155mm ERFB Shell: Faster, Farther, Deadlier YouTube video by Our Own Devices

And a video about the product of North Bay's most infamous son, Gerald Bull.

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CRV-7 70mm Rocket: Canada's Wonder Weapon YouTube video by Our Own Devices

A new post on the CRV-7 rocket.

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@ anyone who thinks it’s merely funny to make puns or jokes about eugenics and genocide, and that it doesn’t have anything to do with real life…

I've heard chatter about increasingly restricted eligibility for the Covid vaccine in Ontario. Wanted to share that we just walked into a pharmacy and got our spring booster. Yes, we had one in the fall and no, we didn't fit the new restrictions. You don't get a certificate anymore. No one cares. 🤷‍♀️

Andrew Wakefield’s impact continues to spread.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Gift link:
Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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I spent today at the hospital and didn’t see a single respirator (other than my own).

There were a few people wearing surgical masks.

Signs saying it was a “mask friendly” environment.

No free masks.

No mask mandates.

Tons of coughing & sickness.

Masks belong in healthcare. Period.

Time to break out your tiniest violins, Ontario. Canada’s most (allegedly) corrupt premier can’t understand why everyone is paying such close attention to the decisions he makes.
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That’s the thing. Without calculators or devices I am limited by the types of questions I can ask.

How?

Because I want to truly ban them from my exams but the university won’t let me.

Headline in TTC subway displays: hospitalizations for respiratory infections on the rise in Canada.

Oh, I didn't think about a parallel like that. Great way to think about it.

It's not the only one. Management has heard from me and others about inspections that have uncovered broken emergency phones, both in elevators and outside of elevators.

I'm of the opinion that we need to improve our communication systems and the inspection processes.

I work on one of the Joint Health and Safety Committees here at YorkU.

Management has seen my reports of malfunctioning emergency phones here at the University. The problem is long-standing.

Emergency Phone test: Bergeron Centre Elevator B December 12 YouTube video by James Smith

Here's one example of a broken / malfunctioning phone that we reported.

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Thank you for bringing that up.

I take good emergency phone operation seriously and wish that others did, too.

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I hear you and understand the logic of it.

The reason I raise it is that we have long-standing issues with emergency phones not working here at York University.

I tell my colleagues that we need to test the phones on a regular basis.

www.yorku.ca/professor/dr...

What are the pain points with C++ in your team?

Ad seeking a graduate research assistant at the "Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce," seeking "a motivated graduate student intern to help investigate ways to integrate AI tools into our research processes." The successful candidate will "have experience across multiple LLM's and related AI tools."

Very on the nose that the institute hiring a grad intern to "integrate AI tools into our research processes," i.e. make future grad labor unnecessary, is funded by at least two separate billionaires, Chase bank, & a student loan collection agency. Its name? The GU Center on Education & the Workforce

TTC SERVICE ALERT ON APRIL 25th Alerts 1 へ Service alert The Passenger Assistance Intercom in subway stations are not working. As a safety precaution, all elevators are out of service until this issue is resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Wow. Emergency phone failure forces elevators to shut down in the toronto transit system.

Imagine if a university like YorkU shut down its elevators every time the emergency phones stopped working.

Not you specifically, any authors. And I doubt it would remain such limited use for many. Why not have it summarize the papers you cite? Or do a first draft of figure captions? Or...

No. If you can't do the very basic work of a scholar without AI, I question your judgement.

Anyway, authors can choose to use it if they wish and I can choose to spend my human time reviewing papers written entirely by humans.

I'm at the point where I won't review a manuscript if the authors used AI. Every journal should be requiring authors to state clearly up front if they used AI and how, and then let reviewers know that when asking them to review.

We need to have a serious discussion about whether our historical and current management culture, which has allowed IT systems to be unresponsive to user demands, will make us especially vulnerable to cyber exploit tools like the ones that Mythos make possible.

Mythos: Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer YouTube video by Dave's Garage

Mythos should worry universities like YorkU, where management and centralized IT is unable to update decades-old software systems.

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a hockey player wearing a jersey that says sirens on the front Alt: a hockey player wearing a jersey that says sirens on the front

Yet another reason I watch PWHL.

The piss tank on the ISS is now 21% full.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

“Eligible ages: 65 to 130” 🤔

U of C hits way above its weight class in locomotion due to the kinesiology research there. Hopefully the engineering folks are connected.