In space, no one can hear you scream, unless sound is conducted along the solid structure of the spacecraft itself to the cameras mounted on the solar panels

More coming up on Radio-Canada (90.3fm) here in Toronto. Central management at York's Keele campus does not seem to understand what it means to have a francophone community at the heart of its satellite Glendon campus. We need to manage satellite campuses (Glendon, Markham...) with care.

On Radio-Canada (90.3fm) this morning: YorkU's administration is trying to restructure its bilingual campus, Glendon and sell off land. Faculty are justifiably worried that this threatens the French-language teaching at the Glendon campus. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/225...

I really hope that students (and their parents) aren’t trying to fake-out the accessibility resource and exam centres. They have limited resources and there are real students with real needs that need them.

Dudes just can't stop trying to remake mommy out of computer. betakit.com/ai-godfather...

Somehow convincing a computer program to be mother is more palatable and realistic than convincing the dudes leading technology companies or government bodies that they have a duty of care.

Evidence of the bygone Era of Landlines. #TTC #Toronto

Some good pieces on hantavirus that are neither alarmist nor calm-mongering. Again, no one is saying panic (it's never time to panic). We're saying precautionary principle. Humility. Learn from the mistakes of COVID. 🧵

Daughter: "Hey Mom! The [PWHL] Charge have their logo on the ice!" It's not both the Ottawa Charge and Ottawa 67s logos on the ice during a PWHL finals game. It's just Ottawa Charge. Very cool.

Cookie Time!

Not all heroes wear capes, but some use shower curtains as sails 🫡

it isn’t always easy to ask for this in a medical setting (or ant setting, really) because there’s often a power differential and sometimes you’re in an emergency situation and just want to get helped. my doctor rolled their eyes when I said no to AI notes. we must make it ok and easy to say no!

The apology rings hollow when it’s clear it was written by an AI.

Link: www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Engineering regulators take note: we can’t just assume that professionals (doctors in this case) are acting professionally by incorporating AI in their work. Where are the validation studies? Where are the guardrails? How many people are going to die because of AI misuse by professionals?

tell your doctor not to use AI notes

University management has been beating the “you must teach AI in class”…. But they were expecting it to cost nothing. Now that AI usage is expensive I think they will find another pet project to rally around.

Hands up if you are a university lecturer being told by your leadership that you must teach your students how to use genAI - but you really don’t want to, as you know they useless and harmful

" @anthonymoser.com , a software engineer and technologist, was among those who foresaw how chatbots could eventually hollow out educational institutions. (...) “I wish it had taken longer for this to become literally true.”" open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 5/🧵

"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵

This me when I had braces

Here's a slower version with a compact crocodilian. Note that the limbs are tucked to the body & the leverage comes from the neck and tail working against each other. This is purely instinctual & baby gators can do this from birth. It gets less cute as they grow 😬

I wonder what kind of rockets these are. Any chance they contain canadian motors?

Maybe declining colonial superpowers shouldn’t start wars that they have no hope of sustaining. “the Russian market risks losing one of its few high-technology manufacturers of world-class standing”

Maybe mediocre men without military or political experience should never have started a war in the Middle East.

Kitchen smells like home made granola.

Are universities and school boards ready for Mythos-like AI models being used to attack their IT infrastructure by end of year? Think Y2K but worse. Do we have backups? Are we ready to take our courses offline? youtu.be/dm3_Z-5PYnQ?...

Good study for your students on fracture mechanics!

It’s time to regulate and license these electric motorcycles. But politicians won’t until someone dies.

Brownie time!

And it gets worse. Supply chains are fragile.

Nothing to see here. Everything is fine. Go about your business. Right? Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do when people get sick?

CP NewsAlert: Canadian tests “presumptive positive” for hantavirus

Canadian in BC has tested positive for #hantavirus. Dr Bonnie Henry just held a press conference. I’m sure that we are being told that everything is normal and fine.

Canadian tests positive for #hantavirus

“he lost the entire afternoon going down all kinds of dead ends with the AI looking at this, looking at that, because the AI model didn't remember that it had guided him to deploy the system a certain way earlier in the day."

Yup. Ban them.

Gotta run DNA tests on the horse to see if it really left the barn. Maybe then we’ll consider closing the door.

“Can spread through the air” Why does it takes weeks of pressure and reminders to public health officials to get the message out?

(2/3) Here's a somewhat more detailed exploration of how recurring failure modes impacted the pandemic...

(1/3) IMO the core issue is that decision-making heuristics used to set medical policy and guidance are marketed as science, but...aren't. As a result, decisions are made in a culture of subjective cherry picking and duelling authority rather than on evidence, with huge incentives to deny errors.

It's widely accepted that hantavirus transmits from rodent excreta to humans via inhalation of aerosolized virus, so I don't understand why we're so reluctant to acknowledge the inhalation route for human-to-human transmission. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/h...

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Since we're talking about viruses again, just a quick reminder that 2 metre "droplet" transmission flows from Chapin, who guessed it explained why we usually got sick when NEAR others. His version of "droplet" included 2 metres _behind_ someone, and 9 feet in front. 🤡

If only pathogens had a bad odor, people would avoid them. The main reason people seem to love the indoor smoking ban is because they hate when their clothes and hair smell like cigarettes. Maybe we could figure out a way to make COVID smell like cigarettes. COVID is as dangerous as 2nd hand smoke.