Jeremy Nickurak 🇨🇦
@gehrehmee.bsky.social
YEG techie and ukulele enthusiast. Mostly on Mastodon @ https://toot.cafe/@atrus
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Jeremy Nickurak 🇨🇦
@gehrehmee.bsky.social
· Dec 10
#introduction: I try to get computers to do things, and try to help people at getting better at making computers do things!
Lately my go-to programming language of choice is #python, and I love telling compelling stories with #git
I play (and sometimes teach) #ukulele in #yeg.
Lately my go-to programming language of choice is #python, and I love telling compelling stories with #git
I play (and sometimes teach) #ukulele in #yeg.
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This one has always stuck with me, from November 2012. Truly cursed with the gift of prophecy
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This one has always stuck with me, from November 2012. Truly cursed with the gift of prophecy
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There's also an insane logic spiral going on here.
We've lost our audience to the internet!
We can't produce as much quantity or quality because we're broke!
Because we're broke, we're going to use a service to make our quality even worse!
People will flock back to us!
We've lost our audience to the internet!
We can't produce as much quantity or quality because we're broke!
Because we're broke, we're going to use a service to make our quality even worse!
People will flock back to us!
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There's also an insane logic spiral going on here.
We've lost our audience to the internet!
We can't produce as much quantity or quality because we're broke!
Because we're broke, we're going to use a service to make our quality even worse!
People will flock back to us!
We've lost our audience to the internet!
We can't produce as much quantity or quality because we're broke!
Because we're broke, we're going to use a service to make our quality even worse!
People will flock back to us!
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We need to ask ourselves why we, as a province, think it's acceptable for a government to legalize its own unethical conduct and investigate itself under circumstances it controls.
For all people claim to care about corruption around here, they sure don't care when it's their guys.
For all people claim to care about corruption around here, they sure don't care when it's their guys.
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We need to ask ourselves why we, as a province, think it's acceptable for a government to legalize its own unethical conduct and investigate itself under circumstances it controls.
For all people claim to care about corruption around here, they sure don't care when it's their guys.
For all people claim to care about corruption around here, they sure don't care when it's their guys.
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it's happening!!!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
it's happening!!!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous
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[P] WE'RE ALL-IN ON TULIPS, GANG
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
[P] WE'RE ALL-IN ON TULIPS, GANG
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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At the Alberta Legislature this morning to bear witness. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #yeg #Edmonton
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
At the Alberta Legislature this morning to bear witness. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #yeg #Edmonton
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Yes. This. Please.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Yes. This. Please.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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This is government in the doctor's office, government in locker rooms, government in kids' private lives
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is government in the doctor's office, government in locker rooms, government in kids' private lives
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Today, government introduced Bill 9 legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to override a court ruling that protects youth access to gender-affirming care. This places government between a patient and their physician, undermining clinical autonomy. www.albertadoctors.org/news/publica...
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Today, government introduced Bill 9 legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to override a court ruling that protects youth access to gender-affirming care. This places government between a patient and their physician, undermining clinical autonomy. www.albertadoctors.org/news/publica...
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I've been increasingly of the mindset that if you can't at least occasionally make small changes in your code with nano, it's a bad signal about the complexity of your codebase/tooling/etc.
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I've been increasingly of the mindset that if you can't at least occasionally make small changes in your code with nano, it's a bad signal about the complexity of your codebase/tooling/etc.
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Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995.
And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.
And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995.
And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.
And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.
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After MTS adopted free fares for minors, the average age of riders on my usual bus (serves two high schools and both weekend terminals are shopping malls) dropped substantially. They get freedom without driving (inherently dangerous at their age) or their families needing to afford the extra car.
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
After MTS adopted free fares for minors, the average age of riders on my usual bus (serves two high schools and both weekend terminals are shopping malls) dropped substantially. They get freedom without driving (inherently dangerous at their age) or their families needing to afford the extra car.
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“I’d never fall for MTG’s rebrand!”
…Did you fall for Newsom’s?
…Did you fall for Newsom’s?
a man in a hawaiian shirt is making a funny face with the words reeeeeaaaallyyyy ? behind him
ALT: a man in a hawaiian shirt is making a funny face with the words reeeeeaaaallyyyy ? behind him
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“I’d never fall for MTG’s rebrand!”
…Did you fall for Newsom’s?
…Did you fall for Newsom’s?
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Hospitals to fight critical staffing shortage by declaring that all PhDs are “that kind of doctor” now
Hospitals to fight critical staffing shortage by declaring that all PhDs are “that kind of doctor" now
OTTAWA - In an effort to combat the national doctor shortage crippling many provincial healthcare systems, hospitals across Canada have declared that all PhD holders, regardless of field, are in fact ...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hospitals to fight critical staffing shortage by declaring that all PhDs are “that kind of doctor” now
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I tried to be subtle, but I know that doesn't reach all of you.
I co-authored a crossword that was published today!
Yegwords.com/p/too-soon
I co-authored a crossword that was published today!
Yegwords.com/p/too-soon
Too Soon? - YEGwords No. 040
A themed midi (12x12) crossword puzzle by Jeff Nachtigall and Brandon Cathcart
Yegwords.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I tried to be subtle, but I know that doesn't reach all of you.
I co-authored a crossword that was published today!
Yegwords.com/p/too-soon
I co-authored a crossword that was published today!
Yegwords.com/p/too-soon
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Yeah, but at least it's an environmental catastrophe with absolutely no regulation, so a handful of dirtbags can have even more money they'll never be able to spend.
ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace
ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.
futurism.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Yeah, but at least it's an environmental catastrophe with absolutely no regulation, so a handful of dirtbags can have even more money they'll never be able to spend.
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What happened to Sarah Kendzior? Why is she suspended???
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
What happened to Sarah Kendzior? Why is she suspended???
