My heart attack started with pain behind the sternum and then both arms went numb/tingly. I taught this to students long before my heart attack, but we need to spread the word that women don't suffer the same symptoms as men. #TheMoreYouKnow

An LLM is nothing like a sewing machine, and only a dickhead who devalues textiles could even come up with that. Every single garment is handmade, from the cutting up. We have been attempting to automate for literally a century. It’s not happening. Circular knits are about the pinnacle.

If you are following the debates around provincial interference in regional governance in Ontario, and its associated conversations on local council sizes and amalgamation, I highly recommend reading this - Jorg is one of Canada's foremost experts on multijurisdictional governance

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

You can watch the Artemis II crew 24/7 and listen to whatever they're saying to earth. RN, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is currently taking and answering questions...in French! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...

Our horse In the middle of our street Our horse It is cake he wants to eat

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

Some other folks have posted resources they made in the comments and quotes, which I am hoovering up. It seems an appropriate time to share this list again, and I super welcome any contributions or help maintaining. It's getting big

"If you are a person concerned with the best parts of being human, those feelings and that sense of community are hard to put a dollar amount on." Thank you @colenowicki.com for this wonderful @thetyee.ca essay on the tricky business of sports. 🏀 thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Alberta Institute Canada Strong & Free Cdn Constitution Foundation Cdns for Democracy & Prosperity Cdn Taxpayers Federation Frontier Centre for Public Policy Institute for Liberal Studies Macdonald-Laurier Inst Montreal Economic Inst SecondStreet Fraser Inst onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🇨🇦 🧵A big warm welcome to all the lovely Canadians jumping on the Atlas Network train. #NZpol has led the way with the Aus academic @jeremywalker.bsky.social showing the history that got them a “think” tank operative as Dep PM. George Monbiot says “junktanks”👌 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I want to point out that this night-side shot was impossible the last time we had people up there. This was taken on a Nikon D5 (arguably the best low-light DSLR...ever) at ISO 51200. Apollo went up there with 160-speed color film. This is a first.

oil & gas industry is so hostile now that they funded most of Project 2025 its not limited to America – the Atlas Network is... what they've named themselves fossil-fuelled, death-powered and life-devouring, its white supremacy www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

this by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a very important thread by @comicbooksuperhero.ca from January 31, 2023 threadreaderapp.com/thread/16205...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

If you’re struggling with drug addiction, know your life is precious. na.org

Someone asked for an app to point your camera at a color and find matches. Cool. Here. BUT ALSO: I'm colorblind and never thought to make this for myself! Save colors ("new paint," "mom's fave"), get colorblind-friendly complements, simulate what you see vs. what others see. Legit using this daily.

Parenting time has exploded since the 1990s but the burden has not been shared equally. Working moms are spending more time with kids than stay-at-home moms did in decades past. Dads increased parenting involvement somewhat, but not to the level of moms. fortune.com/2026/04/01/w...

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

I 💗 Mochi!

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

this is my love language

Like most everyone else, I see the government losing in today's #birthright #citizenship case. And it's braggy to note this, but this is such a rare thing that I'm going to do it anyway: My amicus curiae brief got *two* call-outs in the courtroom this morning. Kind of a dream come true.

Though Schwartz pleaded guilty to a $39M tax fraud scheme, prosecutors weren’t able to trace how funds moved through his 200+ accounts. Trump’s pardon then wiped away Schwartz’s sentence — and likely any IRS effort to claw back the stolen taxes. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

A thing of beauty—Voyager 1 is calling home right now and the Madrid station is also connected to Artemis 2. You can watch the deep space network live anytime you want. eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now...

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I consider myself a very progressive person. I am totally comfortable with all forms of consensual relationships, unique structures, defining your own commitments, what have you. Ross still cheated on Rachel and there’s nothing you can ever say to convince me otherwise.

In the meanwhile @ryanhisner.bsky.social and others discovered some peculiar preference of BA.3.2 toward kids , there is now something new growing apparently fast: it is PQ.16.1.1 with this spike: 22N 59S 184S 253G 417T 420N 435S 456L 478T 493E nextstrain.org/fetch/genome...

Always interesting to see S:417T. It was in Gamma & @solidevidence.bsky.social has noted that it's ubiquitous in Cryptic wastewater variants. Hasn't done well in circulation other than Gamma & a few early/mid-2022 BA.2 variants. It's definitely does something, but it's not clear what.

Election security expert David Becker says Trump new “mail-in voting” executive order is pretty much dead on arrival Becker says if you or I colored on a cocktail napkin with a crayon … we’d have as much of a chance of impacting state mail-in voting laws

I’m alive today because a doctor with more than four decades of experience treating Black patients recognized my symptoms from a very small number of cases he’d seen in his career. This may seem quaint in light of big data and AI, but if it’s your life at stake you’d think (very) differently.

Called Ford's feedback line. Decried Ford's decision to abuse his majority to retroactive change the FOI laws to protect HIMSELF! Also condemned his earlier decision to remove speed cameras given 15 yr old was hit this wk, acr from his school. Want to join me? Ford (open now): 416 325-1941

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @jeffreybgray.bsky.social

damnnn

But even if this were useful, custom feeds are absolutely not worth burning the planet down for and stealing water and energy from actual human beings which all AI does with data centers!

This shocking article chronicles the impacts of private equity owning long term care and retirement homes. Private equity should not be permitted to own long term care or retirement homes. Their goal is profits at any cost. This is incomparable with caring for our vulnerable seniors.

#ResistanceRoots #WomensHistoryMonth Anna Sewell was born on this day in 1820 in Great Yarmouth, U.K. She was the author of the children’s classic Black Beauty, which became one of the best-selling novels of all time and helped transform public perception and treatment of horses. /1

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

Yvette Lindgren & I have a new essay recently accepted by Southern California Law Review! "The Post-Dobbs Abortion Irony" explores how abortion bans only seem to be chilling medically necessary abortions while everyday abortions are increasing everywhere. 1/4 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

No one could have foreseen this.

If Alex is an AI, I’ll be mad. Hey Alexa, restart the world.