Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦

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TORONTO! I’ve missed you! Come see me at Toronto Comicon March 20-22, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre! I love you; let’s never fight again. 🍁❤️

Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline

"Our HIPPO initiative will unite emerging technologies and human expertise to support future generations while minimizing hippopotamus-related carnage. We will move quickly: I have requested that each committee submit a preliminary proposal to my office by the end of the calendar year."

Comic. [Person with shoulder-length hair talking to a second person. She is gesturing at a dinosaur skeleton with a machine mounted on its back.] PERSON 1: Although Bazookasaurus’s distinctive structure was long assumed to be a weapon, vascularization studies show that it was very fragile and could only have been used for display.

Bazookasaurus

xkcd.com/3216/

Power at Scale with this Sun in a Box YouTube video by ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Cool video on Fourth Power's thermal battery. Incredible stuff.

I felt I had to decline a welcome conference invitation because it’s in the United States. Looking forward to better days for everyone, hopefully not too far off

There’s been some odd kinda comfort through my early career thinking of Stephen King’s early career. Like, you’re broke a lot, but sometimes there’s a little royalty payment from somewhere and you can finally get a working battery for the car, and that’s nice

Lovely work!

No, payment for the vast majority of writers has always been low and even the most celebrated authors of the past century spent a good deal of time being broke as fuck. We have a unique set of circumstances these days driving down wages, but there was never a time when most writers did well.

It can be helpful to notice now and again that the core of photography is pretty much drawing: arranging lights and darks on a rectangle

Leaked data ties Canadian Armed Forces members to a 'white-only' dating site CBC investigation links Canadian Armed Forces personnel to profiles on the “white-only” dating site following a major data leak.

Canadian Armed Forces personnel were linked to leaked profiles on a 'white-only' dating site known to many as 'Tinder for Nazis', confirms @cbcnews.ca. Speaking w/ the outlet, Katherine Keneally warns extremists within the military raises concerns about access to training, weapons & sensitive info.

Canadian military personnel identified on white supremacist dating site | CBC Accessibility Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are among the profiles leaked from a white-only dating website that promoted white supremacist ideology, a CBC News visual investigation found.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces had accounts on a white-only dating site that promoted white supremacist ideology, a CBC News visual investigation found.
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Maybe it could? It’s hard to match the visual spectacle of pro wrestling’s big aerial stunts, though. Maybe something with lots of big capoeira-type moves?

Had to put a few liters in the tank last night, and already, ouch

Even if you find “AI” chatbots useful and reliable for other tasks, don’t take at face value any responses that appear to describe what the system is actually doing or how it works. They’re designed to generate plausible sentences, not account for their own operations (or issue corporate statements)

This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”

I don't have many photos or videos of myself in the field because I'm usually the one taking the photos/videos. But recently I did film a short video about some historic archaeology and I thought maybe I'll share it here for #InternationalWomensDay! This is part 1: 🏺

I forgot the show reaches for the bicameral mind!

A digital illustration of a baby velociraptor sat in a nest of dry branches. The dinosaur has a covering of fuzzy white feathers, except for its head and snout.

Baby Velociraptor.
#SciArt

I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪

It’s sort of a misleading term, but I’m glad we have some language for “conservatives who pretend they’re not”

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened:

Never mind dramatically taking off glasses—have you tried putting on glasses while already wearing another, different pair of glasses?

A wave of quittings reveals the AI industry’s gloom and doom What's behind the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley?

With @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social, we wrote about the very weird vibe right now in the AI industry: part doom, part goldrush www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

'OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it “screwed up” an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time.'

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Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

I’ve unmasked a white nationalist fight club in my city: Montreal.

After weeks of work (with help!), I can reveal an Olympian as a member of the Frontenac Active Club — one who, unbeknownst to the owners, brought them to a local gym for training and propaganda photos.

Here’s my investigation:

On one side, WW2 soldier turned outback-adjacent fruit farmer (and small time horse racer out to beat the bookies); on the other, WW2 soldier, mostly estranged from family? He fixed trucks in Italy during the war, but I don’t really know what he did in peacetime. He could build, had miniature horses

And @reuters.com, you’re great, I’m a subscriber, yada yada, but RFK Jr. is NOT a vaccine “skeptic”.

He is a vainglorious, self-centered, science-denying, shitbirding disinformation sprinkler who is firmly in the anti-vax folder filed under “Kennedy, Robert F-in”.