Pink cherry blossom trees in full bloom along a quiet street with parked cars. A sign reads āNo exit except bicyclesā
Pink cherry blossom trees in full bloom along a quiet street with parked cars.
Sakura season in Fairview Vancouver
And for info on how to watch the good one ( @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ), see notaidoc.com
"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...
Was at a panel last week where a speaker said āat least Anthropic has some ethicsā and I was furiously shaking my head in the audience *sigh* slate.com/technology/2...
I used to teach phonological rule notation using titles of songs that were popular in the 90s. It worked in the late 2000s, but I couldnāt use most of them by the mid-2010s
My book goes to Congressš„°! Rep. Desaulnier recently quoted The AI Con in the US House subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. This is why "AI" will make our jobs worse.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
Yellow crocus flowers
Blue hyacinth flowers about to bloom
Hyancinth flower buds
Sad Iāll be missing the hyacinths in full bloom, but here they are coming up alongside the crocuses
This guy gets it.
There is a way to prevent AI from scraping your data, but it's an ancient magic that comes with a steep cost
New fav waterfowl found.
Theyāre like the mountain goats of the duck world.
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/613297...
Many are appropriately outraged by Altmanās comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to ātrainingā an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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A white bunny on a pale blue background with some cherry flowers scattered everywhere. The text: This too shall pass. But what the fuck?
Today, once again, this.
Just wrote Vancity a very angry email: they forced me to switch from the old banking app to the new one, then locked me out of the new app cos they want to update it. š¤¦
Towns that question the value of an unsafe, costly, environmentally unsound, poorly governed monorail could be āleft behindā, says Monorail Salesman
I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!
"We present the first representative international data on firm-level AI use... firms report little impact of AI over the last 3 years, with over 80% of firms reporting no impact on either employment or productivity."
www.nber.org/papers/w34836
But also hold these service providers accountable for enabling abusers
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r/analytics ā¢ IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
Picture of a peeled Mandarin orange next to a bag with traditional Chinese characters on a golden ball in the mouth of a horned foo dog
Was telling my partner that the characters on the bag ēę± mean explosive juiceā (or ābursting with juiceā if you boring).
Should not have been surprised when I got some juice in my eye. š¤¦
The 'AI discourse' (may the gods and goddesses of the literary form forgive me for using this terrible phrase) has uncovered a legion of terrible dudes. With each turn of the screw, they reveal themselves to be stupider, more dishonest and dreadful.
That is true. But still!
Soā¦ not satire?
youtube.com/shorts/l2F69...
Nana Mouskouriās diction really is fantastic.
Listening to Bon Jovi singing in Mandarin was a novelty, I donāt think I need to do it again.
OMG. Looking up both covers now
I am exhausted by AI hype. AI doomerism is 100% more AI hype.
A *lot* of harm is being done in the name of AI.
If that harm is too hard to keep looking at, then you get this kind of nonsense:
