CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@jpm I certainly don’t want them to stop putting it on stuff, though, because it’s a useful warning label.

The people responsible for this will face no negative consequences. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/7-year-old-canadian-mom-detained-by-ice-last-weekend-stepfather/

“The chats reveal Jade’s numerous attempts to verify that she wasn’t doing anything illegal or dangerous.…Jade’s mother, Naderia, describes reading the chats…‘He’s rolling up a snowball, and tossing it in hell,’ she said.” https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/exclusive-canadian-teens-instagram-chats-reveal-playbook-for-recruiting-drug-mules/

#AmidHeadlines: a rare double!

@cbcnews @ottawa-cbcnews They already have the 401, Doug, you love that thing. Come on.

(If he wants to send a GO train that far east, he’s welcome to.)

“Poilievre said the plan will secure tariff-free access to the U.S. market…” Come on, nothing is “secure” from Trump’s whims. (Poilievre can claim whatever he likes without fear of having to deliver, of course, as Permanent Leader of the Opposition.) https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/conservative-leader-to-announce-auto-plan-following-meetings-in-michigan/

I don’t know who decided that “snow showers” was an acceptable phrase in weather forecasts, but you’re fired.

Rain showers; snow flurries.

“At that point, the victim, a paramedic and a firefighter with the rope rescue team were loaded into a large metal box that was lifted by crane out of the accident area to a waiting ambulance.” https://ottawacitizen.com/news/crane-operators-rescue-parliament-hill

“Clients now come to the property to hunt deer, turkeys and catch fish.…30‑minute drive to Kingston…” Oh-ho! I’ll bet he’s happy that they built half a dozen lanes of 401 and a couple of cloverleafs to bring him customers. A train line would “destroy Mother Nature,” though. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/i-just-couldnt-believe-it-ontario-man-fears-highspeed-rail-could-destroy-his-business/
“Boulton, a retired Kingston police officer, bought the land when he was 18.” Won’t somebody think of the little guy, a retiree with only a thousand acres to his name?

@jollyorc @cstross @_tillwe_ @feorag Abandoning nuclear because you’d rather burn brown coal sure is a choice. But at least consumers pay through the nose.

@jannem @arclight Isn't "history" a variable and "x" a procedure, though?

…= x(history, 0) * 2 + …

(And yeah they flip between talking about a mathematical variable x and a procedure "x," no comment.)

@jannem @arclight C absolutely does not just hit you with stuff like “(+ (* 2 (x 0 history))”

@arclight It’s gotta be, “as someone interested in attracting trendy SMR investment, I need a gimmick to make my SMR seem special,” right?

(In the unlikely event that you get as far as building and running it, you can still safely abandon it in place when you’ve used up everyone else’s money. Ethical!)

Same steps! Drill down a mile, fool around a bit, hope that the water mostly stays put. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dry_rock_geothermal_energy

“…a 15-megawatt (MWe) small modular reactor (SMR) designed to operate a mile beneath the Earth’s surface.”

Geothermal is, literally, right there.

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-firm-deep-fission-6000-ft-well

March 9, 2020: the Grand Princess docks in Oakland.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kNc22VD4phk?si=Ti37_s5sRjhIXPhb

Spring ahead. Hate it.

I think that these stories of chatbot-induced psychosis really do with being read in the context of Serial Experiments Lain (1998), and its subplot about the purported God of Cyberspace talking people into killing themselves. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health