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Donate archival material - Canada.ca
Please, don't throw out your photos/negatives/slides. Check them out so that part of our history is preserved.
https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/corporate/donations/donate-archival-material.h…

Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $16.06B vs. $16.21B est., remaining performance obligations up 438% to $523B vs. $502B est.; ORCL drops 5% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/oracle-orcl-q2-earnings-report-2026.html

@… Thanks!
Right, you approached the problem with slides as the starting point. I think it really depends on your workflow…

@… Thanks!
Right, you approached the problem with slides as the starting point. I think it really depends on your workflow…

I hadn’t planned to do this today, but I just added a new filter to pandoc-lecturenotes https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc-lecturenotes, which allows you to produce slides in any of the formats supported by

During the ESA Director General’s 2026 annual press briefing today - #Ariane 6 reached 5 successful launches earlier than many other heavy launchers. (This stands in stark contrast to the table 1b of https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space25.pdf in which Europe's contribution to the global launch successes in 2025 has been minuscule.)

Blaine's talk is SO GOOD @… - I'm going to get his slides too, and we should embed the hertzog video.
Speaking of great talks, will we have more or less tears at this year's #ATmosphereConf?

I loved @jasonclark.bsky.social 's #FF2025 'problem statement':
'We were given access to a weirdly confident intern that can’t explain how they got their answers.
It is a seamless interface that breaks search interaction retrieval patterns.'

Browns relish spoiler role as NFL draft positioning slides https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47442575/cleveland-browns-relish-playing-spoiler-role-week-17-2026-nfl-draft-positioning-slides

"Library Futures: Information Literacy in the Age of GenAi: my slides, notes, and an addendum"
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/12/22/library-futures-information-literacy-in-the-age-of-genai…

A different, not only technical look at the technology behind the #Fediverse:
"What if instead we thought of the federation protocols (e.g. ActivityPub and friends) as something that could be added to most websites and make them interoperable with other sites?"
Talk, video & slides by @…
https://www.sfscon.it/talks/from-the-fediverse-to-the-open-social-web/

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

Wow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …

This is precisely what the “presentation” and “lecturenotes” classes in the pandoc-lecturenotes filters are for: they allow you to show or hide certain elements only on slides or on lecture notes. ⇢
https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc-lecturenotes

This is precisely what the “presentation” and “lecturenotes” classes in the pandoc-lecturenotes filters are for: they allow you to show or hide certain elements only on slides or on lecture notes. ⇢
https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc-lecturenotes

OMG I have made so many LaTeX Beamer presentations and even made a proper template¹ for the @…, how come I only now learn about \pause, \item<N-> and \only<N> to slowly build up your slides step by step??? 🤯
¹

An update on pandoc-lecturenotes (a set of #Pandoc Lua filters for producing slides and lecture notes from a single #Markdown document):
1. Support for “native” slide formats
2. Support for Typst for formatting PDF lecture notes

Die Kollegin gratulierte dem KI-Experten zu seinem Vortrag über KI-Verfahrensweisen in der Biomedizin, sowie zur Diversität des von ihm geleiteten Instituts. Sie wies dann höflich auf eine gewisse Spannung zwischen jener Diversität und den (KI-generierten) Slides zum Vortrag hin, die samt und sonders weiße Männer in Labormänteln zeigten.

"By examining several widely used AI models designed for cancer detection, the researchers found that performance varied depending on patients’ self-reported gender, race, and age. They also identified multiple reasons why these disparities occur."
What AI Learned From Cancer Slides Shocked Researchers
https://scitechdaily.com/what-ai-learned-from-cancer-slides-shocked-researchers/

#ThursdayFiveList! #SmellsLikeTeenSpirit! Songs teen Dave loved (and still does)! Too many characters!
1. Skatenigs, “Chemical Imbalance”—https://

Buccaneers vs. Falcons prediction: Can Baker Mayfield and Co. get back on track to secure NFC South lead?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/buccaneers-vs-falcons-where…

NFL Top 10 Moments of 2025: Chiefs Fall, Rivers Returns, Shedeur Sanders Slides https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-top-10-moments-2025

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

NFL Top 10 Moments of 2025: Chiefs Fall, Rivers Returns, Shedeur Sanders Slides https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-top-10-moments-2025

@… I am very interested to see more slides from this 😅

"Library Futures: Information Literacy in the Age of GenAi: my slides, notes, and an addendum"
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/12/22/library-futures-information-literacy-in-the-age-of-genai…

Slides and recordings for our @… talks are up! Join an in-depth introduction into @… 's features and internals, or find out what's the latest in anti-anti-debugging techniques and HV transparency for malware reversing:

AI and human rights. Video, slides and transcript from my January 2022 talk.

https://axbom.com/aihr/

#HumanRights

@… Tu dois entourer les slides avec ::: slide, p. ex.:
::: slide
# Titre de la première diapo
Contenu
:::
Texte pour les notes.…
::: slide
# Deuxième diapo
- pain
- beurre
- fromage
:::
Explications, etc., etc.

