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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 04/10/2026

Basically, the bet board in Cabin in the Woods:

Screenshot of the movie Cabin in the Woods, where the characters are looking at a giant whiteboard of all the possible demises their victims could suffer. *Spoiler alert* by the end of the film, all of the creatures have escaped and killed everyone on-screen.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 25/09/2026

I'm so old... I think the last game I put any serious time into was Portal 2 💀

A grid of 9 PC games, mostly from the 1980s and 90s. The most recent is from 2004.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 23/09/2026

Most Canadian experience: opening your garage door to leave for work and there's a moose on the driveway...

Photo of a city residential street with two houses and driveways visible. In front of one house's lawn, there isa moose, approximately six feet tall, walking with an extreme absence of chalance, down the right side of the street.

The moose is now moving at a slightly faster pace down the neighbourhood street, as if embarrassed to be caught out in the suburbs.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 07/09/2026

"Women aren’t resisting AI—they’re recognizing risks that many organizations have yet to address." "Women’s concerns should not be dismissed; they offer valuable insight into the risks AI can create without sufficient safeguards." Reasonable responses to AI. www.fastcompany.com/91584377/wom...

These biases stem from how AI works. LLMs do not generate new knowledge. Instead, they predict each word fragment based on enormous collections of preexisting text, prioritizing linguistic fluency. Because datasets often reflect historical and societal biases, AI can reproduce and amplify them. While an AI sentence may be well written and sound confident, it may be factually incorrect and perpetuate stereotypes.

Beyond bias, the risks of AI are not evenly distributed. Privacy is one example. Because generative AI systems can retain user inputs, it is often unclear what information is stored, how it may be used, or how to prevent one’s data from training the AI model. That uncertainty can make sharing sensitive information feel risky. These concerns are reflected in how women use AI. Survey research has found that women are significantly less interested than men in relying on generative AI for personal matters like finances, relationships, or health, suggesting they are more sensitive to entrusting AI to handle deeply personal information.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 08/08/2026

Finally got around to reading @emilytesh.net 's Some Desperate Glory & now I know why everyone was raving over it. I was expecting a mature version of Sanderson's "Skyward" series, but it's much more. What is the cost of personal choice? What if you had a chance to undo your worst mistake? So good!

Cover of the novel "Some Desperate Glory" by Emily Tesh.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 07/08/2026

On RFK Jr's new cooking show: "a rich person’s solution to a poor person’s problem" where $18 portions somehow come out to $4.91 a person when you exclude all the incidental purchases needed to actually make the food. wapo.st/4z16hjL 🎁

But there’s something that feels slightly off with the assumption baked into the premise of this show. The assumption is that typical Americans don’t eat healthily because they don’t know how — because they don’t know that salmon is a smarter choice than a Happy Meal, or that a salad with a squeeze of lemon juice is lower-calorie than a bucket of ranch.

People do know this, though. And people who have to budget their groceries are often ingenious cooks, creative and resourceful, finding ways to stretch odds and ends into sustenance and joy.

It’s not that recipes are “overly intellectual.” It’s often the fact that food is 33 percent more expensive than it was seven years ago

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 01/08/2026

Finally made one of B. Dylan Hollis' recipes. IT WAS AMAZING! vt.tiktok.com/ZS4r7dfLU/

Ice cream "bar", copied from Dairy Queen's Buster Bar. Crust is crushed Oreos and melted butter. Filling is vanilla ice cream and salted peanuts. Topping is butter, evaporated milk, icing sugar and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 30/07/2026

Renewed my driver's license for another 5 years. Apparently, I should check my attic for a slowly decaying portrait or something. This year's photo on the left, July 2021 on the right...

Two cropped driver's license photos, taken 5 years apart, but functionally identical.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 18/07/2026

This one specifically? Because in the art of investigation, this is hard to beat:

Batman Forever (1995)

Bruce Wayne: "We're 5 little items of an everyday sort. You'll find us all in a tennis court". In... A-E-I-O-U. Vowels.

