TM @GovTimWalz Same reason Canada didn’t diversify our trade away from the U.S. more until now. As allies and friends, we trusted each other. Had your president stuck to his word on the trade deal he himself signed, the trust wouldn’t have been broken.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

If all goes according to plan, The Infinite Noise should wind up with a track on 100.3 FM Grrrr The Bear in and around Edmonton at around 5:40PM today. Online here: https://t.co/cgDnchUzjs

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

Here’s a start to come to terms with reality enough to maybe make a dent in the damage: change “we must not forget who we are” to “we *have* forgotten who we are.” Your entire country has crossed the Rubicon, not just the idiot in the driver’s seat.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

Except no, you don’t stand with your “allies”. None of us see any real opposition to any of this. Just versions of, “Shucks guys, we’re really embarrassed.” How weak is your “democracy” when a single psycho conman can upend it in weeks? Spare us the “this isn’t who we are” BS.

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Every day another shameful betrayal of Ukraine by the Trump Administration.

Every day another Ukrainian soldier may die because of the actions of a feckless U.S. president.

We must not forget who we are.

America stands with her allies.

[David Scott 🇨🇦 @David_Scott]

This born and raised Albertan thinks the chickenshit in the cowboy hat is just a simple traitor. Feel free to take him and his friends in, America, but the rest of us are Canadians. AB does have a higher % of dumbfucks, but they are far from the majority.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

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