At a women in STEM event today, someone bemoaned the lack of women doing computer science. At tea, a young women who had left the AI/tech world told me this: “it’s just full of men lying about how good they are & constantly competing”. Just maybe the problem is with tech culture & not the women… 🤔
RIP Tony Hoare, March 5 2026, age 92
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Here's the write up article for those who prefer:
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One of the benefits of using alt text is that it makes you think about where an image comes from and why you are using it.
Another is that it makes you think about what it would be like not to be able to see the image. Putting ourselves in other people's shoes is always beneficial.
Pretty crazy data mapped here by @MappingFL: The 1919 US House vote on the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote showed geographic patterns very familiar to students of history...
A blackbird stands on a path in front of a traditional garden flowerbed edged with brick
‘Daffodil, Narcissus, Tulip, Primula’
Garden Flowers, 1960
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Did you know that magnolia petals taste of ginger? Tried one for the first time last year - they're delicious! Go for the white ones with a hint of pink, otherwise the flavour is quite strong!
Lauren is not joking omardfoda.substack.com/p/a-coffee-b...
I know it's not a new point, but the US committing overseas war crimes using a missile name stolen from people they warcrimed internally is too much
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
Damage to the Rokeby Venus from The Illustrated London News of 14 March 1914 – b/w photo showing the painting of a naked woman lying on her side while a cherub holds up a mirror for her. The figure has slash marks on her upper and lower back
It’s the 112th anniversary of art student and journalist Mary Richardson spending a couple of hours sketching in room 17 of the National Gallery. Then, when she’d apparently lulled the attendants into a false sense of security, she took a meat cleaver to Velázquez’s ‘Toilet of Venus’ 🧵
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
Extraordinary piece, brilliant writing.
The foundation of American fascism rests on three things: extreme bigotry, whining about other people's coffee orders, and saying "so much for global warming" whenever it's cold out
According to the federal contract database, Canadian government departments have spent more than $5 million on Teslas in the past four years. That seems like an easy line item to cut. search.open.canada.ca/contracts/?s...
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
Once again noting that Canadian legal precedent is that the Canadian Parliament can remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession to the Canadian Crown via normal legislation *separately and distinct from any UK legislation*. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
A massive LNG project proposed in Quebec is quietly advancing. A Norwegian company wants to build one of Canada’s largest LNG export terminals in Baie-Comeau. Documents show Ottawa has assembled a federal “deal team” to help, @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/lng-export-p...
This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.
The lack of coverage today for the Glasgow fire has been absolutely shocking. A major incident, which burnt down a building hundreds of years old, in the centre of the largest city in Scotland, attached to the busiest train station - a fire lasting *7 hours* has been mostly documented by livesteams.
holy shit
@FuctupMike - 2h Bernie Sanders should be forced to give away 90% of his birthday cake. #HappyBirthdayBernie @HireMelmFunny Replying to @FuctupMike Have you ever been to a birthday party, Mike
Last time America opened the draft to feed a disastrous colonialist boondoggle, Toronto got Jane Jacobs and Vancouver got Heart out of it!
This means that 9-year-old Lucy can deadlift me.
Country Joe McDonald holding a guitar in 1981. A card reads: "1942-2026: Country Joe McDonald, Artist Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84. Photo by United Archives, via Getty Images."
Country Joe McDonald, one of the starring acts at Woodstock whose satirical anti-Vietnam War song “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” became an anthem, died on Saturday. He was 84. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...
Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab
“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974
Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
Anyone with a Canadian great-grandparent can now become a Canadian citzen (with the documented proof).
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