@… Tu dois entourer les slides avec ::: slide, p. ex.:
::: slide
# Titre de la première diapo
Contenu
:::
Texte pour les notes.…
::: slide
# Deuxième diapo
- pain
- beurre
- fromage
:::
Explications, etc., etc.

Trial ran my slides for cfgmgmtcamp and booh too long.
Need a rethink

Are you making slides with Quarto or R Markdown and need a timer e.g. for breaks or group work? There is the {countdown} package for you: #rstats

@… @… @… I would also be very interested in the slides. A very important topic right now!

Welcome to my new followers! Also, on a related note, if anybody says putting your #Fediverse handle on presentation slides doesn't work, they're wrong. I don't think I even mentioned it on the audio track.

It took me a long time, but #Typst output of pandoc-lecturenotes can now render most (useful) #Deckset and #Pandoc layout extensions on embedded slides!
Tomorrow, I *really* need to work again on …

The 8yo needed me to log into google slides for her. "Do you have a google account?" "I don't think so.."
I redirected her to #libreoffice, which she already had installed on her machine and doesn't require any kind of account. She'll thank me* later!
* she won't

That's @dorothyjberry delivering an incredible closing keynote at #FF2025
Some focusing questions:
How do we describe archives?
Why do we describe archives?
What are we trying to automate?

Happy Thanksgiving with an episode on Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade from #WellTheresYourProblem podcast! It's a podcast about engineer disasters...with slides.
https://youtu.be/VbkNOnX-PUQ?si=G380VM<…

I published my slides for the #FOSDEM lightning talk in the #geospatial room:
> Lessons from teaching 100 beginners to use the OpenStreetMap <
Do you have the same challenges as I do?

An update on pandoc-lecturenotes (a set of #Pandoc Lua filters for producing slides and lecture notes from a single #Markdown document):
1. Support for “native” slide formats
2. Support for Typst for formatting PDF lecture notes

An update on pandoc-lecturenotes (a set of #Pandoc Lua filters for producing slides and lecture notes from a single #Markdown document):
1. Support for “native” slide formats
2. Support for Typst for formatting PDF lecture notes

Copilot is so deeply integrated into Microsoft Office now (which has been rebranded to to Copilot btw.) that in order to create Powerpoint slides it needs me to run a powershell script it spat out on a Windows machines with Powershell and Powerpoint installed.
Ridiculous doesn't even closely describes this....
#AIslop

My Talk About Back-Ups for creators, game-designers, writers, creatives was — again — not a crowd magnet. 😆
2 die-hard listeners stayed for the full 2 hours (plus the moderator).
Anyway. For those not at #ConZero @ConventionZero, here are the slides: https://

Alarming findings were published in the journal "Cell Reports Medicine",
showing that four leading
AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems
differ in accuracy depending on patients‘ age, gender, and race
— demographic data that the AI is extracting directly from pathology slides ... a feat that’s impossible for human doctors.

Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6% after hours (Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/do…

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
TARRANT: If he's still inside the ship then he's probably safe. Oh you're very clever Servalan; why can't you work it out? Sand slides. Sand higher than the windows.
SERVALAN: Are you serious?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/245 B7B3

Mes transparents (slides pour les jeune) du #cdl2025 sont disponible Š https://files.hirlimann.net/talks/cdl2025/
Quand la video sera disponible Š

@… C'est bizarre... Disons que mon document s’appelle short_example.md et je me trouve dans le dossier pandoc-lecturenotes (donc le filtre se trouve dans le sous-dossier filters):
pandoc -s -t revealjs -L filters/native-slides.lua short_example.md > short_example.revealjs.html
Ça ne marche pas?

