Sir Ian

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.

It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.

Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.

175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

10/10 wod recommend

Ai generated image showing a human sitting at a computer performing “human adjustments”. The step is labeled “Wod Edit”, which was presumably supposed to be “Word Edit”.

Actual screen grab from a workplace AI workshop. Looking forward to my important role making “Wod edits” and other “human adjustments”.

Tiffany Watt Smith & Sheila Liming: Making Time, Making Friends — Toronto Public Library \nTPL presents cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith and author Sheila Liming in conversation with hostnbsp;Scaachi Koulnbsp;at the Toronto Reference Library's Appel Salon.\nWhy is it so hard to make ...

1 week from today!

I’ll be at the Toronto Public Library w/ Tiffany Watt Smith

Come on out and hang, why dontcha?

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The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

I don’t think people who haven’t met Lauren understand, this is one of the kindest people in Oxford, the University was *lucky* to employ her

and we aren’t friends really, I’ve just seen and heard of her being generous and genuine for twenty years straight

when the edible hits and you try to play it cool

if we’re fomenting rage against First Nations because people are being given two years notice to vacate their expiring leaseholds on reserve land then we’ve kind of lost the plot

This is the story btw (this report is fine, but is being decontextualized and amplified on X). It's reserve land, the 50 year lease is expiring, the Nation has previously warned they may not renew, they are now giving 2 years notice and waiving pad fees until then

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I had only ever heard her referred to as the second Ms du Maurier

Gorgeous!

I have a poster of this map framed on the wall and I can stare at it for hours. So much history in that soil.

soooooo much! I knew there was greater social trust and cohesion in Canada but I didn’t know it was THIS much!

Love how the word itself is so over the top that it adds to the drama-aticness of the situation

Aaaah the elusive triple portmanteau!

Heard someone say “dramastically” (dramatically + drastically) on the radio yesterday and folks I think we should try to make that a thing. Objectively great word.

The word “Companion” on the cover is straining under the weight of multiple codings

deliverabilis longa, vita brevis

Huzzah! Congratulations to you, and to your uni for their good sense.

Spent the morning exploring a place I hadn’t visited in maybe 25 years—Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site. A weird day to be touring an old gun battery with loads of artillery guns pointing out to sea. But at least Fisgard Lighthouse was looking fine in the sun today.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Holy moly I haven’t thought about that in ages! The full thing is lost to time, unfortunately. Glad the one line lingers like (wait for it) that whiff of Axe on Fraternity Row

Lorraine Schneider, 1967

Nothing but profound sadness and rage today. Hoping against hope that this brutal day isn’t the start of much worse things for all of us.

Still from the Twin Peaks opening sequence, with “FRASIER” presented as the title.

Would watch

“We did this. People did this.” How Canada’s rarest mammal was pulled back from the brink of extinction | Discover Wildlife Canada’s rarest mammal was on the brink of extinction but, in a remarkable conservation success story, it is on the road to recovery

A bit of local good news: The Vancouver Island Marmot’s wild population has increased from a low of 30 individuals in 2003 to over 400.

Also, this article taught me the fun word “hibernacula”, in case you’re ever looking for a word to rhyme with Dracula.

www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Damn

Horrible echoes of the so-called “Starlight Tours” that killed Neil Stonechild and others in Saskatchewan in the 1970s-1990s. State murder of marginalized people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...