Sam Yusim

@syus.bsky.social

she/her PhD student in number theory at McGill University. Formerly a gameplay programmer at a studio here in Montreal. 31. 100% anti-LLM. I spend too much time on the computer.

McGill seems to have deleted my preferred name for no reason today and now I'm appearing under a masculine name in emails and presumably everywhere else in their network. Why is this allowed?

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

Canada doing more than its part in destroying the world. What bday gift to my 4 year old today Extraction of the most polluting oil in the world should have been capped and started to be reduced a decade ago. Instead we are plowing ahead, ensuring an unsafe future. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News

The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...

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“Gazan has put legislation to criminalize residential school denialism before the House of Commons, but the Liberals have not indicated they will support it. Calls for its passage grew louder this week after a group linked with white nationalism reportedly staged a demonstration in the BC interior.”

Mark Carney is banking on economic reconciliation but critics say he's not on track - Investment Executive

Indigenous communities fear the outcomes of fast-tracked economic development projects

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Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky

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Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

Scheduled a critical email on Sunday night to send Monday morning, received an email just now demanding information that should have been received already, looked in my drafts, found the email labelled "scheduled for monday morning" that never got sent. I hate you microsoft.