home.social

Search

89 results for “asmaloney”

  1. @Tutanota Petition **e-6838** 📢 has fewer signatures, but focuses directly on the privacy aspect of Bill C-2, and petitions for withdrawal of the entire bill. (And is clearer & better written.)

    ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet

    It closes for signatures on *27 January 2026*.

    Worth signing both this one & **e-6627** if you're Canadian! 🇨🇦

  2. @shipperslist I really enjoyed **Station Eleven **(2014) as well …though I did read it before the pandemic of 2020! 😀

    I thought the TV mini-series adaptation was great as well. The interactions between Javeen & young Kirsten were fantastic. Matilda Lawler absolutely nailed that part.

  3. RIP Bill Atkinson - one of the original Macintosh team.

    He created both MacPaint & Hypercard which had a big influence on me as a kid.

    appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

  4. For Ottawa 🇨🇦 folks:

    I contacted Ottawa Public Health a while ago about setting up a fediverse bridge to their bluesky account. They've recently added it:

    @ottawapublichealth.ca

    Stay healthy! ⚕️

  5. For other Ottawa 🇨🇦 people, the City of Ottawa is now on bluesky.

    There's a bridge to fediverse here: @en.ottawa.ca

    They still don't seem to know how to use hashtags effectively & they use link shorteners, but it's better than nothing!

  6. I'm reading **Hard to Be a God** (1964) by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky.

    For *some* reason the passage I just read jumped out at me...

  7. @atomictangerine > Sadly, I have no recollection whatsoever of what the book is about.

    I can't tell if that's a sly meta-commentary on the book 😆

    (For those who haven't read **The Buried Giant** - it involves the loss of long-term memory.)

    I really like Ishiguro and how his style adapts to the type of story he's writing (fable, SciFi, period piece, etc.). I think he's a masterful writer!

  8. @atomictangerine > Sadly, I have no recollection whatsoever of what the book is about.

    I can't tell if that's a sly meta-commentary on the book 😆

    (For those who haven't read **The Buried Giant** - it involves the loss of long-term memory.)

    I really like Ishiguro and how his style adapts to the type of story he's writing (fable, SciFi, period piece, etc.). I think he's a masterful writer!

    #bookstodon #Ishiguro

  9. @atomictangerine > Sadly, I have no recollection whatsoever of what the book is about.

    I can't tell if that's a sly meta-commentary on the book 😆

    (For those who haven't read **The Buried Giant** - it involves the loss of long-term memory.)

    I really like Ishiguro and how his style adapts to the type of story he's writing (fable, SciFi, period piece, etc.). I think he's a masterful writer!

    #bookstodon #Ishiguro

  10. @atomictangerine > Sadly, I have no recollection whatsoever of what the book is about.

    I can't tell if that's a sly meta-commentary on the book 😆

    (For those who haven't read **The Buried Giant** - it involves the loss of long-term memory.)

    I really like Ishiguro and how his style adapts to the type of story he's writing (fable, SciFi, period piece, etc.). I think he's a masterful writer!

    #bookstodon #Ishiguro

  11. For my fellow allergy sufferers - this looks promising!

    > That means an injection could stop all allergic reactions — not only seasonal allergies but food allergies (such as peanuts) and insect allergies for a prolonged period of time.

    vox.com/health/408749/allergy-

    via @Vox

  12. For my fellow allergy sufferers - this looks promising!

    > That means an injection could stop all allergic reactions — not only seasonal allergies but food allergies (such as peanuts) and insect allergies for a prolonged period of time.

    vox.com/health/408749/allergy-

    via @Vox

    #allergies #pollen #ImmuneSystem #MonoclonalAntibodies

  13. For my fellow allergy sufferers - this looks promising!

    > That means an injection could stop all allergic reactions — not only seasonal allergies but food allergies (such as peanuts) and insect allergies for a prolonged period of time.

    vox.com/health/408749/allergy-

    via @Vox

    #allergies #pollen #ImmuneSystem #MonoclonalAntibodies

  14. For my fellow allergy sufferers - this looks promising!

    > That means an injection could stop all allergic reactions — not only seasonal allergies but food allergies (such as peanuts) and insect allergies for a prolonged period of time.

    vox.com/health/408749/allergy-

    via @Vox

    #allergies #pollen #ImmuneSystem #MonoclonalAntibodies

  15. For my fellow allergy sufferers - this looks promising!

    > That means an injection could stop all allergic reactions — not only seasonal allergies but food allergies (such as peanuts) and insect allergies for a prolonged period of time.

    vox.com/health/408749/allergy-

    via @Vox

    #allergies #pollen #ImmuneSystem #MonoclonalAntibodies

  16. @ForestOrca @arstechnica Seconded!

