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Linguist by trade, flâneur by choice, sarcasm appreciator, amateur cookie baker, aspiring traveller, occasional haver of a good idea, friend of desoto slightly embarrassed to know entirely too much about trek 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🖖(he/him)
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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I’ll be diving into this next time I have to prep for the Varieties of English class

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Uber was subsidized by venture capital to operate at a loss with a cheap service so as to break labor, legislation, the transit industry. Same w/ AirBnB, Netflix etc. What is AI trying to break by operating at a loss? What do they need to diminish the quality of so as to make opting out unpleasant?

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Huh. Not sure exactly what I was expecting, but a 1.25% drop in rent is a nice development

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

A good thread, but let's be clear, this isn't just a movement "with" elite leaders, it is a movement largely *created* by elite leaders, based on false premises and a lot of pettiness. The issue isn't "yokels" or stupidity, but selfishness and dogmatic ideology.

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

Fictional character's death you think was unnecessary (non-Star Trek edition)

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Picard science tip: The universal translator is not the end of linguistics. The replicator is not the end of chemistry. Keep going.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

My own Election Day reminders: 1) We don't elect the prime minister so there is no such thing as "PM-elect". If you must, say "PM-designate" or "presumptive PM" OR, if it's Mark Carney, just say "Prime Minister", because he's literally still PM even after the results tonight. 1/n

submitted 58 days ago • 12 comments

Getting really tired of these pieces. Where is the equivalent effort to give a voice to the majority of Albertans who are not interested in this? Can we please get equivalently detailed “70% of Albertans don’t share Preston Manning’s ideas, we ask them how they feel about this idea” coverage?

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments