C Barrington-Leigh

Economist @McGillU, working to understand what subjective well-being can teach us about society, communities & sustainability. Former physicist. Climate hawk.

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Added two days to my trip to the @CanEconomics meeting, to visit the suburban alpine:

https://t.co/wFweoYmwTm

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Hey @McGillU students:

@ihsp_mcgill Impact Internship Program is accepting applications for Fall 2026

See the "Communications and knowledge synthesis for the Canadian Wellbeing Knowledges Network" (https://t.co/8T1tBbtqar) project at
https://t.co/8j6U4laAeG

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Yikes. This essay from @Anthropic, out today, has almost the same tone and thread as https://t.co/AGJtENjC60:

https://t.co/gsY0pzD1dB

[World Happiness Report @HappinessRpt]

🤔Thinking of submitting a chapter proposal for World Happiness Report 2027?

World Happiness Report offers a unique chance for wellbeing experts to come together over an important topic each year.

Don’t just take our word for it, swipe to hear from previous authors.👇

(1/3)

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

You have found a very expensive way to make obviously-fake photos, @spacex!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Onboard views from Starship and Super Heavy V3, which are equipped with upgraded cameras capable of streaming 4K video through every phase of flight via @Starlink

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Propellant load is now underway

[World Happiness Report @HappinessRpt]

We are seeking global examples of how public expenditure can best promote the happiness of the people, for World Happiness Report 2027.

📃 Please submit your proposal by Sunday 31 May for the opportunity to write your own chapter in the report.

https://t.co/xVlyVonxpJ

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Wellbeing researchers and policy analysts:

This is an enormous platform, with extraordinarily high production and editing support. If you think you can contribute, submit your proposal this month.

[World Happiness Report @HappinessRpt]

🧑‍⚖️ World Happiness Report 2027 will investigate the existing and potential impact of public policy on happiness.

Read more and submit your chapter proposal 👉 https://t.co/Vs0VTgszlT
Subscribe 👉 https://t.co/vxVOMTRM0v

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

@alz_zyd_ Should I? To me, it is probable that they will, but not at all obvious.

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

I'm having an "It-feels-like-it's-2025" day with Claude Code.
😟😠☹️😡😡😡

In the future they'll be able to turn us all into a mess of raging lunatics just by messing a bit, disobeying a bit, lying a bit.

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

@jbsteinberg Why github (ugh)? Overleaf supports pure git. So you can just clone repo locally and pull/work locally when you need AI, then (pull again/) push when done.

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Note to self: Do *not* go and re-read https://t.co/1U0T5AuuDf to see whether we're still on its predicted schedule.

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Within a few seconds, I noticed a test message draft showing up in my Alpine! ...

What a world, what a time.

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Wow, I just levelled up. "ClaudeCode: please write yourself a skill for email control via my maildir folder." It installed himalaya (full email suite, maildir interface) and mu (maildir indexer), set up a cron job for mu, wrote its skill. All with --dangerously-skip-permissions

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

@WesRoth When native GNU/Linux version?

[Jorge Castillo @JorgeCastilloPr]

Me and Claude working together

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Artemis II astronauts speak publicly for first time since successful moon mission:
https://t.co/nMYy6SWAO7

Robots do the best space science. Science is not why we send people briefly away from our island.

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

Did you know that Statistics Canada @StatCan_eng has a podcast??
Here's their most recent episode (not the first!) on happiness: https://t.co/okNY9SYghx

[C Barrington-Leigh @profcpbl]

@claudeai Cowork for Linux !!!!! 🙏🩷