Here's a good post from the always interesting Mary Geddry. I like that she's reading Charlie Angus (and you should be too). marygeddry.com/p/no-quarter... #politics #WarCrimes #kakistocracy

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This week;s Featured Links post links to articles about how: comet 3I/ATLAS is weird but not 'that' weird, the benefits of renewables and electrification, and electrification, a Chinese AI model taught itself basic physics, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/11/feat...

Friday's blog post is a collection of links that support my strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. As you might expect, climate change is the major topic. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/11/were... #ClimateChange, #Environment, #Science, #Space

I just gave a critical thinking talk to about 1,800 Texas science teachers. My heart is filled with joy and inspiration. It was an honor to talk to them, and I heartily thank the folks running the CAST 2025 conference for inviting me! www.statweb.org

The latest Security Now podcast has a segment on how Chrome (and the other major browsers) are deprecating support for XSLT. I remember taking a course in XSLT sometime in the early 00's but never found an actual use for it. The times, they are a changing. @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy

VLC is getting dark mode, finally! My first impressions here: coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/11/vlc-... I found out about it in this blog post by Gordon Glas. gglas.ninja/blog/2025/04...

This week's Featured Links post links to articles about how Putin outsmarted the oil sanctions, the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, the Florentine diamond resurfaces after 100 years, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/11/feat... #History, #Medical,rd, #Movies #TV, #Politics

Mary Geddry is not very complimentary about the Democratic party right now, and with good reason. "The Democratic Borg Collective." Once again, they screwed the pooch. marygeddry.com/p/the-longes...

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Today's blog post links to 10 articles about misinformation and disinformation. I could probably do a daily post like this if I had the stomach for it. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/11/more... #AI, #ClimateChange, #Disinformation, #Medical, #Science

This week's Featured Links post links to articles about one driver's thoughts after drving an EV for 18 months, a free rival to Photoshop, how Trump has ceded the future to China, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/11/feat... #AI, #Finance, #History, #Photoshop, #Politics, #Technology

I have never understood why judges are elected in the US. BTW, we don't elect them in Canada either.

NEWS FLASH: We have achieved the rare and coveted Cat Tree Triple Decker

This week's Featured Links post links to articles about a catalog of dark patterns used to screw over users, a chip to restore some vision to people with macular degeneration, using NotebookLM as a personal journal, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/10/feat... #AI #Science #Vision #Politics

Today's blog post is about my thoughs on the iPad Mini 7 after using it for six months. It's a companion post to yesterday's post about iPad OS 26. TL: DR: It makes a lovely ereader but the hardware has some limitations. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/10/appl... #Apple #iPadMini

Today's blog post is about my first impressions of iPad OS 26 on the iPad Mini 7. TL;DR: What was Apple thinking? coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/10/firs... #Accessibility, #Apple #Design, #iPad, #IOS26

All those Seattle fans booing Springer after he went down from being hit by a pitch might have tipped the karmic balance in Toronto's favour, and having Springer hit the winning homer made it especially sweet. #BlueJays #Toronto #baseball

This week's Featured Links post links to a dozen articles about how SportsNet's announcers broke the mold in their Game 5 ALCS coverage, the coming economic AI apocalypse, what the West should learn from China, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/10/feat... #AI, #COVID19, #Politics, #Technology

If you're planning to protest tomorrow and have questions about carrying your phone, please check out this article from my colleague @yaelwrites.com It also shares an easy trick for stripping photos of their metadata. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

And it's all about Jeffrey Epstein. Someone somewhere should grow a conscience and leak those files.

This week's Featured Links post links to articles about how transit in Toronto compares to Chicago's, how librarians are trying to prevent a digital dark age, how a blind photographer ttakes great photos, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/10/feat... #AI, #Politics #Science #Space #Technology

Holy crap. This is terrible. The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

🧪 #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience #RFKJr #Vaccines #HHS #CDC #antivax

Well that’s not a good development…

Today's post is a collection of links that support my feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It's part of a continuing series. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/10/were... #ClimateChange, #COVID19, #Environment,#Politics, #Religion, #Science,

This is at least the third article I've seen recently about the Trump regime's plans to invoke the Insurrection Act. They need an excuse and they are trying to provoke something. The upcoming No Kings protects on October 18th might do it. statuskuo.substack.com/p/insurrecti...