    I've been using Jitsi for years. Overall it's a pretty great substitute for Skype/Zoom/Teams for my use cases (2-3 people video chat - occasional screen sharing).

  17. Hey Ottawa people 🇨🇦 - final reminder that the City of Ottawa is asking for feedback on their communications: "Tell us how you like to hear from us". Their survey closes on 21 February.

    I asked them to please support ActivityPub/Mastodon and to cease participating in the Twitter dumpster fire.

    engage.ottawa.ca/communication

    Please consider boosting for reach!

  18. Hey Ottawa people 🇨🇦 - the City of Ottawa is asking for feedback on their communications: "Tell us how you like to hear from us".

    I just filled out the survey to ask them to support ActivityPub/Mastodon.

    engage.ottawa.ca/communication

    Please boost for reach!

  19. I asked the Royal Bank of Canada's help system a question about a SWIFT transfer...

    Go home RBC - you're drunk!

    (Probably some pseudo-AI/LLM BS. Guess we better get used to it.)

  20. Along with the gactar 0.13.0 release yesterday, I released v0.4.0 of the VS Code extension for it.

    This extension provides syntax highlighting, snippets to quickly create an amod file or add productions, and allows you to run gactar directly through VS Code.

    marketplace.visualstudio.com/i

  21. Along with the gactar 0.13.0 release yesterday, I released v0.4.0 of the VS Code extension for it.

    This extension provides syntax highlighting, snippets to quickly create an amod file or add productions, and allows you to run gactar directly through VS Code.

    marketplace.visualstudio.com/i

    #VSCode #VSCodeExtension #CogSci #CognitiveScience #CognitiveArchitecture #CognitiveModelling #ACTR #OpenSource #Symbolic #SymbolicAI #gactar

  22. Along with the gactar 0.13.0 release yesterday, I released v0.4.0 of the VS Code extension for it.

    This extension provides syntax highlighting, snippets to quickly create an amod file or add productions, and allows you to run gactar directly through VS Code.

    marketplace.visualstudio.com/i

    #VSCode #VSCodeExtension #CogSci #CognitiveScience #CognitiveArchitecture #CognitiveModelling #ACTR #OpenSource #Symbolic #SymbolicAI #gactar

  23. Along with the gactar 0.13.0 release yesterday, I released v0.4.0 of the VS Code extension for it.

    This extension provides syntax highlighting, snippets to quickly create an amod file or add productions, and allows you to run gactar directly through VS Code.

    marketplace.visualstudio.com/i

    #VSCode #VSCodeExtension #CogSci #CognitiveScience #CognitiveArchitecture #CognitiveModelling #ACTR #OpenSource #Symbolic #SymbolicAI #gactar

  24. Dun & Bradstreet is a company whose entire reason for existence is maintaining a database of company info.

    I just called to update a phone number.

    How long will that take?

    "Up to 15 business days."

    Wow. What kind of database are they using?

  25. Dun & Bradstreet is a company whose entire reason for existence is maintaining a database of company info.

    I just called to update a phone number.

    How long will that take?

    "Up to 15 business days."

    Wow. What kind of database are they using?

    #database #business #DNB #DUNS #bureacracy #WhoUsesPhoneNumbersAnyways #venting

  26. Dun & Bradstreet is a company whose entire reason for existence is maintaining a database of company info.

    I just called to update a phone number.

    How long will that take?

    "Up to 15 business days."

    Wow. What kind of database are they using?

    #database #business #DNB #DUNS #bureacracy #WhoUsesPhoneNumbersAnyways #venting

  27. Dun & Bradstreet is a company whose entire reason for existence is maintaining a database of company info.

    I just called to update a phone number.

    How long will that take?

    "Up to 15 business days."

    Wow. What kind of database are they using?

    #database #business #DNB #DUNS #bureacracy #WhoUsesPhoneNumbersAnyways #venting