Ezekiel Williams
@ezekielwilliams.bsky.social
Math, Neuroscience, AI. PhD candidate at Mila and University of Montreal; also writes music and dreams of post-growth economies 🧠🪴🇵🇸 Website: https://computationalcognition.ca/author/
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1/7: Super excited to share our new paper! This one should be of interest to neuroscientists and deep learning theory folks. This paper was a collaboration with Alexandre Payeur, @averyryoo.bsky.social, Thomas Jiralerspong, @mattperich.bsky.social, Luca Mazzucato, @glajoie.bsky.social
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feeling a need to reread this in advance of tomorrow, for some reason.
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Financial risks of carbon capture and storage in Canada: Concerns about the Pathways Project and Public Energy Policy
A plan to capture CO2 from 13 oil sand processing facilities and store it in Alberta is threatened by cost challenges.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
feeling a need to reread this in advance of tomorrow, for some reason.
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I'm anxious about being in Hawaiʻi and I just realized why. In Honolulu, where a car is needed to get around, I often agonize about when to go out so I'm not stuck in traffic. In London or Paris, I just go because I cycle everywhere and cars on the road don't impact my travel times. #CarsRuinCities
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'm anxious about being in Hawaiʻi and I just realized why. In Honolulu, where a car is needed to get around, I often agonize about when to go out so I'm not stuck in traffic. In London or Paris, I just go because I cycle everywhere and cars on the road don't impact my travel times. #CarsRuinCities
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Incredible……
Colombia declares its entire Amazon Biome off limits to mining & oil extraction.
Colombia declares its entire Amazon Biome off limits to mining & oil extraction.
Colombia Declares Its Entire Amazon Region Off-Limits to Mining and Oil Extraction
At COP30, Colombia's Minister of the Environment announced that the entire Amazon region would be declared free of mining and oil extraction.
colombiaone.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Incredible……
Colombia declares its entire Amazon Biome off limits to mining & oil extraction.
Colombia declares its entire Amazon Biome off limits to mining & oil extraction.
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Reminder if you missed #SNUFA spiking neural network and neuromorphic workshop earlier this month, all our talks were recorded and are now available to watch. 🤖🧠🧪
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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SNUFA 2025 Workshop - YouTube
Spiking neural networks as universal function approximators (SNUFA) online workshop 2025. For more see http://snufa.net/2025/
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November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reminder if you missed #SNUFA spiking neural network and neuromorphic workshop earlier this month, all our talks were recorded and are now available to watch. 🤖🧠🧪
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Half your brain cells are astrocytes, oscillating and modulating activity without spiking, while cortical neurons spike sparsely. So nearly 100% of cells are oscillating almost all the time, but only a minority of cells emit rare spikes. Maybe spikes are the tail and oscillations are the dog.
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Half your brain cells are astrocytes, oscillating and modulating activity without spiking, while cortical neurons spike sparsely. So nearly 100% of cells are oscillating almost all the time, but only a minority of cells emit rare spikes. Maybe spikes are the tail and oscillations are the dog.
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This monster also promoted the invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and created mass child malnutrition.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This monster also promoted the invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and created mass child malnutrition.
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#BREAKING | The israeli deportation of Palestinian families from Jerusalem to Gaza in an attempt to alter the demographic population constitutes a war crime, UN reports
UN report: Israel’s transfers of Palestinians in West Bank may constitute “war crimes”
A recent report issued by the UN Secretary-General has said that Israel’s forced transfer and relocation of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, is continuously altering t...
english.palinfo.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#BREAKING | The israeli deportation of Palestinian families from Jerusalem to Gaza in an attempt to alter the demographic population constitutes a war crime, UN reports
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Following today's political developments I realized there is a disturbing neuro-AI connection to Epstein: apparently Minsky--famed for work on the perceptron--attended Epstein's island and was accused by one of Epstein's victims of r**ing her. Discussed here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_...
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Following today's political developments I realized there is a disturbing neuro-AI connection to Epstein: apparently Minsky--famed for work on the perceptron--attended Epstein's island and was accused by one of Epstein's victims of r**ing her. Discussed here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_...
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If Carney does not announce legislation to close this loophole and confirm that the sales have stopped under his leadership then his Remembrance Day isn’t worth the screen it’s shown on.
Canada’s Arms-to-Israel Scandal Explained
A timeline of Canada’s exports to Israel and the Liberal government’s attempts to make the scandal disappear.
www.readthemaple.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If Carney does not announce legislation to close this loophole and confirm that the sales have stopped under his leadership then his Remembrance Day isn’t worth the screen it’s shown on.
Canadians are waking up to the reality that the new Carney government seems more interested in enriching MAGA billionaires than making good on the "elbow's up" promises that they campaigned on. The Juice Media nicely illustrates this with Ksi Lisims
Friends, can I ask a favour.
