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Writer and adjunct professor of history. Lapsed game developer, TV personality and computer scientist. FR/EN Auteur et chargé de cours en histoire. Défroqué de l'informatique, du développement de jeux et de la télévision.
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THOU SHALT IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP BEFORE HE GETS YOU ALL KILLED.

submitted 2 days ago • 159 comments

Mise à jour Qc125 | 19 juin 2025 ⚜️PQ 71 🔴PLQ 39 ⚫️PCQ 8 🟠QS 7 🔵CAQ 0 Détails ici → qc125.com

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Les Jeux olympiques de Montréal, en 1976. Nous, les gamins du quartier, avons passé l'été à dessiner des drapeaux, à fabriquer des médailles en tissu ou en carton et à concourir dans nos propres épreuves bric à brac.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It'll shorten your trip, all right. Some years ago, a GPS sent us (six people in a minivan) into what turned out to be a backcountry hiking trail. We made it to our cottage but a delivery truck wasn't so lucky: it crashed into our neighbours's fence and stayed there for 3 days. Add AI swill and...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is the smartest damn thing I’ve heard all year. If nothing else, it might serve to erode employers‘ trust in ChatGPT.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

In sane countries, roid cases in faded jeans, masks and backward caps work for the mob, not the government. (Yeah, I know, same difference at the moment.)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

ChatGPT delenda est

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Digital resources, particularly eBooks and audiobooks, are going to bankrupt libraries if something isn't done to halt the extortionary pricing models of publishers.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

The rates paid to freelance writers have not increased since the 1970s. Many PhD graduates will find zero tenure-track academic jobs to apply for in their area(s) of expertise. Even in STEM. If you sign a contract with a Big 5 publisher today, your book is unlikely to be released until late 2027.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don't celebrate my birthday. I don't see the point. Very few people even know when my birthday is. But I do celebrate the anniversary of my PhD thesis defense. That, I care about. So happy sixth PhD anniversary to me! 🥳

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Same. I am so tired of avoiding it everywhere and avoiding the people who shill for it. It's like everywhere I go someone is running up to me like "I'M A GIANT HORNET RANCHER NOW! LOOK AT THIS! PUT IT IN YOUR HAND! EVERYONE IS DOING IT! IT'S A FUN AND EASY WAY TO CREATE A HUGE PAINFUL WELT!"

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 8 days ago • 115 comments

How long until some centrist dipshit goes on TV to bothsides the blame for this morning's political assasinations? I set the over-under at 90 minutes.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Went to see a play in Toronto, a few months after SARS. Leslie Nielsen walked into our elevator, heard us speak French and thanked us for supporting the city. My friend completely lost it; Mr. Nielsen took it in stride. Lovely man.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

One attempt to launch World War III at a time, please.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Toute une nouvelle rapportée dans la bande défilante de RDI: #Résurrection #Alléluïu

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Trépidation!!!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

iOS 18.5 and still no way to automatically reject all incoming calls from unknown numbers (or to send a mild electric shock to the fraudster at the other end of the line.) #MissedOpportunity

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

iOS 18.5 et toujours pas de fonction pour rejeter automatiquement tous les appels en provenance de numéros inconnus, ni pour envoyer un petit choc électrique au télévendeur/fraudeur à l'autre bout du fil. #OccasionManquée

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"The easiest way to kill a University administrator is to poison a donor's ass." (Yeah, my main character was pretty mad at the time!)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Jailing their political opponents, turning the military on their own citizens. America is a fascist state.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

“The distance between what is said, and what is known to be true, has become an abyss…The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands - we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”

submitted 13 days ago • 94 comments

Me: we have half an hour until the Eurostar, let's go into the bookshop. But no buying books, we already got some. K1: mommy Me: yes? K1: we are collectively bad as a family at going into a bookstore and *not* buying books. Just saying. (He's got me there)

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

submitted 14 days ago • 111 comments

Anyone want an Irish scone? (Catherine Fulvio's recipe.)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Please let it devolve into a fight to the death that they both lose.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

submitted 22 days ago • 68 comments

It does suck that "AI" now means both generative AI (boo hiss) and a whole basket of incredibly useful machine learning techniques.

submitted 21 days ago • 41 comments