Dear Ottawa, « March comes in like a lion… » is an expression — it’s not an actual law 🤷‍♂️ 😜

Imagine highschool geometry classes where students used 3D printers to perform experiments like these… #ReuleauxTriangles

Video via Science Girl, twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3

My AI Learning journey: new addition for a gentle, page-turner intro to genAI:
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place (2019) by Janelle Shane—a look at how AI works & why it often behaves unexpectedly.

A Century Ago, Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Showed Us What Stars Are Made Of The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring researchers today

Remarkable. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

My AI Learning Roadmap: 1st reads…
•Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (2019)—Intro to neural networks, learning algorithms, & natural language processing
•Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (2018)—how AI’s predictive power impacts business models

Age is just a number — Curiosity has no expiry date.

Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired at 80 & then became a consultant for Digital Equipment Corporation. Credit: @MIT_CSAIL

Taking off your shoes when visiting someone else's home is a small gesture that reflects well on your daughter's visitors — showing respect for your home and consideration not to bring in dirt. Even more so, given the entertainment media we are immersed in, infrequently models this consideration.

IIn the late 90s, 🇨🇦's mobile scene was dominated by Bell & Rogers selling locked CDMA phones. Fido was the 1st 🇨🇦 carrier to offer GSM, enabling SIM swaps. This Nortel handset (1997) added cutting-edge audio developed by BNR/Nortel’s Ottawa acoustic lab, under David Cuddy. #mobilephones #TechHistory

The animation detail in #HayaoMiyazaki / #StudioGhibli productions is amazing! 👏 #TheWindRises (2013) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Win...

Video: x.com/anime_twits/status/1938424656647659735

Switzerland's Federal Office of Transport (FOT) is trialing solar panels between tracks in Buttes, where trains run at 70 km/h, to assess wear & tear, and the challenges of maintaining rail infrastructure. A brush placed on the end of trains, keeps the panels clean. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-...

My only regret is that bluesky provides no "laughing out loud" icon on which I can click to applaud Prof Stea's brilliant responses to ad hominem and tu quoque attacks.

Congratulations and well-deserved Prof @jonathanstea.bsky.social 🏆📕

Consumers Distributing (1957–1996), a nostalgic 🇨🇦 experiment in “Internet shopping before the Internet”:
•flip through catalogue at home—circling toys, electronics & jewelry
•grab a clipboard & stubby pencil to fill out a form w/ item numbers
•wait for the conveyor belt to bring items from the back

This morning’s philosophical reflection:
«No man ever eats the same cookie twice, for it's not the same cookie and he's not the same man.»
—Heraclitus

Making new friends at Day 1 of DPI-Canada.com 2025. Ameca is the world’s most advanced facial expression robot, successfully crossing « the Uncanny Valley » #DPI2025 #DPIPDW

Tomorrow, Monday April 28, 2025 is election day in 🇨🇦. In 2021, just 62% voted. Ask family, neighbours & co-workers to vote!
Find your Polling station: elections.ca/Scripts/vis/...
#ElbowsUp #CdnPoli

TheMarginalian, by mariapopova.bsky.social, shares advice for writers, from author johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #TFIOS #EverythingIsTB www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/14/j... #writing #creativity

A decade ago, Toronto doctor & uToronto.ca prof, 🇨🇦 Dr. Danielle Martin, schooled a partisan U.S. Senate committee on Canadian health care, and on why private (or as #NeverPoilievre promotes it) "hybrid" healthcare exacerbates waittimes, diverting resources to the wealthy. www.cbc.ca/news/world/d...

U.S. authorities closing Canadian access to library that straddles Quebec-Vermont border A small town in southern Quebec says American authorities have decided to close the Canadian access to an historic library that sits on the border between the two countries.

Yesterday, Trump's admin trampled yet another symbol of Canada/US friendship 🇨🇦/🇺🇸— terminating 120 years of access enjoyed by Canadians to the Haskell Free Library, built by 🇨🇦 Martha Haskel, on the US/Canada border, to memorialize her love for her late 🇺🇸 husband Carlos. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

If you are not wearing these boot covers, the only other way onto the Jupiter 2 is as a stowaway—I'm looking at you, you trouble-maker Dr. Smith! 🛸 🪐 ✨

If you are not wearing these boot covers, the only other way onto the Jupiter 2 is as a stowaway—I'm looking at you, you trouble-maker Dr. Smith! 🚀 🪐

0 mg!? Too potent! 🤪

A total LUNAR eclipse on March 13-14, 2025, starting just before midnight Thursday, with totality, in Ottawa, between 2:30 a.m. & 3:30 a.m. EDT.

Don't bother w/ eclipse glasses from April 8, 2024's SOLAR eclipse. LUNAR eclipses are safe for eyes or binoculars 😄 credit: @museumofscience.bsky.social

without …Dolly!, there would be no WALL-E. 😄

x.com/JamesTaylor_...

Our local theatre company, ottawalittletheatre.com 🇨🇦, just staged The Shawshank Redemption. I hadn't realized that's one of your stories. So when you're not adding your voice to support our fragile democracy, or working your successful side gig as a writer 😜, please share all the Dad Jokes you want!

Thank you @jamestaylor-com.bsky.social. When convicted felon & president, Trump, keeps getting us down…

🎶 …we all wish we could climb way up to the top of the stairs onto the roof where the world can't bother us …where at night the stars put on a show for free. And share this all …up on the roof 🎶

As convicted felon Trump burns the world, @aoc.bsky.social, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, @govpritzkerllinois.bsky.social, @governorwalz.mn.gov, @raskin.house.gov, @booker.senate.gov, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @schumer.senate.gov, and many more,
…give me hope that a better future is still possible

Canada 🇨🇦 has your back. 📞🕰️