F. West

Ask you older friends who grew up in Saskatchewan. (I don't think it was just an Alberta thing.)

‘Halloween apples’ instead of trick or treat? If you’re from the Prairies, it was a tradition If you grew up in a certain time, in a certain place, you might call out: ‘Hallo-ween ap-ples!’ instead of ‘trick or treat’. If you grew up in a different time, in a different place, you probably hav...

My wife reminded me that, growing up on the prairies in the 1960's, kids would chant "Halloween Apples!" instead of "Trick or Treat." It was apparently a real thing...too bad no one does it anymore. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Always remember: when an inherently conservative institution (and most institutions fit this description) is confronted with evidence of misconduct by powerful people, they will almost inevitably circle the wagons to protect the powerful and quash any whistleblowing activity.

Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

Cartoon: Air traffic controllers working but not getting paid GOP relaxing at the beach: getting paid, but not working

Infuriating…

Trump: “Have AOC pass the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard, they’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump.”
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

Ahh, remember when everyone was hating on Wikipedia?
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

looking good, definitely healthy

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him.

And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it.

But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

No one has pedantically corrected my second "you're," a leftover artifact of the original wording ("...doesn't mean you're incorrect").

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life https://theonion.com/trump-defends-demolition-of-yggdrasil-ancient-tree-of-life/

Did the reporters fluffing Trump on a third term have any time to ask about millions of kids going hungry next month?

The tragic change a single year has made in America | Margaret Sullivan As we approach the anniversary of the 2024 election, we awake to new horrors each day. But we must not give up hope

Dems need to wake the fuck up to the reality that norms do not matter.
Fuck the rules. Do what it damn well takes.

Should I call?

Just because you're pedantic doesn't mean you're point is incorrect.

[whispers] Chris Cillizza is the Benny Johnson of Alex Joneses.

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

NYT gonna NYT.

June 22, 1941: "In a surprise move Hitler changes course, pivots to invade Soviet Union."

A chemoproteomic strategy for identifying protein covalent binding targets of clozapine: an approach for advancing clozapine toxicity research Schizophrenia affects a significant proportion of individuals, wherein a subset of patients are described as treatment-resistant. Clozapine is an atyp…

Congratulations to my collaborators on this great story:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I say we party like it's 1789

😮

American Airlines To Phase Out Complimentary Cabin Pressurization

American Airlines To Phase Out Complimentary Cabin Pressurization https://theonion.com/american-airlines-to-phase-out-complimentary-cabin-pres-1819576190/

Free speech is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

As an alum, I find myself breathing a sigh of relief that my alma mater did not disgrace itself.

Noem Approves Spending $200 Million to Buy Jets During Shutdown Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem authorized the Coast Guard to spend $200 million as soon as Friday on luxury jets as the government shutdown edges into its fourth week.

So it's too expensive to extend health care tax credits that millions of families rely on but not too expensive to spend $200 million on private jets for Kristi Noem?

These corrupt grifters are robbing taxpayers blind.