Bill Dunphy

Former crime and justice, weather, and poverty reporter for The Hamilton Spectator. Current quiet voice of wisdom. Or just typing stuff.

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

With respect - hate crime stats have very, very limited uses and very, very large limitations. A better set of data to examine would be the rates of criminal victimization by ... pick your power delineator. Do we (police, courts, statscan) even collect that data?

[Cameron Kroetsch @CameronKroetsch]

Thanks to @HCCI1 for flagging the 2022 Year End Report on Hate Crime in Hamilton, which is due to come to the police board at its meeting on Thursday. If we want a better city, and I know so many of us do, this can't continue to be our story. 🧵 #HamOnt

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

@CameronKroetsch This simple fact should tell you something about the significance of both the label and the events that sparked it --- wildly overblown and over-reacted to.

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

@WGCtweet @verntroyer Making heads explode since .... Congrats, V!!

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

In The Beginning of Infinity I invented a story to illustrate that even logically consistent fiction can be a bad explanation. I asked ChatGPT about it:

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

@LarryDiIanni @fordnation Haven't changed handles - I have 2 accounts: my original and my Spec-era work account.

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

@WakeAwake1 I mean, it's stupid dumb "polling". But it doesn't pretend to be actual news or information -- it's another example of the costs of supporting free speech. Dumb people will do dumb things with it. TV news site web editors anxious for angry clicks definitely fall into this group!

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

Brilliant!

[Burn Barrel @BurnBarrelBarry]

Are you looking to STRIKE!? Well come on down to Burn Barrel Barry's for all your Strike Needs!
@osbcucscso @cupe_3906 #CUPESolidarity @Sflecce

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

@billdinYEG You do know, don't you, that the previous owners and board of Twitter had already approved and were literally one or two days away from massive layoffs and cuts when Elon made his initial offer to buy. Those decisions were frozen by the purchase offer.

[How Things Are Manufactured @fastworkers6]

How plants move in a 24-hour period 🪴

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

A lesson in Silly Walks. Ireland, 1976.

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

@AmyKny @CoastMtnTrail That looks and is astonishing.

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

Hmmm. Wouldn't it be healthy if there were say, two or three embedded journalists to report on the conference? Y'all be welcome at any of our events! Come on, @oacp et al, sunlight warms as it disinfects! How about next year?

[beeple @beeple]

NEVER FORGET

[Pro-Democracy RTs @ProDemocracyRTs]

Jamal Khashoggi is still dead and dismembered, and Jared Kushner is still getting his $2 billion from the Saudis. And I still refuse to forget about it.

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

@Stratscat @cityofhamilton Check out the piece in this morning's Globe and Mail about the new young cohort of crossing guards in Toronto. Quite the contrast! (Sorry, the $#@! app won't let me share it OR copy the URL.)

[WPS @warrenpsonoda]

To all our hardworking STAFFs at our Labour Guilds, Unions, Associations & Orgs in the 🇨🇦 Film/TV/Media Industry - Happy Labour Day! #DGCStrong #Solidarity #Creativity #Safety #Fairness #Respect @DGCTalent

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

I like the cut of this man's jib. @DavidDeutschOxf enjoys pointing out the simpler questions that usually underlay 'controversies'.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

The difference between a moral and an immoral painting is not in how many viewers find it hurtful or even traumatising. It is in whether the moral theory is advocates is true or false (i.e. right or wrong). https://t.co/btG9eMEt0p

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

And fifteen minutes later, they're departing.

[Bill Dunphy @JustTypingStuff]

Toronto fire responding to a 7th floor alarm at women's college Hospital at 1:30 p.m.