Andy Roddick
Associate prof @ McMaster; Andean Archaeologist; Bolivia; Dad; Photographer; Cyclist, Music. roddick_a@mstdn.social Opinions mine not of my employer.
- Facts.
- Reposted by Andy RoddickThe thing about using generative AI to do creative work is that we can't stop you but we do get to make fun of you for it and that's not colonialism that's not being a fucking tool.
- What does "nation-building" actually mean at this moment, if Stats Can and archives are being cut? Just the military-industrial-ai complex, or are there other elements that are critical to a future Canada?
- Thread. Yet more concerning decisions by the Carney government.
- Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
- Nate and I played 3 hours of shinny hockey last week. The next day, we both were reminded that we are truly middle aged. Snapped with the 📷Bronica ETSi and trix before the aches and pains kicked in #believeinfilm
- Reposted by Andy RoddickI think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
- Wild. It is EXACTLY like university administrators approach.
- So. Many. Great. Albums. (Also, I’m old)
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- The pup. 📷 Minolta maxxum a7 and tri x. #believeinfilm
- More iPhone icicle snaps
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- Thanks @killgrove.bsky.social for the important PSA!
- Icicles doing their thing this morning.
- The clichés photos of politicians hard at work with a pen in hand…really needs to be retired. The worst.
- Reposted by Andy RoddickReminder that of all the people complicit in Epstein's crimes, the only person actually held accountable and sentenced was a woman. No men involved have yet to face consequences.
- Reposted by Andy RoddickLol, is this what they mean by dark academy? [verified] @academicblue.bsky.social
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- This book is blowing my mind. Jeff Bridges is an incredible photographer and what he does with a widelux camera is stunning. The environmental portraits especially… #believeinfilm
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- Snapped a lot of sports in the last 24 hours.
- Reposted by Andy RoddickIsrael to end Doctors Without Borders work in Gaza
- Reposted by Andy RoddickCatherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
- Reposted by Andy RoddickThis just came on during my watch of A Mighty Wind (on YouTube) and it made me sob. It’s a legitimately excellent song, and of course Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara fucking crush it.
- one of my favorites… it takes on a different meaning now in a way. thanks, Catherine O’Hara. youtu.be/3eflj2EWZzg?...
- A goose in York 🏴 📷Leica m2 #believeinfilm
- These lectures, on CBC Ideas by Rutger Bregman, are terrific. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
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- Great video of Inca hydraulic/drainage systems.
- All of this.
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- Reposted by Andy Roddick"The reason these aspects of our jobs have been so challenging to automate is that they rely on something even more precious than our time: namely, our capacity for scientific decision-making. It is worth considering what we lose when we cede that—and our agency—to machines."
- Seems about right.
- The 7 year snapped a couple of me with the Leica M2. A bit under exposed but not bad! #believeinfilm
- Reposted by Andy RoddickSeen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)
- Reposted by Andy RoddickPeople are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
- Pup living her best life today
- Standing up to fascist murderers.
- Reposted by Andy RoddickThere would be no ethical use of generative AI even if it weren't *literally* bankrolling the goddamn gestapo and its concentration camps and providing them the ability to generate infinite nazi propaganda slop. But it is also doing that too.
- Les enfants. A few recent ones with the Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm
- Elbows up and all that, amiright?
- Do it.
- Reposted by Andy Roddick1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.
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- Reposted by Andy RoddickLast term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:
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- Reposted by Andy Roddick‘Keep Carleton Human’: Carleton University staff rallies to push for protections from A.I.
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- Funniest thing I’ve read in a while. But I don’t think I was supposed to be laughing. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- York 🏴 trains 📷Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm
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- Reposted by Andy RoddickIf I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%
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- Well now… the pretentious shite of our discipline will continue hand in hand with AI shite… perfect.
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- Reposted by Andy RoddickThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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- Reading Carolyn Dean’s terrific new book “Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture”. I love her exploration of this All- T’uqapu Unku (a textile like made for the Inka ruler) as a Gell like “mind trap” with all sorts of “unfinished business” given its carefully non-pattern chaos.
- (Book here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331965/)
- Perfect, keep it up folks
- Affordability crisis in a nutshell.
