Jeremy Nickurak 🇨🇦
@gehrehmee.bsky.social
YEG techie and ukulele enthusiast. Mostly on Mastodon @ https://toot.cafe/@atrus
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Jeremy Nickurak 🇨🇦
@gehrehmee.bsky.social
· Dec 10
#introduction: I try to get computers to do things, and try to help people at getting better at making computers do things!
Lately my go-to programming language of choice is #python, and I love telling compelling stories with #git
I play (and sometimes teach) #ukulele in #yeg.
Lately my go-to programming language of choice is #python, and I love telling compelling stories with #git
I play (and sometimes teach) #ukulele in #yeg.
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I think James is in a Time Loop - Short Film
This was a good student film. The directing was competent and the story was tight. I liked how it payed off things it set up with how the time loop worked as well.
youtu.be/sn5vzYmi4Kc?...
This was a good student film. The directing was competent and the story was tight. I liked how it payed off things it set up with how the time loop worked as well.
youtu.be/sn5vzYmi4Kc?...
December 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I think James is in a Time Loop - Short Film
This was a good student film. The directing was competent and the story was tight. I liked how it payed off things it set up with how the time loop worked as well.
youtu.be/sn5vzYmi4Kc?...
This was a good student film. The directing was competent and the story was tight. I liked how it payed off things it set up with how the time loop worked as well.
youtu.be/sn5vzYmi4Kc?...
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this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
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I kind of like Generations because it was the last movie that understood spaceships are like big slow boats. After this they decided they needed to be cool and that’s how we ended up with Patrick Stewart on a dune buggy saying Cowabunga
STAR TREK GENERATIONS (1994)
Visual Effects by Industrial Light & Magic
Visual Effects by Industrial Light & Magic
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I kind of like Generations because it was the last movie that understood spaceships are like big slow boats. After this they decided they needed to be cool and that’s how we ended up with Patrick Stewart on a dune buggy saying Cowabunga
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You (a fool): the perfect christmas ornament doesn't exist.
Me (wisely): ahem.
Me (wisely): ahem.
October 9, 2023 at 2:54 PM
You (a fool): the perfect christmas ornament doesn't exist.
Me (wisely): ahem.
Me (wisely): ahem.
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Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube.
Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...
Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...
Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer | Full Comedy Special
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube.
Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...
Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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This one has always stuck with me, from November 2012. Truly cursed with the gift of prophecy
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This one has always stuck with me, from November 2012. Truly cursed with the gift of prophecy
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There's also an insane logic spiral going on here.
We've lost our audience to the internet!
We can't produce as much quantity or quality because we're broke!
Because we're broke, we're going to use a service to make our quality even worse!
People will flock back to us!
We've lost our audience to the internet!
We can't produce as much quantity or quality because we're broke!
Because we're broke, we're going to use a service to make our quality even worse!
People will flock back to us!
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There's also an insane logic spiral going on here.
We've lost our audience to the internet!
We can't produce as much quantity or quality because we're broke!
Because we're broke, we're going to use a service to make our quality even worse!
People will flock back to us!
We've lost our audience to the internet!
We can't produce as much quantity or quality because we're broke!
Because we're broke, we're going to use a service to make our quality even worse!
People will flock back to us!
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We need to ask ourselves why we, as a province, think it's acceptable for a government to legalize its own unethical conduct and investigate itself under circumstances it controls.
For all people claim to care about corruption around here, they sure don't care when it's their guys.
For all people claim to care about corruption around here, they sure don't care when it's their guys.
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We need to ask ourselves why we, as a province, think it's acceptable for a government to legalize its own unethical conduct and investigate itself under circumstances it controls.
For all people claim to care about corruption around here, they sure don't care when it's their guys.
For all people claim to care about corruption around here, they sure don't care when it's their guys.
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it's happening!!!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
it's happening!!!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous
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[P] WE'RE ALL-IN ON TULIPS, GANG
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
[P] WE'RE ALL-IN ON TULIPS, GANG
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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At the Alberta Legislature this morning to bear witness. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #yeg #Edmonton
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
At the Alberta Legislature this morning to bear witness. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #yeg #Edmonton
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Yes. This. Please.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Yes. This. Please.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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This is government in the doctor's office, government in locker rooms, government in kids' private lives
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is government in the doctor's office, government in locker rooms, government in kids' private lives