Matt Carrington

Have you tried Pikto? I used them some years ago for picture books, and the quality was great (I haven't done a calendar). www.pikto.com/ca/cards/wal...

Bike lanes and transit is a great example of this. It also makes me think of the anger expressed at vegans and veganism by people who insist that our food system's use of animals is necessary, natural and normal.

Confusing a bit that the chickens number has to be multiplied by a thousand, since it's been reduced by a thousand so that it fits on the chart. It's 76 billion chickens not 76 million, as it seems be if a reader ignores the asterisk.

I remember that it was terrible :(

This would make some sense except that those people on bicycles would alternatively be another car on the road, and in congested cities that’s much worse for drivers.

I think this explains the odd set of policies supported by Doug Ford specifically:
- underground transit lines: good, no visible change to streetscape
- speed cameras: bad, goes against driver intuition
- speed bumps: good, part of normal roads
- cycle tracks: bad, implies you could also bike

This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving

Michelle Good: Thomas King now faces a firestorm over his claims to Indigeneity. Here’s all he needed to say He owes an apology to every person who took in and relied on information who believed in and relied on his stories

Great piece: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Is it normal for most of the kids in my kid’s class to be sick with fevers right now? Are other parents experiencing this?

Feeling sad about the significant meaning shift of “The truth about stories is that that's all we are...”

Any possibility that this will be streamed for those of us not in London?

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

The way this guy always has a twinkling smile as he's talking on some news show or other about the most dystopian hellscape imaginable. Oh haha, those silly "new kids out of college" thinking they might someday get to have a job and eat food.

Does anyone still get a paper newspaper just to not be on your phone(especially around your kids) all the time? I want to read the news!

They’re good dogs tho

Pedestrians and cyclists are told to be careful, to wear high-visibility clothing. When an on-duty crossing guard, whose job it is to keep children safe through intersections while carrying a stop sign and wearing a high-vis vest, is killed by a truck it shines a light on the lie in that advice.

A photo of the cover of a children’s book called “I Really Like Slop!”

AI companies really trying to get them young

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes

Remember when the conservative talking point was free speech? Free speech on campus? What is happening here? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Diane Seuss’s sonnet “[The problem with sweetness is death]” includes the line “And here/ I am, broke, barely able to count to fourteen.” And it’s great but oh man my childish brain really wanted the poem to then have thirteen or even fifteen lines

I just explained why the Oxford comma doesn’t fix this possible ambiguity, especially when the list item is singular. The item that follows can be read as modifying with the Oxford comma (and less so without) when the item is singular, as it is here.

The list seems clear to me either way. This way makes it possible to read “a lavish legal drama” as a description of Frankenstein.

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

I'm commenting on how absurd it is that people are using computer programs that make up sources in a piece of writing — whereas if a hired human writer/editor ever made up a source (to fluff up a piece of writing, to make it look or sound better) that person would be fired for their dishonesty.

Not verifying is very different is very different than making up a reference that doesn’t exist because you think it looks good. If an editor I hired did that, I wouldn’t hire them again.

How many discovered made-up/hallucinated references would it take before a human copyeditor would be fired? (My guess, for most employers/clients, would be only one.)

"We are in some danger of believing that the speed and wizardry of our gadgets have freed us from the sometimes arduous work of turning pages in silence." (Birkerts 1994). I often think about this line from over thirty years ago

Is… is the NY Times okay?

Don’t forget your bike lights today! Happy November

Now that there's an influential wellness grift telling people they don't have to eat their vegetables, I want a new movement about how really very healthy candy is. It makes me feel good so it must be healthy! Someone with the clout needs to get on that.

“Without the chance to develop these capacities, young people would not be able to understand a news report, medical documents and consent forms or the merit of an argument... A depleted conceptual reservoir would render our lives crude and our experience of the world undifferentiated and coarse.”