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
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Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
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November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Canadians are waking up to the reality that the new Carney government seems more interested in enriching MAGA billionaires than making good on the "elbow's up" promises that they campaigned on. The Juice Media nicely illustrates this with Ksi Lisims
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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
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Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist whose meteoric rise captivated NewYorkCity, beat out former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to become city's next mayor, NBC News projects.
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist whose meteoric rise captivated NewYorkCity, beat out former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to become city's next mayor, NBC News projects.
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Reminder everyone that #SNUFA is next week! Make sure to register in advance to get emailed the link to join.
Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.)
Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
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Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
🤖🧠🧪
SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder everyone that #SNUFA is next week! Make sure to register in advance to get emailed the link to join.
this is what my life needs
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
this is what my life needs
this is crazy, a wonderful example of corporate capture, and something that people need to fight!!
“Ontario’s [actually Doug Ford’s] plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list. Buried in a new omnibus bill, the latest salvo in Doug Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists.” Via @breachmedia.ca
Money over lives and better mobility.
Money over lives and better mobility.
Ontario’s plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list ⋆ The Breach
Buried in a new omnibus bill, the latest salvo in Doug Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists
breachmedia.ca
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this is crazy, a wonderful example of corporate capture, and something that people need to fight!!
For fellow Montreal peeps: cool event alert for tomorrow act.lewisforleader.ca/rencontrez-a...
Rencontrez Avi Lewis à Montréal ! // Meet Avi Lewis in Montreal! - Lewis for Leader - National
act.lewisforleader.ca
October 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
For fellow Montreal peeps: cool event alert for tomorrow act.lewisforleader.ca/rencontrez-a...
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🚨ALERT! Do you or anyone you know work in tech? 🚨
Amazon Workers for Climate Justice are sounding the alarm on the e-commerce giant’s aggressive rollout of AI and this is your sign to get involved. 🧵
Amazon Workers for Climate Justice are sounding the alarm on the e-commerce giant’s aggressive rollout of AI and this is your sign to get involved. 🧵
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨ALERT! Do you or anyone you know work in tech? 🚨
Amazon Workers for Climate Justice are sounding the alarm on the e-commerce giant’s aggressive rollout of AI and this is your sign to get involved. 🧵
Amazon Workers for Climate Justice are sounding the alarm on the e-commerce giant’s aggressive rollout of AI and this is your sign to get involved. 🧵
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“How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel” in the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
October 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel” in the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
I continue to be horrified by mainstream media bias in covering Israel's genocide. Why are all 20 Israelis "hostages", when 3 are soldiers, but thousands of Palestinians held without charge are "prisoners"? Why take for granted that Palestine must disarm but the genocidal Israeli state must not?
"It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of media-ready Palestinian or Palestinian-American guests to choose from, chief among them Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has not appeared on any of the major Sunday news shows since 2019."
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest
In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.
inthesetimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I continue to be horrified by mainstream media bias in covering Israel's genocide. Why are all 20 Israelis "hostages", when 3 are soldiers, but thousands of Palestinians held without charge are "prisoners"? Why take for granted that Palestine must disarm but the genocidal Israeli state must not?
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Once again, these types of openly genocidal comments have been uttered and on the record for decades, but consent must be manufactured by media. There are tide pods to sell and informing the public about the barbarity they support is bad for the news industry.
Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:
"You obviously used them very well."
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
"You obviously used them very well."
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Once again, these types of openly genocidal comments have been uttered and on the record for decades, but consent must be manufactured by media. There are tide pods to sell and informing the public about the barbarity they support is bad for the news industry.
Highly recommend, to my AI research colleagues, the linked paper which we discussed today at the @mila-quebec.bsky.social Critical Science Reading Group. Importantly, it suggests ways that the AI research community can support our artist friends instead of harming them. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
AI Art and its Impact on Artists | Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
dl.acm.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Highly recommend, to my AI research colleagues, the linked paper which we discussed today at the @mila-quebec.bsky.social Critical Science Reading Group. Importantly, it suggests ways that the AI research community can support our artist friends instead of harming them. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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The Global Sumud Flotilla is being intercepted by the Israeli occupation forces in international waters. Pressure your government for the protection of Global Sumud Flotilla
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Global Sumud Flotilla is being intercepted by the Israeli occupation forces in international waters. Pressure your government for the protection of Global Sumud Flotilla
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Just a head’s up that I’ve continued making updates to this guide: most recently, to remove the caveat on Here WeGo for not having CarPlay, adding Citymapper, and a suggestion to try the DVD/Blu-ray section at your local library as a streaming alternative. More to come!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
September 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Just a head’s up that I’ve continued making updates to this guide: most recently, to remove the caveat on Here WeGo for not having CarPlay, adding Citymapper, and a suggestion to try the DVD/Blu-ray section at your local library as a streaming alternative. More to come!