“Every major AI system trains on Wikipedia’s freely licensed knowledge,” said Stephen Harrison, a journalist and author who has covered Wikipedia extensively, on Friday. “The irony is that Grokipedia will be built on the unpaid labor of the volunteer Wikipedia editors Musk has gone out of his way to vilify.” —Washington Post
called it
“Because a substantial percentage of ‘our talented youngsters’ Minister Déry is now proudly celebrating are those pesky international students the Legault government has tried so hard to limit.”
www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
It's not easy avoiding US tech, but there are alternatives.
Here's a guide written by Canadian journalist Paris Marx. open.substack.com/pub/parismar...
« Notre métier ne disparaîtra pas demain matin » www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...
70 universitaires dénoncent les compressions au Bureau de la traduction
On my AI-related reading list: John Warner's More than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI and Emily Bender's The AI Con. thecon.ai www.argobookshop.ca/item/lqczeCE...
Quel sera l'impact sur l'industrie de la traduction aux États-Unis? www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
«Très symbolique»: un photographe dévoile un combat entre un pygargue à tête blanche et une bernache du Canada
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I think it's better to sign the petition directly to the government of Canada: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Yikes, those are big cuts! Yet those are not expensive programs to run.
The National Parks Service has removed the "T" from the website on the Stonewall National Monument. Such cruelty--a craven attempt to erase trans people from history.
Petition to protest the closure of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University in the UK.
chng.it/fgmQprWh2t
Staedtler 9705 Japan. I like a thin lead, 0.5 mm, and this one has a nice weight and good grip.
Des milliers de pages d'infos publiques (comme dans "financées par les fonds publics américains") ont disparu.
Cela semble lié aux requêtes du président Trump d'effacer les références à la diversité ou l'idéologie de genre.
Un survol de ce qui a été perdu 👇
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
That's it, will never go there again.
The Christmas decorations are up on the Pink house!
Lors de la cérémonie de commémoration tenue ce soir sur le mont Royal, en plus des 14 faisceaux lumineux commémorant les victimes du 6 décembre 1989, un 15e faisceau a été allumé en mémoire de toutes celles qui sont tuées ou victimes de violence parce qu'elles sont des femmes.
Good
Belle expérience immersive : j'ai vu le film extraordinaire de @francejobin.bsky.social et Markus Heckmann, ENTANGLEMENT:DOME à la SAT.
I figure it's worth turning the feature off anyways... MS calls the services "experiences" and is being pretty cagey about what they mean.
Deactivated my X account. Hadn't been on there in years, but I figured I'd add my deactivation to the statistics.
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