The Mysteries Everything happens at once. We miss most of it. The kettle boils over And puts out the fire. —Laurie Duggan

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Where does the king of the world live? beneath; not above.

The Mysteries Everything happens at once. We miss most of it. The kettle boils over And puts out the fire. —Laurie Duggan

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Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be mitigated by universal basic income, while also adding that they...

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose

thebeaverton.com/2025/11/tech...

Quick and Meaningless Data Collection Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…

I NEED HELP!

Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!

I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!

Please circulate widely!

Those were times when the boundary between magic and science was rather ill-defined.

False information, misleading images rife in Manitoba-based AI-driven 'news' service In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the rise of Boring News, an AI-generated news outlet, highlights the growing tension between technology and journalism. While it aims to fill local news gaps acr...

It's almost the weekend, which means it's time to read this can't-look-away, bonkers story about a Winnipeg business, known for coupon aggregation, that has churned out tens of thousands of AI-generated stories in recent months.

By @evawasney.bsky.social

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

tiled patterns forming a noise field.

hex tiles with simplex noise

The Orange At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist. —Wendy Cope

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Neat! A great way to teach these concepts.

Note: Final level matches don't always work (see image). Also, rotation is intuitive in the centre, but I was surprised that edge rotation rotates the position of the cup in the grid.

I have indeed eaten it by the tablespoon and I regret nothing.

Would love to know what some of the plugins were. I teach a C++ for Unreal course and am always looking for cool student projects.

These look great. Plus I just read and enjoyed John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" which is referenced in some of the skills. :)

made with math & #p5js

Photo of a vintage handheld Nintendo Game & Watch “Parachute” device. The LCD screen shows a simple game scene with a helicopter dropping characters by parachute into the ocean, while a player-controlled boat moves below to catch them. Left and Right buttons are on either side of the device.

Wasn't expecting this parachut dood to make a cameo in the new Mario Bros movie. I had this device when I was a kiddo.

Check out fellow band member Ben Kidd this Thursday April 16th at 7:30 PM at the West End Cultural Centre performing with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra! WJO has very kindly offered a 10% off deal to all WVGO fans with coupon code VGO10 at checkout! Go to app.arts-people.com/index.php?ti... for tickets

"We may not, in fact, know them afterward either, but they matter all the same, and history is full of people whose influence was most powerful after they were gone."

- Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists take the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting. It’s the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand."

"When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes–you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and knowable, a alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists."

"Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act." 🧵

Collage that includes rows of colored dots, wavy lines, a cartoon bee, an jet airplane, and a cutout figure wearing a shirt that says "MATERIAL SUCKS". At the top are the letter S, T, U, N, G, followed by a photo of an eye.

Collage with blue horizontal stripes in the background. Near the top, a small blue illustrated figure stands on a hand extended from a window. In the middle, there is a tiny yellow-and-black bee. At the bottom, a silhouette of a person with their fist raised holds a sign with an eye. Small handwritten letters at the bottom read: stung?

Scans of the two original collages in this series. The second of these lived in the men's washroom at the Pyramid Cabaret, but only lasted a few months.

A white rectangular wall-mounted air "freshening" device in the men's washroom at the Carlos & Murphy's restaurant in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in the 2000s. There is a sticker collage on the front of the device that includes rows of colored dots, wavy lines, a cartoon bee, and a cutout figure wearing a shirt that says "MATERIAL SUCKS", with "www.stungeye.com" hand-written along the bottom.

This stungeye sticker was up in the Carlos & Murphy's men's washroom for most of the 00s. :)

Photo of the earth as taken from space. Below is the following Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."

Screenshot of entry field for private dns

Tip for Android users: changing your "Private DNS" setting to dns.adguard-dns.com will block a huge amount of ads in your browser AND in various apps at the DNS level. For example, this reduces the ads I see when using YouTube by about 95%.

And it's free, no account required.

Ever wonder what really goes into making a video game?

This Postmortem is a free evening of honest talks from local devs + open Q&A. The wins, the failures, and everything in between.

📅When: April 30th
🌎Where: New Media Manitoba | 62 Albert St
🎟️RSVP: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Nice! I dabbled with Slackware on a 386dx40. Many discs. CLI only; wasn't able to configure X Window.

Screenshot of “Winnipeg News App” feedback page inviting users to report bugs or make suggestions. A user report reads: “Thank you for updating this app, it is much appreciated. Before the update, it was pretty unusable, and I was going to delete it. Now it's working again and I love it. Thanks!”

Bit rot is real. WpgNews v2 had gotten pretty rough by the end of its run.

Glad users are digging the new v3 WpgNews.

v1.x : 2012-2017
v2.x : 2018-2025
v3.x : 2026-

WpgNews Android app: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Local news is incredibly important. It brings so much warmth to my heart to get local newspapers dropped off on my doorstep, and it's really cool that #Winnipeg folks are working hard to make it more accessible and findable. I love my city