It’s just Baphomet representing the Statue of Liberty. I don’t understand why people are confused.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

A couple weeks back I saw a Chili’s in downtown Mexico City. Across the street from the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Oh so now copyright matters.

I find airport hotel restaurants fascinating, ideal for people watching, the multitasking person on their phone and laptop for hours, the young couple kissing by the bar, another couple sitting, not looking at each other, the ridiculously overpriced food and drinks, the impermanence of it all.

I find airport hotel restaurants fascinating, ideal for people watching, the multitasking person on their phone and laptop for hours, the young couple kissing by the bar, another couple sitting, not looking at each other, the ridiculously overpriced food and drinks, the impermanence of it all.

Meanwhile, in Canada… 🦗🦗🦗

I was hoping your flight wouldn’t be as bad as feared. But pleased things are going well now that you are there.

a neon sign that looks like a maze with the number 047037 on it . Alt: a neon sign that looks like a maze with the number 047037 on it .

"the only minority ruining this country is billionaires"

*NARRATIVE DETECTED!*

Not a single one of these psychos cares even a little bit about the people being bombed. I hate them all

Chat GPT presents "as a friend to confide in. One who never says you’re wrong, who will validate your most intrusive thoughts, and who will delete your account to distance itself legally from your actions — but won’t help you deescalate or find your way to real world help."

A little curious if Tumbler Ridge shifts the discussion on psychological safety. I’m betting it won’t. Hope I’m wrong.

Today was another reminder. I’ve managed to learn one thing. May I somehow find wisdom in other things…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT conversations from the Tumbler Ridge teenager who carried out a horrific school shooting were flagged by employees at OpenAI.

They raised their concerns but the company ultimately did nothing, according to the reporting. archive.is/GUweE#select...

One of our team has picked her son up at school early a few times lately because of reported threats. She told us a shooting was her great fear and a reason she came to Canada instead of the US.

I wanted to tell her these shootings were rare in Canada and those threats likely pranks. Glad I didn’t.

Hooray for Everything! Simpsons YouTube video by Cory Noonan

I sense the culture would like to pretend Up With People! never happened, but it lives on in the memorable Simpsons bit Hooray for Everything!.

youtu.be/0_fM1jfh49o?...

I enjoyed the cultural frisson of the two “competing” half-time shows tonight. Will watch Pat Finnerty’s watchalong of Kid Rock’s lip-synced set.

I’m old enough to remember the truly, madly, deeply awful halftimes of my youth. I saw multiple Up With People shows.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_with...

I started sabbaticast.brennaclarkegray.ca this month as a way to track and report out on my sabbatical in the open, because I think open scholarship helps all of us who spend a lot of time thinking, "Am I doing this right?"

1. This 2016 exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel is so essential, really gets to the heart of Epstein's project.
Epstein: brexit, just the beginning.
Thiel: Of what?
Epstein: return to tribalism... finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain

Your ambient Kamloops moments are always appreciated. I also admire the hot fire you direct toward injustice. All in all, a social media follow that's pretty much unmatched.

Not on you. They don’t make cartons the way they used to.

This is a tremendous read from @mattgurney.bsky.social

Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.

“Closeups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.”

Now THIS is how you do a "war against Christmas". I mean, you can say "Happy Holidays" all you want but this is the real deal.

This is a great day for one of the bravest and most committed people I know. I’m so grateful he can get on to doing exceptional learning technology work… and, you know, with his life.

That feels like more of a Mastodon post, but the server I am on is down all day. Maybe I should blog it. I have one. But I think if I take this to the Abject the unbounded melancholy will swallow me whole.

Spent the past hour remembering and websearching some people I connected with via blogging ~25 years ago. Down some sad paths, people passing, and more just vanishing. And archive.org captures of that time seem to be decaying. ISPs blocking. Images disappearing. The web like an aging mind, fading.

Far more than philosophy or the arts, it is following sports that has taught me about the pitiless nature of existence. Hints of things like destiny shimmer up, but they are an illusion. Nothing is going to happen just because, no matter how perfect it might be.

I somehow missed that my favourite mimic does this incredible Watts.

A quick spin through Grokipedia, and every entry turned up laughably-sourced toxic misinformation.

I've re-started my monthly donation to Wikipedia.

"Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

I love the weird shit that comes out when a team is on an improbable run.