New Year, Old AKMA

Remarkable!

I fear someone in the US Cabinet confused ‘intel on Iran’ with ‘incels on Iran’

Poor dear (internet) friend — sympathy and blessings

I fear someone in the US Cabinet confused ‘intel on Iran’ with ‘incels on Iran’

😮

Aha! That’s the trick. I’ll give that a try (now where’s that old drive?)…

I’m still working through the reconfiguring of my iTunes library, so long-time favourites with deep catalogues tend to prevail. Good to see Otis Redding!
Since I’ve just had to change computers and move swathes of files around, I fear that Beatles et al. will not be budged for months.

February in music according to @lastfm.bsky.social:

1 The Beatles 16 scrobbles
2 Talking Heads 11
3 Joni Mitchell 10
4 Prince 9
5 XTC 9
6 Lou Reed 8
7 They Might Be Giants 8
8 Aretha Franklin 6
9 Otis Redding 6
10 Jethro Tull 5

As usual, the Mountain Goats exclusion principle applies.

Looking forward to voting Green after years of thinking I'd be Labour till I die….

This is one of things I love about living in (cities in) the UK, where I have no car and need no car and walk a lot.

Looks like it’s about time for another quagmire.

1965-1975: Vietnam War
15 year gap
1990-1991: Gulf War
12 year gap
2003-2011: Iraq War
13 year gap
2026-: Iran War

Finally, the White House communications director steps in to clarify the decision to go to war.

"NO PANICANS!” Mr. Cheung said in a statement on X. “TRUST IN TRUMP!"

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Yeah, alas my TM had been not mounting (conceivably related?) so…

My MacBook Air’s screen is dying, so I ordered a new MBA and am trying to transfer the data old > new. The new MBA is ‘looking for sources’ even though the old is on the same network and connected directly by Thunderbolt cable. What’s going wrong? Is there an option I can’t see on the old’s screen?

It was the core of his 'Spirit of Anglicanism' class — wasn't that what it was called?

Obviously a highly advanced civilisation

I’d been using my iPad as a remote screen for old MBA, but Migration Assistant shuts down screen sharing

My MacBook Air’s screen is dying, so I ordered a new MBA and am trying to transfer the data old > new. The new MBA is ‘looking for sources’ even though the old is on the same network and connected directly by Thunderbolt cable. What’s going wrong? Is there an option I can’t see on the old’s screen?

It was the right decision

Just saying, but when people are trying to do everything they can to prevent you from voting, that’s when you absolutely need to vote.

Ready to make this the biggest midterm turnout in history?

The received pronunciation here is "I'm SVEE-ah from ac-a-de-MEE-ah"

^Amen!

Interviewer: "Do you think you've learned from your mistakes?"
Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling: "Yes, I think I could recreate them all perfectly."

I’ve seen road signs in Gaelic and Welsh here in the UK; I don’t see why political tracts in Urdu has anyone hyperventilating …

Got a late 'prophesise' after all, but only one.

The Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Social Change is aligned with the federal strategic priority areas, which include responsible AI, democratic and community resilience, and humanities centred design. The research program will advance a global understanding of how AI technologies are designed, deployed, governed, and experienced in real-world social contexts. This research program may consider democratic institutions, public decision-making, civic participation, bias, accountability, surveillance and data sovereignty to contribute to the development of more inclusive and equitable AI practices.

This is a super interesting and frankly exciting opportunity for any US scholars focused on *critical* approaches to AI who may be looking to flee to Canada for obvious reasons.

Brock U. is in Southern Ontario. Decent spot. Very good labor studies program.

universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Justice is not partisan. Identify crimes, indict perpetrators, present evidence, let citizen juries and non-partisan judges decide.

I shuddered visibly! (But I've seen that, too)

One of the most wearying aspects of my job entails explaining that the verbal form of the noun ‘prophet’ is ‘prophesy’, & that ‘prophecy’ is the thing a prophesying prophet prophesies.

But this year my 1st years got it right the first time! (Must be the excellence of their Hebrew Bible tutor)

/raises hand (though we left fifteen years ago, there's no way we're going back now).