Reposted by Daniel HaranNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 16hnot helping, @theonion.com 1039661
Reposted by Daniel HaranBen Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 14hEven if you've never been a union member, the attacks on unions have cost you money. The typical worker would be earning $5,000 more a year if unions were as strong today as they were five decades ago 311842
Reposted by Daniel HaranRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 14hIn short, happy “fuck them whales” and “fuck your grandkids” day to all those who celebrate (which is a scary number of Canadians, based on recent polls) 22324107
Reposted by Daniel HaranRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16hCarney tells Canadians “we have to do this” (??) because there’s an energy crisis on three fronts. One of those fronts, he says, is climate change. Which is why we need………a new crude oil pipeline??????? 2940093
Reposted by Daniel Haran Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/10/2026Images are once again borked on Bluesky, and once again you see why alt text has more than one use. 9631128
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What then? We call that machine learning. There's a deeply dishonest argument by AI proponents responding to anti-AI concerns: but what about all the medical breakthroughs? But those aren't LLMs and generative AI. We don't need IP theft and massive data centers to do image analysis. 020
Reposted by Daniel HaranMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 44767111836
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I went to a startup incubator event tonight, hoping to see interesting companies. A few are bucking the AI trend and building real "deep tech", e.g. camera sensors doped to detect single photons, advanced metal recycling, etc. It made me more hopeful, tbh. 030
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So, Costco relayed that consumers complained about nail varnish aromas on Driscoll’s berries, back in 2025. Did... they not immediately send samples to the CFIA and/or independent labs? If consumers notice, the pickers have to be bathing in these pesticides. Wtf? 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is mass psychosis. 4 billion revenue, 8 billion operating loss, 42 billion in net loss. Plans to spend 500 billion more on infrastructure. And this is going to be worth 2 trillion? 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was dreading this infrastructure announcement, but this seems like a great idea. Ideally this is done with experience from Alto, so we get better at keeping costs down. 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026J'ai l'impression que ces clowns vont gouverner, et tous les problèmes seront encore pire dans quelques années. Éventuellement, il va falloir de nouvelles structures politiques, loin de la joute favorisée par notre système médiatique, les partis et l'assemblée nationale. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Still not over this returned cosine value being above 1. In a library that's been downloaded more than two hundred million times this month. Only 1 reviewer for this library. Easy to use, fast, 50% advertised accuracy according to one lone developer that decided to publish results. Sigh. 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The cat sat on the hat" "The dog sat in the hat" "The cat shat in the hat" Adventures in testing language model embeddings for information retrieval are leading to some questionable test cases. And even worse results. Did anyone stress test this model and see that cos(x) can be larger than 1? 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Huang wore a different tie, Xi another suit. This is AI slop. See e.g. www.bbc.com/news/videos/... 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Supper plans derailed because the closest grocery store only had sweet potatoes from the USA. I'm not buying food from a country that can't even ensure its soap is safe. 010
Reposted by Daniel HaranDr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Absoluteky scandalous. Lets tax pollution-reducing vehicles more. Vindictive Stupid Short-sighted Bastards www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caNew EV, plug-in hybrid levies take effect Oct. 1 in Nova Scotia | CBC NewsNova Scotia’s new tax on electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids comes into effect Oct. 1, but traditional hybrids — ones that aren't plugged in — are exempt. 7207
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Everything is computer, Canadian version. AI is a marketing term, and I wish a single journalist asked Evan Solomon if he thinks LLMs will keep getting better or be replaced by another paradigm. The party that wants to build pipelines to fight climate change doesn't recruit independent thinkers. 262
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"We're just praying, these protesters are antisemitic" "[We] brought in Ambassador Mark Regev as the Yom Kippur guest speaker." Those statements can't both be true. Pretending they can be is gaslighting. Enough. 000
Reposted by Daniel HaranBéranger Enselme @benselme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois et Manon Massé déplorent la décision de la Commission scolaire Western Québec d’avoir offert un poste d’enseignante à Fatemeh Anvari, une femme de confession musulmane portant le hidjab, et ce, en contravention avec la loi 21, [...]"ledevoir.comQS déplore de voir le «Canada anglais débarque[r] avec ses gros sabots» dans la contestation de la loi 21GND se garde toutefois d’inviter les opposants à la loi 21 à repousser l’aide financière du «Reste du Canada». 222
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Developer friends keep telling me coding tools are better now, and every time I try them they're still a disaster. They're fine for bog standard questions like you'd ask on StackOverflow, or some common boilerplate. Maybe also for the equivalent of spelling and grammar checks? 110
Reposted by Daniel HaranChantal Poulin 🌎❤️✊️ @chantalpoulin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Il est urgent d'apprendre à désobéir! Ne nous soumettons pas à cette loi raciste et ridicule.lp.caLaïcité de l’État | Blé d’Inde, hijab, colèreOn ne s’attend pas à ce qu’une banale invitation à une épluchette de blé d’Inde à l’école provoque une réaction de colère. On ne s’attend pas non plus à ce qu’elle porte à réfléchir à la société que l... 2426
Reposted by Daniel HaranBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One of LLMs' major points of appeal is the fantasy of having a living, feeling thing that you can do anything to with complete impunity. In this context, talking about AI experiencing pain is a way of marketing to sadists (of which there are, unfortunately, many). 24518
