Reposted by Kent Fellowspixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike. 11189821522
Reposted by Kent Fellowsdante @dante.cool · 05/05/2026HAN SOLO: Hell, I never would have flown a spaceship if it wasn't for the daring exploits of Ben Quadinaros, famed podracer... He inspired all of us kids back on Corellia. LEIA (NODDING): Yes, I also know and love Ben Quadinaros. The boy, Han... let's name the boy after him 01225243
Reposted by Kent FellowsGabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots. 7856221983
Reposted by Kent FellowsAlex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026For the record, since this story says media was denied access, I also tried to attend and as I was waiting in the hallway for an organizer (who said go away) I saw a certain scribbler from this very paper leaving the main room and was told he had an arrangement with the premier to hear her speak. 610044
Reposted by Kent FellowsChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent. 9585227
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 10/10/2026From an Econ perspective, the whole point of intellectual property law is to protect the incentives to invest in intellectual property be ensuring those who create new art and new innovations can benefit from it. An underappreciated danger is that AI erodes this protection. 0113
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJES...youtube.comI would like to have seen Montana...xp.wmvYouTube video by IAMZOT 010
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This started off as a joke answer, and while I think I could probably come up with something better (there are tonnes of video game characters that come to mind), I'm sticking with it for now. 000
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If the United States ever calms down: Vasily Borodin from "The Hunt for Red Ocober." We would go to see Montana together. 252
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's a very short clip, but if you watch it pay attention to the way Blunt talks about Jackson. www.youtube.com/shorts/DM1DU...youtube.comJames Blunt averted WW3? 😱 #topgear #thegrandtourYouTube video by Autoritarian 000
Reposted by Kent FellowsBenjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett 8467561582
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There ARE economies of scale in treating two at once. But as anyone who has owned two cats at the same time will tell you, there are also diseconomies of scope anytime you have two cats together. So the two effects cancel out. 010
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As an Economist, I thought looking down at adjacent discipline's degrees was our thing! 110
Reposted by Kent Fellowsjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 1087684000
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When I say it, it's ontic. When anyone else says it, it's epistemic. 010
Reposted by Kent FellowsMicah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd." 454897
Reposted by Kent FellowsMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If it's that the MCU was all a dream Tony Stark had as he lay bleeding out in the desert during the first 10 minutes of IRON MAN, I would respect the hell out of that. 815418
Reposted by Kent FellowsIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14780841993
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The federal government had to pay for the portion of the TCPL mainline crossing nothern Ontario, and then lease it back to TransCanada, as the costs of construction were prohibitivly high for private sector investment. 140
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The speed at which both projects progressed was in large part due to concerns about American Economic Influence on Canada. 030
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The TCPL mainline was completed exceptionally quickly, but the St. Laurent government had to force legislation through the house in 1956, which ultimatly led to it's defeat and the election of the Diefenbaker conservatives (ending 22 years of Liberal governance). The pipe was completed by 1958. 131
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Worth noting: MacDonald's first attempt a establishing a Canadian Pacific Rail line STARTED in 1873 (when he and other officials were bribed as part the Pacific Scandal). Final construction wasn't completed until 1886. 13 years, not 4. Then, as now, the delays were political and regulatory. 1178
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I figured it as a Math (US) vs Maths (UK) situation. 130
Reposted by Kent FellowsMegan MacKay🇨🇦 @mmmegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Claude never goes rogue and does something useful. Why can’t Claude go rogue and repaint my upstairs hallway 1141
Reposted by Kent FellowsDuane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There has been a lot of angst in Canada, and dismay in US, over Carney's comments about a possibility of a US military invasion of Canada. Here is the entire very short exchange. 156123
Reposted by Kent FellowsMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Me reading DUNE decades ago: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," haha, religious zealots are so weird Me now: Slack referring to itself as "me" in a notification is an obscenity and the people who programmed it to do that will not see heaven 522047
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Related: I would love more materials on AI Literacy for Luddites. I have both moral and methodological objections to useing most AI in my own work, but I similiarly recognize the importance of being literate in this area. (CC @cyborggoddess.bsky.social ) 110
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Political parties should pick leaders the way Econ departments pick department heads: Anyone ambitious enough to want the job is disqualified and everyone else gets together and bullies the least objectionable person into agreeing to lead until someone better comes along or they burn out. 072
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mad Men similiarly fell apart, which is at least thematically consistent as one of the core themes of the show was style over substance. 020
Reposted by Kent FellowsPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2074022314
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026For disambiguation, I feel the need to specify that the group chat is full of friends I met when we were all in elementary school, rather than being full of friends of mine currently in elementary school. 031
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 22/09/2026H/T to my elementary school friends group chat for reminding me that this existed. 110
Reposted by Kent FellowsNot that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes! My time has come to post this perfect SMBC. Today is a good day. 1376
Reposted by Kent FellowsBlake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Setting aside the fact that Belarus wouldn’t come close to having enough potash available for export to replace Canadian imports, imagine thinking relying on **Belarus** to grow your country’s food supply was a viable option! 🤦🏼♂️ 4944263
Reposted by Kent FellowsDuane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Denying Albertans who do desire an independent country from following a peaceful political process could lead to violence. Just as the PQ ended the FLQ path, the opposite could happen. Telling Albertans that you cannot leave creates an environment for a FLA. 2103
Reposted by Kent FellowsDuane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... This is a really bad and unhelpful column. I have many criticisms of the arguments for Alberta separatism and its leaders. But Alberta has a legal and political right to secede. Do you know what the alternative to a peaceful political process is?theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Why we should stop taking Alberta separatism seriouslyAlbertans are not a ‘people’ in a way that international law would recognize 6226
Reposted by Kent FellowsZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026To be clear, I do think a lot of old food seeming bad is also just people not realizing quite how poor even the recent past has gotten. Food feels expensive now but it's cheaper than any time in history other than the last couple of years. 1421423
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not gonna lie, this one took me a second. Well Played. 020
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you'll permit me to be pedantic for a second: Quantity demand has fallen, due to a war induced price shock. This is not *technically* the same thing as a reduction in demand. However, the distinction may or may not invalidate your point. 120
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026As best I can tell there's only one star war in the film, which no one seems to have noticed until 1981 at the earliest. Even then, the original trilogy only included one Star War, so the series should not have been renamed to the plural until 1999. 040
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Once again suggesting my preferred approach: We should all be on GMT, and just adjust our schedules accordingly. 140
Reposted by Kent FellowsZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Written a while ago, not about anything in particular, but encouraging that people think it *is* because that means it'll have a life in the future. 426827
Reposted by Kent FellowsEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ll take any excuse to recirculate this 41438306
Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Next you'll tell me I'm not allow to call Britain an Emeritus Member. 000