James Danckert
@jamesdanckert.bsky.social
All things boredom. Which essentially means everything else too.
AI and LLMs trend towards sameness of expression - it might just make us all more boring!
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
Is AI Making Us Boring?
AI works by predicting the most likely next thing, but in doing so, it risks becoming predictable and monotonous—and so do we if we rely too much on the tool.
www.psychologytoday.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
AI and LLMs trend towards sameness of expression - it might just make us all more boring!
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
Greatest Christmas movie ever!
“DIE HARD" (1988) dir. John McTiernan
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, Hart Bochner
🎬 20th Century-Fox
#ChristmasCountdown2025 #XMAS2025
🎄🔔🍷☃️🕯🦌🎅🏻❄️🎁
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, Hart Bochner
🎬 20th Century-Fox
#ChristmasCountdown2025 #XMAS2025
🎄🔔🍷☃️🕯🦌🎅🏻❄️🎁
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Greatest Christmas movie ever!
too often feeling like the chorus of this banger!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTc...
What a Day
YouTube video by Faith No More - Topic
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November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
too often feeling like the chorus of this banger!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTc...
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But either he's gonna be cold or the beer's gonna be warm - I don't see this working!
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
But either he's gonna be cold or the beer's gonna be warm - I don't see this working!
Listening to Dio - Rainbow in the Dark! Would have connected with my bro to share this were he still here www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrBU...
Dio - Rainbow In The Dark (Official Music Video) [HD]
YouTube video by RHINO
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October 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Listening to Dio - Rainbow in the Dark! Would have connected with my bro to share this were he still here www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrBU...
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The Ford government has a chance to take meaningful action to end homelessness by passing @aislinnclancy.bsky.social and @lfairclough.bsky.social's bill today.
I encourage my fellow MPPs to read their powerful op-ed before we vote later today.
I encourage my fellow MPPs to read their powerful op-ed before we vote later today.
"Now is the time for bold action. Hard challenges require us to step away from partisanship and focus on the people we serve."
@lfairclough.bsky.social and I wrote about the housing crisis Ontario is in and why we worked across party lines to put forward a bill to end homelessness.
@lfairclough.bsky.social and I wrote about the housing crisis Ontario is in and why we worked across party lines to put forward a bill to end homelessness.
Homelessness ends with housing: A call for solutions to Ontario’s homelessness crisis
The province needs leadership, not divisive politics that leaves people behind.
www.thespec.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The Ford government has a chance to take meaningful action to end homelessness by passing @aislinnclancy.bsky.social and @lfairclough.bsky.social's bill today.
I encourage my fellow MPPs to read their powerful op-ed before we vote later today.
I encourage my fellow MPPs to read their powerful op-ed before we vote later today.
My awesome PhD student (graduated now) Baaba just got our Pong study up kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
We show that when you disrupt agency, frustration ensues and boredom is not far behind!
We show that when you disrupt agency, frustration ensues and boredom is not far behind!
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My awesome PhD student (graduated now) Baaba just got our Pong study up kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
We show that when you disrupt agency, frustration ensues and boredom is not far behind!
We show that when you disrupt agency, frustration ensues and boredom is not far behind!
You can't help but wonder what Carlin would have to say today - I mean he laid it all before shit got crazier
October 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You can't help but wonder what Carlin would have to say today - I mean he laid it all before shit got crazier
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It's hard to overstate just how far backwards the Ford government has taken us on climate.
The rest of the world is using the shift toward renewables to generate jobs and prosperity, meanwhile the Premier has no plan at all.
The rest of the world is using the shift toward renewables to generate jobs and prosperity, meanwhile the Premier has no plan at all.
NEW: "We are continuing to meet our commitment to at least try to meet our commitment for the 2030 target," Environment Minister Todd McCarthy said today.
"We believe in achievable outcomes, not unrealistic objectives." #Onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1145911...
"We believe in achievable outcomes, not unrealistic objectives." #Onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1145911...
Ford government pledges to ‘at least try’ to achieve emissions target, as it slips away | Globalnews.ca
A new report from Ontario’s auditor general said the province, which already anticipates it will not meet its emissions target, could miss it by 'an even wider margin.'
globalnews.ca
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's hard to overstate just how far backwards the Ford government has taken us on climate.
The rest of the world is using the shift toward renewables to generate jobs and prosperity, meanwhile the Premier has no plan at all.
The rest of the world is using the shift toward renewables to generate jobs and prosperity, meanwhile the Premier has no plan at all.
I've come up with a new role for all new tech companies - CCO Chief Curmudgeon Officer. They all need an old bastard like me to tell them how to make their devices easier to operate (for old bastards like me)
a man in a suit and sweater is walking in a parking lot
ALT: a man in a suit and sweater is walking in a parking lot
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I've come up with a new role for all new tech companies - CCO Chief Curmudgeon Officer. They all need an old bastard like me to tell them how to make their devices easier to operate (for old bastards like me)
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New #DHPRLab paper by @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social together with @corimartarelli.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social & @jamesdanckert.bsky.social 💪🥳
Check out the post below, in case you're interested!⬇️
Check out the post below, in case you're interested!⬇️
📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩
Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms.
