François Dominic Laramée, PhD 🇨🇦

The Blue Jays are really going to do this, aren't they? 😮😮😮

Trey Yesavage’s career single-game highs entering tonight:

6 IP (May 1, Single-A Dunedin)
12 K (May 13, Dunedin)
94 pitches (Sept. 27, Toronto)
19 whiffs (Sept. 15, Toronto)

Tonight: 7 IP, 12 K, 104 pitches, 23 whiffs

It is Game 5 of the World Series against the defending champions.

Trey Yesavage is going to get p.a.i.d.

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Bark Chocolate

That'll teach the Dodgers not to screw up the lyrics to O Canada.

That'll teach the Dodgers to screw up the lyrics to O Canada.

I'm a billion years old, so my formative readings are not recent. Voltaire's Bastards is probably the one that holds up best. Anything by Tim Wu or Cory Doctorow is useful to understand tech-driven social development.

Les révisions suggérées par les rapports de lecteurs et lectrices beta sont terminées. Après trois ans de travail, mon petit roman est prêt à chercher sa fortune de par le vaste monde.

Les premiers contacts avec des agents littéraires commencent demain. Souhaitez-moi bonne chance.

Edits based on the beta readers' reports are complete. After almost three years of work, my little novel is ready to seek its fortune in the outside world.

I'll be sending my first queries to literary agents tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Publiée récemment !

Une nouvelle leçon de @pascaliensis.bsky.social :

doi.org/10.46430/phf...

Merci Delphine Montagne + Baptiste Billaud pour l’évaluation, et merci Alexandre Wauthier pour le suivi éditorial.

May it happen in our lifetimes.

Seems like the entire world is a shitshow, with the very worst people imaginable in charge in every situation. How we are supposed to get out of this, I don't know. Best of luck to you, my friend.

And Vladdy's pretty good, too. No shame.

Miser sur l'IA pour réduire le nombre d'erreurs, c'est comme miser sur la chlamydia pour réduire le nombre d'ITS.

Capitalists will risk anything to avoid hiring qualified people.

Tax agency looking at AI, training to help call centre staff provide accurate answers OTTAWA - A senior official working at the Canada Revenue Agency says the agency is looking to artificial intelligence and better training to help call centre agents provide more accurate

If the Carney government deploys generative AI -- a product that by design cannot be trusted to provide reliable information -- to answer Canadians' tax question, it should be required to forgive the taxes of anyone who follows any incorrect answers.

I teach undergraduates since 2002. It's always guess lectures. 🤷‍♂️

French-Canadian here. People we routinely called uncle/aunt when I was a kid: any older relatives other than parents and grandparents; any close friends of our parents; kindergarten teachers; basically any older adults we liked too much to call them Sir or Madam.

Truckload of murderous disease monkeys, still less of a threat to human health than RFK Jr.

Ah. No need to call Samuel L. Jackson, then?

Not that I want to spoil the fun, but if not for that strike call on ball four six inches above the zone in the first inning, Bichette would have scored, the Jays would have won in regulation and we'd be in bed by now.

Third base coach talking himself out of a job tonight.

Le PLQ sera seulement le *quatrième* parti le plus à droite pendant la prochaine campagne électorale. C'est à donner envie d'émigrer sur Pluton.

Pretty good chance this is going to be my last semester teaching at UMontreal. I've just about squeezed enough income out of the old PhD to make it all worthwhile. Time for a nap, now.

Yeah. Teaching at 8:30 on Mondays sounded a lot better before I remembered that I now live two hours and four transit transfers away from campus. #Zzzzzzzz

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Yep, you should definitely keep it. (If you don't, can I buy it from you?)

Babylon 5-0

My man, the stated policy of your administration is that Canada should become an American state, but Canadians running an accurate ad is a threat to American sovereignty?

Donald Trump le nazi
Part bientôt pour l'Asie
On souhaite à ce gros con
De se tromper d'avion
Et d'aboutir en Euthanasie