I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
I love these. Ryan Kelly on tiktok has a whole series like that:
vt.tiktok.com/ZSuM3rHbe/
Image shows the MMM bracket with Assassin Bug winning the Wildcard over the Bone Collector Caterpillar and a checkmark indicating the Wildcard category has been completed.
#2026MMM WILDCARD WINNER:
Assassin Bug!
Join us Wednesday, March 11th at 8PM EST for ROUND ONE of MONEY MAMMALS!
Now, for the singing of the Animal Anthem, played annually for this Wild Card event since 2013... Three Dog Night with "Joy to the World" www.youtube.com/watch?v=as8K... #2026MMM
That's amazing! I'm stoked to hear stories of how people use them 😁
I'm so glad people are finding value in them! I always learn so much when putting them together.
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Is that... supposed to be "chic"?
What shallow thinkers: "everyone who disagrees with me is a threat". None of the notion that ideas and policy are built on reasoned discourse, and for that to happen, you need intelligent people who disagree with you.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... 🎁
Iran: look, it's simple. We literally just paint the silhouette of a plane on the ground. We literally just nail together some boxes in the shape of a tank. We literally just pull looney tunes shit. Their AI will make them spend $100 million to destroy $5 of arts and crafts.
the US: grok is this
b) Even if these AI tools worked perfectly (which they don't), even if they didn't cause massive environmental damage (which they do), they're still built on a foundation of copyright infringement and intellectual property theft, and we as an education sector should be rejecting them wholesale.
Had to sit through a session on how teachers should be using AI to give formative assessments to our students, and I was thinking:
a) That is literally our job. You can't complain about losing jobs to AI when you're handing over fundamental parts of the job to the machines; and
Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade:
"We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."
that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it
anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love
Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.
What did you think would happen?
I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.
Lol, talk about different vibes...
We quote that and "finger painting" constantly in our house.
Cover image from the film The Cutting Edge, featuring Moira Kelly as a spoiled figure skater and D.B. Sweeney as a washed out hockey player, who come together after each has a disastrous turn at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, to try to turn things around in Albertville.
Showed my kids The Cutting Edge l last night, after the Olympic closing ceremony. For a 90s sports romantic comedy, it holds up pretty well. I had a chuckle when I saw the screenwriter was Tony Gilroy, whose more recent credits include Rogue One and Andor.
Hmm.... 🤔 Could go either way...
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.
Maybe epaper screen for better battery life? There's got to be a market for something simple like that.
That might not have gone over so well 😁
I think I was about 10 when I was first allowed to go to the Connaught Branch of the Regina Public Library on my bike, a ride of about 2km, mostly along the excellent Devonian Pathway. A couple of years later, I was allowed to ride downtown to the main branch.
Libraries were one of the first places I was allowed to ride my bike on my own as a kid. They are a formative part of who I am today.
“America isn't the way it is because he's president. He's president because America is the way it is”
— David Cochrane
CBC Power and Politics
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
