Gerry Canavan

it could have been our ticket out

we came so close to opening Hegel’s Bagels in grad school

actually I don’t think I like star trek anymore

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

it's called meritocracy and if you hate it you hate america

unreal

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales Site deletes feature after real estate agents and some homeowners say scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales

and on the pedestal these words appear www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Man I should teach Rusty Brown again.

Pleased to report that I think WAKE UP DEAD MAN is the best of the three.

I’ve spent a chunk of this month just reading the hell out of these two books and I wrote down what I think is up with them and how they speak to where D&D is going.

dang that's cool

Attention Trekkies and SF scholars!
Honored to be giving a keynote at this wonderful conference next year in Paris! #StarTrek

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

I have a pretty good handle on how a lot of online scams work but I don't really understand how the "longtime employee wants to give away their tools for free" one is supposed to pay out.

damn though

financially ruin the AI industry AND get a few thousand dollars in the pocket of your old pal gerry? that's what we call a win-win

Comic strip showing a stand-up comedian under the title "The Ones Who Bomb In Omegas" He is saying "Hooboy, I should not have brought up the child. This is a tough room, but not the worst room in the city. Am I right?"

CFP closes in three days! SFRA 2026: Into the Slipstream: Watering Futures

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
June 17 – 21, 2026

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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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superman looking in a mirror and discovering he has suddenly grown old

happy birthday... to me?

Coming up at 3 PM at MMLA today: "University Teaching in a Moment of Danger" roundtable with me, @bpladek.bsky.social, Liza Strakhov, and Meg Paonessa!

it's a hell of an act -- what do you call it

turning a big dial taht says "Mortgage length" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

things getting hot in the Dune class

the reason for the season

Coming in 2026, the next book in the Mass Markets series: NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL by the great @vincenthaddad.bsky.social...

lol these are the last days of america

so far so good

vince gilligan you crazy for this one

peter watts waiting by the phone