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I'll confess I saw a random post on here about "lifting to failure", and my first thought, that lasted for waaaay too long, was that "Fantastic Planet" is possibly the worst album I can think of to exercise to.

I only went through a few months of being scared of having... fleas... or something!

*formication, yeesh, my phone's mind is in the gutter

Most people can metabolize B6 fine! But some of us can't, and all those neuro symptoms are actually a precursor to permanent nerve damage!! And I'm not joking when I say large amounts of B6 are in basically any multivitamin, things like cereal, etc.

But if you, or anyone you know, has a burning sensation in their tongue all the time, and facial numbness/ tingling, and fornication (the feeling of ants crawling all over you), get a neuro to do a B6 serum test. (Or stop taking anything with B6 in it and see if symptoms eventually resolve).

I have been asked, by a healthcare specialist, to share my "hot mouth syndrome" saga with a patient who has similar symptoms, and I will always happily share about it (and bppv!) because it is WEIRD and B6 is in *everything*.

I will not tell him! I'm generally a "potsticker" style myself, a little fry (with butter) and a little steam/ boil. Sometimes some seasoning salt, or dill. I'm just curious how everyone does it! I like the pressure cooker idea!

Not even the owners. The concrete itself.

Who runs your city? Oh, the empty above ground parking lots.

John, how do you prepare your pierogi?

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Is it too late to convince them vaccines are 'biohacking'?

Wildfire smoke dreams, man

Sometimes I'm up at 5am because I have an internally consistent but utterly absurd dream that Rihanna's backup dancers were recruited from a crokinole club, the rules of which are verrrry different, and that I am writing a master's thesis on why Captain Smee is named after this imaginary version.

Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in “unethical actions” such as manipu…

These retractions really show the importance of careful human analysis in identifying misconduct. The publisher responds by updating its AI detection tool that missed the error in the first place.

retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/f...

We figured it out because we walked up to the old stop, and saw the bus driving past, on the old route. So three buses later (each 12 min apart) were finally able to catch one.

Agreed! (But also even with a phone and a data plan there was no way to know. The app wasn't updated, there is no alert I can find, they just stopped buses going to our stop without any info!)

Winnipeg Transit rerouted F7 buses today down completely different streeets. Without any signage at any of the stops, or anything on an app. How the hell are we supposed to ... Just know?

“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...

Canvas is tracking your data. What is UBC doing with it? Proponents think it could revolutionize teaching. But some worry it’s a slippery slope towards an invasion of privacy.

From 2019: “Short filed a FOIA request, UBC refused, he had to appeal to the OIPC to get his own data. When the file arrived, ‘It was something like 400,301,000 individual data points about me.’ Well beyond test scores & basic analytics: how he used his mouse, how & when he interacted with the LMS.”

Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

I think generally wfh is actually good for my productivity, but I will admit to more time spent wondering Why Am I Upstairs?

Would that we all *could* preserve our work life balance so preciously. Maybe it's actually a statement of solidarity with labour, including students.

Turns out ignoring this over the weekend was... topical

I have amused myself this morning by thinking of the Gen AI image prompt "Aubrey Beardsley beach vibes" and please no one ruin it by showing me what it actually would/ wouldn't come up with.

Scientific publishing needs urgent reform to retain trust in research process | Letters Letters: Readers respond to an article on how too many low-quality papers and journals are being churned out

"The dysfunctions of scientific publishing that your article so aptly captured derive from two forces [...] - researchers are incentivised to publish as much as possible and publishers make more money if they publish more papers."

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I've been bunburying around rural Manitoba all week on vacation, man, Monday is going to be great!

There is a reason I'm not a collections librarian, and it comes down to believing we should be actively at war with vendors at all times.

Scott Gillingham wields power like it’s a hammer, and his goal is to flatten anyone who dares stand up. We need leaders who will treat power as a wrench, and the more hands on it, the more the leverage to loosen our hard problems.

One of the things that is tricky about reading is that, as a "good/fast" reader, I have no idea how I got those skills. And sure, I don't actually read every word, so some of the three cue system seems plausible... Until, y'know, evidence!