Neil Polowin

An excellent articulation from my municipal Councillor of the challenges of public-private partnerships, and the need to watch against risk and costs being offloaded to the public side. Thanks, @lainejohnson.bsky.social for your stance on this.

I used to tell my kids that Santa wouldn't be able to bring them very much if there wasn't room for anything new. We'd then have a clear out led by them. If your kids have things they've grown too old for, think about having that sort out now.

I finished binging Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3 and Tales of the Walking Dead from 2022 this week. I really had not been expecting a Last of Us-inspired zombie episode from the former and a Groundhog Day-esque time loop story from the latter (with Parker Posey, no less).

Scale these up 20x and I'd finally have a Halloween lawn display I'd be happy with.

Very much so.

I'm currently wearing a pair of jeans that I have patched and re-patched so often over the last few years that I've taken to calling them my Jeans of Theseus. Comfy as hell, though.

Waiting now for Speaker Johnson to explain that he can't release the Epstein files because they were being stored in the East Wing.

I am once again urging the tech workers of America to form a union

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

The only way this would be acceptable would be if it had been a puzzle titled, "Spot 73 Things Wrong with This Infographic."

Yes to Whitman-covered DC Comics in bagged packs. You can see some samples on eBay using "DC Whitman pack" as your search term.

Stimpy (from the Ren & Stimpy cartoons) raises his hand, finger outstretched and pointing down at a large red button on a console with great anticipation.

Remember when Pierre Poilievre said bitcoin was better than Bank of Canada monetary governance?

Can confirm that adding an OBSERVATÖR cross-brace to a precariously wobbly 4x4 EXPEDIT bookcase does a *fantastic* job at stabilizing the whole structure. Can also confirm that removing (ow) and replacing (ow) heavy artbooks (ow) from said EXPEDIT to do so is very much NOT fantastic. But, job done.

I finally got around to watching the 1966 film 'Harper' last night, inexplicably late considering how much I like Newman, William Goldman scripts, and the source genre (in this case a Lew Archer novel by Ross Macdonald). Next on the watch list, the follow-up 'The Drowning Pool' from 1975.

I'm likely to back this one, depending on the details.

Not to be confused with OC Transpo's long-running Phantom Bus series.

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

In Canada, in school, we study WWII a lot. Like a whole lot, it feels like that and the history of Canada are the top two things we learn.

It feels like the LEAD UP to WWII might be something we should study just as much.

I haven't seen The Goonies.

There's some strong "She turned me into a newt!" energy with this story.

Screenshot from UPS' Terms and Conditions of International Service, reserving the right to charge back to the shipper any charges in the event of non-payment by the consignee.

Unfortunately: "UPS reserves the right in its sole discretion to charge the shipper or consignee for any such fines, penalties, liquidated damages, storage charges, expenses, duties, fees, taxes, or late payment fees... the shipper is liable for all charges." assets.ups.com/adobe/assets...

Comics, Contracts, and Covid: Inside the Scandal at Terrific Production The novel coronavirus pandemic has devastated the comic book industry. So it seemed too good to be true that one publisher was not only hiring en masse,

Wait a sec, I think we missed a chapter. The last we knew (as far as I recall) was that Andrew Rev (Terrific Production LLC) had scooped up the rights. But if that's all been sorted now in Rob's favour, good for him. gizmodo.com/comics-contr...

Researchers out of Japan have measured the physical impacts of long COVID on the brain, and found it's comparable to the damage from diseases such as dementia. "Brain fog" is a real thing.

Nelvana closing down was a sad moment - they co-produced an amazingly faithful three-season series adaptation of Hergé's Tintin series.

Samsung Galaxy Ring swells and crushes user's finger, causing missed flight and hospital visit Daniel Rotar, from YouTube channel ZONEofTECH, posted on X that his Galaxy Ring had started swelling while he was wearing it – you can see in the...

I'd like to wish Samsung's package designers and lawyers luck in figuring out how to phrase the label warning for this one.

www.techspot.com/news/109676-...

Choosing to use LLMs for anything of consequence is a Faustian bargain if ever there was one.

My sister is a comms specialist. The agency supports the use of ChatGPT for 'first drafts': by the time they get to her desk for approval, she spends more time now fixing mistakes than ever before.

LLM AI is dead. It's just that nit enough people have noticed yet.

Jimmy Kimmel Is Back: ABC Returning Late-Night Show On Tuesday Jimmy Kimmel is coming back to the airwaves. ABC just revealed that Jimmy Kimmel Live! is returning on Tuesday night after “thoughtful conversations” with parent company Disney. A spokesman said, “Las...

Having “thoughtful conversations with Jimmy” is a weird way to say “Our stock took a $3B hit and we’ve become a social pariah for every meaningful celebrity who cares about freedom of expression” but whatever it takes I guess. Welcome back Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com

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