Isn’t the US supposed to be in charge?

Hadfield smells BBQ.

"GET AWAY FROM THE CAR, GET AWAY, JUST LEAVE ME, THIS IS BETWEEN ME AND PETER!" Don't watch this if you have trouble breathing while laughing.

Weird Al ✅ AI ❌

This is just completely insane

LLMs are non deterministic by design. And, from the very beginning, reflected inaccurate perspectives based on biases in the original data and introduced their own inaccuracies because of how they work.

Happy Moving Day to all who celebrate.

Humans are having to work more because of machines. This is the literal opposite of what AI boosters were promising.

“This problem is compounded by the recent increase in AI-generated contributions, both by AI agents and by humans submitting AI-generated code.”

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

The rest of Canada is truly missing out by not having “very mild” cheddar cheese like we can get in Québec. Not mild. Very mild. So good.

The AQHI has been updated to 8 which is “really try not to breathe this” level #yyc weather.gc.ca/airquality/p...

AL > AI

Student academic deficiencies have matched the ballooning deferred maintenance budgets at unis like YorkU for years. Summarized nicely in this pre-pandemic report: skillsforuniversitysuccess.info.yorku.ca/files/2019/0...

Residents of Fort Simpson, N.W.T., ordered to evacuate An evacuation order was called around 7 p.m. Sunday evening due to a nearby wildfire. A fire information officer told CBC News the fire is not expected to reach the community overnight. Resident... #cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada

I don’t understand how universities are, on the one hand, punishing students for stealing IP and, on the other hand telling students to use the fruit of stolen IP as long as it has “Claude” or “ChatGPT” attached to it.

Dog inspecting my art.

Well, that’s not great.

The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000. But experts now say ongoing outbreaks have probably ended one of the nation’s biggest public health successes, which relied heavily on immunization.

Écoles fermées, pannes de courant, trains annulés : pourquoi la France n’a toujours pas réussi à s’adapter aux canicules 🗞️ Le Figaro - 🕐 27/06 09:00 #actu #news #presse #lefigaro

🇫🇷 🌡️ En raison de la canicule, "on observe un nombre de décès supérieur à la normale", a dit la ministre de la Santé Stéphanie Rist dans un entretien à La Tribune samedi.

This is why engineering is so important.

The good news is that air cleaners, which could be widely used in indoor spaces, are effective at trapping many pathogens. The not-so-good news is that people aren’t using them enough. Clean water and clean air make for healthy people.

Drone nearly hits United plane landing in Newark, pilot says

Students are in for a shocker this year.

Note to the Ford government: If your goal is to "get it done" & "work for workers" put the money into what Ontarians NEED -Education -Housing -Healthcare ...& STOP using taxpayer $$$ to PROMOTE yourselves Signed @thestar.com

These streets also allow people to create third places without having to spend money at bars and cafés especially since the public drinking laws in Montreal are pretty lax

I hand out respirator/breatheteq masks to my patients to help them reduce their risk of getting COVID and Long COVID. Here's the letter I've put together about this for parents about children masking. @longcovidresource.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidkids.bsky.social #longcovid

The idea that fixing the Prime Minister’s official residence and living in it is some kind of own-goal is one of the most asinine and frustrating attitudes. Every country has an official residence. The fact we’ve been having a funding tiff about it for 10+ years is embarrassing.

This is going to sssuuuuuccccckkk for incoming university students.

Canicule: retrouvé dans une voiture, un bébé de 18 mois décède aux urgences de Marseille

I'm so grateful for anyone who has the imagination to conjure up dreams of a world without airborne viruses (especially Covid), because for the past 5 years I've been hearing "you need to learn to live with it" on repeat

C'est inacceptable autant pour les chauffeurs que pour les passagers. 🤯😤 #Canicule

We treat respiratory infections like the cold and flu as minor nuisances. The evidence increasingly suggests they’re anything but. I'm excited to be an advisor for Intercept, a $500M bet to make them a thing of the past. interceptfund.substack.com/p/e9438538-4...

This is remarkable.

Ground robots in Ukraine are an example of “desperation is the mother of accepting invention” The robots aren’t novel. The ideas behind them are decades old. But no one was willing to field them before. The need to survive changed that. youtu.be/TKEuoe-5o5M?...

This is the same police force that couldn't deal with the anti-vaxxers.

Claude submitted nine papers 😜

This is not normal 🙄

We didn’t have AC when we lived in Strasbourg, so we ended up on the tramway, shopping centres and public pools a lot.

Kitchen PSA: make sure the air intake for your refrigerator’s compressor coils is clear of dust and pet fur. Yeah, was cleaning the fridge and discovered this.

Here’s a vitally important comic about the importance of peeing in the scientific process by renowned mathematician Richard Schwartz: www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/Com...

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

Ontarians: Mr. Ford, we need healthcare Ford: Gotcha Ontarians: We also need affordable housing Ford: Totally Ontarians: Also we can't afford to eat Ford: Don't worry, I have a plan Ontarians: Great, what is it? Ford: I'm gonna make cars go so fucking fast www.cp24.com/politics/que...

"The patient..."boarded a 👉commercial👈 flight from Kinshasa and was almost asymptomatic – except for headaches." Ah, so that's why they are contact tracing. Don't worry. According to @WHO, if you used washroom right after him, you are safe unless you were sitting within 2 rows of him 🤷‍♀️

This is amazing: The clean air revolution is upon us. One day we'll look back & wonder why we ever normalized casually spreading dangerous respiratory viruses (Pro tip - if you don't want to wait till this is implemented, wear an N95 respirator in public) interceptfund.substack.com/p/ending-res...

"Le chef de l’OMS appelle à ne pas paniquer, le risque reste « faible » dans le monde" Oh oui, avec la prévention à peu près, aucune raison de paniquer, c'est certain.

Agentic AI is getting easier to use. There’s a good reason for people to get nervous. For university instructors, you should assume that students are going to be using agents in your online course material.

University management: we will close the satellite campus because “austerity”. Also, university management: austerity is so stressful so I need to blow next year’s budget token-maxxing on austerity PowerPoint slide decks.