Richard Hamilton 🇨🇦
@richardhamilton51.bsky.social
New Brunswick 🇨🇦
Books and movies. Camping.
Bruce Springsteen
Profile pic: blue jay
Banner pic: Salmon River meets the Bay of Fundy at low tide
Books and movies. Camping.
Bruce Springsteen
Profile pic: blue jay
Banner pic: Salmon River meets the Bay of Fundy at low tide
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thebloggess.com/2025/11/17/h... what is wrong with me?
Have a good one, either way I guess.
Today when we were finishing lunch the waiter was like, “How was your day?” and I said, “Good, thanks! A little exhausting, but good. How was yours?” and then he and Victor …
thebloggess.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
thebloggess.com/2025/11/17/h... what is wrong with me?
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I'm gonna say something controversial but... I miss cable. I miss being able to put a channel on the TV and have it change shows. Even the commercials for some reason I miss. Like im missing out on society.
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm gonna say something controversial but... I miss cable. I miss being able to put a channel on the TV and have it change shows. Even the commercials for some reason I miss. Like im missing out on society.
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Sea life in #Dartmouth Cove.
Some pics from what’s under the surface at Dartmouth Cove from today’s bioblitz
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Sea life in #Dartmouth Cove.
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...
This is funny to me because I believe movie theaters are possibly the most obsolete and secretly unpleasant entertainment institutions in our society and I don't mind watching them fail.
This is funny to me because I believe movie theaters are possibly the most obsolete and secretly unpleasant entertainment institutions in our society and I don't mind watching them fail.
25 Movies, Many Stars, 0 Hits: Hollywood Falls to New Lows
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...
This is funny to me because I believe movie theaters are possibly the most obsolete and secretly unpleasant entertainment institutions in our society and I don't mind watching them fail.
This is funny to me because I believe movie theaters are possibly the most obsolete and secretly unpleasant entertainment institutions in our society and I don't mind watching them fail.
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Canada welcomes the return of 62 Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican. This is an important step that honours the diverse cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples and supports ongoing efforts toward truth, justice, and reconciliation.
Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News
A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities long held in Vatican Museums vaults, will return to C...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Canada welcomes the return of 62 Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican. This is an important step that honours the diverse cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples and supports ongoing efforts toward truth, justice, and reconciliation.
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The data center resistance has arrived
“The number one issue was affordability” “But a very close second was data centers & the concern around them just sucking up the #water #electricity, land—and not really paying any taxes”
#datacenters #adtech #AI #utilities
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
“The number one issue was affordability” “But a very close second was data centers & the concern around them just sucking up the #water #electricity, land—and not really paying any taxes”
#datacenters #adtech #AI #utilities
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The data center resistance has arrived
“The number one issue was affordability” “But a very close second was data centers & the concern around them just sucking up the #water #electricity, land—and not really paying any taxes”
#datacenters #adtech #AI #utilities
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
“The number one issue was affordability” “But a very close second was data centers & the concern around them just sucking up the #water #electricity, land—and not really paying any taxes”
#datacenters #adtech #AI #utilities
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
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I've been thinking for a long time about the parallels between the early days of cars and the early days of consumer-facing AI tools like chatbots, so I finally wrote about it. Shoutout to @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
From cars to AI, the spread of technologies is not inevitable - Halifax Examiner
None of this is inevitable. It is the result of powerful lobbies and poor decision-making.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I've been thinking for a long time about the parallels between the early days of cars and the early days of consumer-facing AI tools like chatbots, so I finally wrote about it. Shoutout to @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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Just renewed my #ICBC car insurance for a year, cost me all of $1477. That's $80 cheaper than last year, which was cheaper than the year before. Public auto insurance is a wonderful thing! Here's the 10-yr change in auto insurance costs by province from StatsCan. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Besides the obvious social, environmental, and ethical issues, I worry that we're about to get so much AI-generated slop that it will overwhelm the physical infrastructure of the internet. You think web page loading is so slow now, just wait til a million times more junk is flowing through the tubes
I'm also pretty confident I got a ChatGPT peer review recently. We're approach the singularity: nothing but AI reviews of AI written articles published to feed the publish or perish system.
November 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Besides the obvious social, environmental, and ethical issues, I worry that we're about to get so much AI-generated slop that it will overwhelm the physical infrastructure of the internet. You think web page loading is so slow now, just wait til a million times more junk is flowing through the tubes
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#Springsteen - a really great movie.
I saw Springsteen in Stockholm in 1981; a truly legendary concert that lasted for 4,5-5 hours!
I slept in a queue outdoors for a couple of days to buy tickets - pre-internet era (winter).
Confessions of a crime: I took photographs!
www.imdb.com/video/imdb/v...
I saw Springsteen in Stockholm in 1981; a truly legendary concert that lasted for 4,5-5 hours!
