Notices by Dianora (Diane Bruce) (dianora@ottawa.place)

Hello,

I hope you're doing well. I’m following up to kindly ask if you’ve had a chance to review my previous message. please confirm receipt so I can be certain it reached you.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Mr. Chang Lai

I was doing well until you emailed you fucker.

Spam, spam spam and rat!

That harpsichord looks an awful lot like ours. It's a kit we got assembled.

#BaroqueSun

Nice to get a short walk in today to the local park and back!

Fountain pen owners will understand. I thought I got away with it this time but then I noticed this...

The book was to make a convenient backing for the photo...

#Fountainpen #Genealogy

@Pinchy63 @bmacDonald94 ya Begging for money too... 😞

@bmacDonald94 @Pinchy63 I thought exactly the same thing but have only had to block it once so far.

@Pinchy63 @bmacDonald94 I figured it had to be a spoof so I blocked it immediately. Yesterday I think. I'd be shocked if it was really him. 🙂

100 books on my shelf, 100 books to read, I read one book and then there are, 101 books to read!

#Reading

@hellomiakoda Odd since I also use Firefox. Try
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine)

@hellomiakoda https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/

Think of it. No JS No massive font or CS downloads. No video. Just pure results.

@hellomiakoda Bring back Archie!

@sueellenfast @SnowyCA Yep. People really hate wearing masks. I'd rather be uncomfortable wearing a mask than uncomfortable being intubated in a hospital bed myself.

@dramypsyd It's nice to learn some of the other communication methods too! That question mark tail means "FEED ME!"

@SnowyCA This is another use for those N95 masks people should still be wearing.

No comment.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-green-energy-wind-turbines-cancelled-230-million-1.5364815

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/small-modular-reactor-nuclear-power-ontario-construction-1.7529338

#OntPoli #Ontario #ClimateChange

You know, many companies use the term "AI" when really it's just classic pattern matching. Classic buzz word selling. LLMs are much more wasteful than pattern matching. I guess AI sells more gravy.

#Internet #Advertising #Buzzwords

@SapoconchaTradutora @dramypsyd Every single time I see a story about cats catching mice for their owners, I remember my grandfathers big Tom. My grandfather used to get dead groundhogs on the front steps. Yummy!

"The source of unease is, of course, the unpleasant fact that this new "fascism' is democratically legitimized." - Slavoj Žižek *The courage of hopelessness*

vs.

"Yet as we look at the world we see supposedly free institutions in many countries not so much overthrown as abandoned willingly, apparently with enthusiasm." - John Dewey *Freedom and Culture*

vs.
Paradox of Freedom Rosseau Book I & the much quoted Popper segment which is in the Notes not the text itself. Chapter 7 note 3-4 From The open society and its enemies Karl Popper:

#Fascism #Philosophy

@mcnado In law too. (I just heard about this) AI is really screwing us over.

https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/ai-hallucinations-strike-again-two-more-cases-where-lawyers-face-judicial-wrath-for-fake-citations.html

“The doctors that we are talking to are embarrassed to say they’re Americans,” said John Philpott, CEO of CanAm Physician Recruiting, which recruits doctors into Canada. “They state that right out of the gate: ‘I have to leave this country. It is not what it used to be.’”

https://www.alternet.org/doctors-canada/

#CanPoli