Good morning, Calgary! #yyc

Hey #yyc! The Downtown Core Neighbourhood Association is co-presenting "An Evening of Indigenous Storytelling: A Film Screening and Dialogue with Damian Abrahams", a free film event on October 4, downtown. See details & RSVP here: downtowncoreneighbourhood.ca/event/free-t...

Slightly obsessed with the notion that an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent entity would waste their time thinking about American politics.

NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE

END OF THE WORLD FAILS AGAIN

1973

1939

Cronk is the drink.

The worst part of vacations is tourists. The worst part of driving is traffic.

Can confirm! It's accessible through newspapers.com for that date (page 6).

1915

1876

Hot tip: if you don't want your descendants knowing your business, make sure you are not somewhere you don't want them knowing about on census day.

1952

I was thinking about the fact that I don't know any of my third cousins (i.e. have never even heard of any of them), so I started figuring out who they are and it turns out there are far too many.

I think @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should have some fun and announce that he wants New York City to own 10% of the grocery stores.

I saw an internet post where someone was marvelling at how expensive accessing a journal article was, and how they at least hoped that the authors were being paid well by the journal for their hard work, and oh no I have some terrible news

just because something has to do with a group decision regarding the distribution of resources in society doesn't mean that you have to bring politics into it

You can just do things

Target salad (1966)

There are scented candles everywhere for those with the eyes to see

To date, 4 candidates in Canadian federal elections have received 0 votes: Felix-Antoine Hamel in Toronto--St. Paul's (2024) Daniel Stuckless & Ysack Dupont in LaSalle--Émard--Verdun (2024) Ysack Dupont (again) in Carleton (2025) Currently 75 candidates have 0 votes in Battle River—Crowfoot (2025)

Wisdom from 1839

Esperanto!

Who came up with the system where you get a year older every year? I have complaints

I don’t know how long it’s been running, but Cornell has a “Tell Grads It’s Friday” event with cheap beer, popcorn, and chips and salsa.

1936

An interesting thing about spending the last five months doing lots of things to reduce my overall levels of anxiety is that I feel like reading about politics-of-the-day seems considerably less essential to me now, which violates huge parts of my self-image, which I'm totally fine with.

Make coffins, not love.

1927

Not that I'm remotely in the market for another book idea, but there's a book idea in the title "Run Through the News: How Running 35km a Week Helps Me Deal With *Gestures Broadly*"

One of my tips for writing is that if you're getting tired of editing a document, change the font. It feels fresh again!

A large number of people are being so kind and nice and helpful and encouraging about the book right now, that those things alone might be nearly enough to manifest it back to reality...

It's so weird how LLMs know so much about things I don't know anything about, and yet make fundamental and basic errors about things I do know anything about. Oh well, I'm sure that's a coincidence.

‘Berta friends: don’t forget that today’s the day you can pre-order your COVID vaccine. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

Peter Pocklington's 1983 PC leadership campaign slogan

Still just under half of the year left, ladies 😌🫡

1929: Financial matriarchy by 2025?

1975 on life in 2025

GPT-5 struggles with imposter syndrome and knows what it's like to not earn any money until it turned 30?

Starting to think that meditation and detachment are key skills for civic literacy.

1933

1912

Since Friday morning, my internal experience of the book project has gone from "mildly desperate energy trying to figure out how to push it forward" to "confusingly high energy around too many options to push it forward". It's a dramatic but good change.

We need to make computers make our lives more fun, not have all the fun on our behalf.

(year 2186, two people eating beans from a tin near a fire) person 1: what happened before we used to select which person to use as training data to make decisions on our behalf in parliament? person 2: no idea i've never heard of this, let me ask chatgpt

Let's go back to the good old days I guess

I wonder what happened after this letter.

Thank you all for being so kind and understanding. I never thought you all wouldn't be, but still wildly appreciated. A surprising number of promising leads to follow up with. Nothing ever certain of course, but I'll let you know if any of them become more than just promising.

Just in case you are wondering about the newspaper clippings book, and haven't seen this yet, an update (sigh):