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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Holy crap. This is why the first thing I do when I help older relatives use ChatGPT (or any chatbot) is this --> SWITCH OFF THE TRAINING FUNCTION. Which they made deceptively complex with this sweet-sounding term: 'Improve the model for everyone'

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the several reasons this is dumb is 'Super Intelligence' already exists as the colloquial term for a hypothetical future A.I. so advanced it'll leave humans in the cognitive dust. Now they have to invent two new terms for him. A domino effect of dumb vocabulary

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Should I be worried my Habs are 3-0 this preseason? I plotted out 433 NHL team-seasons and it turns out Stanley Cup winners usually.... suck in exhibition games. Made an interactive chart with it.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trying to teach my kids about the Boston Tea Party and literally every Boston Tea Party video for kids is: Yada yada yada, taxes got put on, they didn't like it.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No mystery why the president would be promising cheaper farm inputs, six weeks to a midterm. The mysteries I'd be keen on unravelling are: 1) Who planted the 'Belarus' idea in his ear? 2) Who told him this was either feasible or politically smart? Source: RCP

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The main focus here will, correctly, be Trump's disinterest in regulating A.I. However, I think there's an interesting sub-wrinkle here: him mentioning criminal liability. Looking into this question these last few days, I've been struck by how many countries have laws that could 1/

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wrote about how essential this river is. Including for the production of Canadians' winter vegetables. https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/an-american-water-crisis

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's why I built a hockey stats site designed for fun: highly interactive, packed with visuals. substack.com/@alexpanetta...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My daily A.I. digest sounding a little dystopian today: --AI designed working viruses from scratch --OpenAI Agents Colluded to Hack—Far Beyond What Anyone Realized. --Also, Canada is getting an AI management program like the one I'm enrolled in. dailyaidigest.net/archive/2026...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

About to smash the Guinness world record for: Most-cropped photo in Spanish history.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sometimes the better team loses. I mean, not today, but it does happen sometimes.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Stuck following the game this way because of poor cell reception but -- wow -- this stat. Never thought I'd see this.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The lunacy of letting 50+1 break a union. When the reality sets in, that 50 shrinks into a minority, and the majority is trapped in an unwanted new political arrangement. Today's example: Brexit a decade later. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Here today to teach my kids about parliamentary democracy and What. A. Morning.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Today's daily AI digest - an Acemoglu paper argues how simple math could lead to AI favoring autocracy.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We have a new Exhibit A for those AI sovereignty advocates arguing that other countries need to scale up alternatives to the U.S. models. At the very least as a backup plan

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Life sometimes throws you a curveball -- like watching Canada playing in the ⚽️ World Cup, in Toronto, from your new home in Ankara, Turkey. Full of surprises! 🇨🇦

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Switching owner of the other site from block to mute now that he has enough money to buy every industry and subnational region where people he dislikes could ever work or live

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Canal Hipocritas Medo

ALT: Canal Hipocritas Medo

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm proud of this. A few years ago, I couldn't use Excel. My wife taught me after the 2016 election, when she saw me tallying results by hand. Today, Apple approved my iPhone app. If you're traveling and want a break from over-touristed sites, this finds beautiful places nearby, off the beaten path.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Today's AI digest: Anthropic Backtracks On Silent Sabotage Strategy --> New Data Backs Up Youth Jobs Fear --> OpenAI's IPO Plan --> The Value Of Chatbots That Challenge

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Anthropic's powerful new Mythos-level model stopped while rendering my Daily AI briefing note. Its security flag went up.... simply because I mentioned its own system card!

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Striking paper from Wharton: AI must increase productivity 2.7x -- quickly -- or tech companies risk bankruptcy. For context: this is how a quickie 2.7x compares to historical precedent. Useful context for OpenAI reportedly talking to the US government about a bailout (ahem, I mean ownership stake)

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Canada's new AI strategy does not skirt the big picture: While Canadian researchers played a massive role in developing modern AI - from language to vision to learning techniques - the country is more hostile to it and slower to adopt it than most peer nations. But it also holds several advantages.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Three takeaways from this extraordinary document about new practises in handling data in an organization. 1) Wiring models to real, verified internal knowledge solves most of the hallucination problem. Which takes work -- in curating, editing. Which brings us to... claude.com/blog/how-ant...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A huge day in AI news, summarized in my automated daily briefing: --> Anthropic Files for IPO at a Valuation Exceeding Most National GDPs --> Leaks on Canada's Al Strategy --> NY Times Publisher Calls for Fight Against Al Theft --> OpenAl Insists: We're Not Backing the GOP

