Sharon Blady⁷

Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

Ha!

Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts. City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”

@nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming se...

1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...

Imagine where we'd be if they'd started in 2015.

Jian Ghomeshi: 8 women accuse former CBC host of violence, sexual abuse or harassment One woman, actor Lucy DeCoutere, alleges she was slapped and choked without her consent.

Seeing people I know post Jian Ghomeshi videos about Iran in the wake of what happened today. I’m realizing now a lot of people outside of Canada don’t know his backstory. I would encourage folks to look him up before posting his content, please

www.thestar.com/news/gta/jia...

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

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Holy wackadoodle, Batman!

Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), pioneering British-American astrophysicist and lead author of the 1957 B²FH paper that proved stars forge nearly all chemical elements beyond hydrogen and helium through stellar nucleosynthesis; her work provided the foundational evidence that we are made of "star stuff." The black-and-white photograph shows her as an woman standing indoors at an event, smiling warmly at the camera with a gentle, confident expression; she has short wavy gray hair, wears a patterned top or dress with a bold abstract floral design, layered with multiple strands of pearl necklaces, and a dark tailored coat or jacket over it, set against a plain brick wall and a partial sign in the background. #astrophysics #physics #WomenInScience

DYK the iron in your blood was forged the heart of a supernova? 🌟

Astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge was the lead author of the famous 1957 "B²FH" paper. Along with her colleagues, she proved how stars create the majority of elements of the periodic table.

We are made of "star stuff." 🔭 #WomenInSTEM

Is it time to honour Montreal’s forgotten giant of neurosurgery? montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

We are currently entering the dystopian future that novels and sci-fi movies warned us about. #OpenAI #BillionaireCorruption #USIsraelIranWar

Life imitates art.

29 years ago, Wag the Dog told the story of a US president mired in sex scandal that threatened to undermine his presidency so he decided he needed to concoct a make-believe war to boost his support.

"Entertainment"? Bluesky "Discovery" tab is labeling postd re: attacks in Dubai as entertainment.

Right-wing authoritarianism is linked to belief in the paranormal, independent of cognitive style New research suggests that people who endorse right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance are more likely to believe in the paranormal. This connection persists even when accounting for a person'...

No surprise magical thinking key here...👇

Right-wing authoritarianism is linked to belief in the paranormal www.psypost.org/right-wing-a...

From study: "... right-wing ideology plays an important role in understanding paranormal beliefs."

OMG!

Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt!

Meta blocking CHCH and other independent Canadian news stations At a time when misinformation, deep-fakes and artificially-generated content designed to look like real news is flooding Facebook and Instagram, their parent company Meta continues to block original, ...

At a time when misinformation, deep-fakes and artificially-generated content designed to look like real news is flooding Facebook and Instagram, their parent company Meta continues to block original, trusted Canadian journalism.

Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

Why a memory chip shortage could soon drive up prices | CBC News A boom of investment in artificial intelligence has led to an unforeseen problem: a shortage of the world's memory chip supply, which threatens to drive up the price of consumer electronics like lapto...

Why a memory chip shortage is wreaking havoc on the consumer electronics industry

Memory demands for AI data centres 'sucking all the oxygen out of the room'

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Women across EU celebrate approval of European Citizens Initiative on abortion rights "For the first time, the Commission confirms unequivocally that EU funds can be used to guarantee access to safe abortion care – regardless of where they come from in Europe."

My Voice My Choice coordinator Nika Kovač: "Today is a victory for women in Europe and a good day for European democracy. For the first time, the Commission confirms unequivocally that EU funds can be used to guarantee access to safe abortion care – particularly for women in vulnerable situations."

Celebrating Mary McLeod Bethune during #BlackHistory Month

As an educator, civil rights activist & daughter of former slaves, Bethune became the 1st Black woman to lead a US federal agency. She started a private school which became Bethune-Cookman and also co-founded the United Negro College Fund.

We're your neighbour, not your maid. Pick up your own mess. Maybe then you can learn from your mistakes by dealing with the logical consequences of your (in)actions.

Found on the Idiocracy cutting room floor!

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Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

“Some have even argued that private funding is superior, maintaining that it is more flexible, less prone to groupthink, and reduces the “burden” on taxpayers. But can the private sector really replace public funding? History suggests not”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Stanley Tucci has a meal with the U.S. women's hockey team Stanley Tucci broke bread with the women's ice hockey team on their day off to discuss what position Tucci would play if he were a hockey player, the rivalry between the U.S. and Canada and more.

The Tucci thing, BTW, is real. www.nbcolympics.com/videos/stanl...

Bingo!

Close-up of hands typing on a silver Macbook.

A new study from #UofG researchers has found that ableist language in job ads can discourage applicants from applying. The findings show that applicants prefer clear, neutral wording and postings that include equal employment opportunity and accommodation statements.

Learn more: uoguel.ph/z818o