James Boxall
@jamesgis.bsky.social
Geography/GIS educator FRCGS FRGS. Climate SLR. #Dal #SMU #QE2PlatMedal. Semple GeogEd Award. Apoplectic-adorable. Shot 67. Book addict (socialtechfuture) CBCIdeas. Sci-fi. Old movies. WHU COYI. Parkinsons sucks | michaeljfox.org | Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia)
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James Boxall
@jamesgis.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Yes, my profile pic is me at a very young age crying because my stuff toy fell off the table. Ya can't have it all. So I pinned this in case folks wanted to know if I was real and had a real face. Well....if you can stomach it...here it is... in my office doing GIS and lovin it.
I GOT IT!! A referral for Parkinson's clinic...and the date for it is...my parent's wedding anniversary. I'll take the serendipity about that! YES
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I GOT IT!! A referral for Parkinson's clinic...and the date for it is...my parent's wedding anniversary. I'll take the serendipity about that! YES
The pipeline won't happen. Just saying.
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The pipeline won't happen. Just saying.
A state must be a neutral government creating laws respectful of all. Neutrality doesn't mean everyone must be made identity-less simply because they're in public. I very much get the quiet revolution rooted in one religion's influence on people & policy.
Quebec's new secularism bill targets daycare workers, prayer spaces and religious meals | CBC News
The Quebec government wants to place limits on praying in public and extend a ban on wearing religious symbols to daycare workers as part of a sweeping new secularism bill tabled Thursday.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A state must be a neutral government creating laws respectful of all. Neutrality doesn't mean everyone must be made identity-less simply because they're in public. I very much get the quiet revolution rooted in one religion's influence on people & policy.
Must take pics but trust me...the cranes are all lit-up, then Public Gardens are resplendent will lights, and my restaurant eight floors down (Da Zero...recommend!) has a nice wintery display on their patio...
It's that time!
Time to write Mrs. Claus....
She always says I've been a good boy :-) .
It's that time!
Time to write Mrs. Claus....
She always says I've been a good boy :-) .
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Must take pics but trust me...the cranes are all lit-up, then Public Gardens are resplendent will lights, and my restaurant eight floors down (Da Zero...recommend!) has a nice wintery display on their patio...
It's that time!
Time to write Mrs. Claus....
She always says I've been a good boy :-) .
It's that time!
Time to write Mrs. Claus....
She always says I've been a good boy :-) .
Apologies to my 🇺🇸 friends for being late in wishing you happy Thanksgiving .. enjoy!
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Apologies to my 🇺🇸 friends for being late in wishing you happy Thanksgiving .. enjoy!
Different view from lab over towards chemistry building. The fog is running away and the sun is desperately trying to win the win. Time for a nap.
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Different view from lab over towards chemistry building. The fog is running away and the sun is desperately trying to win the win. Time for a nap.
Along SGR in Halifax, you are more likely to see a copper (off duty) inside a store than on the street. When I retire (soon) I'd like to collect data to prove myself wrong.
I'm not betting against myself.
I'm not betting against myself.
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Along SGR in Halifax, you are more likely to see a copper (off duty) inside a store than on the street. When I retire (soon) I'd like to collect data to prove myself wrong.
I'm not betting against myself.
I'm not betting against myself.
I want one of those signal boxes.
Make it a cafe and retirement home pour poor moi :-)
(always loved seeing those ...but there are so few)
Make it a cafe and retirement home pour poor moi :-)
(always loved seeing those ...but there are so few)
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I want one of those signal boxes.
Make it a cafe and retirement home pour poor moi :-)
(always loved seeing those ...but there are so few)
Make it a cafe and retirement home pour poor moi :-)
(always loved seeing those ...but there are so few)
In my daily quest for steps, I take a circuitous routes around the neighbourhood. I catch myself humming Sesame Street song "Who are the people in your neighbourhood."
I know. I need an intervention.
I know. I need an intervention.
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In my daily quest for steps, I take a circuitous routes around the neighbourhood. I catch myself humming Sesame Street song "Who are the people in your neighbourhood."
I know. I need an intervention.
I know. I need an intervention.
This is hard to say.
PP is an awesome opposition leader!
He's also destined to be the worst PM.
He should do what he does well.
PP is an awesome opposition leader!
He's also destined to be the worst PM.
He should do what he does well.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is hard to say.
PP is an awesome opposition leader!
He's also destined to be the worst PM.
He should do what he does well.
PP is an awesome opposition leader!
He's also destined to be the worst PM.
He should do what he does well.
Such sad news. If you knew her, you'd know why it is even sadder than that. (I knew her because her cousin Paula was my best friend growing up next door... she also passed far too young at 44)....damn.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Colleen Jones, champion curler and CBC reporter, dies at 65 | CBC News
Jones’s celebrated career paved the way for other women in sport and broadcasting.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Such sad news. If you knew her, you'd know why it is even sadder than that. (I knew her because her cousin Paula was my best friend growing up next door... she also passed far too young at 44)....damn.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Starting to think Ai is the new nuclear.
1. Nuclear medicine is cool, helpful.
Saved great many lives.
2. Nuclear energy? "beauty in the eye of the beholder."
Some firm yes, some firm no.
3. Nukes best left locked-up, never used.
If you do, kaboom!
Me? 1 yes, 2 maybe, 3 always.
1. Nuclear medicine is cool, helpful.
Saved great many lives.
2. Nuclear energy? "beauty in the eye of the beholder."
Some firm yes, some firm no.
3. Nukes best left locked-up, never used.
If you do, kaboom!
Me? 1 yes, 2 maybe, 3 always.
