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Good Morning #Canada
You don't have to like numbers to appreciate Statistics Canada, aka StatsCan. Jean Talon could be considered Canada's first official statistician when he arrived in North America in 1665 on a mission for King Louis XIV to conduct Canada's first census in 1666. In 1918, the Statistics Act created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, a national statistics office that ultimately would become Statistics Canada. Besides conducting the Census of Population and the Census of Agriculture every five years, StatCan has more than 450 active surveys on virtually all aspects of life in Canada. Results are published twice a month and can be accessed via The Daily web page.
One of my favourite web pages is Canada's Population Clock (real-time model). It's fascinating to watch, and our population increased by 11 while I typed this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #StatsCan
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

Federal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…

Federal judge blocks Trump administration's homeland security funding cut to Democratic states
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to cut Homeland Security funding from states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy ruled Monday in favor of 12 attorneys general who sued after their states faced reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary” status. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA had cut over $233 million from several states. McElroy found the funding cuts arbitrary and ordered their rest…

India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/indi…

India's gig workers win legal status, but access to social security remains elusive | TechCrunch
India is restructuring its gig economy with a new labor law, but much more is needed before gig workers see real benefits.

My Steam end of year stats for 2025 (they're a pain in the dick to find and access, you gotta be logged in, use desktop version, and this link: https://store.steampowered.com/replay/my/2025). The genres are so weird, too. 'Gore'? 🤔 sure, okay. Played a lot of rodent games, and…

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Der Sessionplan des barcamp Stuttgart
Tag2 Sonntag
#bcs #2025 #Stuttgart

NFL Week 17 injury report: Player statuses for all 16 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-17-injury-report-player-statuses-for-all-16-games

Studies showing that "AI" isn't creating the productivity gains that "AI" boosters promised are important but I think that they sadly don't help us win as much as some believe. We're winning at the wrong game:
https://tante.cc/2026/01/25/winning-the-wrong-g…

Winning the wrong game
With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra work created for the rest of the organization by one person using “AI” lowering their work quality) eats up a lot of what might have […]

Fediverseの初投稿？
これかな。
QT: https://mstdn.jp/@noellabo/1723319

Nvidia says it is "delighted by Google's success" and it has "made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google", but "Nvidia is a generation ahead" (@nvidianewsroom)
https://x.com/nvidianewsroom/status/1993364210948936055

NVIDIA Newsroom (@nvidianewsroom) on X
We’re delighted by Google’s success — they’ve made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google. NVIDIA is a generation ahead of the industry — it’s the only platform that runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done. NVIDIA offers greater