This week's Featured Links post has links to 13 articles about the ICE raid in Chicago, China's clean energy revolution, a science fair project that may change lives, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/10/feat... #ClimateChange, #Environment, #Medical, #Politics, #Science, #Society, #Technology

For some time, I've been reading mostly novels, so I'm trying to catch up on short fiction. The anthology I'm reading now is Jonathan Strahan's THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR, Volume 12, which contains stories from 2017 (When I said 'catch up', I wasn't kidding).

This reads like inverse of Project 2025. In an ideal world it would happen, but I'm not holding my breath. But it is something to work towards. deanblundell.substack.com/p/americas-p... #politics

LLMs should never be used in any application where it is important that they be accurate. They are only appropriate for situations where it doesn't matter whether the task fails.

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) on this moment. Not just the transcript but the video of a floor speech yesterday. A rallying cry:

I hope Pope Leo defrocks him.

From Charlie Angus: "Canada may be the only nation in the world whose original myth stories came from a palette and a paintbrush. But we are, at our core, still children of the wild north. The reality of life in such a land is so that we could never survive without our trust in each other.

This week's Featured Links post has links to articles about how COVID can mess up our immune system for years, understanding how octopuses use their appendages, how Apple trains its AI to respond to Trump, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/09/feat... #AI, #COVID-9, #Politics, #Science, #SFF

This is the best commentary I've seen from anyone so far (bloggers, influencers, or mainstream media) on Charlie Kirk's shooting. I'd quote a bit of it, but I'd run up against Bluesky's absurdly low character count limits and it wouldn't easily split up. deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-c...

Today's post has links to more articles about the continuing contretemps between Canada and the US. There are no signs that the situation is improving and I don't expect it to soon. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #CanadaStrong #Environment, #Food, #Politics, #ElbowsUp

This week's Featured Links post has links to articles about cover artist Michael Whelan, why the right hates progress, and science under siege in the US. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/09/feat... #Art, #Books, #Politics, #Science, #SFF

If you're an author on the list of books stolen by Anthropic AI, fill out this form to be (I think) part of the class action suit.

This week's Featured Links post has links to articles about how AI is being used to unmask ICE officers, Katrina 20 years later, some reliable information about protein intake, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/09/feat... #AI, #History, #Medical, #Politics, #Science, #Society

If Paul Krugman is worried that the markets are being too complacent about Trump's economic delusions, you should be worried. I'm worried. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-... #finance #markets

This week's Featured Links post has links to articles about why the right hates the Smithsonian, a better way to conduct SETI, how COVID affects our arteries, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/08/feat... #AI, #COVID19, #History, #Internet, #Medical, #Politics, #Science, #Society, #Technology

Nick Clegg's insight on Silicon Valley: "I couldn’t, and still can’t, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity...If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.

Blue Rodeo,, one of the best bands ever to come out of Canada, will be webcasting their concert tonight from Budweiser Stage in Toronto. It should start at 8:50 p.m. Eastern time. I will definitely be watching. www.youtube.com/live/Fsi6iIV...

Wikipedia has produced a list of AI writing tells to help its editors spot AI-generated content. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... I worte a blog post about this with a suggestion for Microsoft Word users. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/08/list... #AI, #Disinformation, #MicrosoftWord #TechComm

This lifted my spirits today. Peter Hegseth, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller got booed out of a photo op in Washington's Union station by a crowd of ordinary Washingtonians who weren't happy with the fascist takeover of their city. deanblundell.substack.com/p/alpha-male... #FightFascism

This week's Featured Links posts has links to articles about a new spaceport in Newfoundland, the crazy plan to tunnel under North America's busiest highway, a brain interface that read's the inner monologue, and more. coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/08/feat... #ClimateChange, #Science, #Technology

That was one of the coolest things I've seen in a sports broadcast in a long time. Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk got his first career stolen base. He got a standing O from the crowd and the players gave him the base at the end of the game. Fun to see. And the Jays won. #MLB #BlueJays

Duffy is a buffoon, utterly unqualified to run anything, let alone the planet's premier space agency.