This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Thanks for the offer. I'll reach out to you before I throw anything out.
I'm currently cleaning out my office and have a loads of hard copy government reports on gender dating back to the 1990s. Reluctant to trash them because strongly suspect that we're going to see another great forgetting of GBA+ over the next 5 to 10 years. But not sure how to archive them.
Part Deux is up on Dead for Tax Reasons.
On Monday: 394 organizations, unspecified dollars. The press release is careful to count organizations rather than dollars. You should be careful about that too.
deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/the-naked-budget-2%c2%bd-the-smell-of-expiry/
On the bright side, there are still more faculty under 40 than over 65 at Canadian universities - for now! (requested by @pengzell.bsky.social ). The trend line shoots up when employment laws for those 65+ changed around 2010.
The interesting comparison would be Quebec v. rest of Canada as Quebec ended its standard retirement age much earlier (there was a standard retirement age of 65 until 2010 - see this blog post worthwhileblog.ca/2011/03/19/i... )
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) used to publish an annual almanac with this info, but it's been discontinued and the old files aren't on their website.
This table has the median age of academic faculty from 1970 to 2025 - click "add remove/data" to get it.
When my kids were little, the punishment they dreaded the most was "let me explain...."
Glad you found the post!
Congratulations to Sara Benetti from @ubcvse.bsky.social, winner of the @echistsoc.bsky.social New Researcher Prize for her paper on the social consequences of technological change!
economics.ubc.ca/profile/sara...
Not just mammograms.
Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.
Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Aaron Gunn: If the federal government truly believes in the private property rights of Canadians, they should probably stop opening every public meeting by proclaiming the gathering on the “unceded territory” of this or that First Nation. Doing so reinforces the radical and dangerous legal concept that most Canadians live on “stolen land”. This is Canada. One country. For all Canadians.
𝗠𝗣 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙣: “𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙭, 𝙗𝙪𝙙.” March 11, 2026 Chiefs from four First Nations communities are urging the public to please approach Aaron Gunn with no caution whatsoever. He is completely harmless, though momentarily unsettled by the alarming possibility that someone might acknowledge the land before a meeting. Yesterday on social media, the MP appeared to crash out and demand to speak to the manager of land acknowledgements, a position that observers confirm does not exist. Chiefs whose territories make up the riding had two words for the MP - Chillax, Bud. Land acknowledgements have never seized private property, cancelled a mortgage, repossessed a pickup truck, or altered a single title deed anywhere in Canada. They are simply people recognizing the history of the place where they are standing. No one is going anywhere. Canada will survive the brief moment of honesty. Until then, Chiefs across the region continue to reassure the public that land acknowledgements have not, to date, resulted in any land back. Hegus John Hackett, Tla’amin Nation Chief Darren Blaney, Homalco Nation Chief Nicole Rempel, K'ómoks Nation Chief Kevin Peacey, Klahoose Nation
Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli
The thing is, AI is really good at doing executives' jobs - synthesizing information, writing memos filled with meaningless jargon, suggesting directions for policy. So executives assume it's good at other people's jobs too!
The successful candidate will be a cross-disciplinary historian of infectious disease and historical epidemiologist whose research advances understanding of pandemics and epidemic disease across time, including how environmental and climatic forces shape patterns of transmission, vulnerability, societal response, and resilience. The appointment will foster a long-term program of scholarship and training at the interface of history, epidemiology, environmental science, and clinical infectious diseases.
JOB: Associate Professor/Professor, History of Medicine, McMaster University
Cross-appointed with Division of Infectious Diseases
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This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
Useable AND attractive public toilets!!
And they stay open in parks outside working hours/summer.
Absolutely! It sounds like the rules have been eased for Ireland and Australia, but agree that it's problematic in terms of the GFA www.news.com.au/travel/trave...
I think this is a case of policy being made in the UK without anyone asking or seriously attempting to answer the question "o.k. how many dual nationals are there out there, where do they live and how will this impact them?"
Pretty hard to enforce a dual nationality policy if people don't know they're dual nationals!
That's much bigger than the number of people who report that they have dual Canada/UK citizenship in the census (back of the envelope calculations based on this article www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recen... - 26 million citizens by birth, 3.7% have multiple citizenships, 10% of those are from the UK)
This data is old but suggests there are at least a quarter million people born in Canada who are British by descent. www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recen...
Most recent data I could find is for 2006, when there were 386,155 people born in Canada to a father born in the UK. Even if current number is substantially lower due to changing immigration patterns, this is still a lot people who are technically dual nationals but may never have held a UK passport
Statistics Canada used to publish this info but this 2016 Census table is no longer available and I couldn't find anything comparable for the 2021 Census. Can't pull it off the 2021 PUMFs either.
Really interested to know how many Canadians have a British-born father or (post 1983) mother, and thus are technically dual nationals, even if they've never held a British passport. How will this be enforced for them?
And the people who you'd like to take advantage of the program, ie cash poor house rich older folks, are often reluctant to take on the debt so won't defer
Smart analysis of what the Epstein files tell us about how patriarchy works www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Did you catch a screenshot or can you get Google to do it again? This is super interesting from an AI search perspective