Joel Adams
@joelcadams.bsky.social
Fake Professor. Neo-regionalist. Gastronaut.
#westernu #ldnont #souwesto #canada
#westernu #ldnont #souwesto #canada
A neat trick for identifying exaggerated or nonsense AI opinions (both pro and con) is to replace the word "AI" (or "LLM", etc.) with a previous software advance, like "relational database" or "GUI".
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A neat trick for identifying exaggerated or nonsense AI opinions (both pro and con) is to replace the word "AI" (or "LLM", etc.) with a previous software advance, like "relational database" or "GUI".
How many hours do we turn the clocks back to? 1993?
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
How many hours do we turn the clocks back to? 1993?
Canada. Eating all the candy tonight.
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Canada. Eating all the candy tonight.
❤️ 🇨🇦 Canada! 🇨🇦 ❤️ #OkayBlueJays #LetsPlayBall
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. arriving with *this* vibe 💯 Wearing the jersey of 3x Olympic hockey gold-medalist Marie-Philip Poulin.
📷 Screengrab from Sportsnet
#WorldSeries
📷 Screengrab from Sportsnet
#WorldSeries
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
❤️ 🇨🇦 Canada! 🇨🇦 ❤️ #OkayBlueJays #LetsPlayBall
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.
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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.
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.
Such a good movie
November 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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.
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.
*Like, actually, literally.
"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
www.torontotoday.ca
November 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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.
*Like, actually, literally.
Need to update Toronto's Short-Term Rentals By-Law for lodged balls. www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Need to update Toronto's Short-Term Rentals By-Law for lodged balls. www.toronto.ca/community-pe...
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," Dr. Who," or "Transformers."
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," Dr. Who," or "Transformers."
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Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
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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
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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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PUBLIC ENEMY "The Hits Just Keep On Comin" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Channel ZERO
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October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
Bleach might be my second choice, but this one literally can't be duplicated:
Bleach might be my second choice, but this one literally can't be duplicated:
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
Bleach might be my second choice, but this one literally can't be duplicated:
Bleach might be my second choice, but this one literally can't be duplicated:
I take solace in the many-worlds interpretation...
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I take solace in the many-worlds interpretation...
I'm old enough to remember when social media wasn't just jokes about how long this game is years old. #bluejays #worldseries
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I'm old enough to remember when social media wasn't just jokes about how long this game is years old. #bluejays #worldseries
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.
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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.
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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
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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
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.
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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October 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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.
I call this "the myth of out of the box thinking". Innovation thrives on constraints.
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-...
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.
betakit.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I call this "the myth of out of the box thinking". Innovation thrives on constraints.
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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 💪🏻
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 💪🏻
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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 💪🏻
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 💪🏻
Reposted by Joel Adams
day 2:
dodger stadium's 16,000-spot parking lot is so huge, it could fit ~10 more dodger stadiums in its place. a monument to socal's asphalt addiction more than to baseball.
meanwhile in toronto, an actual walkable, bustling city exists around the stadium
dodger stadium's 16,000-spot parking lot is so huge, it could fit ~10 more dodger stadiums in its place. a monument to socal's asphalt addiction more than to baseball.
meanwhile in toronto, an actual walkable, bustling city exists around the stadium
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
day 2:
dodger stadium's 16,000-spot parking lot is so huge, it could fit ~10 more dodger stadiums in its place. a monument to socal's asphalt addiction more than to baseball.
meanwhile in toronto, an actual walkable, bustling city exists around the stadium
dodger stadium's 16,000-spot parking lot is so huge, it could fit ~10 more dodger stadiums in its place. a monument to socal's asphalt addiction more than to baseball.
meanwhile in toronto, an actual walkable, bustling city exists around the stadium
Sources and links in thread. Just another reminder that Fall is flu and COVID vaccine booster season for EVERYONE.
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sources and links in thread. Just another reminder that Fall is flu and COVID vaccine booster season for EVERYONE.
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Toronto Blue Jays pummel Los Angeles Dodgers with 9-run inning and win World Series opener 11-4.
Barger, Varsho, Kirk lead homer barrage as Blue Jays rout Dodgers 11-4 in World Series opener
Addison Barger launched the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history, Alejandro Kirk added a two-run homer in a nine-run sixth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays overwhelmed the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4 in Game 1.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Toronto Blue Jays pummel Los Angeles Dodgers with 9-run inning and win World Series opener 11-4.