Drôle et triste en même temps

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Daltonisme : Trouble visuel à cause duquel Steven Guilbeault et Elizabeth May ont déjà cru voir Mark Carney en vert.

Environnement : Ce qui nuit à l’économie.

Syndicat : Ce qui nuit à l’économie.

Rien : Concession demandée par Mark Carney à l’Alberta en échange du démantèlement de sa politique climatique.

Pistes cyclables (voir partout des) : Trouble obsessionnel particulièrement contagieux lors des élections municipales.

lapresse.ca/actualites/chroniq…

Lexique pour 2026 (avec toutes mes excuses)

J’essaie de contribuer de bonne foi au débat public, au mieux de mes capacités. Mais une fois par année, je fais relâche. Voici, avec toutes mes excuses, un lexique de mauvaise foi pour régler nos comptes avec l’année 2025.

^{La Presse}

Recipe for last night's dinner included this item in the ingredient list:

28 oz can of whole peeled tomatoes, crushed by hand

People, I tried. I really did. I wasn't able to crush the can by hand until after I'd opened it and removed the tomatoes.

RE: chaos.social/@c3awareness/1158…

We should have the same at #FOSDEM

c3awareness

2025-12-29 16:05:44

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When ChatGPT was released 3 years ago I never anticipated how it could become a source of tensions with people in my life.

So to add to its many damages, it's a source of:

- environmental catastrophe
- economic bubble
- monumental job losses with bosses leaning into AI and laying off workers
- loss of critical thinking
- destruction of higher ED methods
- further isolation with people using AI characters as "romantic partners"
- dangerous medical advice (especially with reliance on it for mental health support)

(I'm probably forgetting other important things)

AND:

source of tensions inside homes and with friends when you have a person critical of AI (🙋‍♀️​) attempting to reason with a person whose default setting is: "I'll ask ChatGPT". Pointing out flagrant mistakes by AI seems to make their heads explode and get angry at the messenger. Ouf.

Sorry for the downer but I'm sure this is a pretty common problem...

Anyway, this morning I was given hope by a toot from @jwildeboer and I should just keep focusing on that. And make sure my own child doesn't buy into the BS of AI... mastodon.social/@jwildeboer@so…

Welcome to week 1 of 2026!

What, week 1 of 2026 is in 2025? Yes: the "first week of 2026" starts on the Monday of the first week that has at least 4 days that fall in 2026, AKA the week with the first Thursday of the year.

Since years don't have an integer number of weeks, a "weekyear" has either 52 or 53 weeks - so you can say we have 'leap weeks' sometimes.

This is all laid out in ISO8601:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week…

However, the nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from. Yes, there are also people who count differently. The Java docs for their utility classes to count weeks cheekily claims "the common definition" is one where a week starts on Sunday (and week 1 is the first week where *any* day falls into the new year): docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase… . Do not believe their lies.