Daniel O'Donnell

Daniel O'Donnell

@danielpaulod.bsky.social

PSE Labour Activist. Digital Humanities, Open Science, History of English Lang. English Professor. Department Chair. Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA). University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (ULFA). Lethbridge Herald Columnist.

266 Followers 438 Following 44 Posts Joined Nov 2024
10 months ago
One moment captured Poilievre's fatal weakness Dan O'Donnell For the Herald So the election is over and the Liberals have won. Behind by more than 25 points at the end of 2024, they overtook the

My column on the election: it was all about the apple. lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/o...

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1 year ago

When your son completes the first collective agreement for the company he unionized...

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1 year ago

Damn. So there is a permanent record? michael moore assured me there wasn't

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1 year ago

One of the joys of listening to @iciradiocanada.bsky.social radio. On the morning show this morning a discussion of the superbowl with sports guy. Two sentences on who might win (Chiefs). Four minutes on how to rotate your menu each year with piercing followup questions on chicken wings.

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1 year ago

Well, that was fun. I just told a student to "Google 'the first law of Humanities Computing'" and my phone took it as a voice command, and read out the definition from my website!

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1 year ago

One reason the world needs more Canada is new years starts at 730 pacific.

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1 year ago
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Canadian holiday tradition of angrily berating teenagers continues OSTRAVA, CZ - The long-held Canadian holiday tradition of berating 16-19-year-olds for losing a hockey game started a few days earlier this year.

Canadian holiday tradition of angrily berating teenagers continues

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1 year ago

Administrators who don't understand that the Humanities is really our best bet right now are simply wrong. Just like that. Wrong.

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1 year ago
Working on code with ChatGPT: Some tips (some also useful more generally) | Daniel Paul O'Donnell

Some tips, general and coding specific, for using ChatGPT for projects. Most Important and generalisable: put in its memory that you want every response to end with [Response Number NNN | YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM | Chat name: ]

Also, get it to write your commits...

people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odon...

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1 year ago

So down to basically the advance polls. One downtown, one across from the U of L.

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1 year ago

28/50 reporting polls with 2 even, so a 28:20 margin there so far.

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1 year ago

If the UCP could do that even after waiting until the students are mostly gone, then Lethbridge West is now safe NDP is my guess. Which doesn't bode well for UCP MLAs in YYC. #ableg

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1 year ago

Looks to me like an NDP win by about 55:45.

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1 year ago
Unofficial Results - 2024 Lethbridge-West By-Election

Polls closing now in the Lethbridge-West provincial by-election. Election results (with live poll-by-poll data) here: results.elections.ab.ca/8488

#cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg

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1 year ago
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Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...

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1 year ago

This has always been my fear.

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1 year ago

Since writing Once we were heroes (quondam glamour boys), a noir set in the 1966-1967 season, I've become an ambiguous Leafs fan: pretty much only watch original six match-up, which remind of games from that year, and hope they win, except not the cup (the fact they never win again is impt metaphor)

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This is something else!

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1 year ago
Future generations can learn from documents written for the present Dan O'Donnell  The movie, The Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, takes place in the Vatican after the death of a pope. The character played by Fiennes,

My latest column in the Lethbridge Herald. lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/o...

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1 year ago
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The Clash - London Calling (Official Video) YouTube video by theclashVEVO

45 years ago today the Clash released London Calling.
December 14 should be a national holiday.
Hmmm... maybe I will work on some legislation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-...

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1 year ago

My favorites are template-based ones. Last search we realized that all letters from one uni were following the same format. "X is the best I've ever had at Y. Dissertation is nearly done. Observed to be great teacher. Lovely person."

Give away was "at proofreading" for Y in sentence 1.

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Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage Uncompleted or abandoned buildings are a regular feature of the landscape. Now calls for restorations are increasing

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

I don't know what you call the style of architecture they are discussing here, but I really love it.

Like the interior of the Arts building at Unilag. photos.app.goo.gl/yDxSWg5sVtXF...

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1 year ago

Sincere question: has anyone ever read a letter of rec written by a North American that wasn’t at least positive, if not glowing?

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1 year ago

Well that was for her undergraduate work. PhD is on MAGA, which is presumably a telling progression.

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Two under-appreciated and related big picture trends. #EnergyTransition

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20

#BookSky #writingcommunity

(Make sure you get the 2nd edition, mind)

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If you are working on a #FirstDraft of your #story, remember, it's going to be messy. It's sort of like reorganizing the house. Sometimes you have to make a bigger mess first. That's normal. You are not a bad #writer. Everyone's first drafts are a disaster, even your favorite author. Don't give up.

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1 year ago
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Federal government orders end to Canada Post strike while commission tries to reach new contract "We're calling a timeout." Federal labour minister asking CIRB to appoint commission to come up with ways to reach new contract by May 22.

Federal government moves to end Canada Post strike. What happens next? Commentary from me, @stephross.bsky.social & @thelawofwork.bsky.social.

www.thestar.com/business/fed...

#canlab #cdnpoli

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1 year ago
Tracing radicalization to the incel movement and its connection to loneliness Evidence brief by James Popham, Samantha Henderson, Stacey Colliver and Lucas Pokrywa

If you'll forgive proud father one-upmanship... "or cited for the first time in a Knowledge Synthesis review." www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/society-soci...

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White consciousness helps explain conspiracy thinking | HKS Misinformation Review While conspiracy theories have long been tied to race, ethnicity, and religion, understanding this relationship is increasingly important in countries where White identity has become politically charg...

White consciousness & conspiracy thinking misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/whit...

High in White consciousness = >
- generalized conspiracy thinking
- endorse racist “great replacement”
- move from generalized conspiracies to specific, non-racial conspiracies

via @misinforeview.bsky.social

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