Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss. We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed […]

projections long term (15 years) are something like 14-21 million. I think a mass murder orchestrated by a Nazi with the intention of murdering non white people counts as a genocide. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...

Never gets old. But it seems to get truer.

you can't poll test your way out of fascism.

Free guac on my burrito today, so that's pretty good.

OMG I remember these physical artifact-based anti-piracy checkpoints in the middle of games. Here’s a funny story: software piracy was rampant in 1980s Singapore, so much so that I didn’t see my first legitimate software package on a shelf until the later part of the decade. You bought pirated […]

I just learned about the Blaschka glass flowers and sea creatures, produced in the late 1800s. Amazing! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Flowers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_sea_creatures

What Brooks means when he says "values" are a set of gut intuitions shared by conservatives. Those intuitions do not actually reflect reality & cause disaster whenever they are translated to policy, but to people like Brooks they are primal, inarguable, the atomic units of politics.

"Your verification code is XYZABC. Do not EVER share this code, not even with our agents." Ok genius, how exactly is your system going to verify me if I actually keep your little code to myself...

#Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an #urbanforest #urbanism #owgf #solarpunk #climateaction

Not one major American news organization has had the spine to lay out, as succinctly and convincingly as historian Garrett Graff does here, our dread new reality -- much less lift a finger to save democracy. The United States has gone fascist […]

they're preparing you for the popping of a bubble they created by widespread and repeated product misrepresentation

These companies themselves (who should obviously know better) really think they created a little guy inside the computer. We are so cooked.

USA: We ♥️ Las Vegas tourists, now more than ever 🤠😎🥳 Canadians: (...) USA: But, but, hey, ICE is only after the bad guys 😰 Canadians: (...) [picture 1: today's news headlines in Canada] picture 2: from this year's CA gov tourism industry report [ […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

This was really fun. Thanks to all the speakers. Would do again, so hopefully SIGGRAPH keeps the workshop program around.

Happening tomorrow morning !

Looking forward to SIGGRAPH in Vancouver next week, but it feels bittersweet: with SIGGRAPH North America being hosted in the US for 2026 and 2027, I'm not sure when next I'll be comfortable / willing to attend. The current regime down there is simply too frightening and evil.

😂 "A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. " […]

The Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka, Russia erupts for the first time in 600 years The eruption follows a M 8.8 earthquake in the area just days earlier. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #earthquake #volcano

How is it that in the dozen years I've been a professor, the user interface for the Canadian Common CV has not improved its usability at all? (as far as I can discern...)

I know this is an out-there, controversial thing to say, but I’ve really got to come out against genocide and imposed starvation.

On a work-related note: for those attending SIGGRAPH North America 2025 in Vancouver, I'll be chairing the intriguingly named session "This is Fluid Simulation", bright and early on Monday morning at 9am. Mark your calendar! https://s2025.conference-schedule.org/session/?sess=sess138

Pet peeve of the day: all the drivers who cannot round a bend without drifting out of their lane.

I guess we should just be thankful CBS is not launching "The Late Show with Tony Hinchcliffe".

Awful story about a Swiss woman trying to visit the US for vacation and getting sent off to a prison facility, treated egregiously, and then deported, because border officials simply decided she was actually going to do some work while there. What does this mean for e.g., academics attending a […]

Fascism for first time founders https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/ As usually I’ve found that techdirt is doing more to call out the fash in tech than most

Yes, Epstein's crimes were heinous, but let's also remember that Musk (via his essentially singlehanded and illegal destruction of USAID) is anticipated to be the cause of the deaths of >4million children under 5 by 2030. Strangely, he is somehow still allowed to participate in society […]

Can we at least say "I was my current age years old when [...]" instead, so that the units make sense?

Made the classic error of drafting some text (for a grant abstract) in an online textbox, and when I went to save the form, my login had expired and all the text was deleted. Some day I'll learn that lesson, once and for all...

Just drove past a school where the sign out front expressed best wishes for its students to have a "relaxful" summer. Probably a good place to get edumacated.

Any person in the US can be stopped for no reason. No warrant. Searched. Accosted. Detained. Disappeared. Every foreign nation should have travel advisories, red alert warnings and close their embassies. How do you allow tourism to a nation where masks thugs roam the streets kidnapping random […]

Who the hell called it AI Animation instead of Slop Motion

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

I cannot stop thinking about how a century of speculative fiction about catastrophic rogue AI meltdown became a self-fulfilling prophecy by building an AI that functions by running a probabilistic lookup on a table of all fiction humans have ever written to determine what the average AI would do […]

[health, another horrifying consequence of promoting LLMs to a naive public] This question is making me wonder how many people have already been straight up killed by chatgpt

Speaking of SIGGRAPH, as usual I'm assembling a list of the physics animation-y subset of the technical papers, with links: https://www.physicsbasedanimation.com/2025/05/19/siggraph-north-america-2025/

This year's SIGGRAPH (North America) Technical Papers trailer is up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHC0wNYry8

Holding SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 in Malaysia is a slap in the face to the rights of LGBTQ+ people. Especially now, when underrepresented people need as much support as we can possibly give them ! Angry like me ? Sign this open letter to let them know. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My TV is now kindly offering to "Surprise Me With AI Art". Look, there are some plausible use cases for some kinds of "AI", but paying my TV to spring random AI slop images on me whenever I pause Netflix to get a snack from the kitchen is not and will not ever be one...

i guess people are already doing this but i suppose best practice is to submit your own papers to the AI gods and ask what is wrong with them, because that is what reviewer 2 will do anyway; "missing the point as a service"

I rewatched the LOTR extended cut for the first time in quite a few years and now I am thinking about how all those Silicon Valley fascists who name their startups after cool swords utterly missed the central thesis that cool guys with cool swords give into the corrupting temptation of power at […]

if you are under 30 years old and picking a font size for something other people need to read, not just yourself: that’s too small. still too small. A LITTLE BIGGER #accessibility #ux #typography

This is your yearly reminder that anyone who publishes CS papers should have a personal website that lists their current position, research interests, publications, and email address. If you don't, it's basically impossible for me to invite you to a PC […] [Original post on discuss.systems]

If your country thinks about using Palantir, this is a video clip that you, your family, friends, and everyone else should watch: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y #palantir #democracy #europe

And so the enshittification of ChatGPT begins. CMOs are now looking for ways to game those large language model algorithms. After all, millions of people are now turning to ChatGPT for advice and uncritically accepting what it says as true. So if […] [Original post on gts.sadauskas.id.au]