Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

We, as a society, have agreed that there are things we can't use to discriminate people, and that using those things in that way is bad. Some people seem to forget that throwing around accusatory labels ("you're sexist!") is a grave issue, as it hampers preventing the actual discrimination from happening.

I don't know why I didn't realise it until just now but TIL Carl Orff of Carmina Burana is the same Carl Orff of Schulwerk

@jezza this whole album is definitely in the running for best of the best

@jezza HA!

@sir_rob the only time I don’t do everything is when my neighbour with a blower gets out before me haha

What is "love your neighbour as yourself" if not an instruction to shovel the whole block?

This was algo-recommended to me for no apparent reason and is half decent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5pEDOrsBxw

But more importantly, I like the idea of staging it on the ice

People picking what they say is the best Christmas song or album obviously don't listen to enough music because I have a few hundred songs tied for first place.

Words like "Grinchmas" and "catmas" aren't "killing" Christmas.

The existence of Grinchmas implies that The Grinch is a canonised figure in the Whoniverse.

He's probably patron saint of those with cardiomegaly.

December's list of links (and not just Christmassy ones)
https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/191-195/

@jezza haha Actually Indians is great!

I’ve been saying I’ll keep putting “AI” in scare quotes until it politely requests otherwise for at least two years now…

Why You Can't Say "Christmas" in Hawaiian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-gbeI0AFQ

Anything beyond rich text in an email is a disaster; why did we ever think that was a good idea?

Small town win:

Neighbour comes to the door. He found a phone while snowblowing my sidewalk. (Bonus win.)

Turns out it belongs to a kid down the street—but how did we know?

Well it had a notification from my kid on the screen.

If you insist on denying that a tomato is a fruit, I'll insist on assuming you're an American living in somewhere between 1883 and 1913

Best coffee reaction ever
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxSsHPFm3ZDO4YiY3i6ewmUXB0zQNmFKN4

@jezza haha love it!

And here's @ryan's piece https://ohryan.ca/2025/12/10/winnipeg-your-denser-than-you-think/

My friend @ryan wrote about calculating real population density and it got me wondering why we don't just have one transit company in the Edmonton population centre https://levisan.me/articles/what-even-is-population-density-and-why-is-multi-city-transit-so-hard.html

@jezza I don't disagree!

I guess what I'm trying to say is… is it really bad that it can't actually create something new, assuming the users know what's going on? Ignoring the mediocre-or-worse media being produced, but for other uses.

If only "we" can pivot "AI" away from being a thing being used for slop and focus on better uses…