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Catelli

@catelli.bsky.social

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Consumer of beer, smoker of cigars. Camping and cycling IT guy, from Cambridge, Ontario Handle is an old nickname, it means "looked like a wet spaghetti noodle when running down the basketball court"

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · Jun 24

On how the search for AI is the pursuit of a myth. There is no 'there' there but the search itself will cause so much damage.

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AI, The Digital El Dorado

I have come to the conclusion that the search for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a modern quest for a mythical solution with no…

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𝙰𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚗. @asskickerleague.bsky.social · 2h

LOL that’s a lot of data centers

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 6h

a bar that reads top, latest, people, feeds. below it, text reads no results found for people being normal

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 2h

My favourite Twitter moment. Via @debbieohi.com

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New bookish comic, with thanks to @Catelli_NQU for the caption! – Debbie Ridpath Ohi

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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍁 TEAM 🇨🇦 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 6h

Meanwhile in 🇨🇦 The MP from Oklahoma jumps on the bigot bandwagon 😡

No Michelle! Diversity IS our strength 🇨🇦

Tweet from

Michelle Rempel Garner
@MichelleRempel

I just moved this at immigration committee.
Michelle Rempel Garner

Canada must now place restrictions on birthright
citizenship. Here's why.
After a decade of Liberal post national immigration
policies, the responsibilities of Canadian citizenship
need to be restored.
A decade of Liberal mass immigration policy has

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 2h

Be careful when replying with "This is always who we've been." You might be killing all hope for a better future in that individual.

"This isn't who we are. We should be better. That's who I want us to be."

Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 2h

Who I thought we are is a society marching forward in progress.

Now? As I witness the strong pushback against all that was accomplished, and the desire to go back, and to even be worse than it was?

No. That's not who I thought we were. It's not who we should be.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 2h

It's hard to simply express hopes for the reality we wish to have for all in a single pithy sentence.

"This isn't who we are" can be a statement that alludes to that.

I'm thinking of the progress made over my lifetime. Slow, gradual, incomplete, but progress.

Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 2h

The conflict between "This isn't who we are" and "This is always who we've been" I think has an element of optimism or pessimism to it.

"This isn't who we are" sometimes is an expression of "This isn't who I thought we were working to get to, together."

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 2h

Before, mainstream food gatekeepers kept *their* food biases front and centre: basically, if it ain't bland, it's panned.

I blogged about what I ate, global flavours, my learnings, while contributing to a supportive, early SM food community.

I'm now a food writer and radio food columnist.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Cathrin Machin Space Art @cathrinmachin.bsky.social · 3h

Can you help?… I’m trying to find my people

I know there’s more space fans here… just not sure how to reach you

Feels weird to ask, but would you give me a signal boost by hitting share?

If you’re new… Hi I’m Cat, I make pretty picture of space 🥹 let’s connect if you like weird space art

Woman standing next to large artwork on an easel. The painting is of a wormhole with gravitational lensing that shows stars and galaxies are warped around a central point.

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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah. But this one time, I saw a cyclist rolled a top sign...

So we need to control them as they're the real danger to everyone.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 3h

This is what is so frustrating about bike safety blitzes. Drivers are violating laws every damned minute of every day.

And... the blitzes to deal with them are so rare they don't exist.

David Hope @davidhope.ca · 3h

Another day, another #Ottawa driver sailing through a red light. All I can do is wave I guess.

#OttBike

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 4h

I have another video today! It's about old-school video projectors and how amazing they were.

Seriously, not only is it almost unbelievable that this even works, but it's doing full HD video with incredibly good image quality. It's also a royal PITA.

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Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 5h

“As blackmail notes go, this is right up there. Do as I say – risk your government, Canada’s international climate commitments, relations with Indigenous groups, and God knows what else – or we blow up the country.”
🎁

Danielle Smith’s pipeline ransom note to Mark Carney is using Canada as her hostage

Pressing the Prime Minister for a commitment is fair play. But the Alberta Premier’s dramatic ultimatum over a pipeline is unreasonable

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 4h

If we can't ticket them, maybe we can paintball them?

Automated paintball enforcement. Colour and volume of hits indicates speed you were caught doing.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 4h

"Are flashing lights as effective as the cameras?" asks Councillor Lily Cheng.

"We had flashing lights before we had automated speed enforcement. And through the introduction of automated speed enforcement we've seen a much more significant safety improvement," say transportation staff.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 4h

Knowing what your inefficiencies are doesn't help you find the immediate solution. For example, if a known inefficiency is the transit time to cross the US Border due to random customs bullshit, all the AI in the world isn't going to help you find a solution.

The work-arounds are already known.

Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 4h

AI Booster: "AI can help your organization understand its data and smooth operational inefficiencies!"

My reply: "Prove that we don't understand our data now and don't know what the inefficiencies are that we need to tackle."

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 4h

So far, option A). It happens way more than the other one. In my experience so far.

Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 5h

It's always been thus, but this AI push is just really making an emphatic example of how hard it is to navigate the IT solutions space.

Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 5h

"AI" has really emphasized how hard it is for small companies to "right-size" solutions. Vendors constantly over-estimate by ridiculous margins what they think our needs are.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 5h

HP Enterprise is harassing me to talk about their "HPE Private Cloud AI" solution.

Their "Small" solution requires more processing and compute than all of our existing on premise private cloud compute needs that runs the company.

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Rick Barnes Puppies, Retired, GoHabsGo @queerthoughts.bsky.social · 5h

A crisp fall morning here in the #LanarkHighlands.

A decorative concrete bench, under a Maple Leaf sapling, against a backdrop of trees. The lawn is covered with fall leaves. The Sapling's leaves are turning orange, yellow and red.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 5h

Just recalling that as I continuously read how AI companies need unfettered access to all of human creativity and knowledge for free in order to succeed at building their licensed commercial products.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 5h

I remember when software companies would make you attach a physical dongle to your computer, so that you could only use the software you purchased on that one computer. This was their draconian method to prevent "unauthorized use/theft of intellectual property."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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