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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 18h

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

Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 18h

Canada. Eating all the candy tonight.

Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 1d

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

Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 1d

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. arriving with *this* vibe 💯 Wearing the jersey of 3x Olympic hockey gold-medalist Marie-Philip Poulin.

📷 Screengrab from Sportsnet
#WorldSeries

Screenshot of a collage of two photos, the top showing the front and the bottom the back. A baseball player is wearing a team Canada hockey jersey with the name Poulin and number 29 on it.
Text across the image: VLADDY JR. ARRIVES FOR GAME 7 IN MARIE-PHILIP POULIN JERSEY

Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Article excerpt mounted on a poster board at Munro & Associates entitled "Innovation Strikes! In-Car Microwave Now Available" by Edward Niedermeyer

Stripped down Tesla chassis with hand writing on the metal frame that reads "Too Many Parts".

Silver compact car with green and blue decals and Protean In-Wheel Electric Motor labels parked on a runway in front of an old airport terminal.

Photo of me, in a blue jacket and smiling while holding a joystick controller in the backseat of a mini-van.

Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 1d

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Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator.bsky.social · Jun 29

Ed Fredkin has died (twitter.com)

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 1d

Experts-make-dumb-decisions and rich-people-look-fake should not be controversial to anyone alive in 2025.

Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 1d

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.

hucksgiving @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

it’s messy even by Lindelof standards and the number of allegedly smart people who do dumb things is almost fatal, but big questions about God wrapped in a backdoor Alien movie is irresistible to me, i fear. looks great, good action, kinda gross, kinda hot, gorgeous score. i’m a prometheus enjoyer.

houston-og.bsky.social @houston-og.bsky.social · 1d

Such a good movie

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 2d

"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.

No corner coffee shops: Toronto committee waters down neighbourhood retail plan

It’s the second time in less than a year councillors balked at allowing certain businesses to open on some residential streets

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Todd Rafferty @webrat.io · 2d

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

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is a good assessment of all-purpose GPT chatbots, but points to where we need more nuance to describe tools using AI, LLMs, etc. It's certainly possible to create hybrid models that are limited to providing validated, accurate answers in a domain. But an all-purpose chatbot isn't that.

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Cedric @cedricrichards.bsky.social · 3d

BALL GAME

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 4d

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

PUBLIC ENEMY "The Hits Just Keep On Comin" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

YouTube video by Channel ZERO

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 4d

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

Bleach might be my second choice, but this one literally can't be duplicated:

Cover of the Beastie Boys' album Paul's Boutique, a photo of a garment store that's Paul's Boutique, and they're in Brooklyn.

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 5d

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

Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 9d

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Trekkies are and always have been men. Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that’s doubly true of Star Trek in particular.

I hear you, random guy who once knew some lady who watched every Voyager episode. I see you on Instagram, attractive girl cosplaying in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you very cool Trek-girls are the exception, not the rule.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8d

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

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 9d

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 7d

a cartoon of homer simpson driving a green car

Alt: Cartoon of the unveiling of the ugly green car that Homer Simpson designed covered in contraptions and rotating on a platform.

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 7d

Tesla unveiled an aggressive 'Mad Max' setting for its Full Self-Driving system even as it stared down wrongful death lawsuits and regulatory probes.

Tesla's New 'Mad Max' Self-Driving Mode Keeps Blowing Speed Limits

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 7d

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

Douglas Soltys @trondizzle.bsky.social · 7d

On a recent podcast about BBM, The Verge's @reckless.bsky.social correctly summarized BlackBerry as a company built on navigating technical constraints.

For the newsletter, I wrote a few words about why Gen Z is looking for new constraints in their tech use. betakit.com/gen-z-wants-...

Gen Z wants BlackBerry back. Why?

A few weeks back, a bunch of gadget heads descended upon a Brooklyn café to kick off the campaign to Bring Back BlackBerry.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 7d

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 💪🏻

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Joel Adams @joelcadams.bsky.social · 7d

Kah dah boh-bay.

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