Canadians: vote!

They’re not joking: Long lines at polling stations as Canadians turn up for advance voting | CBC News. I arrived at 8:55 AM, five minutes before voting even opened, and the line was already out the door. It moved fairly quickly, but the entire process still took over an hour. And the line kept growing as people continued to arrive. If you’re hoping to vote, be ready for that! Also: vote anyway! As for accessibility, I chose to go with a family member to assist me this time. While the Braille version was available and offered, my riding is one where a protest group has chosen to make the printed version over a meter long. I dread to think what the Braille template would be like! I also didn’t want to hold up the long line by figuring it out. The person helping me unfortunately had to complete a lengthy form, so I’m not sure that process was any faster. But the workers were well trained, and knew what needed to happen; glad to see the training continue to improve!

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Review: The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG by Icalos

A positive review, recommending it to readers who enjoy litRPG or dungeon core especially.

You should have been warned by the name: "stuff" is a perfectly accurate representation of what this is. Thus far, we've had a review of a router, articles about AI, and thoughts on accessibility. There's probably a review of a meet thermometer coming up in the near future; obviously, the key to gaining readers is to publish random articles on subject matter so diverse that nobody in the world could care about all of it.

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Can AI help me read scans of golden-age science fiction magazines?

I try multiple AI tools to attempt to get an accurately transcribed and formatted version of the Astounding Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy from 1955. This stream of consciousness article documents how it went.

I've always loved golden-age pulp science fiction. Unfortunately, the scans of magazines like astounding are generally of poor enough quality that standard OCR struggles with them.

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