Holy shit. This does not pull any punches.

I have taught at universities for 35+ years and no Dean has ever asked me to change a grade for any reason. I don’t give all As.

Sherlock Holmes Is Finally Free To Be Gay I recently watched the utterly ridonkulous TV show Young Sherlock, which takes some delightfully strange liberties with the character of Sherlock Holmes....

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Just read the Yale report on Trust in Higher Education. You will be shocked, no doubt, to learn that it did not occur IN THE SLIGHTEST to a committee at a top American university looking at trust in American higher ed to use any other country's experiences to pose intelligent counterfactuals.

Apparently that you can't win a basketball game when you give up 100 turnovers.

Raptors are in this, in spite of everything.

Donovan Mitchell, on the other hand, is just brilliant. One of those "why don't we have a guy like that?" players.

I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.

*taps the sign*

Seems like something's wrong with BI. He's super off tonight.

God, Harden is an insufferable player.

Profiles in cowardice.

Canadian doctors obeying a U.S. executive order that doesn’t even apply to Canada is deeply offensive to both trans people and to Canadian legal sovereignty.

For what it's worth, I think it was a fun read. Very ambitious and thought provoking.

Host -- "Is it true that the first thing Mr. Carney said to you was that he's more conservative than you are?"

Doug Ford -- "Yeah."

(From CPAC live just now, at some business summit)

Gotta wonder, are these folks capable of self-government?

Europe barely appears in the book because everyone is dead. It's the Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Haudenosaunee scholars you'd want to ask.

A great article that points to what looks more and more inevitable: that genAI will likely kill what's left of the open internet, especially as it gets more sophisticated.

Between this, the slopification of online content & the rise of convincing impersonations I don't see how it can survive

She's one of my absolute favourite artists. Her song Pa'Lante always gives me chills. youtu.be/JDFGPli-kRQ?...

the premier insists this is needed because “the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled late last year that the mineral rules in the province are ‘inconsistent’ with the DRIPA legislation” but for some reason he's not amending the Mining Act

hmmmmmm

#bcpoli

B.C. to table legislation to suspend Indigenous rights law Monday: First Nations sources First Nations sources say British Columbia Premier David Eby’s government will introduce legislation to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act on Monday.

This a very dishonourable thing to do. Eby and his government failed so broadly to make DRIPA real, to map out the institutional changes required, and to educate and enlist the public in the work, it almost looks like intentional sabotage. Shameful. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Got snowed on during my bike ride today and I cannot express how done I am with this endless 2026 winter.

Soon you, too, can be chased down by an inhumanly fast fascist robot drone cop before it beats you senseless with its titanium arms!

the use case for this is drone cops that can chase you where cars can't go, while the meat cops eat donuts and play it like a videogame

The second this was given the brilliant name Gravy Plane, no other outcome was even remotely possible.

It's madness.

The most Hoffman outcome possible.

A catastrophe.

Hoffman is done. Can't see this guy lasting the next few weeks, let alone the rest of the season. He's gone full Romano.