@timbray A colleague once referred to a task as "bear-loading". When I corrected him, he asked if I had ever tried to wrestle 800 pounds of tranquilized brown bear into the back of a pickup truck. When I confessed I hadn't, he said, "Then trust me - this job is bear-loading."
The frequency of the term “load-bearing” seems to be spiking in a lot of stuff that crosses my radar. Is this just another linguistic fashion or do I detect the aroma of slop?
Dunno if “The Odyssey” is going to be a *good* movie, but they’re making a big deal over “Shot entirely in IMAX”, check out this little trailer about the shooting technology and what IMAX entailed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHE9kcQOfQE - pretty impressive.
if Muharemovic had done that to Balogun instead of the other way around, all these US assholes wouldn't be philosophizing about how Slow Motion Is Bad or cheerleading Trump/Infantino corruption, they’d be calling for the death penalty for Muharemovic.
@colorblindcowboy @eniatitova @jeridansky @SVChucko Do not underestimate public anger over AI, from misinformation-laden Google AI Overviews, to chatbots participating in suicides and murders, data centers ruining rural areas. It's palpable and critically, completely bipartisan, and politicians are definitely starting to feel the heat.
Hoping the employers in England are tolerant of less-than-100%-effective staff performance tomorrow morning. #worldcup
Swallow close-up, South Walney.
East Van.
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William Peter Blatty: OMG did you guys hear
Poe: what?
Blatty: the society of st. pius X has schismed from the mother church!
Blatty: this could be the biggest interdoctrinal ecumenitestimal since the integral convergence of the helgrimite blasphemy at the diet of dendronal in 1536!!
Poe:
King:
Lovecraft:
Koontz:
Barker:
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On the lookout.
Coherent argument that Carney might be making a smart move and that the pipeline project will be remembered as bad craziness that led nowhere.
“Mark Carney keeps giving Danielle Smith everything she wants — and depriving her of the one thing she really needs”| Canada's National Observer: Climate News
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/03/opinion/mark-carney-danielle-smith-pipeline-grand-bargain
@cheeaun In my notifications, I would like the "mentions" selection to include quotes, not just replies. Possible?
Did you hear that Canada under Carney has abdicated its commitments to reducing carbon emissions? Carney has slow-walked us from an MOU with Alberta about an impossible pipeline to guaranteeing a pipeline expansion that will cost even more than the last
The State is hoping that we will simply get real mad, calm down, and wait 4+ years under its swindled majority administration. I don't intend to do that, and I'm interested in how many others here feel the same
Maybe it’s about time we add ‘no cryptocurrency’ and ‘no AI’ to the Mastodon features list
Right beside the ‘no ads’ and ‘no tracking’
Crazy we live in a time where the ‘no’ features make you a better alternative
Idea: For the next installment in the “Game of Thrones” franchise, base the plot on the endless IETF meltdown about non-hybrid post-quantum cryptography.
The best write-up on the technology issues is, by far, from @sophieschmieg - https://keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/ml-kem-mythbusting/ - since it has a lot of math, I was thinking someone should write a story-oriented narrative, and the GoT scriptwriters have definitely shown the right skillset.
I decided against a link to the mailing-list archive, life is too short.
1. Massey Tunnel: Too automobile-focused but that damn tunnel is a menace in its current state.
2. Tanker ban: Yay, unambiguous good news, Danielle Smith can stuff her fantasy northern pipeline where the sun don't shine.
3. Roberts Bank: Neutral. Containers gonna flow, whatever happens.
4. LNG infrastructure improvements: Let’s pump more methane into the atmosphere, what were you saying about heat domes?
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116846003943821879
“Crime Pays: The Egg Bandits Made A Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing”
“Dafa wàcci ak Belgique! Tay moy bisu Sénégal” (That’s in Wolof, the most widely spoken language in Senegal)