Leigh Sprague
@leighsprague
NBU Executive Director. Lawyer, Dad, He/him. Anti-AI zealot.
Wow, a very quickly erected art installation in tribute to how many goals France scored today
Is the policy itself written by AI? Two telltale signs that something was AI generated are over-reliance on em dashes and the "rule of three" structure, as marked up below. There's also lots of the superficial analyses and "not x, but y" negative parallelism typical of AI generated writing.
The thing is, you can just skip to the end of the opinion and realize that the authors are Koch-funded bloodthirsty ideologues who would just as soon grind the bones of the poor for fuel as they would give this budget a good faith assessment.
At the budget lock-in and learning that they no longer make you give up your phone on entry. So on this occasion I’m celebrating the retirement of my dummy phone, which for years I’ve used for this purpose while my real phone stayed in my pocket. Thank you for your service 🫡.
15.6 km skate is tough on these [redacted] year-old legs, but what a great stress reliever and head-clearer that was.
In Ottawa for meetings and buddy there’s no danger of me walking into the wrong meeting room today
I bought this before World Series game 6, sadly didn’t need it that night or the next. Opening it now to exorcise the baseball demons and celebrate NYE. Cheers to all for a happy and prosperous 2026. 🍾 🥂
One of my little traditions is that every year, on the flight home from my last work trip before Christmas, I watch The Family Man (2000). It totally sucks, and I love it so much.
Me 5 minutes into this session on “mindfulness” after promising my colleagues I wouldn’t roll my eyes
I’m a one-issue voter, and that issue is standardizing the size of these things