Okay Canadian people, so if, IF I was going to spend 3-4 weeks in Canada next year, what would you recommend? I’m not into large amounts of snow, love nature, am (& hopefully still will be) fit enough for roughly 10km of not too challenging walking each day, like history, culture, food & wine etc. I wouldn’t want to be cramming in as much as I possibly can in that time frame, & don’t have to see every major tourist attraction. What are your favourite places & why?

A lot of people have heard of Uluṟu/Ayers Rock in central Australia, but having visited the region on 7 school camps, I can honestly say that it isn’t my favourite destination in that area. Too many people fly in for Uluṟu & fly out again, missing my favourite parts.

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Everything Macron does here is calculated. It's the difference between leaving no tip and leaving a nickel as a tip—the latter is a no-ambiguity message, "This wasn't oversight, it was a deliberate choice"

And it's not just that Macron doesn't shake Trump's hand, it's that his hand moves to Zelenskyy's back after letting Trump hang in midair

The contrast between his admiration for one man and contempt for the other couldn't be clearer

No 'fuck you' can compete with a French fuck you

Active Transportation, defined: "Walking, biking, scooting, and other low-carbon ways to arrive at a meeting to discuss why it’s too hard to walk or bike anywhere."

Need a laugh?

Here's a glossary for disillusioned urban planners who have sat thru one too many NIMBY-dominated public meetings.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-disillusioned-urban-planning-glossary

I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.