David Fi&er

UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.

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Canadian CurmudgeonCdnCurmudgeon
2025-07-12

The Mirror:
Your rights if a hotel refuses to serve English food on a foreign holiday
A consumer rights champion has explained the rules after one woman had to eat Greek food every day on her Greek holiday.

Your rights if a hotel refuses to serve English food on a foreign holiday
A consumer rights champion has explained the rules after one woman had to eat Greek food every day on her Greek holiday.
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Hugo Slabbert ⚠️hugo@treehouse.systems
2025-07-12

@technomancy turns out the soul that Anubis was weighing was actually Sam Altman's all along.

2025-07-12

Aller à l'Université avec une voiture et de l'argent est plus divertissant qu'aller sans les deux

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2025-07-12

the only language model I'll use is the doctor from the CADR lisp machine [source: tumbleweed.nu/r/sys/file?name=]

Lisp code that encodes a language model for a simple therapist that talks to the user and responds to various phrases in English. See link for the full text. Phrases include: 
I am sorry to hear you are 5
	   do you think coming here will help you not to be 5
	   I'm sure its not pleasant to be 5
	   can you explain what made you 5
	   please go on
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2025-07-12

Unfamiliar dinosaur species (an occasional series):

The Steganosaurus—looks a bit like a Stegosaurus, but has chameleon-like chromatophores. Natural habitat: hides in libraries.

2025-07-12

Il fait trop chaud pour se promener à Lévis

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Thomas 🔭🕹️thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-07-12

A very “surprising pattern” that people don’t want to use fucking shit that doesn’t fucking work and depends on stealing people’s work and fucking lighting the mother-fucking planet on fire while feeding their fucking money into the greedy throats of billionaires.

“In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about Al and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.”
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2025-07-11

you probably know about the cinematic technique of "day for night", but have you heard of the also very common "toronto for some other place"

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2025-07-11
A monochrome picture of a short, friendly dog staring out the lower portion of a very tall window on a Victorian house here in Noe Valley. 80% of the window is covered with a windowshade. And most of the dog is out of sight, below the bottom of the window. Only the dog's furrowed face from the snout on up can be seen. A few reflections of electrical/telephone wires criss-cross the window. 

Cute. Minimal. Urban.
2025-07-11

No, I did not buy any

2025-07-11

Never try to claim that Quebec doesn't have a distinct society. They still have Mae Wests here.

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2025-07-11

mltshp.com/p/1R5GR “What's the Inter-net for?”

Two posts

(1)
You can use the internet for:
- Sports scores
- Chatting with women
- Taxes
- Football scores
- Chatting with men about football
- Egyptian literature
- Sending electronic M

(2)

M

Guys check this shit out.
2025-07-11

Les deux genres

The view across a large bookstore featuring two shelf labels: «Romans étranges» and «Romans québécois»
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2025-07-11

This is a hill I will die on: there was a turning point of the net, unnoticed by nearly everyone, that laid the ground work for the global political fuckery and rise of fascism we live with now.

It went unnoticed by most of the world, a totally inscrutable event. But everything changed after that moment.

It was when the Bronies were forced off 4chan.

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Prof. Sam Lawlersundogplanets
2025-07-11

It is raining and terribly smoky at the same time, and I have a meeting soon to talk about a billionaire private astronaut mission run by a billionaire-owned space launch company that dropped space debris on farms near my house. This apocalyptic scifi novel I'm living in is dumb.

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2025-07-11

"geometry glitch in the map data, or just the Dutch again?"

map excerpt of the Vinkeveense Plassen, with many long, thin straight lines of green land cutting across a suspiciously pie-slice-shaped pond, next to a bunch of long, thin straight lines of blue cutting across the fields
2025-07-11

I just spent 10 minutes talking to my French grammar prof about French literature and the theatre in Stratford Ontario. My brain hurts

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2025-07-11

All I need is a little kelp from my fronds

#Marine #Monterey

A photo of the kelp forest exhibit at the Monterey bay aquarium
2025-07-11

@adr take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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Ben Zaningnomon
2025-07-10

Sweet, Murderbot (TV series) has been picked up for season 2!

No mention of the expected release date, but that's fine. No need to rush.

thewrap.com/murderbot-season-2

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