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hey, on the bright side, Gary Bettman will be happy: it's another Stanley Cup final involving two places without ice or snow. It's what he lives for.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A thoughtful piece that argues that people who want humanity to endure -- ie most of us -- need an answer to an influential ideological cult whose ideology leads to eugenics. This answer involves redefining humanism to celebrate diversity in intelligence.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My dailyaidigest.net today: --> Highlights of the pope's effort to reshape the global AI conversation with a 42,000-word manifesto. --> Plus several studies on the trouble of using desktop LLMs at institutional scale.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My latest: alexpanetta.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Here's my school project this semester. An alternative travel algorithm. Had fun building this --> 233 countries & territories --> Thousands of beautiful-yet-less-crowded destinations --> Searchable by theme or by country --> With info on how to get there --> And an MCP layer --> wanderingwell.site

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Thus it is written: Once a decade, my hockey team shall pull a Shaquille O'Neal-sized horseshoe out of its posterior. And I, for one, embrace it. #gohabsgo

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It's hard to hate the Buffalo Sabres. North of the 40th parallel. Been suffering forever without a Cup. Eliminated the Bruins. They're practically family. But we can all hate a relative for a while, can't we?

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Great piece on the AI politics in Washington, featuring naked corruption and killer turns of phrase www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Venture-Capital Populist

How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

DeSantis also says datacenters are unpopular on both the left and the right. If you have followed this guy's career, this is something worth taking note of. He would not be coming out early like this if he didn't see a big political problem coming down the road.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Okay, what's the truth about A.I. and jobs? A rich portrait in my automated daily AI digest today, courtesy of 3 papers just released by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research. The most detailed is a study of businesses by researchers at the US Census Bureau dailyaidigest.net/archive/2026...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

3:49 am in Ankara, Turkey. How I follow the Stanley Cup playoffs nowadays

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

From the department of ambiguous omens, ahead of tonight's big Habs game. I'm in central Anatolia. Middle of Ankara. I have never seen a Habs logo here ever -- not outside my house. I just spotted a woman covered in them -- in rhinestone. A bunch of sparkly Habs logos. /

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I just published this primer on a hack that's become wildly popular among techies. It has applications for broad professional uses, and is ridiculously easy to set up. I explain the setup, its 80-year history, its limitations, and why it’s catching on now. alexpanetta.substack.com/p/why-person...

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Why Personalized Wikipedias Are Suddenly Catching Fire

It involves an 80-year-old dream of building a 'second brain.' It's now doable in 10 minutes

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Amusing irony given US administration trying to destroy Claude: researchers test AI models for bias and find Claude is the only one not biased against free-market economics. arxiv.org/pdf/2604.213...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

An extremely busy day in AI developments, reflected in the triple-headline of my Daily AI Digest: 'A new ChatGPT. Claude's Mea Culpa. And White House vs. China' dailyaidigest.net/archive/2026...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

On the type of company that wins with AI: "Automation strategies (cutting jobs) will show early gains relative to the deeper investment required for augmentation, but augmentation will perform better in the long run." HBR analysis argues that 1/2

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Why Companies That Choose AI Augmentation Over Automation May Win in the Long Run

Leaders are making a choice with their AI strategy: Are they primarily seeking to improve the bottom line through automation and headcount reduction, or grow the top line in innovative ways through au...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Started testing the AI-writing detector Pangram after reading this. Bottom line: It's getting better at detecting AI-written copy. Not foolproof enough to ruin someone's career yet - it's not perfect. But good enough that if you've been habitually claiming AI copy as your own, you can start sweating

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A New Kind of Scandal Is Growing Online. It’s Ruining Careers—and Aimed at the Wrong Target.

A culture of callouts, paranoia, and fear may prevent the media from wrestling with much more uncomfortable questions.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A more granular look at AI-related risk to jobs. Paper here distinguishes current vs theoretical risk (big gap) ... and... distinguishes jobs that may change vs disappear cdn.openai.com/pdf/the-ai-j...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The geography of Venice and its outskirts. Illustrates the monumental achievement of building a jewel of human civilization atop a pile of geographic leftovers.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

From the big profile of OpenAI founder Sam Altman: “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people… in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences … 1/2

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I’ve attended, covered, and sold hot dogs at countless sporting events and am not sure I’ve ever witnessed the energy of a European soccer crowd. 100 minutes of this in Milan tonight.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Tracking astronauts going to the moon with kids is a pretty cool experience as a parent. Also — and I swear this just happened: Props to the crew of Artemis for telling Mission Control about how they properly put away their underwear. Setting an example for certain people here on Earth.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wrote about our current potential scenario on Dec. 15, 2023: “Protect NATO from Donald Trump? The U.S. Congress just passed that into law” What I also wrote: Unclear this Rubio bill has any practical effect if a POTUS just says, “Sorry. Not respecting Article 5” www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

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