Visiting space aliens, upon seeing humans oppress — or kill — one another over who they worship, who they sleep with, what side of an arbitrary line they’re born on, or how absorptive their skin is to sunlight, would surely race home & report no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

Thundersnow! It is a real thing, and #ygk just experienced it. Yes, that was just thunder and lightning in a snowstorm! That's only the 2nd time I have heard thunder in the snow and 1st time I've seen lightning! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersn…

It sounds like Medium has a really well thought out stance on Ai-assisted content. Labelling it is the right approach IMO. The "banning it" stance others have taken won't age well. "How we’re approaching AI-generated writing on Medium." blog.medium.com/how-were-appro…

I can't believe my order was Not Found.😆

A week ago my son asked if I could get the chess board and play♟️. Proud dad. Yes, please! I now believe that was a well orchestrated move... A few days later my daughter totally schooled me, and was promptly declared house-grandmaster. Checkmate.

As a dad who has a soon-to-be teen, I felt this was very useful information: 10 things to know about how social media affects teens' brains npr.org/2023/02/16/115…

This is what we need more of: Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone theguardian.com/technology/202…

Such a great feeling to see these again. Classic "After Dark" screensavers, rebuilt using CSS animations: bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/

I am looking forward to blowing some minds with this. Education, HR, Finance, will get a productivity boost they can't currently comprehend. Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/1…

Congratulations to the #Elentra community on the release of Elentra ME 1.25! See what has changed in "Features to know in Elentra ME 1.25" elentra.org/2023/04/04/fea…

Dear random person walking towards me on the sidewalk. Thank you! The huge smile 😁 on your face was contagious and made me smile too, despite a challenging day. We should all smile a little more; for ourselves and for others.

Thank you for the $274.50 for the Climate Action Incentive Government of Canada! I think this is a really smart program: Increase the cost of polluting for everyone to show the real price, then provide a rebate to give people time to adjust to reality. canada.ca/en/environment…

Nothing marks a career milestone more clearly than the day you finally check the "Keep in Dock" option beside Microsoft PowerPoint. #CareerPath #SadButTrue

Queen’s places 3rd worldwide in 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings queensu.ca/gazette/storie… via Queen's University

This is a win-win-win (environment-store-me). We need more smart stuff like this "App connects Kingston businesses, consumers to reduce food waste" thewhig.com/news/app-conne…

Good read, if you can get past the obnoxious clickbait title. It could have been titled "Thriving as a Software Developer With the Help of AI", but I guess that would cause too little drama? spectrum.ieee.org/ai-programming

Thank you to The Citizen Lab for your reporting on this. iPhone users, update. citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastp…

You can now find me over on the fediverse at @[email protected] infosec.exchange/@mattsimpson Please note: This move has nothing to do with Twitter/X/Elon, I genuinely don't care about that. ActivityPub and the Fediverse is just more interesting to me right now.