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TL;DR: Check 🧵 below
Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms.
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TL;DR: Check 🧵 below
September 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
New #DHPRLab paper by @senaozayotgonbayar.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social together with @corimartarelli.bsky.social, @mbieleke.bsky.social & @jamesdanckert.bsky.social 💪🥳
Check out the post below, in case you're interested!⬇️
Check out the post below, in case you're interested!⬇️
Another gem from @minzlicht.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/michaeli... - but I think it goes beyond who gets to be louder. To me, this is about offense - when offended, who needs to change? The offender or the offendee? It's not always clear to me - but maybe I'm the (loud) asshole!
Am I the Asshole for Taking Work Calls on My Own Balcony?
My neighbour asked me to move indoors last month, and I minded.
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Another gem from @minzlicht.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/michaeli... - but I think it goes beyond who gets to be louder. To me, this is about offense - when offended, who needs to change? The offender or the offendee? It's not always clear to me - but maybe I'm the (loud) asshole!
Loved this flick - not mentioned a ton in his obits
im kind of a 90s kid so my key robert redford movie is "sneakers"
September 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Loved this flick - not mentioned a ton in his obits
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The Premier is blaming young people for graduating into an economy that is leaving them behind.
We need more supports for young people entering the workforce.
1/2
We need more supports for young people entering the workforce.
1/2
NEW: As unemployment sits past seven per cent, Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office says he doesn't yet have a view on whether the foreign temporary worker program should be scrapped.
He says young people aren't looking hard enough for jobs. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1140573...
He says young people aren't looking hard enough for jobs. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1140573...
Ford government declines to say if temporary foreign worker program should end | Globalnews.ca
Premier Doug Ford's office declined to take a position on whether or not the temporary foreign worker program should come to an end amidst growing unemployment in his province.
globalnews.ca
September 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The Premier is blaming young people for graduating into an economy that is leaving them behind.
We need more supports for young people entering the workforce.
1/2
We need more supports for young people entering the workforce.
1/2
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Jasmine Crockett with the real talk!
June 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Jasmine Crockett with the real talk!
Was an awesome session - boredom and entropy, boredom in nature and a wonderful future directions discussion at the end - great to be part of such a vibrant community!
Great experience to present the #boredombook today w @corimartarelli.bsky.social at the boredom conference🤩
Thanks to @jamesdanckert.bsky.social for chairing, to the audience for the great discussion & to Josefa Ros for putting it all together 🙏
www.boredomsociety.com/6th-boredom-...
Thanks to @jamesdanckert.bsky.social for chairing, to the audience for the great discussion & to Josefa Ros for putting it all together 🙏
www.boredomsociety.com/6th-boredom-...
June 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Was an awesome session - boredom and entropy, boredom in nature and a wonderful future directions discussion at the end - great to be part of such a vibrant community!
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In case you were wondering, we'll be paying for weapons with revenue from extractive industries. And don't be shocked if those critical minerals get used to make weapons.
I'm sure climate change and Indigenous rights are somewhere down the list of priorities.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
I'm sure climate change and Indigenous rights are somewhere down the list of priorities.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Carney says Canada will meet new NATO spending target by developing critical minerals
Canada is committed to increasing its defence spending but has questions about the “timeline” for hitting a new, higher NATO spending target, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday, as alli...
www.ctvnews.ca
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
In case you were wondering, we'll be paying for weapons with revenue from extractive industries. And don't be shocked if those critical minerals get used to make weapons.
I'm sure climate change and Indigenous rights are somewhere down the list of priorities.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
I'm sure climate change and Indigenous rights are somewhere down the list of priorities.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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June 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Had a fantastic conversation with the good people @childrenandscreens.bsky.social for their new podcast Screen Deep www.childrenandscreens.org/learn-explor...
The Science of Boredom | James Danckert, PhD - Children and Screens
www.childrenandscreens.org
June 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Had a fantastic conversation with the good people @childrenandscreens.bsky.social for their new podcast Screen Deep www.childrenandscreens.org/learn-explor...
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Great commentary @minzlicht.bsky.social on @chazfirestone.bsky.social WEIRD science critique (paper is a great read too) - we have work coming out on boredom in non-WEIRD groups showing culture matters little - stay tuned!
www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/keep-cogni...
www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/keep-cogni...
Keep Cognitive Psychology WEIRD
Back in 2010, Joe Henrich, Steve Heine, and Ara Norenzayan dropped a bomb[1] on psychology with their paper "The WEIRDest people in the world?" They argued that most psychology studies rely on Western...
www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Great commentary @minzlicht.bsky.social on @chazfirestone.bsky.social WEIRD science critique (paper is a great read too) - we have work coming out on boredom in non-WEIRD groups showing culture matters little - stay tuned!
www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/keep-cogni...
www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/keep-cogni...
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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--