Jo Boots

Showed my gr. 12 ELA students @hankgreen.bsky.social's Focus Friend app, & now we run our work periods with it - they love seeing little bean knit on the screen during a focus sprint, and then we celebrate with a five minute break and deciding how to decorate our bean's space. It's helping so much!

Othello becomes so twisted up in lies and fake news that he destroys something precious, for no reason

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

a picture of an owl with pedro pascal's face photoshopped over it

Pedro Pascowl

Tuesday evening reminder: Write the book. Make the zine. Pack the shelves. Fill the world with so many stories they'll never be able to silence us all.

seriously: if you haven't read this, create some time to read through this weekend

A little animation experiment in Procreate Dreams #procreatedreams #animation #procreate

I love working with my gr. 10 students this sem - they’re nice, fun kids and they generally engage in class - but! Now that the Sask Party cut the required # of ELA classes for grad, my students haven’t had an ELA class for 7, and let me tell you, it is SO evident in their writing.

I'd even go so far as to say intelligence is reduced to what computers can do

watched this like 8 times and laughed harder every time (sound up)

How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300) - Canadian Centre for Cyber Security How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300)

🇨🇦 Canada & beyond

How to identify #misinformation, #disinformation, and #malinformation

www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/...

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

Conspiracy theorists

Federal workers: Here’s how to lock down your communications Under the new administration there’s an increased need for digital security. Here’s how everyone, even you, can communicate and post safely, from using Signal to thinking twice about what you post on ...

Under the Trump administration, privacy experts say there’s a new urgency to making sure people understand the risks of their digital communication and take the proper precautions. This is especially true for anyone who works with the government.

What the hell?

Saskatoon Public Schools releasing 80 EAs in less than 2 weeks because Jordan’s Principle never came through with the funding?

a cartoon of a person sending a virtual hug with a loading bar . ALT: a cartoon of a person sending a virtual hug with a loading bar .

Ah, sorry, Rebekah - it's the worst feeling

"oh I wish I lived in an interesting period of history"

*monkey's paw unfurls, begins glowing, explodes*

Text Shot: LlamaV-o1’s emphasis on interpretability addresses a critical need in industries like finance, medicine and education. For businesses, the ability to trace the steps behind an AI’s decision can build trust and ensure compliance with regulations. Take medical imaging as an example. A radiologist using AI to analyze scans doesn’t just need the diagnosis — they need to know how the AI reached that conclusion. This is where LlamaV-o1 shines, providing transparent, step-by-step reasoning that professionals can review and validate. The model also excels in fields like chart and diagram understanding, which are vital for financial analysis and decision-making. In tests on VRC-Bench, LlamaV-o1 consistently outperformed competitors in tasks requiring interpretation of complex visual data.

LlamaV-o1 is the AI model that explains its thought process—here’s why that matters https://venturebeat.com/ai/llamav-o1-is-the-ai-model-that-explains-its-thought-process-heres-why-that-matters/ #AI #interpretability

This is true. Read The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher.

I mean, really, I would much rather discuss books with humans than bots.

Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us

"Will Canada become part of the US? We asked ten Freedom Convoy participants who all said yes despite previously calling themselves Canadian patriots"

*seeing people learn about something I have known for a full 40 minutes*

me: you rubes. you fucking dullards. you didn't even know

Mask requirement returning to B.C. health-care facilities In an effort to curb respiratory illnesses, medical masks will once again be required in B.C. health-care settings for staff and patients in most circumstances, effective immediately, the province’s h...

NEW: Mask requirements are being re-implemented in BC healthcare settings

This comes amid a surge of respiratory viruses
#bcpoli
bc.ctvnews.ca/mask-require...

I remember watching Land of the Dead in 2005 and seeing Dennis Hopper’s character trying to flee the zombies with his giant bags of money and I thought at the time how stupid that was but twenty years later now I get it.

Private equity reduces patient care while enriching investors, Senate report finds The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research.

To everyone's surprise, it turns out that attaching a money-sucking machine to a hospital system makes it worse.

Kind of bemusing to hear one colonizer threaten to re-colonize the lands of Indigenous Peoples whose lands are currently claimed by other colonizers.