François Dominic Laramée, PhD 🇨🇦

Le philosophe allemand Jürgen Habermas est mort

Il fut l’intellectuel allemand le plus influent de sa génération, actif dans tous les grands débats de l’après-guerre.

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Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate

"Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns ´n Roses
"The River" by Bruce Springsteen
"Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden
"Feuer Frei" by Rammstein
"Learning to Fly" by Pink Floyd

And the #1 high school mosh pit song of all time: "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister

(Kind of dating myself, aren't I?)

Ruin a book or band name with one letter:

Supertrump

lol AI got them into this mess and now they're trying to use AI to get out of it.

AI use really does shrink your brain

Voting for machines, electing humans These days, the political and commenting classes are riveted by the cloak and dagger machinations involving the Carney government and a handful of vacillating opposition Members of Parliament. This...

Now in English: an essay in which I content that we should *not* force Members of Parliament and other elected officials to resign and run in by-elections if they want to cross the floor from one party to another.

#CanadianPolitics #Canada

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Élire des humains en votant pour des machines Ces jours-ci, la classe politique et le commentariat observent avec beaucoup d’attention les tractations entre le gouvernement Carney et certains députés élus sous d’autres bannières. Avec...

Un court essai dans lequel je me prononce contre l'obligation de démissionner et de se soumettre à des élections partielles que l'on voudrait faire aux député(e)s qui changent de partis politiques.

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Don't forget the sharks

And don't forget to notify the sharks.

Very little daversity, as Deb Verhoeven would say.

Someone You Can Build a Nest In, by @wiswell.bsky.social ; but I'm sure it was already on your radar.

"For reference: Kash Patel is the one who looks like he has just realized that a gerbil is crawling up his pant leg. He stands behind the podium, between the life-sized Barbie doll and the wax statue."

For reference: Kash Patel is the one who looks like he has just realized that a gerbil is crawling up his pant leg. He stands behind the podium, between the life-sized Barbie doll and the wax statue.

Pitch an unnecessary sequel

Heat Death of the Universe 2

So far, the most challenging aspect of writing a satire about artificial intelligence has been coming up with a name so stupid that an actual AI company hasn't already chosen it for itself.

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

Made slightly ridiculous by the presence of California-based teams when the league still calls itself the Atlantic Coast Conference, but we do live in ridiculous times, so par for the course I guess 🤷‍♂️.

Yeah, I'd probably work out harder if a dude watched over me while flexing a morning star.

Not saying I'd appreciate the thought per se, but I'd work out harder.

Digital Humanities. I was showing them a graph of the characters in Star Wars, with wider links between characters who shared more scenes. None of them had any idea who Leia and Chewbacca were. An utter fiasco.

A couple of years ago, I had that same tidal wave of blankness while talking to my undergrads about *Star Wars*. I almost quit teaching on the spot.

Yep. Writing (for tv, stand-up comedy, video games, academia, magazines...) has been the great joy of my life.

Trying to get a novel published might drive me to an early grave.

He thinks he's fighting Cyrus the Great.

La plus faible masse salariale de la ligue pour la Xième année consécutive, une direction de nepobabies et un coach dont la principale qualité consiste à détenir un passeport italien. Quelle surprise que ça ne marche pas.

Our Ladybug of the Immaculate Decomposition.

There's still technically two weeks of winter left, so why not invade Russia while they're at it? /s

Agreed, with the partial exception of First Contact (movie script, episode production values.)

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Not to mention all the books that should have been articles.

Excellente (et déprimante) #vulgarisation