Tis the season

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

This is the cartoon equivalent of people in AI relationships

Once again Shazaming music to find out a song I need to avoid www.shazam.com/track/712111...

Nothing more death-defying than taking a shower 10 mins before the building turns off the water for a few hours

Yup. 8 teams Quarters and Semifinals in December Final Jan 1 portal Jan 2 The playoffs have to be faster than the coaching carousel

It's pretty sad to see The Imperial Pub boarded up

New ACC Commissioner Michael Kelly

2005: I want an 8-team playoff 2015: I want an 8-team playoff 2025: I want an 8-team playoff 8 teams would include: -Conference champions -Teams with 1-2 losses to comparable teams So, only teams that played well all season

They should have done 8 teams. With 12, everyone thinks they should be in: teams that lose to 3-8 teams, teams that lose 3 games, teams that lose to teams that fired their coaches

When a few issues of the Onion didn't get delivered, I emailed them and they sent all the missing issues in one package, even though it cost them more to ship that package to Canada than I pay them! Great product and great customer service!

Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:

My favorite album, which I learned about because I was bored in my friend's dorm room and read a review her W magazine lol. Looked for the album for months until a friend and I went to see The Roots in Orlando and I bought the CD at Tower Records nearby. We listened to it on the ride back to Tampa

The TTC sent a Training Car (which must be empty) during rush hour(!), so of course the subsequent street car that I'm on is so overloaded, people waiting at stops can't get on There's limited space on the tracks and 20 hours a day that aren't rush hour when you can train new drivers

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve been to: The Avalanches Kraftwerk (x3) Girl Talk (x5) The Roots (x2) Stereolab (x2)

1994-2013: strong opinion about #2, sure fire away 2013-2023: strong option about #4, okay sure fine 2024-present: strong option about #11, it truly doesn't matter, find some peace in your life

Seems like college football found out the hard way that 14 teams is the competitive maximum you can have in a conference I could have told you that when the 16-team WAC imploded 27 years ago

I have no energy to expend on the 11th seed in the playoffs

I apologize that my feed has largely become complaints about Toronto transit but holy God streetcar transit here is abysmal. Looking at jobs in his hellish labour market just so I don't have to deal with this nonsense I do gain solace in that I am def not the only one youtu.be/CPbXfHFbke0?...

Yay I get to walk home in the rain because the King Streetcar kicked everyone off at York and Wellington

Market priceflation strikes again

King Streetcar running on Spadina because King is blocked at Spadina with police cars and caution tape (zoom in to see 7+ streetcars in a row

Just saw an Ontario license plate that said LACTATE

It's going to be really weird in 12-15 years when the current players who played at 3 or 4 schools become coaches and they don't have much allegiance alumni-wise

king youtube.com/shorts/37AQC...

Maintenant? I didn't even have any naan!

Eliminate one? Cowards. I'm eliminating them all. By eating them.

Curious how many AP Poll voters know James Madison beat Washington State by 4 and North Texas beat Washington State by 49. (I think JMU is a really good team, it's just an obvious comparison point)

The TTC is an affront to people's sensibilities

Great sumo Day 14, nice to get rid of that awful taste of Day 13's last match

The Wrath of McGrath. "It’s an explicit subsidy for car users in a city that’s already choked by traffic congestion. " Pictured: Toronto Parking Authority officials..

Just ordered 8 piece nuggets at Popeyes and got 12 nugs Chaotic Popeyes gods smiled upon me today

dawg, what the fuck

Commission to make WEIRD AL permanently all caps like MF DOOM

How is the conference that makes the most money so freaking broke

Commission to make the lower case L just a shorter version of the upper case L, or L with a stubbier tale, so that I don't get AI and AI mixed up

No phrase exemplifies America more clearly, for better or for worse, than "edible mascot sacrifice" Every year, I buy pop tarts after The Pop Tarts Bowl so clearly this works

The point about LLMs lacking "voice" is correct, but imo the limits to good AI writing are more fundamental. I would sum it up like this: the very best writing "defamiliarizes" the familiar -- makes it fresh, conjures it anew, etc. But LLM outputs are an averaged rehash of the familiar, by design.

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

We are engaged in a friendly competition of football with the Naval Academy. We have always been engaged in a friendly competition of football with the Naval Academy.

This used to be a Swoop airlines plane that WestJet converted to their service. That's why it's so cramped. Even still has some of pink Swoop livery

I haven't flown WestJet since pre-pandemic and it's very cramped now

"Gotta keep busy or you'll be bored" lol being busy absolutely sucks

@namshine.bsky.social is doing such critical work with (MIS)Treated.

Why do I include poetry in a presentation about data visualization? Because cartography IS poetry. The ocean is not literally blue. The land is not literally green. Symbolism, metaphor, language, cultural context and history all inform map making. Both exercise the same brain-parts.

So in enshittification news, my work comp updated to Windows 11 and it doesn't let you move the taskbar. I have had my taskbar on the right edge for 25 years. RIP my productivity today

repost with an iconic fictional band:

The only other people in this restaurant are basically this meme