Alfred Pennyworth: Not entirely unclever, sir, but what do a clock, a match, chess pawns, and vowels have in common? What do these riddles mean?

Bruce Wayne: Every riddle has a number in the question and they arrived at this order: 13, 1, 8, and 5.

Alfred Pennyworth: 13, 1, 8, and 5. What do they mean?

Bruce Wayne: Perhaps letters of the alphabet?

Alfred Pennyworth: Of course, 13 is M.

Bruce Wayne: 1 would be A, 8 would be H, and 5 would be E.

Alfred Pennyworth: M-A-H-E.

Bruce Wayne: Perhaps 1 and 8 are 18.

Alfred Pennyworth: 18 is R. M-R-E.

Bruce Wayne: How about Mr. E.?

Alfred Pennyworth: Mystery.

Bruce Wayne: And another name for mystery?

Alfred Pennyworth: Enigma.

Bruce Wayne: Mr. E. Nygma. Edward Nygma. Stickley's suicide was obviously a computer-generated forgery.

Alfred Pennyworth: You really are quite bright, despite what people say.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112462/quotes?item=qt0400745

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 17/07/2026

I thought this would be an appropriate shirt to wear to go see The Odyssey today 😁

A white man standing outside, wearing a blue shirt. On the shirt, two Mon Calamari from the Star Wars franchise, dressed in Greek-style clothing and armour, are looking at a giant floating horse that is styled like a stormtrooper.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 11/07/2026

I'm more than a little bothered that my shipping list app automatically classified corn on the cob as a medical product...

Shopping list divided into sections like deli, condiments, produce, etc. Under "medical products", the app has put "corn on the cob".

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 25/06/2026

Time for our annual last day of school ice cream meal!

Eggo waffles topped with vanilla ice cream, sliced strawberries, caramel, strawberry and chocolate syrup, and whipped cream.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 17/06/2026

Lynn Johnson had another name for it...

Lynn Johnson's For Better or For Worse comic in three panels:
1. Mother standing over daughter eating at a table.
Mom: Elizabeth, you've made an awful mess with your lunch!
Daughter: No, I didn't!
2. Mom, pointing to mess of food under the table.
Mom: Well... what do you call that?
3. Daughter smiling back at Mom.
Daughter: Leftunders?

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 14/05/2026

So do gen-X'ers use desktops and Boomers use mainframes? I mean, having six browser windows open side by side to do comparison shopping is pretty nice...

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 25/04/2026

The most recent meme in your camera roll (or Downloads folder) describes your current mental state.

A drawing of a guillotine with the text "Don't get mad, get carpentry" superimposed.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 22/04/2026

That's definitely easier to deal with than what my search result turned up!

Panels of fencing made of at least inch-diametre metal bars.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 20/04/2026

I randomly opened my hood one winter day and found a kitten sitting on my engine. Took about 30 minutes of chasing him around the parking lot, but got him into my car (it was cold out) and dropped off at the SPCA.

Black cat sitting next to the headrest of the rear seat of a vehicle.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 20/04/2026

I miss the annual NaNoWriMo posters - great art from fantastic artists... I bought one every year, but I've had only the 2023 one up on my wall for a while now... 😢

This is a screengrab of a video I made in 2015 showing a few of my NaNoWriMo posters on a wall in my classroom.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 02/04/2026

125 points out of a possible 138 is my best #2026MMM result ever! I only got 8 battles wrong across the whole tournament 😁

March Mammal Madness tournament bracket showing wins and losses.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 24/02/2026

Showed my kids The Cutting Edge l last night, after the Olympic closing ceremony. For a 90s sports romantic comedy, it holds up pretty well. I had a chuckle when I saw the screenwriter was Tony Gilroy, whose more recent credits include Rogue One and Andor.

