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adr from that place you know. He/they
Because Canada is, in many ways, an extremely small, small country, I actually know the mother of one of the people in this image.
When you think about it Letterkenny contained the vision for Heated Rivalry
January 2, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Because Canada is, in many ways, an extremely small, small country, I actually know the mother of one of the people in this image.
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
I remember that university President. iirc, they were emboldened by how relatively simple it was to shitcan librarians at their prior workplace and thought they could take that easy-breezy approach to Real Faculty. Nah.
January 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I remember that university President. iirc, they were emboldened by how relatively simple it was to shitcan librarians at their prior workplace and thought they could take that easy-breezy approach to Real Faculty. Nah.
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In 2014, the President and Provost of U of S tried to fire a Dean with tenure both as Dean and as an academic. They both ended up losing their positions over that. On present evidence, it's not unreasonable to think that the UW Board tried something similar here.
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
In 2014, the President and Provost of U of S tried to fire a Dean with tenure both as Dean and as an academic. They both ended up losing their positions over that. On present evidence, it's not unreasonable to think that the UW Board tried something similar here.
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🎆 What a way to close out 2025 as we celebrate PKP's Founder, John Willinsky, and his appointment to the Order of Canada for more than 25 years of dedication to #OpenAccess and #PublicKnowledge!
-> www.gg.ca/en/media/new...
Image from Muttercraig CC BY-SA at uottawa-mpsp.fandom.com/wiki/Order_o...
-> www.gg.ca/en/media/new...
Image from Muttercraig CC BY-SA at uottawa-mpsp.fandom.com/wiki/Order_o...
December 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🎆 What a way to close out 2025 as we celebrate PKP's Founder, John Willinsky, and his appointment to the Order of Canada for more than 25 years of dedication to #OpenAccess and #PublicKnowledge!
-> www.gg.ca/en/media/new...
Image from Muttercraig CC BY-SA at uottawa-mpsp.fandom.com/wiki/Order_o...
-> www.gg.ca/en/media/new...
Image from Muttercraig CC BY-SA at uottawa-mpsp.fandom.com/wiki/Order_o...
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I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada
December 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada
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"Learn to code." Did you? "AI makes entry coding jobs replaceable." The pivot between these positions was immediate and without apology. All these kids lied to about a future with wage security, who structured their education and life around that promise, had it yanked in a few years.
December 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Learn to code." Did you? "AI makes entry coding jobs replaceable." The pivot between these positions was immediate and without apology. All these kids lied to about a future with wage security, who structured their education and life around that promise, had it yanked in a few years.
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There’s no pitch for genAI in the classroom that doesn’t boil down to “it’s everywhere,” or that takes education as more than job training, or, consequently, that actually argues for genAI as a tool that has a distinct function in education.
It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.
It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There’s no pitch for genAI in the classroom that doesn’t boil down to “it’s everywhere,” or that takes education as more than job training, or, consequently, that actually argues for genAI as a tool that has a distinct function in education.
It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.
It’s not educators who have their heads in the sand here.
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I have a theory that one big reason llms get so much hype is that due to financialization the people in charge of tech companies are finance grifters who have never once, ever, used sed or awk or grep and would be totally unable to describe how they work.
May 19, 2024 at 4:15 PM
I have a theory that one big reason llms get so much hype is that due to financialization the people in charge of tech companies are finance grifters who have never once, ever, used sed or awk or grep and would be totally unable to describe how they work.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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This is a lie. Hello Kitty and Leonardo Dicaprio look very different.
December 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is a lie. Hello Kitty and Leonardo Dicaprio look very different.
When I was at Chicago amtrak about a decade ago I actually saw one of these cars on the track, hooked up, and I was *absolutely flummoxed*. It was *so swanky*. Just a gorgeous thing.
The clearest demonstration to me that the rich in this country are boring, vapid, thoughtless dipshits is the fact that you can rent (or buy) your own TRAIN CAR and have Amtrak hook you up to existing lines and drive you around all the time and none of these scum do it. Fucking waste.
December 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
When I was at Chicago amtrak about a decade ago I actually saw one of these cars on the track, hooked up, and I was *absolutely flummoxed*. It was *so swanky*. Just a gorgeous thing.
Pretty sure there's not gonna be a TN-1 work permit this time next year. This is a huge bummer.
December 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Pretty sure there's not gonna be a TN-1 work permit this time next year. This is a huge bummer.
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After all of my fussy requests, the newspaper nailed it. Nice work Henry and Sadie! I am delighted to sponsor your artwork and support my local newspaper.
December 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
After all of my fussy requests, the newspaper nailed it. Nice work Henry and Sadie! I am delighted to sponsor your artwork and support my local newspaper.
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the analogy I use with friends and family all the time is the jump from collegiate to professional sports. as soon as I explain it that way, it clicks in their brains what the academic job market is like.
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
the analogy I use with friends and family all the time is the jump from collegiate to professional sports. as soon as I explain it that way, it clicks in their brains what the academic job market is like.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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I think it's sweet that the oldest surviving printed book in the world - the Diamond Sutra - is also the oldest creative work explicitly released into the public domain, with a colophon at the end that says it was created for universal free distribution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
Diamond Sutra - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I think it's sweet that the oldest surviving printed book in the world - the Diamond Sutra - is also the oldest creative work explicitly released into the public domain, with a colophon at the end that says it was created for universal free distribution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
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One of McDonald’s first attempts at a kids meal was the “Mayor McCheese Bag,” a cheeseburger, fries and Cookies (at regular menu prices), served in a special bag. This is a countertop sign from the promotion… the only survivor I’ve ever seen outside of the McD’s archives. (1975)
December 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
One of McDonald’s first attempts at a kids meal was the “Mayor McCheese Bag,” a cheeseburger, fries and Cookies (at regular menu prices), served in a special bag. This is a countertop sign from the promotion… the only survivor I’ve ever seen outside of the McD’s archives. (1975)
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ChatGPT Wrapped knows exactly what I spend my time on, which makes me worry about privacy and ownership of our cognitive pasts. Self-hosting cannot come too soon.
December 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
ChatGPT Wrapped knows exactly what I spend my time on, which makes me worry about privacy and ownership of our cognitive pasts. Self-hosting cannot come too soon.
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Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
December 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
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Alt Text: Doug Ford, currently under RCMP investigation, panders to his base by wearing an OPP sweatshirt while pretending to pack boxes at a food bank instead of improving rent control, increasing the minimum wage, building homes, increasing ODSP, or helping in any meaningful way at all really.
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Alt Text: Doug Ford, currently under RCMP investigation, panders to his base by wearing an OPP sweatshirt while pretending to pack boxes at a food bank instead of improving rent control, increasing the minimum wage, building homes, increasing ODSP, or helping in any meaningful way at all really.
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1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
Yeah, in re: librarians as angels who will save civilization etc, if my 30 years in the industry didn't already sort of inure me to this magical thinking, the recent conversion of *so many of them* into copyright maximalists for Some Reason sure would.
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Yeah, in re: librarians as angels who will save civilization etc, if my 30 years in the industry didn't already sort of inure me to this magical thinking, the recent conversion of *so many of them* into copyright maximalists for Some Reason sure would.