Boosting a little delayed: inclusionexclusion.org/2026/01/29/i...

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Tumbler Ridge is a small planned resource community, a winding 90 minute drive from the nearest city of at least 10,000 people. A massive number of people are going to descend there tomorrow. May those that arrive have respect and grace for the unimaginable grief.

Horrible and devastating.

Also a good description of math/tech guys "solving" sexism and racism over the last couple of decades, so yeah, that did not come from nowhere.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Wow. That preview pic... just wow.

I may or may not have read this thread a couple hundred times

I’m very happy that the CBC is on the story and published this Evan Dyer piece. Now is the time to take the Trump admin’s destabilization tactics seriously. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Fog rainbow.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A person working for a university does not need $650K per year to live and feel rewarded. Especially not when others working as instructors for that same university have to make do with one tenth of that.

Not even close

Your president, dear United States of America.

My neighbour is looking for a math tutor for her kid. Pay is $40 an hour. Must have either a Fields Medal or a full professorship at Harvard.

Shot

www.policymagazine.ca/a-lesson-for...

Composer Philip Glass Withdraws “Lincoln” Symphony Premiere From Kennedy Center deadline.com/2026/01/phil...

France (or at least its principal mathematical society) pulling out of the ICM in the U.S. - how long before the rest of Europe follows suit? #mathsky

Watching this feels like August 1980 in Poland. The anti-communist movement had been small and contained and, to most people, weird. And then it wasn't.

Deep Dive: The Pentagon’s 2026 National Defense Strategy: What It Signals — and Why the World Should Be Alarmed www.onestnetwork.com/post/deep-di...

Hey Canadians. Jim Pattison (Save On Foods) is about to sell ICE a turnkey concentration camp. You should contact your MP. www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

"Should learn AI skills" sounds more and more like "should learn to manage the asshole coworker who is not really contributing but the manager insisted we had to hire him"

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Trying a pancake lens on a rare sunny January day in Vancouver.

If anyone here still buys and uses Esteé Lauder cosmetics? Please don't. Should be boycotted like Tesla.

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wait, y'all posting boardwalks? There's one in the biodiversity reserve in Alert Bay!

The very real worry is that the financial idiot who bankrupted every business he's ever run will decide what matters more than anything is low interest and cheap money, without regard to the inflation that would cause. This is the dipshit who still insists foreign governments pay our tariff costs.

- The US owes a lot of debt in the form of bonds. - If other countries lose faith in the US, they'll sell the bonds they hold. - The US cost of borrowing rises as a result of our debt being considered risky. - That starts turning into a downward spiral. - Inflation goes berserk, the dollar crashes.

If you don't understand the whole Federal Reserve thing and why it's scaring the shit out of everyone, here's the very very abbreviated basics: - The Fed sets US monetary policy independent of our government. - That gives other countries confidence that when we put out numbers, they're real.

alt tech! European Alternatives european-alternatives.eu european-alternatives.eu/categories euro-stack.com Non-USA alternatives: github.com/anitwek/alte... Ethical alternatives: ethical.net/resources/ A short list of anti-AI tools: codeberg.org/wimvanderbau...

Joint statement by 4 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors. Excellent opening in particular.

Oh, and it doesn’t matter if you protest because I will be circulating AI videos of you celebrating in the streets and thanking me. My reality is stronger than your reality. That’s what power is now.

I will be governing your country remotely via shitposting and late night threats on social media. If you don’t do what I say, I will blockade, bomb and eventually starve you. This is called freedom

The Earthsea books by Le Guin. A formative experience at several different stages of my life. This wonderful illustrated edition would be ideal.

One way I’ve been thinking about this lately is, would I hand over writing or research tasks to a student who knows how to format citations but nothing about the subject matter and … I mean I do that sometimes, but it never makes MY work easier, it’s about helping the actual human student to learn

What's the diplomatic etiquette here? Do you eat that piece on top? One bite, or cut it in pieces? Lick it? Suck on it? Set it aside and build a little altar around it?

Like having a collaborator we can't trust. Not only does it not save us time but also this is a situation many of us are already familiar with, and do not want again.

This was posted yesterday by a retired senior officer and now corporate leader. If AI cannot even generate a map of the US accurately what is it all about? Lunacy.

Happy light, everyone ❤️‍🔥

So I've heard that Canada is considering allowing Waymos in our cities?

I tried to explain this to some colleagues and they laughed at me. We're doomed

Yes. Also, it should be illegal for companies to make the use of their hardware contingent on linking that hardware to an account and maintaining that account in whatever kind of "good standing" the company requires. You buy it, you should own it.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

My heart is with my beautiful alma mater right now. We should treasure universities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

In my 25yrs in the academy I 👀 the proliferation of expensive enterprise software that shifted the burden of sooo many basic administrative functions — reconciling receipts, paying honoraria, booking travel — from competent, efficient staff to faculty + students. I’d spend entire days on this crap.