Andy Roddick
@aroddick.bsky.social
Associate prof @ McMaster; Andean Archaeologist; Bolivia; Dad; Photographer; Cyclist, Music. [email protected] Opinions mine not of my employer.
Les enfants. A few recent ones with the Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Les enfants. A few recent ones with the Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm
Elbows up and all that, amiright?
1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.
January 24, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Elbows up and all that, amiright?
Do it.
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Do it.
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1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.
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When the camera turns a corner at the 30-second mark & you see how far back the wave of people goes ❄️❤️
January 24, 2026 at 12:21 AM
When the camera turns a corner at the 30-second mark & you see how far back the wave of people goes ❄️❤️
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NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis goes after AI data centres.
Lewis calls for a pause on data centre construction
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Lewis calls for a pause on data centre construction
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis calls for a pause on data centre construction | CBC News
NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis is calling for a moratorium on data centres along with other measures in a bid to rein in emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies that he says are...
www.cbc.ca
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis goes after AI data centres.
Lewis calls for a pause on data centre construction
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Lewis calls for a pause on data centre construction
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
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Interesting to see Carney reference “dispossession” of Indigenous peoples and the “violation” of treaties as some First Nations (and their lawyers) wait to see whether Canada will appeal a ruling that handed a major victory to First Nations. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Praising ‘co-existence,’ Mark Carney says Canada can show the world ‘another way is possible’
The prime minister spoke directly to Canadians on Thursday in a wide-ranging address that served as a clarion call for national unity.
www.thestar.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Interesting to see Carney reference “dispossession” of Indigenous peoples and the “violation” of treaties as some First Nations (and their lawyers) wait to see whether Canada will appeal a ruling that handed a major victory to First Nations. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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‘Keep Carleton Human’: Carleton University staff rallies to push for protections from A.I.
‘Keep Carleton Human’: Carleton University staff rallies to push for protections from A.I.
At Carleton University, CUPE 4600 -— the union representing Teachers Assistants, Research Assistants, and Contract Instructors — held the ‘Keep Carleton Human’ rally on Thursday, fighting for clear-cut rules on how A.I. should be used going forward, as ongoing contract talks linger with the school.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 11:30 PM
‘Keep Carleton Human’: Carleton University staff rallies to push for protections from A.I.
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Great piece & 🧵 from the always excellent @alanbeattie.bsky.social. For all Carney's lofty rhetoric about the liberal order, his rhetoric on the home front & 🇨🇦's own policies are an awful lot of bog standard mercantilism. Everything is domestic politics, etc. etc.
January 22, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Great piece & 🧵 from the always excellent @alanbeattie.bsky.social. For all Carney's lofty rhetoric about the liberal order, his rhetoric on the home front & 🇨🇦's own policies are an awful lot of bog standard mercantilism. Everything is domestic politics, etc. etc.
Funniest thing I’ve read in a while. But I don’t think I was supposed to be laughing. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Funniest thing I’ve read in a while. But I don’t think I was supposed to be laughing. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Doing my part in my classes tomorrow.
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Doing my part in my classes tomorrow.
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Or the CPPIB investing pension $ into Musks' xAI, or buying military gear from the US, or allowing US companies & gov't access to our rare earth minerals, etc.
January 20, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Or the CPPIB investing pension $ into Musks' xAI, or buying military gear from the US, or allowing US companies & gov't access to our rare earth minerals, etc.
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Trying to reconcile Mark Carney's Elbows Up II speech with his government's continuing insistence that there's no problem including US tech companies as part of a Canadian sovereign cloud initiative.
January 20, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Trying to reconcile Mark Carney's Elbows Up II speech with his government's continuing insistence that there's no problem including US tech companies as part of a Canadian sovereign cloud initiative.
York 🏴 trains 📷Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm
January 22, 2026 at 12:10 AM
York 🏴 trains 📷Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm
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My skepticism regarding Carney’s speech is rooted in the observation that he’s failed to do the small things that would signal resolve to actually move away from the US, particularly expanding regulatory & statistical capacity. Instead, he’s actually doing the opposite. Is he going to reverse that?
January 21, 2026 at 11:11 AM
My skepticism regarding Carney’s speech is rooted in the observation that he’s failed to do the small things that would signal resolve to actually move away from the US, particularly expanding regulatory & statistical capacity. Instead, he’s actually doing the opposite. Is he going to reverse that?
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Carney is gutting the areas — global affairs, Statistics Canada — that are absolutely essential to creating the Canadian resilience he claims to seek.
I’m not asking for miracles. I’m looking for him to pay attention to the basics that would actually lay the groundwork for his professed vision.
I’m not asking for miracles. I’m looking for him to pay attention to the basics that would actually lay the groundwork for his professed vision.
He’s expanding our military. Updating our systems. And so on and so forth.
I don’t know what you expected. Miracles? To pretend we have power we do NOT have and bluster and fight a battle we aren’t ready for?
I don’t know what you expected. Miracles? To pretend we have power we do NOT have and bluster and fight a battle we aren’t ready for?
January 21, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Carney is gutting the areas — global affairs, Statistics Canada — that are absolutely essential to creating the Canadian resilience he claims to seek.
I’m not asking for miracles. I’m looking for him to pay attention to the basics that would actually lay the groundwork for his professed vision.
I’m not asking for miracles. I’m looking for him to pay attention to the basics that would actually lay the groundwork for his professed vision.
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Carney's speech begins by criticizing countries that "go along to get along." Even though that's been exactly his strategy from day one: do as little as possible to anger Trump to avoid any economic retaliation.
January 21, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Carney's speech begins by criticizing countries that "go along to get along." Even though that's been exactly his strategy from day one: do as little as possible to anger Trump to avoid any economic retaliation.
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If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%
January 21, 2026 at 3:32 PM
If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%
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I would be more impressed with this speech if his domestic economic policies weren't marching in lockstep with the very neoliberal priorities that created the very destabilizing crises he's referring to.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I would be more impressed with this speech if his domestic economic policies weren't marching in lockstep with the very neoliberal priorities that created the very destabilizing crises he's referring to.
Well now… the pretentious shite of our discipline will continue hand in hand with AI shite… perfect.
Storied anthropology journal announces "AI" translation initiative (picture... related???)
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Well now… the pretentious shite of our discipline will continue hand in hand with AI shite… perfect.
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Alarmists say the emperor is building a “Death Star”. Even if he wanted to, I’m sure he’d be stopped by the Imperial Senate.
January 20, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Alarmists say the emperor is building a “Death Star”. Even if he wanted to, I’m sure he’d be stopped by the Imperial Senate.
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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What Europe and Canada need to do, months later than they should have done, is decide how to deal with a US that's an adversary not an ally, that has a predatory approach to them, and that can't be negotiated with in good faith. It's encouraging that France, at least, seems to understand this.
January 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
What Europe and Canada need to do, months later than they should have done, is decide how to deal with a US that's an adversary not an ally, that has a predatory approach to them, and that can't be negotiated with in good faith. It's encouraging that France, at least, seems to understand this.