I feel honoured.

Kevin O'Leary pins water licence for $70-billion data centre project on a small Alberta municipality Kevin O'Leary's plan to build the "world's largest," $70-billion data centre in northern Alberta depends on a deal that lets the celebrity investor walk away from the project if the local government c...

Today's most-read story: documents we obtained show the Wonder Valley data centre project has a major catch for the rural Alberta municipality where Kevin O'Leary wants to build it.

InFocus: What’s behind Canada’s 'sovereign' AI plan? InFocus host Cierra Bettens talks with two researchers behind what could be behind Canada’s 'sovereign' AI plan.

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Realtors should love bike lanes. They increase property values and free up household budget allowing more expensive purchases.

That means more commissions for agents.

A screenshot of an Edmonton electricity bill, showing $47 in electricity costs, $19 in microgen credits, $57 in transition and distribution fees, and $17 in other fees.

Jealous. Transmission and distribution fees are usually more than half of my bill here, so we effectively pay much more per kw of energy imported from the grid than we get in credits for energy exported to the grid.

Are transmission and distribution fees a big part of your bill?

The Province Says Fort Chipewyan’s Children Are Healthy. Come Meet Them. Alberta withheld the data. Then used its absence as proof there was no crisis. The families living inside that crisis are speaking out- for the first time, publicly.

Every Canadian needs to read and understand this. And then help the beautiful people of Fort Chipewyan.

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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Yellowhead Trail and 66 Street Intersection Removal You are invited to learn more and give feedback on the Yellowhead Trail and 66 Street Intersection Removal.

Please take a second to ask for pedestrian access across 66st. #yegbike

So far the yellowhead renewal has been a disaster for pedestrians and cyclists without any dedicated safe crossings added.

Library higher up responded without answering and switched to "we aren't breaking any laws". When I asked again, she got PISSED. Still didn't answer the questions though.

In my case it was just pushing back on the library's "we are committed to the ethical use of AI" by asking how they had made the decision that ethical AI use was possible, which of AI's harms they had considered as part of that decision, and which benefits were considered to outweigh those harms.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

a man in a grey sweater says " okay " ALT: a man in a grey sweater says " okay "

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers.

Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

I have a solution to drivers complaining that they don't get to park their private property on public land for free anymore: simply remove all of the parking (except accessibility spots) and use that freed-up space to make the beach bigger.

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How World recruited its first half a million test users The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.

Watching Sam Altman's World ID announcement on its new ID verification partnerships w/ Tinder, Zoom, AWS, etc & want to point out that @technologyreview.com predicted all of this 4 years ago—while pointing out the privacy violations they built on. www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1...

Is AI a scam? #shorts #tech #ai #scams YouTube video by Alex Falcone

I'm new to the @alexfalcone.bsky.social train, but I am delighted by his informational and also hilarious videos, such as this glittering precious gem on AI --

"Is AI a scam yep?"

Cohere lands significant AI deal with federal innovation department - The Logic Up to 1,400 public servants will use Cohere’s North AI as part of the firm’s first major government deployment since it signed an agreement with Ottawa to test its tech

"Public servants in the department will use [Cohere's] North for 'search, summarization, drafting, decision support, and task automation,' Wall said."

Welcome to the deskilling of the public service.

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Local man tells post-secondary students money doesn't grow on trees and then picks private jet from private jet tree.

Tomorrow's engineers aren't learning about induced demand.

"3 [of 7] textbooks omitted the idea entirely, whereas the others offered only partial coverage."

"The engineering textbooks reviewed here leave students unprepared to understand induced travel."

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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Electoral Boundaries Commissions - Elections Alberta The Electoral Boundaries Commission Act requires that a commission be appointed during the first session of the legislature, following the second general election after the commission’s last appointme...

The electoral boundaries commission website has been taken down but the commission’s interim report, final report, and public submissions are available on the Elections Alberta website: www.elections.ab.ca/resources/re...

‘A clear setback’: More drivers speeding in Ottawa with photo radar gone, city says - Ottawa | Globalnews.ca The City of Ottawa says more drivers are speeding in school zones five months after the Ontario government shut off automated speed enforcement (ASE) cameras.

Three months after Ottawa removed its automatic safety cameras, the share of drivers following the speed limit plunged from 87% to 41%(!). "High-end speeding" is up 10x.

Automatic enforcement saves lives. If you remove it, people will die.

A 4.26 inch e-ink screen. The opening text of Pride and Prejudice is displayed on it in a very small font.

Making progress on the tiny ebook reader.

Are the Alberta NDP going to get a new leader or are they just going to concede the next election? Asking for a friend.

Cutting gas tax would be stupid and wasteful, and it wouldn't even save drivers money. How can you not come up with anything better than this? My kingdom for a left-wing party in Alberta.

Police told us that body cams would be used to hold them accountable and to prevent abuse.

Instead, they're going to be used to surveil the entire public—and then to send all the surveillance data to a robot false-positive generator that is accountable to no one.

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Québec food company to close Lethbridge plant This is just months after signing a new 3-year collective agreement with over 5 dozen workers.

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social

Québec food company to close Lethbridge plant

This is just months after signing a new 3-year collective agreement with over 5 dozen workers.

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