When I get a genuine, human, possibly flawed response, I spend more time with it. What a weird consequence of having “correct” words thrown at me.

One thing I’ve learned whilst hiring a whole bunch of people to help build A.I.-incorporated apps is that some folks really don’t recognize when something reads like it has been written by A.I. and how off-putting that can be.

And we only have ourselves to blame. We have lambasted — publicly — typos and grammatical errors for so long. So of course people are going to use tools to help them avoid such… crimes.

@jeremyfelt Waaaaaaait a minute.

Purple Rain.

@jeremyfelt The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again.

Simon and Garfunkel - I Am A Rock

The (very lovely and highly functional) Comms and Engagement team within the VP Finance and Operations portfolio at #UBC are hiring for 2 positions.

I’ve worked closely with this team for years and I can’t speak highly enough of the people within it and the importance of their work for the university.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chrisfreek_were-hiring-for-two-critical-digital-communications-activity-7321644138456621056-Jh8N

Please #vote you wonderful, lovely, friendly, caring, and morally and ethically strong Canadians. While I do care who you vote for (I won’t pretend I don’t), I care more deeply that you vote at all.

This is the 4th federal, and 10th election in total since I’ve lived here and this one is *by far* the most important.

The one thing I wish for is that you vote FOR something rather than vote AGAINST someone.

@jeremyfelt one of us! One of us!

#WordCamp Canada 2025 will be happening October 16-17 on the Carleton University campus in Ottawa. Save the date! https://canada.wordcamp.org/2025/

@bootblackcub we (at UBC) added this — and featured images — as an add-on to our RSS Block (which works a little like the Query Loop block but with RSS Feeds). You can see how we did that here : https://github.com/ubc/wp-rss-block--additional-tags/blob/master/rss-block-additional-tags.php

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

#earthquake felt in Vancouver. Biggest tremor I’ve felt for quite some time. Our building shook for a couple seconds, stopped, then shook again for another second or so.

… “community”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOAIrUZbOwo

Billie Eilish really is very, very good.

Tiny Desk Concerts really are very, very good.

You should watch this because, you guessed it, it’s really very, very good.

@RareBird15 I think it looks great, Lanie! Definitely not too cluttered.

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that, despite an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary, exercise is terrible for you.

My legs aren’t functioning as legs any more.

Also, I could never be described as someone who doesn’t love a good swear word, but the quantity and volume of them over the past hour or so would make Jonah Hill wince. #zwift

@jeremyfelt we really did a number on web development didn’t we?

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

https://plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-10-20-editing-plain-vanilla/

Neat.

@rachelcherry thank you for voting. Thank you for being excellent. And fingers crossed for you all from us up North.

@jeremyfelt there is no scarecrow emoji. Huh. You made an excellent one.