Brisbane is favored over Freemantle Saturday? The Lions are at home, but didn't anyone see how bad they were the last couple of weeks? #AFL

Last year I put together a guide to help people get off US tech — and that includes Google. There are a lot of alternatives there they will help you make a plan to pull away from Google services, and all the rest of them too.

Univ instructors have been working for over 100 years without LMS - yes, you absolutely *can* work without an LMS for awhile. Do you not have photocopiers? Do you not have books? Paper, pencil? www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

It get's weirder: Collingwood will forgo the 2nd week of indigenous guernsey for their own special ones, *and* he gets to keep the proceeds of their after-game sale? Really Trump-ish.

sorry Allen Ginsberg, sorry, i'm trying to delete it www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

It's a nice campus, with a great science classroom for Brock teachers. www.burlingtontoday.com/local-news/r...

Excellent take on the PocketOS "Claude deleted production" debacle. TL,DR: You must never trust in LLM output. Not "Trust but verify", but have no trust at all. Use it, but do not trust it. thedailywtf.com/articles/emp...

Low key weird. #AFL www.afl.com.au/news/1508191

Ontario Bill 101 closes the Higher Ed Quality Council, but everything about HEQC does not describe how I have to interact with them. "The agency’s main function now is to provide research on the postsecondary sector and evaluation of colleges' and universities' freespeech policies." Not true 1/n

#AFL Best sport in the world. One of the dumbest league offices. This week: Umpire works for online gambling? Sure, why not. Homophobic culture? Boys will be boys. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Seems most of the Bulldogs are limping off the field at HT #AFL

Just learned that the 77's and Lost Dogs both had new albums last year. I'm 20 again. #the77s #7&7is www.77s.com

Many apologists here: "It's not spyware if it's not actively spying". We went through this over and over from Win95 past WinXP and the overwhelming consensus was "spy capable + no user approval = spyware".

Coincidence that many of the recommendations are very politically conservative (no tech in classrooms, curve grades)?

Yesterday's release of Yale University's report on Trust in Higher Education has *really* bad advice on grading. Unfortunately, it will be overshadowed by the controversial "device-free" classroom recommendation. president.yale.edu/sites/defaul... 1/n

University of Waterloo is leaving Twitter. We need all Canadian colleges and universities to do the same if they're still there. The Canadian social site Gander would be a good option. 🍁 #edusky #canada #education

Oh look, here's "Government of Canada White Paper: Data Sovereignty and Public Cloud" www.canada.ca/en/governmen... A better title... We know there’s a sovereignty risk, but we’ll proceed anyway. Perfect example of bureaucratic risk normalization rather than risk elimination. 🙄

Me: Wearing my Cal sweatshirt Guy: Did you go to Berkeley? Me: I did, long time ago now. Guy: What did you study? Me: Physics Guy: Let me ask you something. How did Bruce Lee do all those things? He was incredible.

90% switched to @vivaldi.com and it's been quite good so far. Linux and Windows. Only hiccup is the occasional need to use a USB device with web interface (IOLab), which doesn't seem to work in Linux. Using @1password.bsky.social too. Next to migrate away from gmail to proton.

Bad call, but John Schneider needs to be fired for that stupid display of "tough guy".

How would you measure the rotation rate of a fidget spinner? Let's use your phone's magnetometer with #phyphox.

Can we do this? No more Google Slides, no more Google notes. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Scientists do have a bit of a reputation as being rather humourless. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ontario e-learning was a *bad* idea. I know students this this is an easy English A - but doing math this way? Bad. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How AI giants tried to storm the last stronghold of the human mind: the math olympiads. Over the past four months, EL PAÍS has spoken with a dozen people about what happened on the Sunshine Coast in Australia between July 10 and 20, 2025. english.elpais.com/technology/2... by @pflis.bsky.social

Pernicious sales tactic: Updating your meeting invite after I declined and deleted to get it *back* in my calendar. THREE TIMES. Blocked and junk reported your email.

Apropos of @alexusherhesa.bsky.social interview with Professor Jisun Jung, she comments that Korean regional universities lost many students to Seoul over the last decade. That's interesting as the University of Toronto speeds past 100,000 students. (per the 2024-2025 enrolment report) 1/n

In science, many international companies forgo Canadian offices, prefering to cover North Am. from the US. Then Trump's tariffs get added to Canadian clients, then added to normal Canadian duty. If companies had just 1 rep in Canada, we'd save 15%!

Bell Canada loses two customers today! Saving $120 a month now.

Canada telecoms: oh, we would love to sell it cheaper, but you don’t “qualify”. What a weasel word.

🚨Tickets are now on sale for the first public screenings of EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY 🚨https://www.ifccenter.com/films/everyone-is-lying-to-you-for-money/

Round Zero #AFL Is it too early to be disappointed in the Saints? It doesn't seem fair to say that right now, but ... The Suns are F-U-N to watch. It's going to be hard to top Lions/Bulldogs as game of the year, but I don't think it means anything for either team.

I really wasn't sure Trac would adjust to the Suns, or the team to him, but yeah, I think he's going to like playing in GC. #AFL

There's a hole in my bucket. Dear Liza, dear Liza. There's a hole in my bucket. Dear Liza, a hole.

Broden Kelly as the commentator is perfect.

I went with W.A.L.T. It seems to have some clever building methods, keeping it highly pose-able without seeming too technic #lego #bricklink

GenX sign of maturity: the day you realized we really should have given Rev. Jackson more of a chance as President.

Why did Outlook suddenly forget how to sort Focussed vs Other email? I've spent a week putting a couple dozen newsletters back to "Always Move to Other", which it had been doing for over a year.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Woah.

This better be available in Canada. It looks really good. #AFL youtu.be/2NStqnxm7AQ

This hits hard. I look at the outcomes of my kid's science work and I *know* it would be better if h.s.'s used actual dang textbooks - but we don't and it shows and uni's have every reason to change that, but can't or won't.

Just got around to reading Carney's WEF speech. Wow, I hope he believes what he said. I hope that others understand what he said.

At Canadian Tire this am. It’s quiet, but the store music is non-stop 80’s/GenX. No one here but me is over 40.

YEAH! Although I'll never remember how to spell it.

Why does the Peloton Tread have such problems with PRs and averaging? Take my 5 best km splits today, it’s twice what it thinks is my 5 km PR.

It works! I built the Photon Bricks #Lego Interferometer designed by the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics at Nottingham and Cardiff. Works like a charm. artlab-nottingham.com/lego/ Now to find some minifigs. Should I build in Bricklinks StudIO? #ITeachPhysics

Thoughtful: If you can't stop your AI agent from working within a student's LMS, then I don't believe you an make your AI reliable or safe in *any* context. If AI Can't Stop a Student From Cheating, How Can It Ever Be Safe? open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...

Good article. Yes, germs cause disease. Yes, CO2 is still rising and warming the planet. Duh. bigthink.com/starts-with-...