Shawn Adamsson
@adamsson.ca
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Passionate. Strong opinions, loosely held (trying anyway). Waking up. Nerd. Reader. Meditator. Walker. Having a mid-life love affair with classical music. #ldnont
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I think AI could, in principle, be ethical and a force for good. It could be used to assist and empower people in ways that are responsive their needs and wishes. But as it's currently owned, developed, employed, and promoted, well, this is spot on.
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Today's announcement on the CRA moving closer to the option of auto-filing is a great excuse to post one of my all-time favourite shorts.
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That made it less likely for me to buy the book. Hopefully some of the other chapters reverse that.
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Telus: We're helping to reduce our collective carbon footprint by investing in … sustainable business practices. Let's make our planet healthier.

Also Telus: We DGAF if you don’t want them and they will sit, unopened, on a shelf for two years, you will take these two new cell phones, or no deal.
several cell phones are being charged on a wooden stool by a person 's hands
ALT: several cell phones are being charged on a wooden stool by a person 's hands
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9000km down. 1795km to go.
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Is Threads still a thing?
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Please make a version for pedestrians. :-)
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I got radicalized by sh*t a lot less rage-inducing than this.
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Finally biting into my very first @richardkadrey.bsky.social book! (166/185)
Novel cover for Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey.
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That works for one book, how do I suspend all holds though? It used to be a feature but I don’t see it anymore.
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In spite of hearing it a million times over a lifetime, I never really let the whole “you can choose your attitude” thing sink in. So often in life, we add suffering into the mix ourselves. Gotta do it, may as well find some joy in it.
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I’d love to know the demographics of the not-adults. I’m a child-free, GenX, hetero, white, healthy, middle-class, male - basically as privileged as they come - and definitely feel like part of the not-adult camp. While not without personal struggles, mine are trivial when compared to the majority.
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Make space and pay close attention to where your mind goes when it’s not distracted. Make course corrections as required.
Treat your future self as you would your most beloved friends or family.
*Everything* fades away, so enjoy the now.
Read. Move. Stretch. Savour.
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@lpl.ca How do I suspend all my holds in Libby?
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doctorvive.bsky.social
Until people in the climate movement very publicly stop eating meat and flying, we're not going to seem trustworthy.

I will die on this hill.
davidho.bsky.social
Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.
The climate movement’s biggest weakness
What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.
www.vox.com
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
defenddemocracy.bsky.social
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
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“Economics is like astrology … except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.”

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
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Today is a perfect July day in #ldnont. Too bad it is October & 10 degrees above normal. You & I caused the #ClimateCrisis. For the sake of our children & the species all around us, we need to turn our attention to fixing it. Don’t saddle our kids with these burdens.
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kellyscaletta.bsky.social
Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.
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And Se7en for this.
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internethippo.bsky.social
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
In a new paper, we find that sycophantic #AI chatbots make people more extreme--operating like an echo chamber

Yet, people prefer sycophantic chatbots and see them as less biased

Only open-minded people prefer disagreeable chatbots: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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