Floof
@hbean.bsky.social
Writer/editor, parent, she/her. Old enough to probably have a lot of lead in me.
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And, finally, from me, the first year of a resurrected river valley & new park just east of Toronto’s skyscrapers has seen an explosion of animal and plant life, from a relative of the puffin to eagles, coyotes & minks www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
How a resurrected Toronto river led to a flood of flora and fauna not seen in decades
The Don River mouth and Biidaasige Park is giving way to wild and plant life the city has not seen in more than 100 years.
www.thestar.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
And, finally, from me, the first year of a resurrected river valley & new park just east of Toronto’s skyscrapers has seen an explosion of animal and plant life, from a relative of the puffin to eagles, coyotes & minks www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
Have you seen the Barbieland and Canadian Drug Cartel side quests yet (i'm old, my kids are my influencers)
December 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Have you seen the Barbieland and Canadian Drug Cartel side quests yet (i'm old, my kids are my influencers)
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More evidence: Straive is apparently causing a lot of issues (unsurprisingly) during copy editing forthcoming articles in Springer journals.
dailynous.com/2025/12/18/p...
dailynous.com/2025/12/18/p...
Problems with Publishers Moving to AI-Based Production - Daily Nous
Straive is a firm that uses AI to, among other things, help publishers with various tasks "across the publishing value chain". One of its clients is Springer Nature, the publisher of many philosophy j...
dailynous.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More evidence: Straive is apparently causing a lot of issues (unsurprisingly) during copy editing forthcoming articles in Springer journals.
dailynous.com/2025/12/18/p...
dailynous.com/2025/12/18/p...
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Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
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"Pressed on whether marketing an addictive AI chatbot to kids is ethical, Hardin shrugged: “I mean sure, but that’s not really our problem. That’s something parents or maybe lawmakers might want to look into.”
December 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Pressed on whether marketing an addictive AI chatbot to kids is ethical, Hardin shrugged: “I mean sure, but that’s not really our problem. That’s something parents or maybe lawmakers might want to look into.”
Yes! so hurtful for the kids. It's another version of Instagram filters--but your *parents* are preferring the yassified ChatGPT image of you over a photo of the real, living you.
December 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Yes! so hurtful for the kids. It's another version of Instagram filters--but your *parents* are preferring the yassified ChatGPT image of you over a photo of the real, living you.
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.