AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

Saw this chart and had a thought so I ran some numbers… r=0.85

Unintentionaly stoic, maybe as a consequence of unfortunate social norms.

Broke my second favorite pen this week, a burnt Orange Lamy Safari that I've probably owned for close to a decade. Bent the nib by accident earlier this week and then SOMEHOW borked the internals trying to fix it. I am irrationally depressed by this. RIP Orange Safari, you will be missed.

Humanities and social science profs are finding out how natural scientists treat authorship and we are losing our damn minds.

We seem to be approaching the Butlerian Jihad.

The problem with you Communists is that you believe in a Better Future, and we Common Sense Warriors believe in a Terrifying Present. One of those is easier. #AbPoli

all this odyssey-posting has got me thinking about this again

Hot Take: Willing suspension of disbelief was easier before we had flat screen TVs. How can I be expected to convince myself those tiny 3d people are doing all those things in a 2 dimensional box in my living room. Never had that problem with a CRT television. Preposterous.

Dune Cat Budget Version

You can write a “if they look like losing at the polls, the GOP can engage in voter intimidation and ballot-box stuffing” article as long as it also makes clear that they is pretty much the end of legitimate elections.

Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig.

what i love ("love") about data like this is you could show it to decisionmakers all day long; they will then proceed to cancel humanities programs as they intended all along

my eternal Last Jedi problem “no, I don’t like that movie. wait, shit! not like that, those dipshits are wrong, I have other reasons”

you have conjured one of my favorite tweets

My new favourite insult.

Slightly increased a band The Biodegradeable Plastic Ono Band

Slightly increased a band The even Weaker Weakerthans or (depending on your interpretation of "slightly increase") The more-or-less equivalents-to

Will the printing press make college obsolete?

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Canadians this is your reminder to DO THE CENSUS because if you don't do the census you don't EXIST and if you die in Statistics Canada you die in REAL LIFE

Fund the arts! Incredible.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

It's beside the point but in a well run oil company, drilling requires a combination of roughnecks (who likely don't have postsecondary degrees) and geologists and exploitation engineers who do have postsecondary degrees.

In the original series we only see the 200 or so cases where Muldar is right. I choose to believe there are at least that many cases where it turns out to be a normal serial killer or something where Scully is right but they just don't show those.

I didn’t know it was possible to be as wrong as the OP is here. “Education is job training.—John Dewey” is a take that should make you too embarrassed to ever post again.

An oppourtunity to remind everyone of how amazing Christopher Walken was as Max Zorin. A view to a kill is underrated within the bond fanchise.

Good news Everyone (in southern Alberta). I successfully repaired the hydraulics on the tractor I use to clear my driveway. Now that it's working properly, cosmic forces will align to ensure that I don't actually have to use it again until the fall (when it will be broken again for some reason).

The term "basket of deplorables" has a Wikipedia article about it.

Having all the cards in Uno is bad, let’s remember.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Huh, sounds like he’s underwater. Luckily, I have a great idea about who Ben might be able to sell it to.

Then DON'T FUCKING MAKE ANIMAL FARM. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

It's not hyperbole when I say that EVERY Voting age Albertan should read this. Regardless of party affiliation or your support for seperatism you should be angry and concerned about this.

BREAKING (Rare use of that from me that isn't ironic.) So, Jen Gerson has got a story to tell, and it's genuinely shocking. I've known the outline of this for a few weeks now, but still. Reading it all woven together blew me away. What a major, major fuck up.

I am a domestic violence survivor and have had a stalker. I have been very careful to limit who knows my address. Now, thanks to David Parker, who knows who has my address or how many copies of the list of electors has been made. #ableg #abpoli

Bele

Apropos of nothing: Does anyone else find it funny that a movement devoted to soveriengty of a subnational juresdiction has named itself after an iconic agent of imperial power?

Maybe it's me, but I can't imagine any good coming from doxxing an entire province.

The Economist cover is right this time [if Hormuz remains closed, which is still is]

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.