Tracey Mollins

The Portland frog person is a protest genius.

And this art collaboration between
@quinnanya.me, @queermedieval.bsky.social, @literaturegeek.bsky.social and @ryancordell.org is sublime.

Way to be, American cousins. Safe landings to you all.

Awww. We really had no idea where we were going.

This is such a loving message on another day of violence.

@pmi73.bsky.social hee hee

I want to make this into a billboard. (But would anyone see it, or believe it?)

Wow. You’ve captured the source of so much malaise in such a pithy paragraph. It’s no surprise so many of us are primed for authoritarian rule and fascism.

A procession of black canoes on a lake under a blue sky dotted with puffy white clouds. Each canoe has three people in it — two paddlers and a person in the middle holding a large flag. The flags are a variety of colours — reds, purples, yellows,oranges,blues — dyed with inks made from local waters, plants and other elements. The colours are not showing up well in this photo because the canoes are at a distance and my phone camera can’t zoom that far.

I did follow the procession to the lake. I took this pic from east of Sugar Beach. They look great on the lake but to really see the colours, start with the launch in the river. Here is a pic but it is crappy. It looks way more impressive in real life.

I went yesterday. It was lovely. You can see it today at 11 or 4. The canoes start in Biidaasige Park (at Cherry and Commissioner). Here are some of my pics.

Thanks for sharing this. I agree — so good. It’d be interesting to find out how they landed on the word hallucinate. Were they consciously hoping to structure our feelings about generative AI as something dreamy and mind-altering — as opposed to wrong, corrupt and rife with bias?

“We love your dataset.”

This is a fantastic essay about how the values we ascribe to tech and our uncritical positive framing of collaboration (even with flawed machines), start to shape our views about the possibilities of art, research, education …and bananas!

Wow. The story is not as scary as the headline. It’s sort of the opposite of scary on the AI front but it’s never good when the US economy tanks.

I hope your recovery is speedy and as pain free as possible, that the new biologic works well and that things look up on the employment front soon — any organization would be lucky to have you and it’s only a matter of time until somebody realizes that.

Plum torte on a white cake plate.

I made the famous plum torte (cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783...). It is delicious. Thank you Maria Burro.

A petition to tell the Ontario government how you feel about the speed camera ban. (I assume that you, like me, think it’s dangerous and legislative over reach.)

While the Skills Development Fund seems to be a protocol for enhancing corporate welfare, this Maytree Research Brief shows that the design of the new Integrated Employment Services system
(especially performance-based funding!) means too many actual social assistance recipients are denied support.

Here’s another one. $2 million to train 349 people for 50 hours. 70 got jobs. Again, just imagine what a literacy program could do with $2 million.

The Skills Development Fund paid an organization $6.5 million to train 720 people to work in a specific nightclub. 425 of them got jobs. Imagine if Ontario adult literacy programs were funded at this level and could report this level of achievement.

Poor Ward 11. You almost had @normsworld.bsky.social in this seat. And so it goes.

Centrism kills.

Regina Giddens played by Bette Davis with her husband Horace played by Herbert Marshall.

Hee hee. Divine. A favourite of mine is Regina Giddens.

“I hope you die! I hope you die soon! I'll be waiting for you to die!”

Yay! I’m in that part of town a lot and rides along Dundas there and points east and west makes certainly makes one appreciate the Bloor lanes — it is not a cycling-friendly area at all.

'Nope' by cartoonist Gemma Correll. A woman in a red-and-white striped t-shirt and grey pants is lying on her stomach facing the viewer under the word “Nope.” written in large, red capital letters. Her hair is sticking straight up and her expression is blank.

Aaah. Monday. I am enjoying the rain however.

Ai developers and advocates can’t keep using the “garbage in, garbage out” excuse indefinitely. If Wikipedia can build in safeguards against bias and harm, why would we expect less from Ai tools designed to make judgments on questions of health, life and death?

If it’s garbage, throw it away.

@jmollins.bsky.social FYI. As expected of course but crazy things are happening all around us.

The US government seems to have lost all reverence for the beloved First Amendment and has fully embraced “cancel culture,” turning it from myth to reality.

The Second Amendment however... I guess the pen really is mightier than the sword.

@jmollins.bsky.social FYI

Gorgeous! This is how cities get to be great. We improve spaces by taking them up… yes please! Thanks for sharing this.

Gorgeous! This is how cities get to be great. We improve spaces by taking them up… yes please!

Love this sooo much. Robert Redford certainly leaves a treasure trove of fascinating movies for us to enjoy and All the President’s Men is one of my favourites. (I always liked to imagine my dad’s work day was like this back when he was starting out before all the computers and stuff.)

On continue.

Another pithy retort from the merry pranksters @everyonehateselon.bsky.social

— The group has claimed responsibility for the stunt on social media, joking: “We heard Prince Andrew insisted on adding this new range to the Windsor Castle Gift Shop for Trump’s arrival.” —

Bien sur!