DGBassani
Widower dad of 3. Problem-solver living an unsolvable problem. Fatuity loather. Epidemiologist learning about complexity and networks. dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/bas… and isi.it/people/diego-bassani/
- Reposted by DGBassaniYesterday, 3,000+ people got #ComplexityThoughts Issue 75 in their inbox. Want the next one? Subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/... #ComplexSystems 🧪🧬🦠🌐 As usual, also on: 🎧 Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/com... 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
- Reposted by DGBassaniWhen people actually care about government services, and evaluate spending technology in terms of what it actually does rather than FOMO, look what happens!
- Oh, they are hiring a human. But it needs to be a highly-qualified one willing to be underpaid to improve a bot that plagiarizes the work of their peers.
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- Green Day and Bad Bunny. 😂😂😂
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- Reposted by DGBassaniAwesome! Check out this @theresisters.bsky.social podcast with @fitterhappieraj.bsky.social.
- Our “No Ostriching Here.” podcast episode with the fascinating Dr. Anthony Leonardi has dropped! Avail on Apple, Spotify today, and on YouTube soon! Come learn about this person who many assume is “just a scientist” 😁. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/n... open.spotify.com/show/5tWcYcM...
- Alright… this is a lot of snow.
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- “Vá para o raio que o parta!” Is an old Portuguese idiom meaning ‘leave me alone, or go to hell’ but it literally translates as ‘go to a place where a lightning bolt splits you in half’.
- What’s up??? What’s up???!!!
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- Great aurora in Banff www.youtube.com/live/zlxbH2x...
- Wrote this after emerging from the Gas Town rabbit hole. I wasn’t there for long, but it was long enough.
- Speaking of…
- If you went down the Gast Town rabbit hole you may like this sanity rope to climb out. “It takes you a minute of prompting and waiting a few minutes for code to come out of it. But actually honestly reviewing a pull request takes many times longer than that. The asymmetry is completely brutal.”
- Now to really important matters.
- When what comes out of Davos starts seeming like a balanced worldview, you know we're in deep trouble.
- Another must watch from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
- Auroras today should be visible easily mostly anywhere in Canada. Look north if skies are clear. (And your not in a city…)
- Reposted by DGBassaniThanks for making this video @taylorlorenz.bsky.social lets hope people listen and not accuse you of "calling everything you disagree with eugenics" and such as they did me and @xriskology.bsky.social 🙄 I don't know how much evidence people need.
- Hey just found out @tpn-uoft.bsky.social is on bluesky. and I am the first follower. Bragging rights?
- Reposted by DGBassaniGreat piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication. For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.
- Reposted by DGBassaniI just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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- Reposted by DGBassaniWriting is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- I have an old wifi signal that clearly was created by me (I have the name and know the password). I changed my whole network to a mesh system and that old name is still showing up (and active). How do I find out which device is broadcasting it other than by elimination (disconnecting one by one).
- Hayward was disappointing. Toni Colette does her magic, but she can’t hold the whole thing on her own. I tried. I think I’ll rewatch United States of Tara.
- Finally watched K-pop demon hunters.
- Orchestrated agentic LLM coders will bankrupt a lot of naive folks. And make a lot of money for cloud providers.
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- Now I think I have embarrassed myself because I think it was @SERiousEPI with my colleague @haileybanack.bsky.social and Matt Fox.
- Did the @theresisters.bsky.social invite me to a podcast once…? So much that went on at the height of my grief still feels like a big clump of mental fog. I likely said no, or it never happened and I am imagining. The stuff that existed only on the other site and are long gone.
- Did the @theresisters.bsky.social invite me to a podcast once…? So much that went on at the height of my grief still feels like a big clump of mental fog. I likely said no, or it never happened and I am imagining. The stuff that existed only on the other site and are long gone.
- Reposted by DGBassani@rachelgilmore.bsky.social Please sign and share widely to restrict foreign-owned media in Canada. Deadline to sign is Feb. 18 at noon. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
- Sums it up.
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- Reposted by DGBassaniEt si je vous disais que l'expression "Which way, Greenland man" est inspiré d'un livre raciste, antisémiste et complotiste ?
- Reposted by DGBassanipulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
- “If they don't like strongman rule, they think, they can just elect someone else the next time. This misses the point. If you help a strongman come to power, you are eliminating democracy. You burn that bridge behind you. The strongman fantasy dissolves, and real dictatorship remains.
- This says it all.
- Reposted by DGBassaniHow complex should network models be? 🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior). 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
- Reposted by DGBassaniNew: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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- Cool paper: “This work adds a differing perspective to several extant concepts in the study of social networks, including strong and weak ties, social capital, network vulnerability, segmentation, decay, independents, bridges, brokers, small world networks and core–periphery structures.”
- So much potential to be tapped.
- Reposted by DGBassaniIs there a mathematics of discontinuous behavior? Christopher Zeeman was a leading proponent of Catastrophe Theory, a topological approach to sudden change that underpins much of today’s work on tipping points. This is his beautiful 1976 paper in @sciam.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
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- That this continues to be tolerated and that there are absolutely no functioning guardrails is what baffles me. All in barely a year.
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- Reposted by DGBassaniDanish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well. I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III. (Gifted.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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- Fascinating. Roman satire after all.
- I had a recurring dream for nearly half of my life. I think I know what it means. It took me only 25 years.
- I know you’re all glued to the golden globes, but take a second to hold on to your hats.
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