@… C'est bizarre... Disons que mon document s’appelle short_example.md et je me trouve dans le dossier pandoc-lecturenotes (donc le filtre se trouve dans le sous-dossier filters):
pandoc -s -t revealjs -L filters/native-slides.lua short_example.md > short_example.revealjs.html
Ça ne marche pas?

#ff2025 livestream folk - if you haven't already spotted them, we have excellent transcription by expert transcribers who've seen the slides and abstracts - look for the CC option

SFMTA is proposing eliminating the Clipper discount and raising all fares to $3.00, which may be(?) the highest bus fare in the country. Also, they’re using AI slop to illustrate their slides now. #sfpol
https://ca…

Occasionally, the YouTube algorithm recommends a fascinating video from a really obscure channel and this time I got this #math video about proving whether all 197 flags in the Sporcle flag quiz are constructible in #PowerPoint or Google Slides.

So day one of three is in the can.
I'm just going to polish my slides for tomorrzzzZZ!
#EverythingOpen #EO2026

In October, I gave a talk about post-quantum #cryptography at the #OpenSSL Conference in Prague. Yesterday, the video dropped. If you're interested, head to https:/…

@… Mise Š jour: j'ai renommé le filtre en «native-slides.lua» puisqu’il peut être utilisé pour tous le formats nativement supporté par Pandoc, y compris PowerPoint.
Ça marche déjŠ très bien, parce que Pandoc s’occupe de tout ;-)
Il me faut juste prendre en compte les notations spéciales de Pandoc pour diapos (notamment les pauses et les colonnes) d…

@… Mise Š jour: j'ai renommé le filtre en «native-slides.lua» puisqu’il peut être utilisé pour tous le formats nativement supporté par Pandoc, y compris PowerPoint.
Ça marche déjŠ très bien, parce que Pandoc s’occupe de tout ;-)
Il me faut juste prendre en compte les notations spéciales de Pandoc pour diapos (notamment les pauses et les colonnes) d…

My slides and a video of my talk "Grow your [engineering] brand while putting privacy first" are available on my blog: https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4500/
If you want a funny, but useful talk on that topic, reach out!

@… Salut, dans la branche «revealjs», dans le répertoire «filters» tu trouvera le filtre «revealjs-slides.lua».
https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc

@… Salut, dans la branche «revealjs», dans le répertoire «filters» tu trouvera le filtre «revealjs-slides.lua».
https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc

I hadn’t planned to do this today, but I just added a new filter to pandoc-lecturenotes https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc-lecturenotes, which allows you to produce slides in any of the formats supported by

I hadn’t planned to do this today, but I just added a new filter to pandoc-lecturenotes https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc-lecturenotes, which allows you to produce slides in any of the formats supported by

@… Actuellement, c’est conçu que pour Deckset, mais d’autres formats pour diapos seraient souhaitables. Et puisque reveal.js est un format supporté par Pandoc, un filtre analogique Š deckset-slides.lua devrait être même plus simple.
S’il y a un utilisateur potentiel, je pourrais y regarder de plus près dans les jours Š venir.

@… Actuellement, c’est conçu que pour Deckset, mais d’autres formats pour diapos seraient souhaitables. Et puisque reveal.js est un format supporté par Pandoc, un filtre analogique Š deckset-slides.lua devrait être même plus simple.
S’il y a un utilisateur potentiel, je pourrais y regarder de plus près dans les jours Š venir.

It took me a long time, but #Typst output of pandoc-lecturenotes can now render most (useful) #Deckset and #Pandoc layout extensions on embedded slides!
Tomorrow, I *really* need to work again on …

It took me a long time, but #Typst output of pandoc-lecturenotes can now render most (useful) #Deckset and #Pandoc layout extensions on embedded slides!
Tomorrow, I *really* need to work again on …

Natšlie Mlýnkovš interception, drives the net, and goal against Maschmeyer. Then slides herself headfirst into the net too.
Be the puck you want to see in the world.
#PWHL #MontrealVictoire #VancouverGoldeneyes #hockey

@… Thanks, interesting! This is in some ways the reverse approach, starting with the slides, rather than the text. For some types of uses, the results will probably be similar (I have indeed recently added “dual-use speaker notes”), but conceptually it’s different.

@… Thanks, interesting! This is in some ways the reverse approach, starting with the slides, rather than the text. For some types of uses, the results will probably be similar (I have indeed recently added “dual-use speaker notes”), but conceptually it’s different.