I'm introducing my class to this wonderful project tomorrow: https://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/ . Wouldn't it be wonderful to have programming languages that are built on the properties and beauty of other non english, non latin systems?

awfully nice of M. Legault to solve Mr. Ford's doctor shortages for him. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/260-quebec-doctors-apply-ontario-licences-after-bill-2-9.6973978

i scanned part of a jawbone from an animal from the excavation of Philemon Wright's house using a matter and form 3; I fed the result straight to 3d printer; I await anxiously to see the result but I can tell you now: I buggered up the scale again and so what was about 10 cm long is printing out […]

the kid is treating me to a rendition of seven nation army on the bass trombone

tom cruise…. jack reacher. man, that’s a trip eh?

birthday gift: foot spa. oh yes baby. feet hurt, this is a small luxury

email from student in online class to tell me they’ve had an ah-ha moment, readings and exercise clicked, and they were excited to share how and why. …that’s the stuff i love.

Another circuit around the sun accomplished

CBC is manufacturing consent with this headline. Current headline: "Two-thirds of Ontario school boards in deficit or just breaking even" Better headline: "Ontario underfunds school boards enough to systemically force illegal deficits." School boards breaking even is not news. It's not a […]

Scanning.

So the train never came. The next train in x minutes just flipped over. Fun!

this city needs deamalgamation

perfectly ottawa. limebank station was finished. they laid a road down to it. sidewalks, lights, good pavement. three ish months later, all ripped up while they do put pipes etc under it and across.

THE CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE IS FUCKING LIT! #cpl #canada #fedifc

we’re so screwed re all this https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/lansdowne-2-0-changed-my-vote #ottawa.

dreamt i had to free three pucks from the ice. in my country i think this now means i am the chosen one

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

If you’re thinking about all the scandals and deadly interference/overreach decisions by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and thinking “why do people keep voting for him,” remember most people don’t. Ford wins because of “first past the post” and the fact that the NDP & Liberals in Ontario split the vote.

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Wandering around Quebec city, looking up Wikipedia when I get to some historical plaque. Favorite so far related to Benedict Arnold's 'invasion' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold%27s_expedition_to_Quebec Anyway. Pretty bloodsoaked part of the world hereabouts in the 18th c.

Again: Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links […]

Setting aside whether resources should go to hiring AI faculty, the comments on this thread suggest that no one could possibly be an expert in AI yet. I'm begging and pleading y'all: AI DID NOT START IN 2022. IT GOES BACK TO THE 1940s. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERTS IN AI AND HAVE BEEN FOR YEARS.

GenX, all those leaded gas fumes when we were young, eh https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/07/gen-x-internet-radicalisation-populist

Just your occasional reminder that companies Do. Not. Need. To. Grow. They can stay small, do good business, and make good profits, and any investors can be secure in the knowledge that their money is safe and that they will be paid out dividends every year. Many really good businesses have […]

New toy, giving the matter and form 3 a whirl. Shiny cup usually defeats scanning, so let's see....

Take your kid to work day. So I took my kid to my lecture. Interesting to get some fresh eyes on things. Lectures work best when the audience gives something back. Kid picked up on that - "tough crowd". Yup exactly. Absolutely draining, all the energy was one way today. This always happens at […]

"yeah no yeah" means you're talking to Canadians

in other news, i won't be teaching any more online versions of my course, after the better part of a decade here doing so. I used to like it. Felt it was a better fit for what I wanted to teach, how I wanted to teach it. Have taught async, sync, since 2005, one way or another. The End.

use of emoji's in headings? check. Super organized headings, subheadings, and use of em-dashes to set off insights/etc? Check, check, check. O my student. My dude. What's the fucking point?

Well everything else is rapidly going to hell but I did get flu and covid shots so there's that

someone looked at a spreadsheet. (the end point of that mindset is a university that teaches one class that everyone takes. a BA in intro to pysch) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/u-of-o-suspends-honours-program-in-greek-and-roman-studies-9.6962030

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/115490945003829832 "As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” [...] They confined their attacks to […]

institutional impartiality... https://carleton.ca/secretariat/impartiality-policy-consultation/ reading this while also reading about how the parliamentary standing committee on science and technology wants to go trawling through tricouncil grants to find EDI things to be outraged about... ffs […]

Open letter in response to that awful ai strategy 'consultation' from the govt. https://bccla.org/policy-submission/open-letter-to-the-minister-of-artificial-intelligence-and-digital-innovation-from-civil-society-organizations-and-individuals-opposing-national-sprint-consultation-on-ai-strategy/

Sheffield Hallam decided slavery research was less important to its mission as a university than Chinese cash, so it folded to authoritarianism. In doing so, a UK university put the interests of Chinese intelligence agents above those of its own staff. There ought to be sackings.

Early experiment in projecting digital data into a 3d printed physical landscape, via peppers ghost. Just faffing about instead of grading.

I wish our conservatives would come up with their own fuckwittery rather than parroting American fuckwittery. Seeing that conservative motion demanding identifying information from tricouncil grants so they can play gotcha culture war bullshit. Knobs.

[can pol] Just got an email about an open letter for professors to sign, because the Standing Committee on Science and Research just decided to grab personal demographic info and the EDI portions of tri-council research grant from the last *25 years*. This is really bad. Please please please […]

[can pol] from the letter: Please help us share this letter with your colleagues before November 4th. If you have applied for Tri-Council funding in the last 25 years, all of your data is at risk of being included and sent to an unnamed researcher and MPs on the committee. If you disagree with […]

Hey folks, I'll be a speaker at DH Benelux in June, https://2026.dhbenelux.org/ You should come. It'll be fun.

You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]

go to the cloud they said itll be fine they said https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline

Sometimes I get students coming in for help re methods and their anxiety about the fact of tech is dialed up so hard they can't hear me over the noise in their head. Very frustrating for both of us because they assure me they've got it so they can escape then they go do something utterly bonkers […]

LB: what a perfectly American headline

#Trump’s USA accused of threatening #eu diplomats during its bid to kill green shipping rules https://www.politico.eu/article/us-accused-threats-eu-diplomats-bid-to-kill-green-shipping-rules-negotiations-personal-intimidation/

Have to rebuild the schedule for one class. August Shawn was a freaking lunatic.

Uh oh

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble. You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”

Fighting? In baseball? Bless.