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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One last dance for Ovechkin vs Crosby. Some comparisons of their careers

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're getting a visitor. Canadian journos in the travelling press pool, DM me. I know where the local eats are.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We have our first suspected case of a major AI-conducted hack of the banking system. Thieves stole useful info (not cash) from South Korean customers. So we enter this new era with a slew of unresolved questions: about liability, and about new risks — to institutions, the economy and evencurrency.

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

/ although the premier-designate seems to indicate he'll test the waters at some point, and see if MNAs from other parties (QS primarily) support holding an independence vote. www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/10/06/p...

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

An election result many Quebecers can live with: -A PQ government with no ability whatsoever to hold, or even credibly threaten, an independence referendum -A still-strong Liberal party -A new conservative option is born A disappointing result for the progressive Quebec solidaire though

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had the pleasure of interviewing him once and can confirm he was a gentleman, to the very end

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was a kid, I met Rocket Richard at the grocery store. In my corner of Montreal. He signed a book I was reading. Almost 40 years later, I finally did it justice; got the pages framed at a shop, in my corner of Ankara. The Rocket flew with me to Turkey.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

/ NHL season started. Just launched my iPhone app for hockey stats visualization. apps.apple.com/us/app/trend...

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, let's see if the Leafs just bypassed their painful rebuild. The Kirill Marchenko vs. Matthew Knies compare charts -- goals per game, points per game trajectory, speed and shot

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

/ The flurry of crazy OpenAI developments are summed up in today's briefing note I get. At dailyaidigest.net

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

/ They'll find other ways to get their training data. Without your family's birthday pictures becoming the source for a clearance-sale poster at a furniture shop in Jakarta. Click 'data controls' then turn off 'improve model for everyone.' Every major lab has a version of this.

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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 · 21/09/2026

For anyone playing fantasy hockey - sharing this draft kit I made. A downloadable spreadsheet with two models: 1) a rule-based formula that performed well in backtesting 2) a black-box AI formula that performed even better, for reasons I can't explain trendline.hockey/fantasy

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

Maybe. But some of the criminal negligence laws in certain European countries are pretty strict, and if you deploy a model that kills citizens of the EU, Canada, or other foreign countries, you have to figure arrest warrants would follow. Voters in those places would demand it.

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

/ creating a better than zero chance that if a lethal Hugging Face incident were to occur, or a takedown of the banking system, it would mean executives in handcuffs -- somewhere. Which, at this moment, might be a better deterrent than whatever toothless law Congress would be cooking up anyway.

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

...countries have laws that could result in the jailing of executives who, hypothetically speaking, negligently released a product they knew might cause mass destruction or death. There are caveats and exemptions from country to country, but these laws exist everywhere, a better than zero chance /

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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

/ Anyway, I'm trying to learn about algorithms, gates, and loops, and this thing has 1,110 loops built into it, to feed constantly updating graphics. But mainly because I wanted a new toy to play with during hockey season. Starting with a fantasy draft kit. trendline.hockey

trendline.hockey

The Trend Line — hockey stats made fun

Self-updating dashboards for all 32 NHL teams — points pace, scoring, goaltending and possession trends, refreshed after every game from public NHL data.

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

/ It's loaded with little gizmos for hockey fans to play with. To visualize things like: -Nick Suzuki in some illustrious (!) company -Mike Matheson disappearing from the Habs power play -Auston Mathews' shot and skating slowing down

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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

A reluctant Nostradamus, as it turns out

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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

/ Here's the paper, titled Automation and Repression - arguing that the mathematical incentive structure tends toward AI threatening democracy www.nber.org/papers/w3533...

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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

/ Updates and links in my daily digest to this milestone development - the US government turning off the taps for foreigners. The Fable 5 / Mythos shutdown in my daily digest.

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

/ What the shutdown looked like when I woke up overseas this morning to an unfinished programming job

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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

/ I grew up cheering for Italy in these things, and this is the point at which we'd start using extremely naughty turns of phrase with references to the Bible

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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 · 12/06/2026

Yes, I've got the code ready to go. But the Android store is complicated. It relies on a peer review system so I need to find 12 people with an Android phone to spend two weeks testing my app. I'll get to it but haven't managed yet.

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

I think they just expect people to play around with it for a few days. Not necessarily while traveling. In fact, it's a 14-day window. I'd definitely do it if this were my job, but it's a pretty heavy investment for a hobby

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

I've got the code ready! But Android involves extra hoops - while Apple tests and screens for itself, Android make you do your own peer review... so I need to find 12 people with Androids willing to be testers.

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

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

Ha. Scout's honour, it's safe. But here's the link if you prefer: apps.apple.com/us/app/wande...

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

Data is the gateway drug to so many other activities. At least it was in my case.

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

Here is the link to my better-travel app: apps.apple.com/us/app/wande...

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