"Machine that brainlessly mimics whatever gets shared online shows signs of mimicking the escalating mass anxiety everyone is sharing online."
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"Machine that brainlessly mimics whatever gets shared online shows signs of mimicking the escalating mass anxiety everyone is sharing online."
This is a key problem perfectly summarised. The experience of misogyny and racism is what drove the generation of the idea of wellness. Patients sought to engender trust in themselves when they were continuously gaslit, ignored or mistreated by the medical profession
A good reminder that nothing we do on platforms run by these corporations is private. Nothing! Any sense of privacy when using chatbots, social media, etc. is all just an illusion that serves as useful PR. Real human strangers can and will see what you're doing.
Jesus fuck.
The people responding to the ongoing "we should be compassionate and reach out to vaccine-hesitant parents" discussion with "Imagine believing a mommy blogger over a doctor" have absolutely no concept of the volume of medical misogyny, racism and mistreatment patients are exposed to...
This should be a huge fucking wake-up call to every level of government playing footsie with fascists and their pals in ‘law enforcement.’
These people are by far the biggest threat to public safety - not protesters, not encampment dwellers, not people using drugs. Fascists.
70% of Canadians would rather be a renewable energy superpower than a fossil fuel one
Very likely true for most countries...even the U.S.
The killing of 165+ students at a girls' school in Iran has also been largely ignored in Canadian media.
As far as I can tell, neither the Toronto Star nor the Globe and Mail has run a standalone story on Saturday's attack.
Worth clarifying that when I say Trumpism, I don't mean "Trump's political apparatus and allies" but rather "The political style, voter coalition, and vision Trump represents." The former concerns people if he's in power, but the latter worries people on its own merits.
It's definitely related, yes; but I think that even if Kamala had won, that aura of right-wing outrage politics around Poilievre (plus high poll numbers) would have alarmed a portion voters and driven them to Carney just to stop him. Poilievre's schtick started in 2022, after all, before Trump.
This sentiment felt particularly common among progressives who'd usually vote NDP, and among seniors - including seniors who said they usually voted Conservative!
I volunteered during the election, and I recall a lot of concern when speaking to voters wasn't just Trump himself; it was that Poilievre was going to bring Trumpism to Canada.
It's hard to weigh all these factors. That said, I do feel like in discussing where Carney succeeded, there's perhaps a bit much emphasis on the Trump effect, and not enough emphasis on the Poilievre effect.
If the CPC had had a fiscally conservative, socially moderate, non-MAGA PC-type leader, and the NDP had had a leader who was seen as oppositional to the Liberals rather than a lapdog, I think the outcome would have been very different even with Carney and Trump.
Yep. It's strange watching people act as though Carney was the only factor in Carney's (minority) victory, as though Canadians weren't voting with an eye to the other parties or to the Liberal party's own past.
For the separatist campaign, this is absolutely a feature not a bug. Organized disinformation (one might be tempted to call it propaganda and one wouldn't be wrong) is an essential component of these movements. The goal isn't exclusively to "win", it's to sow division.
Cf: Brexit, Donbas, Crimea.
they double bombed an elementary school for girls
We'll win back our seats on Vancouver Island by
✔️ ensuring voting access for Nations
✔️ harnessing the student movement's energy
✔️ having the back of labour
✔️ offering free memberships
✔️ developing an NDP app to streamline events + organizing
✔️ running hard
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A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more.
The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.
Did you see the really important new piece from CBC News, where they cited a government report that warned white nationalist fight clubs pose a risk for extreme violence?
Well, I got my hands on the report.
And I’d love to tell you even more about it:
Update: American Marines were among the security personnel who opened fire on protesters by the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday, where 10 people were killed.
Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn. Referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada could take place in October www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
This is the culmination of WEEKS of investigative work.
With a little help from my friends, I've unmasked where a white nationalist fight club has been training in my city:
AI and tech can be very abstract and alienating topics to spring on people who aren't already engaged, so this seems like a good opportunity to listen to what people are actually saying and responding to in their lives, and to start political work there.
There's a ton to condemn and fight about the tech industry broadly and its deployment of AI specifically. I wish everyone were equally concerned about all of it; but if data centre impacts are becoming a key inroad into this conversation for working people, that's a great thing to know and pursue.
Canada shouldn’t have a "blind spot" for arms exports.
I’m calling on all MPs to support my Bill #C233 to close the loophole on military exports. We need consistency & transparency to protect human rights
Debate: March 9
Vote: March 11
Watch & share
#EndTheLoopholes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTSC...
Good work by @pressprogress.ca reporting this in the first place, too. They do excellent work, well worth a follow.
In light of Sim saying that he said Orr dealt drugs based on seeing a mystery photo from a mystery person, I think it’s important to reflag this.
If this is an uncharitable interpretation, the mayor is free to provide more details of how he ended up seeing such a photo and believing it.
Tapping the sign.
I want to an anti-trans talk on the weekend and it really drove home for me that it's the exact same playbook used by anti-abortion people.
Exactly this - especially since it sounds like they're avoiding addressing this on WeChat or in any Chinese community media. They got caught by English speakers so they'll apologize in English, but their lies keep doing the work in the community they were trying to target in the first place.
