Graeme Smith

Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.

By my friend, the amazing cartoonist @mikedawson.bsky.social

Part of a longer story. You need to follow him.

A lot of faculty nearly died, so UW reconsidered the policy. And all it took was a historic storm!

(48 years ago today, I think)

My apologies to everyone who has heard this story before.

Back in the 1970s, two things were true about UWaterloo:

* UW never, ever closed.
* Many faculty members owned farms.

Cue the Great Storm of 1978.

The university @uwaterloo.ca is closed for a snow day today!

Thank you to the associate dean for helpfully letting me know that I’m entitled to schedule a makeup class on Saturday if I’d like to HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA

I wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...

Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.

it’s not eccentric it’s normal

Gödel, Escher, Bachelorette

Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.

😂

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Former South Korean PM jailed for 23 years for role in martial law insurrection Han Duck-soo verdict marks first judicial ruling stemming from ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol’s 2024 martial law decree

Functional.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Naaaaaaailed it

Tenure-track faculty position in quantum info at Perimeter Institute.

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31435

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Kennedy Center Says It "Wants Performers Who Aren't Political" Amid Wave of Cancelations As artists pull out of Kennedy Center appearances in protest of Trump’s takeover, the venue’s leadership has responded by saying they “want performers who aren’t political.”

changing its name and filling its board with sycophants to please a dim, thin-skinned tyrant isn't political though

-5 degrees centigrade in Central London right now. Please send us your contempt for treating what counts as a mild winter for others as an extreme hardship.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

The conservative mind has been ruled for a generation by the fantasy of a brilliant, principled liberal who is led by the spirit of honest inquiry to a humble, weeping conversion to conservatism. And since that has never happened in reality, they have to pay each other to perform it for them.

Here's what's funny: they CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE between Bari and someone who is good at their job

I got a some hate mail today.

An AARP card. With my name on it.

If I find whomever did this, they will know no peace.

I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada

Doot doot

Andre De Grasse, Nardwuar among 80 new appointments to the Order of Canada | CBC News Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has announced 80 appointments to the Order of Canada — a list that includes Olympians, journalists, Indigenous leaders and doctors.

Nardwuar the human serviette elected to the order of Canada.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This is very good.

In the "AI is not going away" thread, I got into a heated argument about reworking exams vs "resisting" (I was arguing for the former). My opponent (fairly) pointed out that I was shitting on others' posts instead of making concrete proposals, so I'm going to outline some now:

Like tiny Italians…

these dumb fucks aren't going anywhere. we literally just watched a bunch of them move their entire operations to Texas before quietly moving back bc they didn't realize they would actually have to live in Texas

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.