Gary Will

Paralysed man can feel objects through another person's hand Keith Thomas, a man in his 40s with no sensation or movement in his hands, is able to feel and move objects by controlling another person's hand via a brain implant. The technique might one day even allow us to experience another person's body over long distances.

Keith Thomas, a man in his 40s with no sensation or movement in his hands, is able to feel and move objects by controlling another person's hand via a brain implant.

The only part of Facebook I still used

People who talk about "tall poppy syndrome" usually seem to be smug, pompous jerks.

"All you piddly crabgrasses need to keep quiet. It's terrible to live somewhere where everyone isn't always talking about how worthy of adoration I am."

Normally, I'm not impressed when new CEOs think that changing the logo is a priority.

I'll make an exception here.

It's come to the point that when the Ontario government goes to Kitchener to announce $5M in funding for entrepreneurs, it's money for a DMZ program.

Great AI you've got there, Google. So glad you place this at the top of the search page.

(Terry Kath didn't write any of these.)

YouTube video by 80s Rock Revival Walking Away (Music Video) | Sadie Winters | Emotional Ballad on Letting Go

CBS had YouTuber Rick Beato redo something from recent video -- using AI tools to create a name & image of an imaginary musician (Sadie Winters), lyrics and then a finished song. Then someone created an AI video for the song.

Shatner: "All I saw was death [in space]. I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness."

"Someone once said that space is dark and cold and full of death." -- ST:SNW

A character on this week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds gave a nod to William Shatner.

"You've raised a very insightful point that gets to the heart of a common misunderstanding"

-- AI-speak for "what you just said is stupid"

I prefer NotebookLM when I want the answers to stick to the sources I'm providing, and really like it for analyzing a single source (e.g. a book). ChatGPT is better (hopefully still is) at drawing upon broader sources of information from its training.

I had to copy and paste answers from NotebookLM into ChatGPT to get it to acknowledge basic points about a document it was supposed to be analyzing.

Everyone was right -- ChatGPT 5 is utter garbage. Big errors (sometimes repeated after being corrected), missing critical details and would identify them as huge omissions once prompted, inane 3-sentence answers where it would have written a page before. Just have to hope they haven't ruined 4o.

Ode to the Boston subway line.

I lived in Cambridge for three years, so this is probably funnier to me.

RIP Tom Lehrer

Hulk Hogan was in the main event of the top-drawing wrestling shows in Toronto in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s:

1986: Hogan vs Paul Orndorff
1990: Hogan vs Ultimate Warrior
2002: Hogan vs The Rock*

All drew over 60,000

* Not the advertised main event, but definitely the main event.

Most days I'd rather be at Point Clark ... but maybe not today

You know that when an AI chatbot begins its answer with "You're on the right track!" that it's concluded that you have no idea what you're talking about.

I guess Chicago (still touring) got the last laugh on Dire Straits.

Getting feedback from ChatGPT is like the Westworld version of being back in school.

Relieved to hear that it's now safe to say that I was still listening to Taylor Swift original recordings.

Since it hasn't been mentioned here or the other place, I'll say that I enjoyed the tribute to Joe Egan on the newest episode of Hacks. And with a pretty deep album cut too. Egan (ex-Stealers Wheel) died last summer.

It makes more sense if it's the second envelope that's signed, so that's probably how it went.

I guess they get the trophy.

A signed piece of paper folded three times, put in a signed envelope and then in another envelope and then into a box.

I either just voted or watched Penn & Teller Fool Us.

Communitech announces Sheldon McCormick as new CEO Sheldon McCormick is the new CEO at Communitech. He was the founder and COO at Properly, which developed software for managing short-term rentals of vacation homes, and he helped Uber expand into…

Communitech announces Sheldon McCormick as new CEO

Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.

Jay Graber, the C.E.O. of Bluesky, wants to liberate social media from the “self-styled tech monarch.” @chaykak.bsky.social reports on Graber’s quest to build better digital town squares.

"Between the dubious examples and the limited quantity, there’s not much here. Ultimately, this is another example of the weaponization of plagiarism, this one north of the US-Canada border."

A City of Newcomers - Macleans.ca When I set out to photograph college students in Sarnia, I found a small city transformed by international arrivals

Over the years, Sarnia has transformed from a relatively homogenous city into a bustling hub for international students. These new arrivals have transformed the city into a richer, more diverse community—but the future is precarious for many of them. macleans.ca/longforms/in...

The guy who was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate in my riding got 46 votes when he ran for council in his home municipality.

The Conservatives, for their part, sent campaign materials door-to-door last week with the wrong candidate on them.

We're off to a good start.

I have one can left ... and probably won't be going to the U.S. to get more for a long time!

Is the crime poor English usage or a bad translation from French?