Daniel Haran
Daniel Haran
@danielharan.bsky.social
Chocolate maker. Past work included software, open data, AI, politics.
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Sounds like that neo-Nazi Richard Spencer. A cast of fucking deplorable assholes is in power, and there doesn't seem to be quite the push back they deserve.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
TIL there's a maple syrup from an Israeli apiary!?
Yet another attempt at AI alignment with lofty ambition. If a software program can predict the future, it can choose those pathways that lead to low entropy and high Kolmogorov complexity. Who knew techies would so elegantly solve all of ethics? /s
The resulting assets were also useful and had more than a 3-5 year useful life. We won't need that many data centres, nor that many chips.
Yes, railroads were built in three big investment waves Yes, it is totally possible that the same will happen with AI But every single time investors were cleaned out (PS: and a 3x investment - from 2 to 6 in the chart - in 50 years is like 2.2% CAGR...)
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NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com
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Regardez bien : Il s’agit de néonazis (reconnaissables à leur brassard blanc) que la police laisse faire mais protège lorsqu’ils se retrouvent en difficulté. Malheureusement aucun média ne la diffusera ni n’interrogera les autorités (le DSO ou le Procureur) sur ces actes ANTI RÉPUBLICAINS.
Les militants fascistes ont attaqués des manifestants rue de la Loge sous les yeux de la police, quand les manifestants ont répliqués, la police a chargé pour les protéger et les miliciens ont frappés les gens à terre ! #Montpellier #24octobre #ViolencesPolicieres @info.gouv.fr
"Data from three Ontario wineries found that switching even 10 per cent of the 60 million or so 750-millilitre wine bottles sold by Ontario wineries every year to refillable bottles would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from wineries by 69 per cent." o_O Umm, @thestar.com how does that math?
I just can' t with most discourse anymore. If the left/progressive folk accept the framing of intelligence and thinking scammers want to foist upon us... or accept that AI is anything but a marketing slogan... they've already lost.
Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."
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Alto is now targeted by people in Toronto + English Canada, who see it as too Québécois (HQ in #Montréal , francophone executives), and the Parti Québécois, who see it as a non-Québécois conspiracy imposed by Ottawa and English Canada. It’s neither. It’s just a smart idea, one whose time has come.
#Quebec’s incoming Parti Québécois government says it will fight Alto, North America’s first true high-speed rail line. Yes, the province with the most to gain from the all-electric train wants to stop this project dead in its tracks. What's behind their stance? 🧵
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LETTRE D'OPINION | « Je suis consciente que la politique d’indépendance de QS est le fruit d’une histoire particulière d’alliances [...]. Mais le temps est venu de reconnaître que ces compromis ont conduit à des incohérences intolérables. » ✉️ Par Sarah Ghabrial. 🔗 pivot.quebec/2026/10/19/r...
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Ruba Ghazal expressed surprise about the latest cop scandal in Montreal. It came off as copaganda, and a few commenters have pushed back, saying no one paying attention should be surprised. Is she really surprised, though, or does she have to pretend to be because she's scared?
Ruba Ghazal expressed surprise about the latest cop scandal in Montreal. It came off as copaganda, and a few commenters have pushed back, saying no one paying attention should be surprised. Is she really surprised, though, or does she have to pretend to be because she's scared?
If you're one of those moderates who was surprised: I think you deserve politicians that can level with you. The SPVM now has a long track record. They're corrupt, racist, and barely accountable.
The cop urinating was working with a partner, and then sharing videos in a far-right group chat. (What is it with frats and group chats!?) And contrary to what some journalists have said, it was the RCMP that found these group chats, and not other SPVM agents blowing the whistle:
Ruba Ghazal expressed surprise about the latest cop scandal in Montreal. It came off as copaganda, and a few commenters have pushed back, saying no one paying attention should be surprised. Is she really surprised, though, or does she have to pretend to be because she's scared?
The SPVM has a history of corruption and illegal behaviour - from links to gangs to wiretapping journalists. At the very least, a politician that tries to argue against them is going to suffer in the media. You can also be charged for insulting cops, because what's a constitution and free speech?
Ruba Ghazal expressed surprise about the latest cop scandal in Montreal. It came off as copaganda, and a few commenters have pushed back, saying no one paying attention should be surprised. Is she really surprised, though, or does she have to pretend to be because she's scared?
Announcing the opening of a new police station the same day we learn an officer assaulted a quadriplegic protester is... a choice. bsky.app/profile/cp24...
Bradford pitches plan to employ 15,000 young people, Chow announces reopening of east-end Toronto police station
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