Cover image from the film The Cutting Edge, featuring Moira Kelly as a spoiled figure skater and D.B. Sweeney as a washed out hockey player, who come together after each has a disastrous turn at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, to try to turn things around in Albertville.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 23/02/2026

Hmm.... 🤔 Could go either way...

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 31/10/2025

I actually hope this map was AI-generated because if a human was involved in its creation...

A map with Alberta, Canada prominently highlighted. To its west are, apparently, British Columbia (correct) and Montana (incorrect) and to its east is Northwest Territories (incorrect since the formation of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905). There is also a province/state level label that says Medicine Hat, which is a small city in Alberta. The placement of the cities and lakes appears random. The caption below the image says "Saskatchewan".

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 12/10/2025

Excuse me, miss... I believe I ordered the large carrot? Hello!

Photo of a very large carrot next to a Coke bottle. The carrot is longer than the bottle and nearly as wide.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 10/08/2025

The only other one I have...

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 10/08/2025

Not really a meme, but I thought it was funny...

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 20/06/2025

So... we were rewatching the first Thor movie and...

A photo collage of Thor, Loki, Jane Foster and Darcy from the MCU Thor movies, labelled as Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff respectively.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 16/05/2025

New ink from www.instagram.com/pinkcilantro/ ! This is the first time I've commissioned a piece especially for me. I saw Irang's work at the Saskatoon Tattoo expo and loved her style, and wanted a music-related tattoo that popped, and did she ever deliver! #tattoo #colourtattoo #musictattoo

Stages of tattoo process, from stencil to linework to colour fill for a forearm tattoo with a microphone, bass guitar, keyboard and music notes all done in a bright, colourful style.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 08/05/2025

¡Mil novecientos días de español!

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 12/04/2025

Blue Jays have a home run jacket

Blue Jays player Daulton Varsho puts on the celebratory home run jacket before entering the dugout.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 05/04/2025

This is quite the juxtaposition. Which story gets prominence?

Screenshot of the Washington Post app front page, where a story titled "She marched against Trump in 2017. Now, she says, ‘just let it all burn.'" has significantly larger text and a feature photo, above a smaller headline for a story titled "D.C. rally larger than expected as Trump protests emerge across U.S."

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 26/03/2025

I will always take the opportunity to share this...

Tweet from Rick Lee James "AI created image from the phrase, 'Jesus flipping over the table in the temple. '"
Image is a man in white robes doing a flip over a table covered in a red cloth.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 24/03/2025

Quote-post with what Jeffrey Goldberg should've dropped in the chat before leaving.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 13/03/2025

If Canada is serious about putting the hurt on Trump & his enablers to push back against his made-up-on-the-fly tariffs, we should be implementing Cory Doctorow's ( @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy ) suggestion, detailed at pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/u... Make Canada a haven for disenshittification!

Abolish the Canadian laws that protect US Big Tech companies from Canadian competition. Make it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak and modify American technology products and services. Don't ask Facebook to pay a link tax to Canadian newspapers, make it legal to jailbreak all of Meta's apps and block all the ads in them, so Mark Zuckerberg doesn't make a dime off of us.

Make it legal for Canadian mechanics to jailbreak your Tesla and unlock every subscription feature, like autopilot and full access to your battery, for one price, forever. So you get more out of your car, and when you sell it, the next owner continues to enjoy those features, meaning they'll pay more for your used car.

That's how you hurt Elon Musk: not by being performatively appalled at his Nazi salutes. That doesn't cost him a dime. He loves the attention. No! Strike at the rent-extracting, insanely high-margin aftermarket subscriptions he relies on for his Swastikar business.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 26/02/2025

Good to know some news outlets are getting it right. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-su...

Trump also brought up his idea that Canada should become America’s “51st state,” an aggressively stupid threat against a long-time ally. The president also made the ridiculous claim that the European Union “was formed to screw the United States.”

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 24/01/2025

Can I speak Spanish? Un poco...

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