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One thing AI has made very obvious is how many CEOs never gave a shit about quality. For translation, design, and code, if an AI can produce something that looks good enough for them, they'll ship. The same quality applies to "thought leadership", which is why LinkedIn is now mostly AI. 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Saw a Blackburnian warbler today at the Montreal Botanical gardens. It took my mind off the current AI insanity. 010
Reposted by Daniel HaranDr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Globe and Mail asked a bunch of policy wonks for their ideas to improve our tax system. Mine: A "like-kind exchange" to get new rental apartments built in Canada rather than the US. The full piece here: www.theglobeandmail.... 2176
Reposted by Daniel HaranJeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum. 362976916
Reposted by Daniel HaranTiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Monitored Public Bike Parking is what all bicycling cities like Calgary need to boost riders and get full return on their bike infrastructure investments. Can you really assess bicycle infrastructure usage without it? 🤷♂️ Video by @nicthedoor.bsky.social with @shifter.info #yycbikeyoutu.beI Left My Bike Here for 24 Nights...YouTube video by Nic Laporte 16310
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Brent oil price is up again today, after Houthi attacks. Traders are over-reacting to every small signal, but the fundamentals haven't really changed in months. 011
Reposted by Daniel HaranSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I tell this story all the time. When I did interviews for my book the zoom transcription had included the term "white gays" countless times. I could not for the life of me figure out what was happening because that had nothing to do with the topic. Reader, my interviewees were saying "white GAZE" 29212
Reposted by Daniel Haran💫 Brock 💫 @queeralchemy.com · 24/09/2026Try using that excuse as a student and see what happens... LOL 011
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AI writing code: For each word in this list, I will read through the entire dictionary, comparing the target word with the current one I'm reading in the dictionary. This does accomplish the goal... 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A simple example: we could allow European elevators. There's no reason to tolerate the prices we see today, and this single detail makes a lot of projects needlessly expensive. 010
Reposted by Daniel HaranF-O Loignon @foloignon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dans un fascinant exercice de malhonnêteté intellectuelle, Pascal Paradis va au micro de Masbourian pour discréditer Amnistie Internationale. Pascal Paradis, fondateur d’Avocats sans frontières et ancien membre du CA de Coopération Canada. Ce que certains ne trahiraient par ambition politique… 86216
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The only signs of mental disease here are his obstinacy and focus on other people's sex lives. Hobbies of consenting adults are not a problem, unlike what his colleagues and leaders do to kids and/or without consent. Furthermore, they should release the Epstein files. 021
Reposted by Daniel HaranHettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026you know, I was in college in 2004-2008 so I was there for peak furry bullying, but now with the gift of hindsight I'm like "furries are among the people I'd MOST trust to run air traffic control, actually." 061
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The world never agreed to a 1.5C global warming target. The top diplomats agreed to a 2/3 chance of not going over 1.5. So: a 1/3 chance of going over that limit was acceptable. Then they assumed we'd figure out carbon capture, which we haven't yet. 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Conspiracy theory: both the US and Iranian negotiators are taking turns to bet on oil futures, and the actual conflict is being kept alive to benefit the grift. In other news, Brent is now below $100 on news Iran could reopen Hormuz. 000
Reposted by Daniel HaranTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 562782426
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Question for tech folks forced to use "AI:" How do you limit the blast radius? Sandboxing, MCPs, replacing AI decisions with classical ML approaches... test-first, integration tests... what am I missing? 011
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Spam filtering using math is now 30 years old. There are free, open-source tools to do document classification. So now that lots of developers are switching to Jev for classification... could you all look at scikit-learn or Apache Spark? Resist the mass AI psychosis, use real tools. 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is infinitely better, tbh. I would love it if I never again needed to hear him speak. 000
Reposted by Daniel HaranBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨 1413800584
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026" Before entrepreneurship classes existed, the path was: "Go ask customers what they'd pay you to do for them, sell it, build it, repeat and evolve." This wasn't written down anywhere, it was just the obvious thing to do. " LinkedIn thought leaders are engaging in neither. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Besides ~1 million tonnes of CO2 which we all pay, how much of the financial cost will farmers pay, and how much will be passed on to consumers? A train from Canada is a much cheaper option. 110
Reposted by Daniel HaranDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Happy Earth Wind and Fire Day! Celebrate accordingly youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...youtu.beEarth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO 16618
Reposted by Daniel HaranJustin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Remember if you don't pay your mortgage and "hand back the keys to your lender" that means you are a bad person. But when the very rich to it, its just business. "many of the same apartment landlords riding high are now preparing to sell at a loss, hand back the keys to their lenders..."wsj.comApartment Landlords Have a $2 Trillion Debt Problem That Is Only Getting WorseProperty investors borrowed record sums at historically low rates. Now, as the bill comes due and interest rates rise, “the chickens are coming home to roost.” 083
