Went around the corner to pick up a pastry (not shown) and came back to a mysterious wee box on my door step. Turns out it was my @Playdate that was supposedly still stuck in shipping purgatory. Seeing as it’s my birthday tomorrow I figure it’s fine to bunk off today. 😄

Kuei. Il y a 11 langues autochtones au Québec. On les parle ici depuis des milliers d'années. Elles ne menacent pas le français et je rêve du jour où le Québec les reconnaitra elles aussi comme des langues officielles. Bonne journée nationale des langues autochtones.

Introduce yourself with: 📖 One book 🎥 One movie 🎶 One album 📺 One tv show

PSA: After using Adobe software for most of my career, I started moving to alternatives such as @affinitybyserif and Procreate a few years back. A few issues to workaround, but no AI, no cloud BS, and no far reaching ToS agreements. And absolutely no regrets.

J'aime ma rue, surtout en été. 😍

In the summer in Montreal we can usually just run the AC for 30 minutes to cool the house down (and often it ends up being too cold), but for the past few days of 35˚C+ weather, ~40˚C with humidity) it's been running for hours at a time and the house is just 'not hot'. 🥵

“Literacy changes everything. It gives you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. It opens the door to the life you want.”

Watching Canva and @adobe begin to hike their subscription costs by 100-200%+ lately to pay for AI features that many customers don't even want is an "interesting" corporate strategy.

I just started a new sketchbook, and in the interest of getting the "dreaded first page" out the way, I give you a brief glimpse into my inner world filled with a myriad of (cute) monsters.

“Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase.” I wonder if those customers who don’t want any of those AI features feel they are worth a 300 percent price increase? theverge.com/2024/9/3/24234…

”A Brief Study of Birds with Anxiety“… recently I've begun dusting off a picture book manuscript about an adopted penguin and his anxiety about attending 'Flight School'. Not sure if this is the direction I'll go with some of the characters, but you gotta start somewhere.

I'm reading the very funny (and charming) "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by @patrick_ness. Every time I run across dialogue for the characteristically SHOUTY hawk Miel (“IT MEANS HONEY.”) I can't help but read it as though Matt Berry (Matt Berry) was performing it.

Rarely have I seen AI described so succinctly.

I was listening to a podcast today about the health and societal impacts of ultra-processed food, and how it's barely considered food at all. Somehow my mind made a leap from that to Generative AI, and what is essentially ultra-processed, low-value content.🤔

It may seem like a small gesture, but we need to start somewhere. Every voice matters.

Watching OpenAI get all butthurt because they believe DeepSeek used "their models" to create its "own models" without even the slightest hint of irony (or self-awareness) is bloody mind-boggling.