When you get a special assessment notice exactly 30 days before the first payment is due...

A job that I think should exist is “landlord for condo owners who don’t understand home ownership” because I’m on my second bathroom repair of 2026 and I am simply not cut out for this. I started crying when my dad told me, “Just go to Lumber World”.

Students without access to LLMs are 2 to 8 times more creative than students with access. That is the finding of a new paper comparing 2,200 college admissions essays written by humans before ChatGPT with essays generated by GPT-4. The key point is not individual creativity. GPT-4 can write well, sometimes better than individual students. The problem is collective creativity. Each new human essay added new semantic territory. New ideas. New angles. New experiences. New combinations. Each new GPT-4 essay added much less. The authors call this the diversity growth rate: how much novelty each additional text contributes to the collective pool of ideas. Humans kept expanding the pool. GPT-4 made the pool converge. Even when the authors pushed GPT-4 to be more creative, changed parameters, or used chain-of-thought prompting, the homogenizing effect remained. This is the real danger of AI in education. Not that students will write worse. That everyone will write the same. * Full paper in the first reply

Attention @DaleNally_AB: As a dual citizen of both Canada and Germany I expect to have both the maple leaf icon AND a pretzel icon on my new Alberta driver’s license. 🍁 🥨

RT @TheBlueGem3: Just a reminder Calgary. It didn’t flood in YYC like it did in 2013 because Nenshi as Mayor helped with a preventative flo…

Hey Alberta, just saying...

RT @Cliffor18175753: I beg the rest of Canada to understand that the Alberta Separatists are a tiny minority of losers and schmucks despise…

“Just vote yes and we’re our own country.” Cool. Here’s the actual to-do list you’d have to negotiate first You’d have to settle: → Share of the national debt → Split of federal assets → Embassies & foreign property → Crown corporations → Federal pensions → Keep the loonie? Make a new currency? → Central bank access → Deposit insurance & banking rules → Foreign reserves → Citizenship & dual nationality → Passports → Free movement across the new border → Exact land borders → Maritime borders → Indigenous treaty rights (these don’t just transfer) → Whether Indigenous nations can stay with Canada → A whole new trade deal → Status under USMCA, CETA, CPTPP (not automatic) → Tariffs, customs, standards → Professional licensing across the border → UN membership (you re-apply) → Hundreds of treaties, renegotiated → Diplomatic recognition → NATO & NORAD membership → Splitting the armed forces → Military bases & equipment → Intelligence sharing (Five Eyes access) → Border security & the RCMP → Coast guard & airspace → CPP & pension portability → Old Age Security → Health transfers → Employment insurance → Pipelines & the power grid → Railways, highways, seaways → Shared rivers & water → Telecom & spectrum → Air traffic control → Tax systems & taxpayer data → Courts & appeals (no more Supreme Court of Canada) → Every federal regulator: food, drugs, aviation, broadcasting → Thousands of federal employees → …and what happens if talks just collapse 50% 1 creates a duty to negotiate — not a guarantee you get what you want, or that a deal even happens. “Independence” is the easy word. That list is the actual job.

Seriously, condo management company charging us thousands of dollars a month for "professional" management services? 😐

“I can’t give honest feedback when it is not honest work. I can’t help you work out how you want to think about something, how you want to be in the world, if you are not using your own brain to tell me where you are.” 👍 Any educator defending the use of AI is a scab.

RT @WabKinew: I love Canada 🇨🇦

I’m sure international headlines like this will be good for investment in Alberta. 🙄

There’s one thing AI still can’t do, and that’s go swimming in May in a freezing man-made lake in the Canadian suburbs. 🥶

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

A message to any Albertan planning to vote to separate from Canada: when you’re making summer vacation plans be sure to stay the hell out of BC. You’re not welcome.

Danielle Smith has no mandate for a referendum, no basis to hold it, and no authority to lead She should call an election and get a fucking mandate for this atrocity