I slept in a queue outdoors for a couple of days to buy tickets - pre-internet era (winter).
Confessions of a crime: I took photographs!
www.imdb.com/video/imdb/v...
▶️ Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere - Jeremy Allen White on the Call From Bruce Springsteen That Changed Everything
Watch Clip | 5:54
www.imdb.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
#Springsteen - a really great movie.
I saw Springsteen in Stockholm in 1981; a truly legendary concert that lasted for 4,5-5 hours!
I slept in a queue outdoors for a couple of days to buy tickets - pre-internet era (winter).
Confessions of a crime: I took photographs!
www.imdb.com/video/imdb/v...
I saw Springsteen in Stockholm in 1981; a truly legendary concert that lasted for 4,5-5 hours!
I slept in a queue outdoors for a couple of days to buy tickets - pre-internet era (winter).
Confessions of a crime: I took photographs!
www.imdb.com/video/imdb/v...
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This is the greatest story ever told:
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
Police Arrest Man After HSR Bus Joy Ride
On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at approximately 9:00 p.m., a Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) bus driver pulled into the McNab Bus Terminal and exited the vehicle for a short break.During this time, an a...
hamiltonpolice.on.ca
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is the greatest story ever told:
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
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Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers. @susanholtnb.bsky.social #cdnpoli #nbpoli
KEEP AMERICAN DATA CENTRES OUT OF CANADA!
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
KEEP AMERICAN DATA CENTRES OUT OF CANADA!
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers. @susanholtnb.bsky.social #cdnpoli #nbpoli
KEEP AMERICAN DATA CENTRES OUT OF CANADA!
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
KEEP AMERICAN DATA CENTRES OUT OF CANADA!
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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WTF NB Power - why are you allowing a US company to do this? 🤬
A proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of #SaintJohnNB would gobble up the equivalent of almost half the electricity N.B. Power will get from a controversial natural gas plant in the Tantramar area.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of #SaintJohnNB would gobble up the equivalent of almost half the electricity N.B. Power will get from a controversial natural gas plant in the Tantramar area.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Proposed data centre would need almost half of Tantramar gas plant’s power | CBC News
A proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of Saint John would gobble up the equivalent of almost half the electricity N.B. Power will get from a controversial natural gas plant in the Tantramar ar...
www.cbc.ca
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
WTF NB Power - why are you allowing a US company to do this? 🤬
A proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of #SaintJohnNB would gobble up the equivalent of almost half the electricity N.B. Power will get from a controversial natural gas plant in the Tantramar area.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of #SaintJohnNB would gobble up the equivalent of almost half the electricity N.B. Power will get from a controversial natural gas plant in the Tantramar area.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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We need to fight back against these power and water hog data centres, they are horrible for the planet.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We need to fight back against these power and water hog data centres, they are horrible for the planet.
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Tonight we remember our dear friend and bandleader Cleto 💙
Jimmy Kimmel Remembers His Best Friend and Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Tonight we remember our dear friend and bandleader Cleto 💙
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I would love to do a class on Bruce Springsteen’s America (the article author teaches one at Princeton).
His songs helped rear me in 1980s midlands Ireland too. Another fine motherlode of toxic, repressed masculinity.
His songs helped rear me in 1980s midlands Ireland too. Another fine motherlode of toxic, repressed masculinity.
The culture of working-class masculinity that surrounded these jobs could exact a price, too:
“a deep attraction to silence, secrets and secretiveness,”
"the hard blues of constant disaffection”
“that the dark thing in you is barely restrained.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
“a deep attraction to silence, secrets and secretiveness,”
"the hard blues of constant disaffection”
“that the dark thing in you is barely restrained.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I would love to do a class on Bruce Springsteen’s America (the article author teaches one at Princeton).
His songs helped rear me in 1980s midlands Ireland too. Another fine motherlode of toxic, repressed masculinity.
His songs helped rear me in 1980s midlands Ireland too. Another fine motherlode of toxic, repressed masculinity.
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We're booking hotels in Spain right now and we're choosing lovely boutiques with all the room amenities you could reasonably want mostly in the 100-150/night range. The most expensive was Barcelona, which has a significant tourist tax, and that ended up being about 250/night. Canada is nertz.
A friend is coming from Europe to Toronto in a few weeks (not peak anything) & trying to book a hotel. Found a middle-market hotel downtown for $395. That is bonkers. More expensive than London or Paris in the summer. Toronto needs a whole bunch of new hotels. Maybe dead condo mkt can pivot.
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We're booking hotels in Spain right now and we're choosing lovely boutiques with all the room amenities you could reasonably want mostly in the 100-150/night range. The most expensive was Barcelona, which has a significant tourist tax, and that ended up being about 250/night. Canada is nertz.
What movie villain is a horrible person but an absolute joy to watch onscreen?
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What movie villain is a horrible person but an absolute joy to watch onscreen?
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Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!