Johanna, CanCon variety

RE: https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/116185368705211385

But it’s possible I am harbouring one of those last few demons, damn this indigestion.

Screen shot of white beards dude with microphone up to his mouth that we don’t want to hear from.

@cascadiarevolt.bsky.social

Nice, good for the kids around here. Frankly, I had not heard of this jerk until your post, which is kinda funny because why would a west-coaster even know Kitchener exists much less know any sordid news from here…

If I Had heard of […]

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How on earth is my OLD Gmail address suddenly in the constituent mailing lists of multiple Toronto city councillors???

That weird colour banding is an artifact of the digital camera snapping a digital screen.

There is apparently a video to look up from a previous talk in 2023.

Introducing the Science of Happiness, and that it is a new, *exploratory* science, not yet an explanatory science.

He’s using that old comic of a bunch of scientists, blindfolded, only […]

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Initiative was based on a gift to the faculty from the Rekhi Happiness Institute to develop a course and educational outreach in the field of studying happiness in the context of environment and sustainability studies.

Introduction now to the featured author of the evening, a math and comp sci […]

Whooo. Right off the mark in the intro, we’re mashing Nietzsche and the Last Man into the societal implications of AI .

Buckle up, johanna this Friday’s ride is gonna involve whiplash.

Hah. Back to MC, saying “nice to know SOMEone thinks the University will still be here. Hands the mic over to […]

Here’s another live post streak, on tonight’s antidote to the Dystopia Lab: The Value Crisis and the Science of Happiness. It’s an author + academics presentation and discussion night on how we find our happy lives amidst the “quest for meaning in the modern world”.

That phrase was used as the […]

@kissane.myatproto.social

“Context smash machine”.

May I *yoink*? I mean, that belongs right beside something I scribbled down from a writer’s essay that LLMs don’t improve writing any more than a blender improves a salad.

Welp. With that, I am off to “no plans, just vibes” Gemini pro learning lab.

Remember, if I ever tell you raisins belong in buttertarts, that’ll be me blinking twice, send in the extraction team.

Now we are teaching children that the courtesy and social graces - things which require cognitive and emotional effort and are therefore finite resources of which we can be depleted - are due to the toys and machines these same objectifiers build for us, imbuing them with the faint synthetic […]

When I tripped into nascent digital social networks, I quickly saw the phenomenon of the DEpersonalization that happened when human interaction was abstracted down to text exchanges at a distance. It led to objectification of people as only the services they could provide to those who had a […]

View through a gallery window to the floor below, which is a room titled the RoboHub at university of Waterloo - engineering faculty

Just before I took this snap from the mezzanine above, the UW Robotics lab was hosting a school group of some sort . Watched a line of the kiddos file out past one of these cute little anthropomorphic droids, each one getting a double fistbump on the way out […]

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Huh. Just been followed by @lowqualityfacts

While I appreciate the humour often posted, I'm not sure if should be offended or not that I'm being followed!

but also, glad to find the account here and not on its Threads variant.

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This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.

I really want to get some contact info to talk to some of these ppl about how to apply these principles in retrofit. It of course is NOT feasible in many cases to tear down a whole structure and build new in the same crater. Buildings 30-60 yrs old can still be sound enough to retrofit when […]

We have now gotten deep into the weeds of technical components of building assembly - both waaaayyy deeper than my XP and damn all these people are talking way too fast. Admittedly, it’s a specialist domain that is usually speaking to their own community members.

I think the summary of this […]

Huh. I think I just saw a federated delete in action, on my app!

I was partway through reading a comment from @quillmatiq and my app bounced a little haptic tap, timeline refreshed and post disappeared.

Nice to see it worked but now I’m curious about the rest of the comment . 😝

Whoo. Architect now noting how many critical contributors to efficient building operation just get missed because they’re minor - like pipe and conduit insulation. If they’re not specified and assigned as a responsibility to a specific subcontractor, they just get … left out.

This explains a […]

Huh. Hadn’t occurred to me that things WOULDNT work this way, but the architect shared that working as a design-build team with Passive House is an advantage and speeds up the timeline by collaborating real-time rather than waiting for each contract to finish deliverables before the next starts […]

Architects are showcasing 265 Kerr St Oakville, a Haltin Community Housing property built to Passive House standards as an affordable seniors community. Community housing seems to be where inroads are being made. Public investment needed to expand the idea to other ownership models! CMHC seems […]

Passive House spec doesn’t yet speak directly to embodied carbon, but tool and system development is active and ongoing, and research is showing the methods also reduce embodied carbon over the life of a project .

Presentation answered one of my questions, which was how Passive House and LEED relate and compare. Speaker had a great graphic I’ll have to dig up to share. LEED has more dimensions to it, so PassiveHouse standards fit into two specific “dimensions” of the LEED quality system - building energy […]

That went fast, now motoring through the intro to PassiveHouse. Passive house is a standard, a compilation of target metrics for reducing the total energy consumed by buildings. Most cannot quickly become completely “net zero”, but the developed systems can reduce the energy use in a new […]

Sponsor intros up first, but it’s all cool - took a note in SIGA - because with a condo roof rebuild coming up, it’ll be good to learn about membrane and sealant performance!

Out tonight learning about Passive House standards and systems. Passive House Pulse is a pop-up Passive House Canada mini-forum series that lets academics, community orgs and the public connect with what this industry advocacy group offers within its construction sector membership.

Tonight is […]

Here's a tip for anyone else who wants my business:

Do not ever suggest your malfunctioning customer portal/interface is due to MY not using Google products. Fix your shit, or lose your customers.

And they better figure out they need to send me a paper statement for the last bill, or it ain't getting paid because I'll never see it.

Just lost my shit on a credit card call centre.

Their online portal has had me locked out months. It always was a horrible portal to get into and navigate, but I got statements until last Oct.

Trying to get access restored I kept getting blown off. "oh it's just maintenance, try tomorrow" and […]

CAREERS

Calling the #scicomm community, and anyone looking for a new career in bonny Scotland. New job alert for an Education & Learning Officer at the fantastic #Kirkcudbright Dark Space Planetarium. Application deadline: 27th March. 🔭🎢

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