KEvil Brainman

I lasted for about two hours as a telemarketer. Second person I called yelled at me for interrupting his dinner (he was clearly going through some things) and I just decided I couldn't do that anymore.

Tonight is session 100 of my Traveller campaign.

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

I’m not going to get into AI boosterism here but when it’s right it’s right.

Honestly the whole Odyssey argument feels like my insisting that the Scouring of the Shire is essential to the Lord of the Rings (it is and if you don’t see that you’re just wrong). Adaptations are doing different things in different media and can work even when having a very different take.

This would be @dysonlogos.bsky.social’s work.

As a long time Cape Verde supporter (8 days) I want to welcome all the newcomers to the bandwagon

I’ve been grading and the papers are hitting 100% AI at this point. I’ve talked to my Dean and I am going to move to 75% of the grade being in-person exams in future. It’s the only way to be sure that the student is actually thinking.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Other than Trump saying so, is there any evidence that Venezuela is under US control right now? Everybody on here seems to be taking his word for it but nothing in today’s events suggests that is the case.

If you VPN into Canada you can watch the 60 Minutes CECOT story here (for now). Global TV appears to have posted the original tape by accident watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

I was all set to be “ah I see the scolds of Bluesky are at it again” and then I watch this abomination.

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You do absolutely have to hand it to Yamamoto.

What a painful loss. So many things had to go exactly wrong down to that bat breaking.

Well this is stressful.

I have never seen a team get two homers in the first three pitches before.

Dammit

Just get a grand slam already Lukes I need to go to bed

This game, man.

L.A. remains a great team but all those pundits saying they were going to walk all over the Jays not looking too good right now.

But honestly as delighted as I am to see the Jays go to the Series that was a brutal way to lose for Seattle. Of course it was going to be a brutal loss for either team at this point but still.

World Series!

Urgh

5 outs…

Let’s goooo Blue Jays!

Urrrgh is this what being a Leafs fan feels like c’mon Jays.

blue jays fans rn

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Well there go all the tech companies…

Hi Canadian friends! Want to help prevent what’s happening to science south of our border from happening here?? Hope the answer is YES… Assuming it is, it took me about 2 mins to fill out and send this pre written letter #ArmchairActivism #AcademicSky 🇨🇦 🧪

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social listancestries

I mean as crackpot as this is I also feel the need to point out that these guys don’t know much about organ transplants. They don’t make you immortal! The immunosuppressants have side effects and you can’t just keep transplanting.

For the first time in my life I am being impeded in my work because the org chart is down. Not because a reorganization is underway but because the host is not connecting. Sigh.

We absolutely do not need to “remove the power” from this word. Naziism is evil.

I mean, what did you think was going to happen in a world where ATS means you need to hit all the keywords for a job to get a resume looked at by a human and you have to submit hundreds of resumes to get an interview?

It’s a little surreal watching students get tested on material I wrote a decade ago. Like my old opinions coming back to haunt me. Mostly, though, it’s the recurring sense that this isn’t the best way to teach this stuff.

“Uncontrolled Reentry” is right up there with “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” as a good name for a book about Musk.

Uhhhh……..