I think this might actually be a pretty pivotal difference between the US and Canada. We are so alike in so many ways, and yet, we are also seemingly extremely different in how we see the world and ourselves.
One reason climate reporters are pushed out of the newsroom: their editors refuse to allow them to tell the truth about the problem.
Case in point: only 8 percent of all corporate broadcast climate segments in 2025 mentioned fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
Huge props to @linusmediagroup.com, Kioxia, Reboot Rewind & Disappearing Inc. for saving an incredible part of computer animation & Canadian history.
BTS of the restoration of the single copies of the Reboot master tapes stored on an almost extinct format.
The hallucination alone is a dealbreaker, obviously. But I was much more disturbed by the effect it had on my own sense of communication. Words are for connection. If you continually threw a rope into the darkness and no one caught it, you'd begin to think there was something wrong with the rope.
These repeated attempts to "communicate" with AI left me feeling adrift from my own language. I thought of the opposite of poetry. Poetry sets you adrift from language in service of connection to meaning and other people; this is how it recreates language. This set me adrift in service of nothing.
Details to come from SVP but big changes are being made to the ethics process. Hopefully these changes will be effective but I'm cautiously optimistic.
It’s a brilliant building, it embraces Toronto’s ravines, a rare, beautiful thing. Also, unlike Ford’s planned Miniature Science Centre, it’s not on rush hour row in downtown Toronto — it’s easy for school buses and families from out of town to visit. It is The *Ontario* Science Centre, after all.
Full article: The ontogenetically youngest known pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) postcranium www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Digital models of the skull and hindlimb bones of a duck.
Drivers of skull and hindlimb skeleton evolution in waterfowl: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷 @raychatterji.bsky.social et al.)
New in things you can't opt out from, now at the company level.
"AI will make you all unnecessary and unemployable, reducing you to homeless beggars within five years" could be a factor as well.
It's always framed as an issue of "perception" or "narratives" to these guys. They can't possibly admit to themselves that much of the backlash is legitimately caused by their repeated, terrible judgement
just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism
This scandal presents Carney and Solomon the perfect opportunity to pivot away from the AI boosterism that has defined this Liberal government to recalibrate their AI policy and start taking on the harms that have come of generative AI (and other digital tech).
I do not expect them to take it.
An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces) sjp.pensoft.net/articles.php...
This is figure 1, which shows palaeontological information in an Earth system context.
An analysis in Nature Ecology & Evolution surveys community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databases. go.nature.com/3ZwTeGl #Paleosky 🧪
One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day
I was actually reminiscing about Hans Sues' "The Doctor Is In" series on YouTube a couple of weeks ago, and this morning, I found out he had passed away unexpectedly. My impression of him is that he was a rare blend of highly intelligent and also profoundly kind. He will be greatly missed.
I am really sad to learn that Hans-Dieter Sues died this weekend. It was (insofar as I'm aware) completely out of the blue. I'll always be indebted to him for the support that he offered while I was at the Smithsonian: he probably saved my career going to bat for me.
And although I know this is…
Incredibly sad to learn Hans-Dieter Sues passed away. Hans was very kind and extremely encouraging to me in our interactions during my years at the Smithsonian. A major loss for paleo department at the NMNH, the discipline of paleobiology in general, and everyone who knew his kindness and laughter
Hans Sues was a phenomenal paleontologist, and a kind person. It is nice to have known someone like him in the field. For those of you who didn't know him, enjoy listening to him talk dinosaur facts. He was a good one and will be genuinely missed.
It is with the heaviest heart that I say Hans Sues has passed away. He was an excellent postdoctoral advisor, and I’m so grateful to have even had a fraction of time with his mentorship. I know our community is heartbroken at this loss.
Just saw the incredibly sad news that Hans-Dieter Sues has passed away. Beyond his major contributions to paleontology, in all my interactions with him over the years, he was a stellar human being. He took great joy in life and in being a paleontologist. I learned so much from him.
Panel 1: Exec: "Ok guys ok ok we won't kill Adobe Animate." Crowd: "Phew" "thank fuck" "That's better" "I'm still switching to something else." "No yeah you really should" Panel 2: Exec: "Unfortunately we will also stop adding new features to it." Crowd: "WOO!!!" "It's a dream come true!" "Yeah!" "Finally!" Exec: "... um. Why are they cheering"
maintenance mode
I strongly encourage my palaeoart peers who work in the museum display sector to write explicit "no AI modification" clauses into their contracts.
Even if your employee contacts at a given museum are trustworthy, you can't rely on outsourced 3rd parties to not butcher your work without said clause.
diagrams and photos of a partial theropod dinosaur tibia.
In 2003, I published a paper on an incomplete large theropod tibia recovered from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Group (part of the Wealden). It likely belongs to a member of the Allosauridae + Carcharodontosauria clade within Allosauroidea rather than to a metriacanthosaurid... cont #dinosaurs
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
Danielle Smith is undermining the independence of the judiciary in her province. She openly believes in parliamentary supremacy. Her argument is that we should be more like the US.
Our Canadian values are getting in her way, apparently.
#Canada #CdnPoli #Politics #Alberta #Smith #Americanization
