A neat trick for identifying exaggerated or nonsense AI opinions (both pro and con) is to replace the word "AI" (or "LLM", etc.) with a previous software advance, like "relational database" or "GUI".

How many hours do we turn the clocks back to? 1993?

Canada. Eating all the candy tonight.

❤️ 🇨🇦 Canada! 🇨🇦 ❤️ #OkayBlueJays #LetsPlayBall

Innovation trip to Detroit, 7 years ago: me driving a car from the backseat, testing EV prototypes on a runway, reviewing a Tesla teardown, and a @niedermeyer.online (article) sighting! All related to my work building autonomous and electric RVs.

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Also a Prometheus enjoyer. I've come to accept/delight in the bewilderingly bad decisions, uncanny make-up, etc. as deliberate artistic choices, like the absurdity of book dealers carelessly smoking while handling rare books in the Ninth Gate.

Literally* every top neighbourhood list is dominated by places with residential (main floors) converted into cafes, shops, restaurants, salons, pubs, corner stores, galleries, etc. Often retaining living spaces upstairs. It's almost a defining characteristic. *Like, actually, literally.

Need to update Toronto's Short-Term Rentals By-Law for lodged balls. www.toronto.ca/community-pe...

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," Dr. Who," or "Transformers."

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

BALL GAME

Whatcha got? You GOT to do something! #justdropped @flavorflav.bsky.social youtu.be/iX6Lg8NwdWU?...

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year. Bleach might be my second choice, but this one literally can't be duplicated:

I take solace in the many-worlds interpretation...

I'm old enough to remember when social media wasn't just jokes about how long this game is years old. #bluejays #worldseries

If you don't know that women routinely make up 40-50%+ of Sci-Fi/Fantasy fans (including Star Trek), and viewership of major sports (NFL, NASCAR, etc.), then congratulations, you either live in your own make-believe world or are a time traveller from the 1940s.

I’m not a Trekkie but I’ve done enough basic research into the Star Trek fandom to know women basically invented it, and are why the show even continued to exist. This kind of writing is part of institutional sexism that denies women’s accomplishments and role in history and it infuriates me

I was once asked how cities should respond to businesses developing autonomous vehicles. My answer: don't ask industry for guidance, and start by imagining (and designing) roads/systems where every vehicle follows the rules. But cities have to make that choice.

I call this "the myth of out of the box thinking". Innovation thrives on constraints.

If you live in Ontario, we're privileged to still have free access to flu vaccines & Covid boosters. Get them! I just did! Immunocompromised/high risk can go now & everyone else can book now for appointments after Oct 28! Get them ASAP & you'll help make the holiday season safer for everyone 💪🏻

day 2: dodger stadium's 16,000-spot parking lot is so huge, it could fit ~10 more dodger stadiums in its place. a monument to socal's asphalt addiction more than to baseball. meanwhile in toronto, an actual walkable, bustling city exists around the stadium

Sources and links in thread. Just another reminder that Fall is flu and COVID vaccine booster season for EVERYONE.

Toronto Blue Jays pummel Los Angeles Dodgers with 9-run inning and win World Series opener 11-4.

Happy United Nations Day! Happy Blue Jays World Series Opening Win Day! Happy Sushi Friday! Happy Me!

Why people don't trust the press, example #5488. ♦️These 3 posts report exactly the same news. A reasonable reader would draw 3 completely different conclusions from them. ♦️Headlines (which I used to write) & social media posts are the only part of a story most people see. Editors are failing.

The Nobel Committee has awarded this year's peace prize to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/p

It's pronounced 'TROLL-ing'.

Was watching Silicon Valley and they’re using raspberry pi zeros as whiteboard magnets lol

Good news for eating milk chocolate.

Confederates in London, Ontario: an ugly hidden past and a bi-racial US group visiting #ldnont to explore their shared history. lfpress.com/news/local-n...

In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Automated Insipidity.

Today, Sept. 30, we observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR). This day is dedicated to honouring the children who never made it home and the Survivors of residential schools. It also serves to raise awareness about the intergenerational impacts of these experiences.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

What if the rapture happened but no one qualified?

Before Richard, Beliveau or Lafleur, there was Howie Morenz. He was the first superstar of the Montreal Canadiens. But then a freak accident on the ice ended his career and, eventually, his life. This is the story of the Stratford Streak. 🧵 1/12

There can be beauty in smaller follower counts. After @lfpress.com.web.brid.gy became the first newspaper with judicial permission to live tweet a trial their average follower followed only them. On @bsky.app, niche starter packs can build intimate, curated communities without noise.

11 September 1924 | Slovak Jew, Rudolf Vrba (b. Walter Rosenberg), was born in Topoľčany. On 15 June 1942, he was deported to Majdanek, from where, after a few weeks, he was transferred to Auschwitz. No. 44070 On 7 April 1944, he escaped from #Auschwitz together with Alfred Wetzler.

This is a beautiful way to think about it

Completed @julieslalonde.bsky.social's Bystander Intervention webinar over lunch. Everyone should take this anti-harassment training. EVERYONE (there are even versions for kids). Particularly important for allies who may not be the typical target of harassment. We can all make a difference.

The danger from AI is not sentience, or AI slop, it's AI drip. As long as firms optimize chatbots for engagement (drip, drip, drip...), AI will destroy personal and professional efficiency, productivity, and autonomy...by design. Individuals and businesses need controls to optimize for us, not them.

Eels!

Graham Greene, a trailblazing Indigenous actor whose long and successful career on the big and small screen included an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Kicking Bird in "Dances with Wolves," has died.

Exhibit A in future case study in how disruption actually operates.

The content I'm here for.

I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.

Ready! #Stroganoff

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