I'm tempted to suggest a Privacy Officer use Microsoft Copilot to reduce the fees on my FOI request, which happens to be for a Microsoft Copilot PIA. Clicking 25 links should not take a full working day.
Shot from ground level, a round ceiling mural that echoed Metis embroidery. On a black background, we see a wild rose in tjr centre, surrounded by flowers, berries, birds and butterflies.
The mural in context - on the ceiling, surrounded by lights and blond wood ceiling tiles. It hangs above the soaring atrium of the University Commons
I was on the @ualberta.bsky.social campus today for the unveiling of this remarkable art installation by Metis painter Christi Belcourt. It’s called In My Grandmother’s Time, and it blends traditional motifs from Metis beading and embroidery with digital technology. And it’s gorgeous. #ualberta #yeg
Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near. This one is gonna be a doozy.
Uh oh.
You want more biologists who don't believe in evolution, economists who think foreign countries pay tariffs, political scientists who believe that unitary executive is functionally different from king, law professors who think originalism is real, physicists who believe sun revolves around Earth?
So-called problem of ideological diversity of faculty at elite universities is 100% fault of Republicans completely rejecting science & education, thus having few qualified & interested to be faculty at elite universities. Media & Political Elite blaming elite universities of bias is insane.
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Read this from @colsonwhitehead.com because it's funny & true & because, alas, it's not enough to oppose AI, you have to fortify that opposition frequently, because it's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, friends and comrades are going down all around us. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
As the week begins
I often wonder how it is
that all of us
just keep going to work
when everything 
is falling apart.
And as the week begins 
I often wonder
if part of the reason 
why everything
is falling apart
is that all of us
just keep going to work.
That’s it ( and more!!) Thank you!
@davidmcraney.bsky.social at one point in time, maybe in How Minds Change, you wrote about flying a kite. I love that passage as an illustration of how knowledge happens, but I can’t find it. Is there any chance you could direct me to that text?
I'm back with another quarto extension, now presenting quarto-timelines!
Customizable timelines in html and revealjs slides, different layout and fragment support included
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#quarto
There are a fair number of mine that are simply ‘tff’. Short for ‘the final frontier’. Because I had to add/remove a space.
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country.
Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.
Didn’t realize how much I needed to cry over a rock alien. Amaze, amaze, amaze.
As somebody exiting the technology industry, it really does annoy me that for years and years and years we were all told "learn to code, learn to code, become agile, you should be working in tech" and then that all got farted out the window as soon as they thought they could minimise costs.
A screenshot of an opinion by Oliver Kornetzke from August 18th, 2025. There’s a photo of a tired, bloated Donald trump over the opinion that reads: behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill fitting suit: the sleeves of economy, man, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a clansman, the sexism of a back alley creep, and the greed of a hedge fund ghoul – all spray painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a country fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been – arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed, exalted as ambition, and corruption worship like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol, proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spike, it doesn’t just lose its soul – it shits out this bloated, obscenity, and calls it a leader.
Reupping this cause it’s evergreen and I feel better knowing someone out there called him out like this
Would you please tell me/us about these jars? I feel I would be yeeted from polite society if I shared a pic of my spice drawer.
This one from Taylor Mali’s channel youtu.be/0xuFnP5N2uA
Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes.
it was, as you can imagine, not clean.
Greatest. Correction. Ever.
Kanpai!!
The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy
Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.
For me one big advance is not having to render in Rstudio when I use VSCode or positron. No more .rproj files.
I made a Quarto extension ('cascade') because I was too lazy to copy-paste slide headings.
DRY principle? More like "I refuse to type the same title twice (or more)" principle (also '---' for headless slide? Really?!). 😇😎
github.com/mcanouil/quarto-revealjs-cascade
#Quarto #QuartoPub #Slidecrafting
Really sad it’s come to this.
On my way to join my colleagues at the picket line. We deserve a fair contract!
#higherEd Hey! This is cool. Quarto is a next level open publishing platform for open textbooks, open courses, blogs, personal websites...data analysis built-in, accessibility, plain-text markdown files, git for version control, and coming soon - collaborative editing! quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
i think we should be clear that just because the astronauts did not immediately declare the moon haunted, does not mean it is not haunted
it may mean that the astronauts are now themselves haunted
have we prepared for this eventuality and if so how
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.