rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job

I choose to believe that Scott Adams is in hell and it is just an endless expanse of office backrooms where no one, not a single soul, is around to care about your Takes and Observations

RIP to Scott Adams, whose decision to leverage his highly successful career as a syndicated cartoonist into a role as a white supremacist internet crank could only have come from a call to Dogbert's Bad Advice Hotline

Mental health update

Wonderful story by @maggiemacintosh.bsky.social: The Asper School brings together teams of high school students from across Winnipeg, supported by undergrad volunteers, to tackle a strategic challenge for the Manitoba Museum. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

I regret to inform you that the millennials are at it

no kings

"You think of all your neighbors as just scum upon the earth And you live inside a bubble where a badge is all you're worth All your dreams are built on loathing All your hopes are built on hate I can't see any way out of this hell that you create" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncuc...

I cannot imagine what Trump will do when he finds out the secret police of a theocratic fascist regime is murdering and imprisoning peaceful protesters in Minnesota.

I don't know what Minnesota is like but here in Manitoba if people don't stop to help you push your car out of snow it is a clear sign you have deeply fucked up

there's some hoarfrost in this house / if you see it point it out

ALL OF YOU WERE ON TRIVIA SHOWS

I am being honest when I tell you this isn’t even all the people who came in second replying to this

40% of Bluesky have been contestants on Jeopardy making us a very smart website but all of them came in third so its not like that impressive

This is madness. Crown Royal is produced here in Manitoba. If Ford wants to punish Diageo for closing a bottling plant, target absolutely any other of their portfolio of brands (Johnnie Walker? Captain Morgan?) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Due to a scheduling error, today received two month’s worth of news. Please consume only a day’s worth of news.

tired: unsupervised online data collection wired: in person undergrad psych pools

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

I think one of the things that's clear here is that there is no practical difference between ordering violence outright, and putting a bunch of undertrained and temperamentally ill-suited people into combustable situations.

"as you can see from my altmetric my research is highly skeeted"

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

i look forward to finding out what the intranet-naming equivalent of "boaty mcboatface" is

Banning Plato in the name of protecting western culture is the funniest fucking thing in the entire world. Bankrupt fucking institution

I would like to preemptively advise everyone that I cannot do anything. I mean, I'd like to, and I'll try, but all signs point to me not being able to do it

I've heard that on cruise ships, buffet demand for indulgence and novelty peaks early, then diners shift toward familiarity and balance. Meta is betting that users are going to want to eat from the sundae bar forever, and I suspect they're wrong.

Canada should be first in line to sign such statements.

I heard what everyone has been clamoring for is 6,000 words on what a simple question about the 1990s comedy My Cousin Vinny can teach us about the capabilities and surprising weaknesses of current LLMs. Well, I hate to disappoint people, so I went and wrote it. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

bringing me back to the glory days of "is cereal soup" twitter discourse

people ask me why i love winter so much, in WINNIPEG nonetheless, and this is why 😍

just sent an email about my "corset lines" (course outlines), in case you're wondering how 2026 is going so far

No government would ever say "We have to maintain our presence on a platform where CSAM is widespread and encouraged because that's where people come to us for news and updates," but that's where we're at now, so it's time to go.

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

this is a pretty complete theory of trumpism

i have a tendency to hyperfixate on single songs today's heavy repeat: music.youtube.com/watch?v=RgCR...

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

is there no cause bill ackman can't be on the wrong side of www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Chat, I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

The effect of the left-digit in ride-sharing apps is significant—research by @johnlist.bsky.social et al suggests as much as $160M in profit is left in the table by not using it: buff.ly/QaM34hn

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

Just shattered a friend’s mind by sharing the Godfather (1972) still of Marlon Brando’s mustache turning into a tree.

red alert: birds have been sighted

"I miss the rising action, a little bit" youtu.be/X5KmB8Laemg?...

[pulls out bag of obscure vinyl records] now, governor general mary simon, I have a gift for you

Hello from the frozen ice planet of Hoth

Who stands in the desert all smashed and alone? OZ-Y MAN-DIAS Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone OZ-Y MAN-DIAS If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care OZ-Y MAN-DIAS Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair OZ-Y MAN-DIAS

hello from tess

Christmas Mail Train Maud Lewis c. 1957

Donald T. Campbell and the Mystery of The Low Predictive Validity NPS Score

if the president of the American Federation of Teachers—a union which represents not just primary and secondary school teachers, but also many college professors—cannot meaningfully distinguish between AI ed tech sales pitches and responsible pedagogy, she has no business representing educators.