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@helenclayton @bmacDonald94 gorgeous

#TIL: Kayfabe

Hmm. Perhaps WWE wrestling and Trumpian politics have more in common than I'd thought?

Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
#usPol

@MEActNOW @bmacDonald94 would that make the government human traffickers?

@shaedrich @devxvda @ShaulaEvans @inthehands look what came my way today 😬

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

@devxvda @ShaulaEvans I can't help but think: there's an AI version of this in the works 😢

/cc @inthehands

@shaedrich @devxvda @ShaulaEvans @inthehands I was thinking more futuristic: a world where humans exist to give the AI what it wants.
Um ... wait. Is that the premise of The Matrix?

Cat publishes physics paper and becomes highly respected academic

https://youtube.com/shorts/lajB_esZTHs?si=Hb22gX7o4IMri5Ig

@abovearth @bmacDonald94 🤭 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidget_spinner

@ohmrun @bmacDonald94 \o/💐🎉👏

#28 Right To Education
- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child*

(Oh yeah: the United States is the only United Nations member state not to have ratified this treaty.)

@VeroniqueB99 https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/114270058009350073

* read it here: https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text-childrens-version
#humanRights #ChildrenInNeed

🍁 "Canada’s maple syrup reserve almost empty as sap season at risk of becoming another casualty of the winter that wasn’t

Will maple syrup always be available for breakfast? A collision of forces have brought the billion-plus dollar industry to an uncertain moment."

#giftArticle no paywall: https://archive.is/dWgxw

PS: this item, from last Spring, is one of 15 #Toronto Star articles nominated for a National Newspaper Award this year.

The Star (paywalled)
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/canadas-maple-syrup-reserve-almost-empty-as-sap-season-at-risk-of-becoming-another-casualty/article_6f498bce-e788-11ee-8773-c71464d8be74.html?source=marketing

@evan @mayintoronto I replied, but truth be told, I'm hesitant to attend an indoor event with maskless folks. :-(

I took an art class this week, online, and am excited about the new dimensions it's adding to my way of art-making. This has quite a different feel to my two previous attempts to paint this (abstract, emotional) subject.

I'm celebrating the ambiguity, the depth, the move away from narrative and illustratoon \o/

Edit: The videos from the class may still be up here: https://pages.art2life.com/live/

#artMaking #painting

"Even infrequent [Ketamine] users—who used … roughly 3x/mth—scored higher on a delusional-thought scale than ex-users, ppl who took other drugs, & ppl who didn’t use drugs at all. Those who avg'd 20 uses/mth scored even higher. Ppl believed they were the sole recipients of secret messages, or that society & people around them were especially attuned to them. The psych. profile … was someone who … was 'distinctly dissociated in their day-to-day existence.'"

#giftarticle
https://c.im/@carolannie/114111744101193651

"Monday saw the publication of an open letter by Canada’s tech community warning that Canadian businesses must protect their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices against the U.S. trend of abandoning them.

The letter, signed by more than 700 Canadian tech executives, marks a break between Canada and the U.S. …"

Canada’s tech leaders condemn any efforts to erase diversity:
| The Star (paywalled)

#cdnPoli #cdnPolitics #onPoli
https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/canada-s-tech-leaders-are-condemning-efforts-to-erase-dei-and-that-very-canadian-response/article_9583a0f4-f2e5-11ef-ba74-3bdb82b65208.html

@Edelruth @bmacDonald94 thanks for sharing this 🙏

@wim_v12e @bmacDonald94 I love that the blue of the sky is reflected in the road :-)

@carnage4life @bmacDonald94 thinking out loud here:

I guess, when one conflates "social media" and "algorithm," this is understandable?

The idea of social media without algorithm manipulation … 🤔

But then, if they don't know (or believe) they're being manipulated … ?

@Trilobyter @bmacDonald94 oh, that's beautiful!

@sand I'm sure your kid won't notice 🙄😉