Tim Gadanidis
@tim.gadanidis.ca
linguist working on language and work in the restaurant service context. luddite. 兔子爸爸。he/him/il/lui
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In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
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another odd piece to all this is that many people are remembering a wave of "cancel culture" firings over insufficient wokeness that never happened.
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
another odd piece to all this is that many people are remembering a wave of "cancel culture" firings over insufficient wokeness that never happened.
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Every time I think about someone saying "it's inevitable" when it comes to some tech thing, I think about Toronto stopping Google from creating a 'smart neighborhood' with their Sidewalk Labs project. A bunch of people worked very hard in their community to say absolutely not, not here.
September 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Every time I think about someone saying "it's inevitable" when it comes to some tech thing, I think about Toronto stopping Google from creating a 'smart neighborhood' with their Sidewalk Labs project. A bunch of people worked very hard in their community to say absolutely not, not here.
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Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.
September 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.
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Canadians built Air Canada and our airports with decades of public investment. Now we have a privatized airline cutting service, abandoning workers, and pocketing bailouts. If we’re footing the bill anyway, shouldn’t they serve the public—not shareholders?
Why we need to (re)nationalize Air Canada
It would be tempting to base an argument in favour of nationalizing Air Canada solely off its poor performance over the course of the last few weeks, but in truth the problems experienced by air trave...
canadiandimension.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Canadians built Air Canada and our airports with decades of public investment. Now we have a privatized airline cutting service, abandoning workers, and pocketing bailouts. If we’re footing the bill anyway, shouldn’t they serve the public—not shareholders?
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Caterpillar waking up halfway through metamorphosis: I'm goo. Shit. Shit. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I'm really straight-up goo right now. Fuck
August 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Caterpillar waking up halfway through metamorphosis: I'm goo. Shit. Shit. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I'm really straight-up goo right now. Fuck
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I am genuinely terrified everyone will forget, or has already forgotten, how different people were 15-20 years ago. Since then, all technological innovation has worked toward the goal of sapping human attention as a commodity and society is far worse for it.
i believe that short form video is maybe one of the worst things people have ever come up with and it should be regulated at least as much as cigarettes
August 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I am genuinely terrified everyone will forget, or has already forgotten, how different people were 15-20 years ago. Since then, all technological innovation has worked toward the goal of sapping human attention as a commodity and society is far worse for it.
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
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Yes! Vaccines are your body making its own medicine. No refill, no follow up, no “lifetime customer.” The simplistic “pharma keeps us sick to keep us hooked” MAHA narrative collapses when you actually look at political economy of vaccines. Vaccines literally end their own market except for kids.
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
August 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Yes! Vaccines are your body making its own medicine. No refill, no follow up, no “lifetime customer.” The simplistic “pharma keeps us sick to keep us hooked” MAHA narrative collapses when you actually look at political economy of vaccines. Vaccines literally end their own market except for kids.
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
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The more we make humans machine-readable, the closer capitalism comes to its end goal of fully treating humans like machines
“Our ultimate goal is to build an AI system that can tell in real time whether a viewer is understanding or not understanding what they are seeing in an educational video…” 🫠
Tech can tell exactly when in videos students are learning
A new study combines eye tracking and artificial intelligence to identify the exact moments in an educational video that matter for learning in children.The study could also predict how much children ...
news.osu.edu
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The more we make humans machine-readable, the closer capitalism comes to its end goal of fully treating humans like machines
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I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.
August 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.
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We don't know what a real AI company looks like yet. We haven't seen one yet. We won't until the day one flips on the ads, and then they all will. Then we'll know what we're in for.
July 31, 2025 at 4:54 AM
We don't know what a real AI company looks like yet. We haven't seen one yet. We won't until the day one flips on the ads, and then they all will. Then we'll know what we're in for.
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This is an amazing way of writing “most of the world”
July 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is an amazing way of writing “most of the world”
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C'est l'instrumentalisation de la douleur de refuser de parler de comment assurer que personne est plus jamais blessé ou tué au bord de nos routes.
Jeune cycliste happée à mort: «Pas le moment d’instrumentaliser la douleur»
Jeune cycliste happée à mort: «Pas le moment d’instrumentaliser la douleur»
La collision qui a arraché la vie à une jeune cycliste de 16 ans mardi serait accidentelle, selon les premiers éléments d’enquête.
www.lesoleil.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
C'est l'instrumentalisation de la douleur de refuser de parler de comment assurer que personne est plus jamais blessé ou tué au bord de nos routes.
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you know, maybe qualitative work wouldn't be accused of being anecdotal if word count restrictions were permissive enough to permit us to... actually show the data
July 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
you know, maybe qualitative work wouldn't be accused of being anecdotal if word count restrictions were permissive enough to permit us to... actually show the data
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just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.
July 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.
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AI bros think that "sweatshop" conditions of data labor are over, that we need "clever engineers" to train new LLMs.
But @milamiceli.bsky.social says: "it’s the same workers. If you talk to people, they will tell you: I have done content moderation. I have done data labeling. Now I am doing this."
But @milamiceli.bsky.social says: "it’s the same workers. If you talk to people, they will tell you: I have done content moderation. I have done data labeling. Now I am doing this."
Is 'Sweatshop Data' Really Over?
A new essay argues that low-paid digital labor is becoming a thing of the past. Not so fast, TIME's tech correspondent writes.
time.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
AI bros think that "sweatshop" conditions of data labor are over, that we need "clever engineers" to train new LLMs.
But @milamiceli.bsky.social says: "it’s the same workers. If you talk to people, they will tell you: I have done content moderation. I have done data labeling. Now I am doing this."
But @milamiceli.bsky.social says: "it’s the same workers. If you talk to people, they will tell you: I have done content moderation. I have done data labeling. Now I am doing this."
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I watched this (youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...) on the abuse of LLMs & 'vibe physics' by @acollierastro.bsky.social - well worth a watch! - and I was struck by how the back 15 minutes (the 'thought train') also summed up neatly what it has been like to be a public-facing historian, even before LLMs.1/
vibe physics
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I watched this (youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...) on the abuse of LLMs & 'vibe physics' by @acollierastro.bsky.social - well worth a watch! - and I was struck by how the back 15 minutes (the 'thought train') also summed up neatly what it has been like to be a public-facing historian, even before LLMs.1/
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I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.
No! Stop right there.
Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.
1/2
No! Stop right there.
Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.
1/2
May 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.
No! Stop right there.
Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.
1/2
No! Stop right there.
Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.
1/2
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Listen to the response of Handala organizer Huwaida Arraf to the IDF alerting them they will board the aid vessel.
Palestina livre! Atenção! Handala está sendo sequestrado pelo estado genocida de Israel!
July 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Listen to the response of Handala organizer Huwaida Arraf to the IDF alerting them they will board the aid vessel.
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Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now
July 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now
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Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.
July 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.