Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦

I’d boost someone called @librarydenizen.bsky.social anyhow, but this is nice.

If people want signed, personalized books, @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social in Toronto is the bookstore to call. I get there regularly when orders grow.

Like no, the fact that a model designed to find a latent space does in fact find a latent space does not mean that it’s intelligent in any commonly understood colloquial meaning of the term. Frankly, being so impressed by that implies you have very little familiarity with statistical modeling

Poorly targeted work email of the day: "1099 and W-9 Update - Complying with IRS Information Reporting"

I live in Canada, so happily I can go about my business with no idea what those are. 😀

On this day in 1980, Flash Gordon debuted in theaters. Was it high quality cinema? No. What it cheesy and campy? Without a doubt. Was it also awesome and fun. Absolutely! Still one of my favorite movies.

#dailynerdpic #filmsky #flashgordon

Camaro Berlinetta (1984)

Oh, Adenine
Why can’tcha be true?

Canada is a NATO member with a growing non-European population.

Canadian doubts about the US alliance have more to do with *the USA threatening to annex us* than the fact that my neighbours moved here from Bangladesh.

"The actor playing this high schooler is actually 27"
"This struggling musician has a gorgeous apartment overlooking Central Park"
"This cop who apparently lives off cold pizza and cigarettes has the body of a superhero"

It's all fine, the magic of Hollywood makes it work. 😀

"The actor playing this high schooler is actually 27"
"This struggling musician has a gorgeous apartment overlooking Central Park"
"This cop who apparently lives off cold pizza and cigarettes has the body of a superhero"

It's all fine, the magic of Hollywood makes it work. 😀

DOMINANT win for the /EdmontonOilers! 😱

Oilers win, woohoo!

Sleep now. Following a western team here in Toronto is hard. 😴

CONNOR MCDAVID HAT TRICK!!! 🎩🎩🎩

The goal that sent the hats flying! 🧢

Rest In Peace to the great Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (seen here in License to Kill)

Back for more!

📺: Sportsnet
📻: CHED880

#LetsGoOilers

Poster for MAN FINDS TAPE: a woman's face distorted by some kind of camera effect with a review quote from Indie Wire "A nightmare festering with originality."

OUT TOMORROW! AT LONG LAST! MAN FINDS TAPE!

The film Jess and I executively produced, written, directed, starring, and filmed by people Jess and I have known in the Austin film community for decades. The single most Austin film made in several years. We're very proud. In theaters & on VOD TOMORROW!

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

Giant bauble in a mall with turret looking projection which greatly resembles …

Globular rebel ion cannon on Hoth.

Compliments of the season to my favourite mall Christmas decoration.

As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

You can in fact still buy new station wagons! But they're a niche item and to my knowledge are only sold in North America by Volvo.

we have never seen ninja turtles, but isn't that exactly how ninjas operate

"Thagomizer" in Japanese is, in fact, サゴマイザー/sagomaizaa, and you can imagine my delight when it dawned on me what the katakana I was reading represented.

[newscaster voice]

Snails. What are they up to?

Find out today at 1.

I fear the snails may be very slowly threatening our way of life. 😉

Patriotic Canadians are opposed to the bourbon restoration. Jack Daniel's will stay off the shelves until relations with the USA improve. 😁

YouTube video by Hey Duggee Official The River Badge | Hey Duggee

Hey Duggee is the best. It's sweet and adorable and also has an episode which parodies Apocalypse Now. 😀

It's still used in the UK on rare occasions. Alan Turing was given a posthumous royal pardon in 2013.

Population density may be a factor.

The USA has minor league baseball teams and the like, with adult professional or semi-professional players. But while large swathes of the USA are inconveniently far from even a minor league team, *everywhere* has a high school which can play sports.