You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2.
A few warnings:
Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is.
Absolutely /do not/ lick it.
Keep far away from any Supermen.
If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts.
Let's talk about the science here.
Really a lesson in how much of the heavy lifting just standing there and being quiet can do to make you look like you know what's going on. 🤣
A book cover of a shadow of a man behind smoked glass. The book is titled Constructed victimhood.
The cover for my second book being published this year is finished! The book is titled Constructed Victimhood. It is an analysis of white, Christian, Canadian men online who construct a vistimhood status for their group. They present as being oppressed by the woke, lgbtq2sa, feminism, and
Yes it is, my contracts specify humans have to do cover art, editing, translation, etc. I will note that to date I have had no real resistance to these contract points by my publishers. So, really, if these points are not in your contract, ask for them (or have your agent ask for them).
If autistic people wrote classic literature #autismhumor #autistic #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #autism
Btw a podcast that platformed Frith is now upset that their autistic guests are canceling. “But we want to share ALL views!” Yup when that’s your stance don’t be surprised when folks don’t want to be featured next to someone invalidating their existence. You made your choices. 🤷♀️
A broken, blue heart
With a broken Blue Bomber heart, I am no longer the voice of Mega Man.
I was asked to return for Mega Man: Dual Override, but only on the condition I work without the protections of a union contract.
Thinking that the reason we assign you homework in school is to generate the document (and so using AI tools that can do the homework for you should eliminate the need for homework) is like thinking the point of yoga is to leave sweat stains on the mat and so you can skip it by using a spray bottle.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
lol sign worked
A joke scientific paper with the title "Over 90% of children diagnosed with autism consumed breast milk and/or formula mileL a comprehensive cross-sectional analysis of the obvious"
Who did this?!
The Seibukan Karate Dojo in Edmonton supports #albertateachers!
During the strike or for 2 months, whichever is longer, we offer free instruction to any teacher. Wed & Sat at NAIT. After the strike, we will be at Strathcona High School Tues, Thurs, & Sat.
For info, e-mail nantanreikan@gmail.com.
Amazing advocacy work! Congratulations!
okay this isn't really even my beat anymore and I was never actually an epistemology person BUT
the ability to recognize the limits of your knowledge is the basis of knowledge creation
anything that can't say "I don't know" when it doesn't know (bc it doesn't know it doesn't know) knows nothing
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts.
But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy.
In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states.
This is why unions are vital.
“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty”
… or how to lose government contracts all over the world in one easy step. 🖕🏾🖕🏾
www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
Gonna remind everyone...
Chat GPT
If I were to translate it into French from how it sounds it English
Chat, j'ai pété
Cat, I farted
Enjoy.
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
trying this with GPT-5 and charting new frontiers in gaslighting
If the Air Canada execs are admitting they aren’t competent enough to effectively govern the company, why the hell are they collecting seven and eight figure salaries?!?
screenshot of section 6.3 of the WeTransfer ToS
ARTISTS:
A lot of folks use wetransfer to send final files to their AD. Just a heads up that they changed their terms of service to say that they own the right to any work you upload and can use it to "train" their machine learning and also to reproduce it indefinitely
ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out (unmasked/in unmarked cars) protesters are dumping pounds of glitter on them.
So people can identify them as ICE for days afterward.
Time to buy glitter . . .
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably.
I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me."
& the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