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Starting to think Ai is the new nuclear.
1. Nuclear medicine is cool, helpful.
Saved great many lives.
2. Nuclear energy? "beauty in the eye of the beholder."
Some firm yes, some firm no.
3. Nukes best left locked-up, never used.
If you do, kaboom!
Me? 1 yes, 2 maybe, 3 always.
1. Nuclear medicine is cool, helpful.
Saved great many lives.
2. Nuclear energy? "beauty in the eye of the beholder."
Some firm yes, some firm no.
3. Nukes best left locked-up, never used.
If you do, kaboom!
Me? 1 yes, 2 maybe, 3 always.
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Reposted by James Boxall
You know it's Tuesday morning and your grad student hasn't arrived, and you need a distraction.....
🔍 David O’Sullivan explores how to generate random points on the globe in R -- from uniform random to Halton sequences and blue-noise sampling.
Read more: dosull.github.io/posts/2025-0...
#RStats #RSpatial #GISchat
Read more: dosull.github.io/posts/2025-0...
#RStats #RSpatial #GISchat
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You know it's Tuesday morning and your grad student hasn't arrived, and you need a distraction.....
There's one benefit to folks using smartphones and ear buds to chat while walking. I can now walk and talk to myself and no one will give it a second thought.
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There's one benefit to folks using smartphones and ear buds to chat while walking. I can now walk and talk to myself and no one will give it a second thought.
Sometimes I simply cry. Problem is, I'm not sure if it's tears of joy or laughter, or of pain and sorrow. Maybe more fear.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sometimes I simply cry. Problem is, I'm not sure if it's tears of joy or laughter, or of pain and sorrow. Maybe more fear.
I love noticing legacies of another time, habits we still use and they're starting to seem passe.
Walking through quiet room in the library, notice two librarians whispering about who-knows-what.
"why ya whispering?"
"don't want to bother the students"
"they can't hear you. ear buds."
Walking through quiet room in the library, notice two librarians whispering about who-knows-what.
"why ya whispering?"
"don't want to bother the students"
"they can't hear you. ear buds."
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I love noticing legacies of another time, habits we still use and they're starting to seem passe.
Walking through quiet room in the library, notice two librarians whispering about who-knows-what.
"why ya whispering?"
"don't want to bother the students"
"they can't hear you. ear buds."
Walking through quiet room in the library, notice two librarians whispering about who-knows-what.
"why ya whispering?"
"don't want to bother the students"
"they can't hear you. ear buds."
I don't really have anything against Monday per se, I simply do not like waking to find out it is Monday.
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I don't really have anything against Monday per se, I simply do not like waking to find out it is Monday.
OK, I'm tired of people not moving aside.
Can't ya see I have a cane and issues walking?
Halifax, better please.
Folks giving me strange looks because my face freezes, glaring, no blinks. It's my PD not you.
On plus side, thanks to the folks opening doors :-)
There are still, always, good people.
Can't ya see I have a cane and issues walking?
Halifax, better please.
Folks giving me strange looks because my face freezes, glaring, no blinks. It's my PD not you.
On plus side, thanks to the folks opening doors :-)
There are still, always, good people.
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
OK, I'm tired of people not moving aside.
Can't ya see I have a cane and issues walking?
Halifax, better please.
Folks giving me strange looks because my face freezes, glaring, no blinks. It's my PD not you.
On plus side, thanks to the folks opening doors :-)
There are still, always, good people.
Can't ya see I have a cane and issues walking?
Halifax, better please.
Folks giving me strange looks because my face freezes, glaring, no blinks. It's my PD not you.
On plus side, thanks to the folks opening doors :-)
There are still, always, good people.
N.Carolina Senator thinks we owe NATO $300 Billion. We pay our portion of NATO operations (our "obligation" we do "owe") $300 is his math of 2% GDP defense spend guideline missed since 1990. It's a target some nations don't/haven't hit. It is not owed.
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...
U.S. senators say relations with Canada suffering
The tariffs imposed on Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump have clearly caused economic pain for Canada, but a U.S. senator from Maine says he’s more worried about how Canadians are reacting on a pe...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
N.Carolina Senator thinks we owe NATO $300 Billion. We pay our portion of NATO operations (our "obligation" we do "owe") $300 is his math of 2% GDP defense spend guideline missed since 1990. It's a target some nations don't/haven't hit. It is not owed.
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...
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"Despite the difficulties getting everyone to agree on how to tackle climate change, real-world solutions are being implemented at speed almost everywhere."
Love this #COP30 takeaway from
@georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!
Love this #COP30 takeaway from
@georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!
COP30 in Brazil fails to secure new pledges to cut fossil fuels - follow live
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Despite the difficulties getting everyone to agree on how to tackle climate change, real-world solutions are being implemented at speed almost everywhere."
Love this #COP30 takeaway from
@georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!
Love this #COP30 takeaway from
@georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!
Reposted by James Boxall
Don't call it AI or LLM. Call it the Expensive Mistake Generator.
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Don't call it AI or LLM. Call it the Expensive Mistake Generator.
I just realized, I should have been a seismologist. I'm already on shaky parky ground, so perhaps my tremors and earth's would cancel each other out and..tada!
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I just realized, I should have been a seismologist. I'm already on shaky parky ground, so perhaps my tremors and earth's would cancel each other out and..tada!
Santa gives out Rolex watches?
That must be one hell of a naughty-nice list.
That must be one hell of a naughty-nice list.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Santa gives out Rolex watches?
That must be one hell of a naughty-nice list.
That must be one hell of a naughty-nice list.