With few exceptions, Canada abolished capital punishment decades ago, and abolished the lash decades before that. But constitutional experts are weighing whether it needs to be applied to those who commit High Treason in the form of desecrating our sacred Maple Syrup with cane sugar:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/food-and-drink/general/bogus-maple-syrup-from-quebec-producer-found-on-grocery-store-shelves/ar-AA1ZZfim

Happy #transdayofvisibility 🏳️‍🌈

Let’s embrace diversity and remember we are all more alike than we are different.

#dei #diversity #equity #inclusion #lgbtqia #transgender

Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.

Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.

I was just in a meeting where someone used a thing called Fathom to get an 'AI' summary of the meeting. Aside from some understandable typos arising from not understanding terms of art and replacing them with common English words, one of the key points that it concluded was that A was faster than B. It reached this conclusion because it missed one of the digits in the time for A. This completely inverted the key takeaway from one important section of the meeting.

Do not use plausible-nonsense generators for anything important.

We as Ontarians really should be a lot more mad about laws that allow the premier to ignore laws because he feels like it.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-ford-billy-bishop-airport-special-economic-zone/

#OnPoli #Cdnpoli

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

It looks like the ⍼ saga has finally ended!

The unicode character '⍼' was a mystery first noticed in 2022: https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html. It's in the Unicode standard as a mathematical symbol. But no one could find any examples of it having been used, and no one knew what it represented. It was like the only record of an extinct species, fossilized in the Unicode standard.

But now someone has found the document it originally came from! It represents the angle 'Azimuth', and the symbol probably comes from the path light takes through a sextant. https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html

(@johncarlosbaez might appreciate this symbol!)

#Paralympics #Paralympics2026

Check out this insane curl by #Canada's #JonThurston against #Norway

If you don't know #curling the goal is to get your stones closer to the center than your opponent. The strategy is to knock your opponent's stones out, avoiding (or knocking closer) your own stones

His precision is stunning

There are no sweepers in #wheelchair curling, no adjustments to the shot after it is made. Instead his teammates hold his wheelchair steady

https://paralympic.ca/news/canada-erupts-for-six-in-sixth-to-remain-undefeated-in-wheelchair-curling-at-the-paralympic-winter-games/

#sports

RE: https://mastodon.social/@augieray/116098350861272714

When astronomy beats bigotry … which to be honest, it always should ✨🌒

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109893482569845648

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 19:

Q: Why is so much Black music about violence and misogyny? I'm not racist, but is Black culture just more violent?

A: Racism. Rap, trap, and drill, are only the most popular genres of Black music listened to *by white people.*

Read the whole linked thread.