Shawn Adamsson
@adamsson.ca
Passionate. Strong opinions, loosely held (trying anyway). Waking up. Nerd. Reader. Meditator. Walker. Having a mid-life love affair with classical music. #ldnont
Ditto 🇨🇦
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Ditto 🇨🇦
This should be required listening for pretty much everyone on the internet.
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This should be required listening for pretty much everyone on the internet.
Bought a total of 9 items (no books) off Amazon.ca all year (all due to the vendors not having Canadian stores). Hope to get that to zero in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Bought a total of 9 items (no books) off Amazon.ca all year (all due to the vendors not having Canadian stores). Hope to get that to zero in 2026.
Me, about to get scanned: is this like a 3T or a 5T MRI?
Tech: it’s a 1.5T
Me: a baby MRI
Tech: we prefer to think of it as a workhorse.
Tech: it’s a 1.5T
Me: a baby MRI
Tech: we prefer to think of it as a workhorse.
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Me, about to get scanned: is this like a 3T or a 5T MRI?
Tech: it’s a 1.5T
Me: a baby MRI
Tech: we prefer to think of it as a workhorse.
Tech: it’s a 1.5T
Me: a baby MRI
Tech: we prefer to think of it as a workhorse.
@fathershaggy.bsky.social Spotify favours artists who pay for plays. artists.spotify.com/en/blog/gett...
artists.song
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@fathershaggy.bsky.social Spotify favours artists who pay for plays. artists.spotify.com/en/blog/gett...
Also, LaserDiscs should have been on this list.
November 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Also, LaserDiscs should have been on this list.
All but 9, because I’m good Canadian.
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
All but 9, because I’m good Canadian.
2025 is shaping up to be a personal best, and not just for reading.
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
2025 is shaping up to be a personal best, and not just for reading.
Reposted by Shawn Adamsson
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
It’s luck - all the way down.
We blame. We praise. We punish. Neil Levy says we shouldn't.
📘 Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
🔗 Link in bio
#philosophy #freewill #morality #justice #luck
📘 Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny
🔗 Link in bio
#philosophy #freewill #morality #justice #luck
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It’s luck - all the way down.
After 15 years as an intensely loyal customer, we canceled our longtime internet provider (start.ca) today. Since being acquired by Telus, everything that made them exceptional has been eliminated. Canadian telecoms suck.
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
After 15 years as an intensely loyal customer, we canceled our longtime internet provider (start.ca) today. Since being acquired by Telus, everything that made them exceptional has been eliminated. Canadian telecoms suck.
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
November 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
Reposted by Shawn Adamsson
The people on the right who have been accusing liberals of practicing "moral relativism" for decades are now failing the easiest morality tests ever put in front of anyone.
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The people on the right who have been accusing liberals of practicing "moral relativism" for decades are now failing the easiest morality tests ever put in front of anyone.
Didn’t have to turn on the audio. I could hear it in my head.
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Didn’t have to turn on the audio. I could hear it in my head.
Reposted by Shawn Adamsson
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
That was a really fun watch.
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
That was a really fun watch.
Reposted by Shawn Adamsson
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
If I didn’t know these would be removed and end up in the landfill 3 days later, I’d totally steal this idea.
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If I didn’t know these would be removed and end up in the landfill 3 days later, I’d totally steal this idea.
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
October 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
Reposted by Shawn Adamsson
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
Reposted by Shawn Adamsson
The right to take a picture does not remove the ethical responsibility of how pictures can harm people: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A photographer captured a Windsor, Ont., woman in the 'roughest time.' The family can't get the pics deleted | CBC News
Loved ones of a Windsor woman want photos taken of her on the city’s streets, during an active drug addiction, removed from social media. The woman in the photos is Alicia Newman and she died several ...
www.cbc.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The right to take a picture does not remove the ethical responsibility of how pictures can harm people: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I have a pretty great life, but the black dog is in my face. Can’t sleep. Struggling with thoughts whenever I’m not distracted. Time to see a therapist.
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I have a pretty great life, but the black dog is in my face. Can’t sleep. Struggling with thoughts whenever I’m not distracted. Time to see a therapist.