Puffer 2-min inflatable tent blends A-frame and tunnel styles I like it!

New blog post: Saying goodbye to my Meta Ray-Bans – The Distant Librarian distlib.pival.me/saying-goodb... #distlib #Meta #privacy #wearables

Someone's got some 'splainin' to do!: 96,477 "private" chats went public in 2026 www.digitaldigging.org/p/96477-priv... Nothing was hacked to make that page. Someone clicked share meaning to hand a link to one person and made a public document instead. The leak isn't in the server. It's in the word

How to opt out of Meta using your Instagram posts to make AI images boingboing.net/2026/07/09/h...

Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over ino.to/ngMcrQi Some good news!

If you build it: Six world-changing innovations with #UCalgary origin stories www.ucalgary.ca/news/if-you-...

QualCoder now has it’s own domain name. www.qualcoder.org qualcoder.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/q... #OpenSource #QDA #CAQDAS #QualCoder

Wild! Matthew provides some suggested plugins at the end of his post.

Stunning Badlands rammed-earth library harmonizes with topography newatlas.com/architecture...

Plug-In Solar for Canada pluginsolarpower.ca A great clicktivisim campaign just getting started A few panels on a balcony or a wall, a standard wall plug, and power you make and use at home. It is the simplest, cheapest solar there is, and millions of people already run it overseas. #Solar

Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Research Libraries, AI Research and Contract Override - Slaw www.slaw.ca/2026/07/02/c... “Our collections are no longer just materials to read; they are becoming data to compute, analyze, model, and interact with conversationally.” #Licenses #TDM #AI #LLMs

Very Cool! Mapping the Light: Sunrise & Sunset googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/mapp... Sunrise and Sunset is an interactive map that displays sunrise and sunset times for any location on Earth on any day of the year. It also visualizes the sun's altitude throughout the seasons. #dataviz

Alberta’s All-in-One ID Card Heightens Privacy Risks | The Tyee I had to get a replacement driver's license today. There were some PISSED OFF people who didn't know they had to show up with their health care card now. Feel for the folks at the Registry office - this was a long day for them!

Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning www.404media.co/untitled-28/ An interesting read. They admit they're comparing off-the-cuff remarks before a camera to written responses from the LLM. The next comparison should be written vs written.

False Promises: Why carbon capture and storage won’t fix our climate crisis. buff.ly/29Z38or It sure does sound like snake oil! #CarbonCapture #ABLeg #ABPoli #GlobalWarming #Science

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? [UPDATED] arstechnica.com/science/2026... That's wild! Guessing it's more widespread than this one famous author :-/ #AcademicPublishing #SpringerNature #NobelPrizes #Transparency

Here’s what we in Alberta need to know. Thanks James 🇨🇦

Finance Minister Jason Nixon admits Alberta just missed its annual fiscal report deadline, offers two lame excuses. albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/fina...

Happy Canada Day! Today we bring you the story of how a Calgarian, George Stanley, designed the Canadian flag—and how his design was picked. Shenanigans! Political intrigue! Read all about it in The Sprawl!

Bravo, and well-deserved! A blanket smother-up: Alberta government wins secrecy award for opaque access-to-information process - Canadian Association of Journalists caj.ca/a-blanket-sm... #ABLeg #ABPoli #FOIP #FOIA #ATIA #PPA #OpenGov

The Daily — Survey of Commercial and Institutional Energy Use: Hospital and postsecondary campuses, 2024 www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo... Interesting, but not very granular data :-(

I just helped a blind person see with the Be My Eyes app #BeMyEyes A feel-good moment to start the week

Pakistan’s solar miracle – how the hell did they do it?

Reforming Disability Income Support in Alberta for Employment and Equity spp.ucalgary.ca/publications... I learned a LOT about accessibility supports, both generally and in Alberta. I fear the proposed tweaks won't even be considered by the UCP. #UCalgary #AISH #ADAP #DRAHR #ABLeg

Climate.us, successor to Climate.gov, launches to the public flowingdata.com/2026/06/25/c...

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

If you want to stay up to date on research/events and more sign up for the mailing list at the bottom of this page researchdirectory.ucalgary.ca/electricity-...

Dead lithium batteries revived to 95% capacity via electrochemical bath ino.to/yojbOvY Very cool! #science #renewables #recycling

The FIFA president has confirmed that the pathetic orange felon will present the trophy to the winners of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. I have never supported a team more: GO IRAN!

Ribbie turns real-time baseball stats into arcade-like, pixel-art broadcasts | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/r... So fun!

A few folks have asked me about *home* insurance inflation in Alberta, too. It's also ... just ... wow. 😲

Is It Safe to Travel? — Safety Scores for 240+ Countries [2026] isitsafetotravel.org/en/

True words! #AcademicReading

New inflation data out today and wow what can you say about these Alberta car insurance rates other than ... wow. 😳

From this morning's inflation report, Canada's overall rate is up 0.9% compared to start of year. That's half the increase seen in the U.S. Why the difference? I explain in a piece for @TheHubCanada here (from last Thurs): thehub.ca/2026/06/19/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

About as rough a week for Canadian privacy as I can remember from the government: mandated age verification without privacy review, pushing the Privacy Commissioner out of private sector privacy, and passing lawful access without debate or a recorded vote

GCtranslate deployed government-wide to support official languages in the federal public service  - Canada.ca www.canada.ca/en/translati... "GCtranslate is the first lighthouse project under the AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service 2025‑2027." #AI #Translation

An important read. This will impact you in Canada if passed! The Citizen Lab (Un)forced Errors: Analysis of Proposed Surveillance Law Expansion under Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access - citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

Strava Data Shows Mountain Lions Take 'Proactive Steps' to Avoid People gearjunkie.com/outdoor/stra... Cool!

Functionally, this doesn't sound like the most different thing from a carbon tax.

Suddenly Canadian? suddenlycanadian.ca Smith says Alberta should stay in Canada. Her actions tell a different story. #Bwahahaha!

🚨 Editor’s Choice 🚨 "Wisdom of the Crowd: Ensuring the justness and validity of group decision-making in solid organ transplant," by Harper et al. tinyurl.com/39a3h8fd Comment & Reply: tinyurl.com/2bwmrx7e tinyurl.com/43us2bvs #Transplantation #BioEthics #OpenAccess #UCalgary @leaharperMD

Majority of Albertans back wind and solar, but investors continue to face hostile business environment | Pembina Institute www.pembina.org/media-releas...

Alberta urged to follow federal guidance as it develops fall COVID-19 vaccine plan | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ABHealth #ABLeg

Wyoming Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio

New blog post: More on AI, Data Centres and Environmental Costs – The Distant Librarian distlib.pival.me/more-on-ai-d... #distlib #DataCenters #Environment

Wild! Scientists Just Accidentally Discovered a Strange, Hidden Rule of Human Nature ino.to/d737vpM #science

Canadian employers are paying the price after AI proves unable to replace laid off staff "The layoffs done to save money also proved more costly for 75 per cent of orgs that let staff go. Those costs typically came in the form of recruiting, training, onboarding and institutional knowledge loss."

Alberta's referendum in October will include at least 10 questions. Each gets a **separate ballot**. That means Elections Alberta will print 45 million (!!) ballots. After polls close, by law, it has 48 hours to count all of them. It's currently recruiting 60,000 workers to pull it all off.

@bikebikeyyc.bsky.social Lectrec DOES ship to Canada again - basket ordered.